re: 5-way tie atop the West, does LSU win the tie?

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State would have to lose 3 games

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That's a common misconception. They only have to lose three if LSU and State were the only teams in contention.

Remember how Texas beat Oklahoma but Oklahoma won the tie-breaker in 2008? If there weren't a third team involved, Oklahoma would have needed a better record than Texas to prevail. But they beat them because it was a three-way tiebreaker.