East Champs Scenario?

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Obviously, we must win out. I heard someone say we would win the east if Missouri and Florida lost one more game. Do we have a chance?

We won! We won! We won! Go Vols!!!!!
 
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It is far fetched .... but .... uga would have to lose 2 more due to head to head and that probably isn't going to happen.
 
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Don't even care about that. Just want to win out, win a bowl game, and hopefully get ready to win the SEC East in 2015.
 
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We have 4 losses. UGA would need 5 and they only have two conference games left.Mathematically eliminated.
 
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snapcracklepop said:
Obviously, we must win out. I heard someone say we would win the east if Missouri and Florida lost one more game. Do we have a chance?

We won! We won! We won! Go Vols!!!!!
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There's no chance at winning the SEC East. There is a chance of going to a bowl game.
 
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sonofUT62 said:
We have 4 losses. UGA would need 5 and they only have two conference games left.Mathematically eliminated.
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but if there's a 4-way tie with TN, UGA, Mizzou, and FL, then one head-to-head might not come in to play
 
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Not that it matters but the tie-breaker now is the combined SEC record of your out of division opponents.

They were discussing it on the radio while talking about the scenario of a 4 way tie in the west.
 
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Okay, here's what I've got so far. All of this assumes a 4-4 conference UT. I'll just go ahead and cut everyone off and admit how insanely improbable this is. I get it, it isn't going to happen, but let's just have fun with it, okay?

Missouri 7-2 (4-1 CONF)
Remaining Conference Schedule-
@Texas A&M
@UT
Arkansas

They need to lose them all. If so, they would have two in-division losses and two out of division losses, same as UT. UT would win a head to head tiebreaker if it could at all come to that.

Georgia 6-2 (4-2 CONF)
Remaining Conference Schedule-
@Kentucky
Auburn

If they lose both, they'll be 4-4 in conference. 3 losses would be in division vs UT's 2 in division losses, so if we get to that tiebreaker, UT would win.

Florida 4-3 (2-3 CONF)
Remaining Conference Schedule-
@Vandy
South Carolina

They need to go 1-1 in remaining SEC play. Most likely a South Carolina loss and Vandy win. In that case they'd have the same 2 in division losses after dropping western teams same as UT and Missou. 3 way tie, might be the top ranked team.

**A note about Kentucky** Kentucky cannot enter a tiebreak scenario with UT as they need to have 5 conference losses to have us beat them and have us beat UGA. Same is true of South Carolina.

**Update**

I think we're actually eliminated. Here's volleyvol's post explaining in another thread-
volleyvol said:
We're already logically eliminated. The best we can hope for is a 3-way tie with Mizzou and UGA or a 4-way tie with Mizzou, UGA, and UF. In the event of a tie between 3 or more teams, the first tiebreaker is head-to-head against the other tied teams. In the 3-way tie scenario, Mizzou would be 0-2, we'd be 1-1, and UGA would be 2-0 (UGA wins). In the 4-way tie scenario, Mizzou would be 1-2, we'd be 1-2, UF would be 2-1, and UGA would be 2-1. Mizzou and Tennessee would be eliminated, and Florida would win the east by its win over UGA today.
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jortfreeTN said:
Not that it matters but the tie-breaker now is the combined SEC record of your out of division opponents.

They were discussing it on the radio while talking about the scenario of a 4 way tie in the west.
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feel pretty good with that if we were to be in a 4-way tie, then
 
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Orange And Garnet said:
Wouldn't Georgia and Florida have the tiebreaker over us due to beating us?
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We'd be in a 4 way tie with Missou, UGA and Florida. Missou lost to UGA, but beat Florida. This assumes we beat Missou. However, between all of us, if that's the first tiebreaker, then we'd be 1-2 against those teams, which might knock us out.
 
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We're already logically eliminated. The best we can hope for is a 3-way tie with Mizzou and UGA or a 4-way tie with Mizzou, UGA, and UF. In the event of a tie between 3 or more teams, the first tiebreaker is head-to-head against the other tied teams. In the 3-way tie scenario, Mizzou would be 0-2, we'd be 1-1, and UGA would be 2-0 (UGA wins). In the 4-way tie scenario, Mizzou would be 1-2, we'd be 1-2, UF would be 2-1, and UGA would be 2-1. Mizzou and Tennessee would be eliminated, and Florida would win the east by its win over UGA today.
 
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No. The best we can finish is 4-4. If we're tied with UGA and Mizzou then UGA would win the tie breaker because they beat both teams. Not sure how it would pan out if you throw UF in that mix, but I think they would hold tie-breakers as well.
 
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