Big 12 announces tiebreaker guidelines for conference title game

The Big 12 has set its tiebreaker guidelines for this season, if they are needed to determine which teams advance to the conference championship game, the league announced Friday.

The Big 12, which just began its first season as a 16-team conference, has grown by adding former Pac-12 teams Arizona, Arizona State, Colorado and Utah. The league will use the following steps to determine its top two teams in the event of a tie:

• A. The teams with the same number of points will be compared based on their head-to-head record during the season.

• B. The tied teams will be compared based on their winning percentage against all common conference opponents.

• C. The tied teams will be matched against their next best common opponent in the standings based on their winning percentage (based on record of all games played within the conference) and will then move up the standings.

• D. The tied teams will be compared based on the combined winning percentage in the conference games of their conference opponents.

• E. The tied teams will be compared based on the total number of wins in a 12-game season.

• F. The representative will be selected based on the highest ranking by SportSource Analytics (Team Rating Score metric) after the final weekend of regular season play.

• G. The representative will be selected by a coin toss.

The Big 12 also reiterated that Saturday's game between Utah and Baylor does not count as a conference game because it was originally scheduled as a nonconference game before Utah joined the Big 12. The same status applies to the Week 3 game between Arizona and K-State for the same reasons.

The 2024 Dr Pepper Big 12 Football Championship will be televised on December 7 at 12:00 p.m. ET on ABC from AT&T Stadium in Arlington, Texas.