SEC West Chaos

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I recall the scenarios vaguely. But didn't everything that needed to happen actually happen for LSU to win the west except obviously for the last 50 seconds of Bama and Ark? I realize those but fors are big. Just pointing out that the wacky unlikely scenarios happen and we had a chance. I think.

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Yes. Had we beaten Bama and Arky, we would've won the SEC West via tiebreak.

Nope we still would've lost.

State cross divisional opponent record: 2-14
Bama cross divisional opponent record: 7-9
LSU cross divisional opponent record: 6-10

Bama had the harder schedule meaning they win

If Tennessee had lost to vandy then Bama and Lsu would've tied on that record and state is eliminated meanjng it's a head to head scenario with Bama and we win

sucks

nope..we needed ole miss in the tie. As it would have stood, Tenn would have had a better record than KY....therefore bama would have gotten in.

I posted the last paragraph to show we needed Vandy to beat Tennessee as well. That was the way we would've won the tie breaker.

We would've been in the Orange bowl most likely. Can't complain with that, but now you can complain cuz we finished 8-4

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The correct answer is that we would have gone.

1) 3-way tie with MSU and Bama
2) Same head-to-head
3) Same division record
4) Record against next best team: Ole Miss. We beat them. MSU and Bama both lost.

Arky beating Ole Miss was a requirement as it played out because we would have lost the 4-way tiebreaker to Bama because of SECE opponent records.

We would have gone.

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no, we wouldn't have.

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Yes, we would have. I initially thought we wouldn't, but remembered Auburn's record wrong. If we had beaten Bama and Arky (and everything else stayed the same), the top of the West would look like this:

LSU 6-2
Bama 6-2
MSU 6-2
Ole Miss 5-3
Auburn 4-4

The tiebreakers would happen like this:

1) Head-to-head: All 1-1
2) Division record: All 4-2
3) Record vs. next best team in the division: vs. Ole Miss: LSU 1-0, Bama and MSU 0-1

We would win the tiebreaker and go to Atlanta. Makes it even more painful.

We didn't handle our bidness

SEC Div. Tiebreaker - 3 Ties

Looks like Sec. 2(C) confirms the "we woulda gone" camp. i.e. - we are the only ones to beat Ole Miss.

2. Three-Team Tie (or more): If three teams (or more) are tied for a division title, the following procedure will be used in the following order: (Note: If one of the procedures results in one team being eliminated and two remaining, the two-team tiebreaker procedure as stated in No. 1 above will be used):

A. Combined head to head record among the tied teams;

B. Record of the tied teams within the division;

C. Head to head competition against the team within the division with the best overall Conference record (divisional and non divisional) and proceeding through the division (multiple ties within the division will be broken from first to last and a tie for first place will be broken before a tie for fourth place);

D. Overall Conference record against non divisional teams;

E. Combined record against all common non divisional teams;

F. Record against the common non divisional team with the best overall Conference record (divisional and non divisional) and proceeding through other common non divisional teams based on their order of finish within their division; and

G. Best cumulative Conference winning percentage of non-divisional opponents (Note: If two teams' non-divisional opponents have the same cumulative record, then the two-team tiebreaker procedures apply. If four teams are tied, and three teams' non-divisional opponents have the same cumulative record, the three-team tiebreaker procedures will be used beginning with 2.A.);