Determining Team That Receives Conference's AQ (Automatic Qualifier for the NCAA Football Championship)
 In the event there are two or more teams tied for first place in the conference standings, the tied teams will be considered conference champions (e.g. co-champions, tri-champions).
To determine the team that is the NESCAC's automatic qualifier to the NCAA Championship, the following tie-breaking procedure (listed in priority order) will be used:
 
Tie-breaking Procedure in Priority Order 2-waytie:
1. Head-to-head result.
 
3-way or more tie (or if teams tied during the regular season):

1. Best record among tied teams, against one another (head-to-head).
2. Comparison of results of conference games played against top 4 teams (including all teams at the 4th spot).
3. Comparison of results of conference games played against top 8 teams (including all teams at the 8th spot).
4. Comparison of results of conference games played against conference teams in rank order. Comparisons shall be made one team at a time starting with the highest ranked team.
5. If the tie remains after comparing results against the highest ranked team, the results against the next team in rank order shall be used. This process is continued until a winner is determined.
6. Coin flip or similar random action involving all tied teams (names being pulled out of a hat-the first team pulled will be the automatic qualifier).

Note: In case of ties among three or more schools, the criteria above will be applied in order until a team is or teams are separated. If a single team is separated, that team will be placed in rank order (above or below the other teams per the tie-breaking criteria), and the process begins anew with the remaining teams. If multiple teams are separated with the same record, the teams are separated per their records, and the process begins anew (returning to the first criteria) with the different sets of teams that have the same record. The process is continued until the tie is or ties are eventually broken. In cases where only a random action will break the tie of three or more teams, the random action will be applied to all teams involved in the tie. For example, if three teams are tied and only a random action (pulling names out of a hat) will break the tie, each name will be pulled and seeded in order of being pulled. Also, in the event that there are two (or more) groups of teams tied at different spots in the standings and the only criteria left that can be used to break those ties is a coin flip/random action, the coin flip/random action used to break the tie of one group (to put teams in rank order) will not affect the tie-breaking procedures of the other group(s) of tied teams.