{"id":435368,"date":"2024-11-13T14:23:41","date_gmt":"2024-11-13T19:23:41","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/?post_type=article&#038;p=435368"},"modified":"2024-11-13T14:23:41","modified_gmt":"2024-11-13T19:23:41","slug":"lane-kiffin-pitches-a-lot-easier-formula-for-secs-tie-breaker-scenario","status":"publish","type":"article","link":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/ole-miss-football\/lane-kiffin-pitches-a-lot-easier-formula-for-secs-tie-breaker-scenario\/","title":{"rendered":"Lane Kiffin pitches &#8216;a lot easier&#8217; formula for SEC&#8217;s tie-breaker scenario"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Lane Kiffin doesn&#8217;t claim to be some mad scientist or something. He&#8217;s simply a college football head coach, and right now his Ole Miss program is surging toward a possible College Football Playoff spot.<\/p>\n<p>The Rebels took down Georgia in Week 11 in Oxford to improve to 8-2, and they are now ranked 11th in the latest Playoff rankings that were released on Tuesday night. After a bye this week, they will head to The Swamp to face Florida on Nov. 23 before hosting Mississippi State in the Egg Bowl on Black Friday.<\/p>\n<p>Clearly, Kiffin&#8217;s team is in the mix for a spot in the SEC Championship Game next month in Atlanta. With so many teams up near the top of the SEC standings, it&#8217;s going to be a dogfight to see which 2 teams ultimately punch their ticket to the SEC title game. And regarding that, Kiffin has what he thinks is a simple solution to what will surely be a complicated tiebreaker scenario when the dust settles on the regular season in a few weeks.<\/p>\n<p>&#8220;You guys have more time than me to do that stuff. I know it somewhat, but it seems extremely complicated, and I don&#8217;t know,&#8221; said Kiffin. &#8220;It was discussed and these common records, common opponents and all this seems really complicated. &#8230; I would think it would have been a lot easier to say, &#8216;What are the top two teams in the college football rankings?'&#8221;<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">Coach Kiffin on what the SEC tie-breaking rules are: &#8220;You guys have more time than me to do that stuff. I know it somewhat, but it seems extremely complicated and I don&#8217;t know. It was discussed yesterday and these common records, common opponents and all this seems really\u2026<\/p>\n<p>\u2014 The Rebel Walk (@TheRebelWalk) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/TheRebelWalk\/status\/1856764447563391456?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 13, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>Kiffin wasn&#8217;t trying to solve world peace or anything. He was just a little confused by the SEC tiebreaker rules and offered his 2 cents on trying to make it simple. Of course, what Kiffin suggested isn&#8217;t the rule, so figuring out who is headed to Atlanta will likely be chaotic and a little confusing.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">FYI, the CFP Rankings are not released until Tuesday evening each week, making it not feasible to be included in the SEC tie-breaker procedure. <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/j8VupMpJ7x\">https:\/\/t.co\/j8VupMpJ7x<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Chuck Dunlap  (@SEC_Chuck) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/SEC_Chuck\/status\/1856765218099269804?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">November 13, 2024<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Lane Kiffin thinks he has the simple answer to the SEC&#8217;s complicated question regarding its tiebreaker rules.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":269106,"featured_media":435370,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","template":"","format":"standard","tags":[],"class_list":["post-435368","article","type-article","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","article_types-news","teams-ole-miss-football"],"acf":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article\/435368"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/article"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/article"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/269106"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=435368"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/435370"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=435368"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.saturdaydownsouth.com\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=435368"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}