Can someone explain tie breaker rules

[Dallas]

How did we get in over oregon who beat us and Washington who has a better overall W/L record than we do?

[Dexter36]

The way it was described to me is that Utah’s in conference opponents have more total in conference wins than the other competing teams with the same record. So it’s basically a strength of schedule type of decider. I could be way off, but this is what I heard.

[dystopiamembrane]

Yes, it came down to the fact that Utah played USC and Oregon did not.

[dystopiamembrane]

4. Combined win percentage in conference games of conference opponents (ie, strength of conference schedule)

Utah has the advantage in conference strength of schedule.

Utah: ASU (2-7), OSU (6-3), UCLA (6-3), USC (8-1), WSU (4-5), Arizona (3-6), Stanford (1-8), Oregon (7-2), Colorado (1-8) = 38 wins, 43 losses (0.469135802469136 combined win percentage)

Oregon: WSU (4-5), Stanford (1-8), Arizona (3-6), UCLA (6-3), Cal (2-7), Colorado (1-8), Washington (7-2), Utah (7-2), OSU (6-3) = 37 wins, 44 losses (0.45679012345679 combined win percentage)

Washington: Stanford (1-8), UCLA (6-3), ASU (2-7), Arizona (3-6), Cal (2-7), OSU (6-3), Oregon (7-2), Colorado (1-8), WSU (4-5) = 32 wins, 49 losses (0.395061728395062 combined win percentage)

[dystopiamembrane]

I like that the author carried out the win percentages to 14 or 15 places.

[dystopiamembrane]

Hate to say it but the Deseret News did a good job in this article.

[dystopiamembrane]

Only slip-up in my opinion, they failed to mentioned that in Step 3 other common opponents were wins for all three teams.

[EagleMountainUte]

Utah beat Oregon st and USC basically is the point. 

[dystopiamembrane]

What?

[Xanthis]

UW, OU, and Utah are all 7-2 in conference. No one cares about non conference games. They aren’t equal and shouldn’t count. So many UW fans are mad because they have 10 wins. Congrats on beating Mich St, but no one else in the conference got to play them. 

[PhiladelphiaUte]

Correct you are Xanthis.  UWa played the 57th ranked SOS.  Only UCLA — at 58th — played a weaker SOS than UWa this year.

Utah (41) and USC (46) played roughly equivalent schedules.