The landscape of college football changed in 2024. There were massive shifts with conference re-alignment and the college football playoff expanded to 12 teams.

The Big Ten expanded yet again and it became even more of a joke that they have 10 in their title. The conference added Oregon, Washington, USC and UCLA to reach 18 teams. The Big Ten also no longer has two divisions for its teams. This means that the Big Ten Championship game will be between the top two teams in the conference.

With 18 teams all playing each other several times throughout the season, it could very well end up what multiple teams have the same conference and/or overall record. The Big Ten decided to implement new tiebreakers to help sort out conference order.

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The conference instituted six tiebreaker rules for 2024. If two teams have the same conference record here are the steps that will be taken in order to distinguish who is the better team. Once one tiebreaker is met, there is no need to continue down the list.

The winner of the Big Ten Championship will earn a guaranteed spot in the College Football Playoff. The playoff field consists of the five-best conference champions and then next seven highest-ranked teams.

Theoretically, the Big Ten could have its champion and then seven at-large teams, but mathematically it would be highly unlikely for all seven at-large spots to go to the same conference. You would need extremely specific results to go a very certain way.

More realistically, but still need specific results, would be four teams. Heading into Week 10, the Big Ten has four teams ranked in the top 13 of the AP poll. The conference could get four total teams into the 12-team playoff, but three feels like the sweet spot between can happen and could happen.