This is about as shady as it gets. SEMO is 8-2 and UT Martin is 6-4, but they are both undefeated in conference and don't play each other this year. So if they both win this week, it's a tie with no tiebreaker, so OVC says it would come down to a coin flip.
Here's the thing, SEMO would be 9-2 so if they lost the coin flip for the auto bid, they would be in anyways. UT Martin needs the auto bid to get into the playoffs at all. The OVC however said they wouldn't broadcast the coin flip. So they could just claim that they did a coin flip that Martin won, because then they would get two teams in instead of one if SEMO won the toss. People complain about transparency in FCS football and this is not helping.