The Championship scenario is...

[Sonsissymia]

why doesn't the league have a 3-team tiebreaker? it's good they don't this year tho' as the cajuns'll get the vote hands-down. it'll be the biggest n.o. bowl turnout ever i'm sure.

[ATXCajun]

UL must finish with 2 wins!

The #1 Sunbelt game result that really matters to Ragin' Cajun Fans is a Monroe defeat of North Texas. . .

Why is that? NT has 6 losses. They are out. We need to win out and have ASU stumble once more. That's it.

[CAJUNJUDO]

Why is that? NT has 6 losses. They are out. We need to win out and have ASU stumble once more. That's it.

This is what I thought!

[Sonsissymia]

north texas went into the n.o. bowl a few years ago 5-6 as i recall; maybe if you earn a bowl spot as a conference champion, it doesn't matter if you have 6 losses. maybe the 6 loss criterion only counts if you're to be considered as an at-large choice for a bowl.

[pstrong]

I thought if there was a tie that the Sun Belt picked who they wanted to go to the bowl game?

[CrazyCajun]

I thought if there was a tie that the Sun Belt picked who they wanted to go to the bowl game?

I think in a three way tie they pick the team to go to the bowl. If it is a two way tie they go to the tiebreaker. I THINK! not positive.

[locoguano]

Actually.. i read earlier that for the N.O. Bowl, the bowl committee chooses in the case of a tie... so if UL gets a share, then they will get selected to sell tickets..

[Turbine]

Why is that? NT has 6 losses. They are out. We need to win out and have ASU stumble once more. That's it.

My statement that "The #1 Sunbelt game result that really matters to Ragin' Cajun Fans is a Monroe defeat of North Texas" is not about North Texas winning or losing.

It is all about how a Monroe win in their next game will create a 3 way (or more) tie at the top of the Sunbelt no matter what else happens besides the Ragin Cajuns winning out..

[NewsCopy]

Arkansas St. only problem for UL in potential tiebreaker

If the Louisiana Ragin' Cajun football team finishes out its season-ending run with two more wins, the Cajuns will be the Sun Belt Conference's representative in the relocated New Orleans Bowl - as long as Arkansas State loses one of its two remaining league games. If the Indians also finish up with two wins, the conference's representative in the bowl game will be determined by a tiebreaker system that sets up to the Cajuns' benefit - as long as Arkansas State is not the only other team involved. Sun Belt commissioner Wright Waters said Monday that the league will use the same tiebreaker system it uses to seed teams for the league basketball tournament and several of its other championship events, should two or more teams tie for the top spot. "The first tiebreaker is head-to-head," Waters said, "and after that if you can't break it you go to the records against the next-highest seed and go down from there." The Cajuns would finish at 5-2 with wins Saturday against Florida International and on Nov. 26 against UL Monroe. If that happens, no team in the league would finish with fewer than two losses since ULM (3-1) is the conference's only one-loss team and would pick up at least its second loss if the Cajuns win on Nov. 26. With two season-ending wins, the Cajuns would win a head-up tiebreaker with every potential two-loss team in the league except Arkansas State (3-2), which beat UL 39-36 back on Oct. 13. UL would hold the head-up advantage over North Texas (3-2), Troy (3-2), Middle Tennessee (2-2) and ULM (3-1) because of victories this year. If three or more teams tie at 5-2, though, things are more complicated. Record among the tied teams is the first tiebreaker, and results against the next-highest seeded teams not involved in the first-place tie would be the next tiebreaker. The rest of the story Dan McDonald dmcdonald@theadvertiser.com

[RaginRash]

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