SEC reveals football tiebreaker

If multiple Southeastern Conference teams post identical SEC records this fall, there's a new system in place to determine championship-game participants for the annual title bout in Atlanta.

The league's 2024 season kicks off its latest expanded format next Thursday. Oklahoma and Texas officially entered into their SEC membership this summer.

Wednesday, the SEC announced it would, understandably, go first to head-to-head matchups in the event of a tie.

If the teams with even slates did not face one another, that's where the additional layers factor into the equation.

The SEC's No. 2 tiebreaking-element is to examine the tied teams's records against all common SEC foes.

If that still doesn't provide clarity, the SEC then pivots to the best record against the best-placed additional member schools.

There's also the potential for blind luck.

The SEC has outlined five specific criteria, A through E, to sort its championship-game participants. 

But if that fails?

"Random draw of the tied teams."

Here's pulling for the very statistically improbable "random draw."

Because? Anarchy and conspiracy theories, that's why.