The ballooning of convention membership, coupled with divisionless standings, has added substantial complexity to tiebreaker eventualities for convention championship recreation races throughout faculty soccer. However nowhere has it been extra obvious than within the Massive 12.
9 groups are nonetheless alive to succeed in the Massive 12 Championship Sport with one week left within the common season: Arizona State, Iowa State, BYU, Colorado, Baylor, Kansas State, TCU, Texas Tech and West Virginia. There are greater than 250 completely different “eventualities” that might play out in an eight-way tie, per the Massive 12 workplace.
Arizona State, Iowa State, BYU and Colorado all enter Week 14 with 6-2 data in convention play. If all of them win, the almost definitely situation is Arizona State vs. Iowa State in Arlington. In the meantime, Deion Sanders’ Colorado now not controls its personal title recreation future after struggling a second loss in convention play to Kansas.
Per CBS Sports activities’ Dennis Dodd:
The only technique to put that is to say that two groups that find yourself with two losses (at 7-2) are within the Massive 12 Championship Sport. From there it will get sophisticated. In a four-way tie the place all the highest 4 groups win, almost definitely Arizona State performs Iowa State. That may be a tiebreaker damaged by frequent opponents. Nonetheless, the Massive 12 workplace mentioned “there are eventualities” the place the Solar Devils and Cyclones can win and never make the championship recreation. That might contain frequent opponents of different groups.
In a approach three-way tie that includes Colorado, Iowa State and Arizona State, a Texas Tech win in opposition to West Virginia places Colorado in. In that situation it could be Colorado in opposition to both Iowa State or Arizona State. Once more, frequent opponents’ data could be decided to separate the Cyclones from the Solar Devils.
Three-team tie eventualities:
- Colorado loss: Arizona State vs. Iowa State
- Arizona State loss: Iowa State vs. BYU
- Iowa State loss: Arizona State vs. BYU
- BYU loss:
- If Texas Tech defeats West Virginia, then
- If Baylor beats Kansas and Cincinnati beats TCU: Colorado vs. Iowa State
- In any other case: Colorado vs. Arizona State
- If West Virginia defeats Texas Tech: Arizona State vs. Iowa State
- If Texas Tech defeats West Virginia, then
Massive 12 championship odds
Arizona State is the favourite to win the Massive 12 at +135, adopted by Iowa State +260, BYU +320 and Colorado +650. Odds through Fanduel. See what betting websites say in regards to the upcoming Week 14 slate in faculty soccer. Use FanDuel promo code to get within the recreation.