For the league’s historic season, which will feature 18 teams and pit the top two in the overall conference standings against one another in the league championship game, the Big Ten unveiled on Monday its new tiebreakers.
With the addition of former Pac-12 teams USC, UCLA, Washington, and Oregon, the Big Ten has abandoned divisional structure. Following conference games only, if two teams are tied in the Big Ten standings, the following actions will be taken until the participants are determined:
After the regular season, the representative will be selected by SportSource Analytics using the team Rating Score measure with the highest ranking.
The commissioner or designee will conduct a random drawing among the tied teams to select the representative.
The Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis will host the 2024 Discover Big Ten championship game on Saturday, December 7. The event will be televised live on CBS for the first time. A guaranteed spot in the College Football Playoff, which will include the top seven-ranked teams plus the five conference champions, will be awarded to the victor.
Three Big Ten schools, Oregon (76%), Ohio State (68%) and Penn (68%) have at least a one-in-three chance of making it to the playoffs, according to the Allstate Playoff Predictor.
Duke quarterback Grayson Loftis asks teammate Jaylen Stinson for advice on how to respond to a sensitive topic in a politically correct manner. Rather than answering for himself, Stinson encourages him.
Mike Elko, his former head coach who is currently coaching Texas A&M, and Riley Leonard, who Loftis shared a QB room with at Duke the previous season, will square off in Week 1 at Notre Dame. Who are you?
“I don’t want to touch that one with a 10-foot pole,” adds Loftis. “A zero-zero tie, I guess.”That would imply that Leonard did not complete a touchdown pass, isn’t it?
