A new era of the Southeastern Conference was pushed in with the additions of the Texas Longhorns and Oklahoma Sooners, expanding the league to 16-member schools while doing away with the divisional structure that had been in place since 1992.
This week, the SEC is holding its annual media days events to allow both the conference itself as well as each respective program a chance to address the sports world ahead of the 20s4 campaign. Among the topics early on was the plan for the football conference championship game tiebreaker.
“There’s still a lot of tweaking to be done,” said Mark Womack, the SEC’s associate commissioner. “But our ADs have seen it. Our coaches have seen different versions of it as we’ve started to tweak and go through everything. So we just want to try to be sure that we’ve got all the different situations covered that could pop up so there are no surprises.”
While the final result is still quite nebulous, the conference brass seem to have a vision for what they want.
“We’ve got a pretty good idea, but we don’t want to put it out there just yet,” Womack said. “Because some of the tweaks that go through might impact (where) we might want to flip two (tiebreakers).”
That leaves a lot of leeway for what becomes the new league policy. Still, it appears that the SEC is leaving no stone unturned.
“But some of them as you go down the likelihood of everything being the same is probably not very high when you get into some of the other parameters out there,” Womack said. “To get to a coin flip or to get to a draw if you had more than two, would be possible but unlikely.”
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