In case you missed it, there were not one, but TWO extremely weird set of tiebreakers applied to set CCG matchups this weekend.
In the ACC:
The Devils won a five-way tie with Miami, Georgia Tech, SMU and Pitt by virtue of having the best conference opponent winning percentage of the group. Duke lost non-conference games to Tulane, UConn and Illinois. Combined winning percentage of conference opponents is the fourth step in the tiebreaker process.
This one was probably unavaoidable when you got to hilariously bloated 17-team conferences. There's not really a fair way to solve a five way tie. It's just funny because they completely shat the bed out of conference.
That would be bad enough, but in the MAC:
Sitting alone atop the league standings with a 7-1 conference record, Western Michigan will play 6-2 Miami in the MAC Championship at noon Dec. 6. The RedHawks finished tied for second and had the same league record as Ohio and Toledo. Miami got the nod thanks to the MAC's tiebreakers, even though both Toledo and Ohio beat Miami in the regular season.
Miami advanced according to tiebreaker rule No. 3. The RedHawks have a better win percentage than Ohio and Toledo vs. all common opponents, going 3-0 against the three common opponents the tied teams faced (Ball State, Northern Illinois and Western Michigan).
Toledo lost to Western Michigan, while Ohio lost to both Western Michigan and Ball State.
So Miami was in a three-way tie with two other teams, and the two other teams both beat Miami, but Miami gets the spot. Seems like a pretty silly oversight, but what do I know?
