Conference championship games need to be put out to pasture in college football

Let me preface this by saying I know it won’t happen because these conferences are still making money off of these games. I want to say that now because I know that’s the first comment that the mouthbreathers will make.


They are now obsolete in this age of college football with a 12-team playoff (which might expand again eventually to 16 teams). In a perfect world, they should go away.

Georgia has a scenario this year where they might get rewarded with a “double bye” for finishing third place in the SEC. They’ll avoid the SEC championship game against a top 5 team, but they’ll still finish in the top 4 in th CFP rankings, thereby giving them a 1st round bye in the CFP as well. This is a retarded scenario that shows how useless the conference championship games are now. All they can do is either hurt teams with an extra loss or reward teams for not making it there in the first place. It also causes more injuries for the teams who make it.

Some might argue that they allow a 3 or 4 loss team to have a chance to make the playoff, but we don’t really want that in the first place, do we? We want the 12 best teams and the best playoff matchups.

I say do away with conference championship games and just go back to co-champions of conferences like we used to have years ago. That’s what will allow the best conferences like the SEC and Big Ten to get the most teams in possible with the highest seedings possible, and with the fewest injuries possible.