re: LSU should cheer for Kentucky (3-Way Tie Breaker)

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Using your logic, LSU would never win the tiebreaker over OM because they lost the head-to-head, Bama would never win the tiebreaker over LSU because they lost the head-to-head and OM would never win the tiebreaker over Bama because they lost the head-to-head.

What should be done in that case? I guess they would have to resolve it with a 3-team tiebreaker.

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Yes, that's exactly what it does - narrows it down to a point where head-to-head matters instead of hinging the entire thing on the luck of the draw on who each team got from the East.

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Why would any tiebreakers go beyond head-to-head if Bama beats LSU? They they would win the head-to-head tiebreaker over LSU and OM even if they still ended up in a 3-way tie…the chances of which are minuscule or less at that point.

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In the unlikely scenario all 3 teams finish with 2-losses and none of those are Alabama losing to LSU, then section A. of the 3-way tie-breaker kicks in:

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

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Using your applied logic, Alabama goes right then.
Using my applied logic, Alabama goes once LSU is eliminated (being 0-2 against the two) and then Ole Miss is eliminated using the two-team tie-breaker. In this particular scenario though, head-to-head resolved it regardless of which logic you used.

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skrayper

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Blah, blah, blah…

Not going to waste anymore of my time with a moron that is too damn stupid to understand common sense logic.

At least I won this bet:

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Did you finally realize the flaw in your logic and just refuse to be adult enough to admit you misinterpreted the tiebreakers (as I tried to give you credit for)?

Or are you still going all-in on your complete lack of common sense reading comprehension?

My money is on the latter…

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Now, get back to work and stop wasting time on your company’s dime…

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You keep acting like a 3+ team tiebreaker becomes a “survivor contest” where each tiebreaker just eliminates one team at most. That would ridiculously absurd.

It would be criminal if LSU outright won the non-division tiebreaker, but then lost the overall tiebreaker to a team that it defeated in the tiebreaker being discussed.

I can’t imagine why any logical person would see it any other way.

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I am a high school soccer coach and our tiebreakers are written such as once a tiebreaker is tied, it is not used again.

So in this case, LSU, Ole Miss and Alabama are tied in head-to-head, so that tiebreaker is even. We continue to go through the tiebreakers until the complete ranking is established. So here, it would come to non-divisional record and the only way the tie would be resolved would be if 1 team had a better record than either of the other two. If 2 teams were better than a 3rd, then all three teams would be compared at the next level. It's just a different way of interpreting what it means to be tied.

HOWEVER, in the SEC's case, it is clearly different. If LSU and Alabama were tied in non-divisional opponents records, and Ole Miss is eliminated, then it reverts to LSU-Alabama head to head.

The total thesis here is "What a year for Ole Miss to get to play Vandy."