2026 Football Standings
*Secured at least a share of regular-season championship
If two or more teams are tied for the conference championship, they shall be considered co-champions and the following tie-breaker criteria shall be used to determine the conference's automatic qualifier into the NCAA playoffs.
1. Head-to-head results between all tied teams.
2. Cumulative Won-Loss record vs. team higher in the standings.
3. Record vs. teams in the standings in descending order (i.e, #1 seed, #2 seed, #3 seed).
4. Tied teams are to be eliminated in reverse order of their last NCAA appearance beginning with the 1991 season (AQ tiebreaker) / Isthmus Bowl appearance (Isthmus Bowl tiebreaker).
5. Team with the highest NCAA NPI.
6. Coin toss conducted by the WIAC office.
[Note: If two or more teams remain tied after one or more teams are eliminated in any step, the tiebreaker reverts to #1. If during any step, all teams have a clear rank order, they are placed in that order accordingly.
Example A - If three teams are tied with 1-1 head-to-head records, then continue down tiebreaker list.
Example B - If teams have 2-0, 1-1 and 1-1 head-to-head records, the 2-0 team receives the highest seed. Since two teams remain tied at 1-1, revert back to criteria #A1 between the 1-1 teams.
Example C - If teams have 2-0, 1-1, 0-2 records head-to-head, the 2-0 team receives the highest seed, the 1-1 team the next seed and the 0-2 team the lowest seed.]