Louisiana Christian University, ranked No. 25 in NAIA football, has a chance to clinch a share of the Sooner Athletic Conference title and possibly earn a national playoff berth with a victory at 16th-ranked Texas-Wesleyan at Fort Worth, Texas in a 2 p.m. showdown Saturday.

Adding to the stakes: a win would give the Wildcats the school’s first football conference championship in 84 years (LCU dropped football in the 1960s and didn’t play again for over 30 years).

To watch or listen to Saturday’s contest, visit https://www.lcwildcats.net/sports/football

lf Texas Wesleyan (8-1, 7-0) defeats LCU (8-1, 6-1), Texas Wesleyan will be the SAC champ and receive an automatic bid to the NAIA playoffs. TWU is assured of at least a SAC co-championship.

If LCU wins, and if Ottawa University of Arizona (7-1, 6-1) wins its Saturday game against Panhandle State (5-4, 4-3), there will be a tiebreaker to determine the winner of the NAIA playoff berth among the three 6-1 teams. The NAIA playoff bracket will be announced Sunday, but the SAC’s automatic qualifier will be known Saturday evening.

Here is the breakdown to settle the tiebreaker as outlined by the SAC office:

A/ In a two-way tie, the team that beat the other will get the NAIA berth.

B/ In a three-way tie, the following procedures will be applied with the provision that if more than one team advances by any method below, the remaining teams are placed at the beginning of the appropriate policy until all ties have been broken:

The team with the best won/loss record in games played among the tied teams will advance;

If the tie still exists among three teams, the team with the largest point differential in games played between the teams will advance;

If those provisions are not conclusive, a coin toss will determine the NAIA playoff representative.

The NAIA playoffs begin next weekend.