Ever since the Clemson debacle I've seen quite a few Miami fans taking the stance of, "Oh well, it's no big deal, we'll just win out and get another crack at Clemson." When Covid struck, they eliminated the divisions and said it's basically the two top teams with the best overall records that would play in the ACC Championship. So, even if Notre Dame loses to Clemson that means both of us will have one loss, and we all know there's NO WAY they're putting us ahead of the golden boys. Not to mention, after we got humiliated by Clemson, they will be reluctant to put us up against them again. Am I looking at this wrong when I say we've basically been eliminated already from the ACC title game?
Here are the tie-breaker rules for 2020:
Two-Team Tie
1. Head-to-head competition between the two tied teams.
2. Head-to-head competition versus the team with the best overall win percentage and proceeding though the conference. Multiple ties within the conference will be broken from first to last using the league’s tiebreaker policies.
3. Overall win percentage versus all common conference opponents.
4. Win percentage versus common conference opponents based upon their order of finish (overall conference win percentage) and proceeding through other common conference opponents based upon their conference order of finish.
5. The tied team with the higher ranking by the Team Rating Score metric provided by SportSource Analytics following the conclusion of regular season games.
6. The representative shall be chosen by a draw as administered by the Commissioner or Commissioner’s designee.
Three-Team (or More) Tie
Three-team (or more) tiebreaker procedure will be used to break all ties to identify the Championship game representative. Once a team is eliminated from the tie, the tiebreaker procedures restart for the remaining teams. If the three-team (or more) tie can be reduced to two teams, the two-team tiebreaker format will then be applied).
1. Combined head-to-head win percentage among the tied teams.
2. Head-to-head competition versus the team within the conference with the best overall conference win percentage and proceeding through the conference. Multiple ties within the conference will be broken first to last, using the league’s tiebreaker policies.
3. Combined win percentage versus all common conference opponents.
4. Win percentage versus common conference opponents based upon their order of finish (overall conference win percentage) and proceeding through other common conference opponents based upon their conference order of finish.
5. The tied team with the higher ranking by the Team Rating Score metric provided by SportSource Analytics following the conclusion of regular season games.
6. The representative shall be chosen by a draw as administered by the Commissioner or Commissioner’s designee.
If more than one team in the same division is tied for the best winning percentage in its Conference games, the procedures listed below will be followed to determine
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