re: Shouldn’t SEC champ have auto bid regardless of record?

There won’t be Conference Championship games when the playoffs expand.

“Conference Champion” will be determined by record and a series of tiebreakers, but won’t be super important to programs anymore.

There will be no need for the extra game (and risk to injury) when 90% of the time the two teams in the game will likely be in the 12 teams already, and the rest of the time it will be an undeserving team playing a team who is a lock for the playoffs so might rest starters or not try as hard, etc. Its just going to be unnecessary