Texas control its own destiny for SEC Championship game tiebreakers

“I don’t know if you guys saw the tiebreaker rules for who gets into the SEC Championship game, but I did, and I stopped reading after about two pages worth.”

The joke from Texas Longhorns head coach Steve Sarkisian came before the team’s SEC opener against the Mississippi State Bulldogs in September, an indication of how far ahead Sarkisian was already looking thanks to the convoluted tiebreaker process the conference had to implement after adding the Longhorns and the Oklahoma Sooners this year, which necessitated a move away from divisions, significantly complicating the process.

“Once you lose one, now you leave yourself susceptible to, what if there’s a four-team tie in second place? So…