The Big Ten on Monday announced its new tiebreakers for the league's historic season, which will include 18 teams and match the top two in the overall conference standings against each other in the league championship game.
The Big Ten will no longer use divisions and has since added former Pac-12 teams USC, UCLA, Washington and Oregon to the conference. If two teams are tied in the Big Ten standings (conference games only), the following steps will be taken until the participants are decided:
1. The tied teams will be compared based on head-to-head matchups during the regular season.