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Easy Fix to the Conference Championship Issue
Posted on 11/29/25 at 9:28 am
Posted on 11/29/25 at 9:28 am
This setup where Texas A&M has benefited from losing to their arch rival is a major problem for college football. Ohio State benefited from losing to Michigan last year, and likely would if they lose again today which is sad to say about what should be one of the biggest games of the year.
This has an easy fix. Make the non-conference title participants in the playoff field play games on conference championship weekend against the top teams outside the field.
Assuming the favorites win today, the power conference games next week would be:
SEC Title: Alabama vs UGA
B1G Title: Ohio State vs Indiana
Big XII Title: BYU v Texas Tech
ACC Title: UVA vs SMU
Additional games (seeded like a bracket but don’t allow rematches):
Texas @ Oregon
USC @ Texas A&M (assumes Michigan drops below USC with a loss today)
Vanderbilt @ Ole Miss
Miami @ Oklahoma
Utah @ Notre Dame
Eliminates the free bye week reward for missing the conference title, eliminates the idea that you should lose on rivalry week because if A&M lost to Texas and USC consecutively, they could drop all the way out.
If Ohio State lost to Michigan and then a home game to USC, even they could drop all the way out.
This has an easy fix. Make the non-conference title participants in the playoff field play games on conference championship weekend against the top teams outside the field.
Assuming the favorites win today, the power conference games next week would be:
SEC Title: Alabama vs UGA
B1G Title: Ohio State vs Indiana
Big XII Title: BYU v Texas Tech
ACC Title: UVA vs SMU
Additional games (seeded like a bracket but don’t allow rematches):
Texas @ Oregon
USC @ Texas A&M (assumes Michigan drops below USC with a loss today)
Vanderbilt @ Ole Miss
Miami @ Oklahoma
Utah @ Notre Dame
Eliminates the free bye week reward for missing the conference title, eliminates the idea that you should lose on rivalry week because if A&M lost to Texas and USC consecutively, they could drop all the way out.
If Ohio State lost to Michigan and then a home game to USC, even they could drop all the way out.
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Posted on 11/29/25 at 9:30 am to TomRollTideRitter
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This setup where Texas A&M has benefited from losing to their arch rival is a major problem for college football.
I can assure you A&M was trying to win that game last night. It’s not ideal, but it doesn’t really matter
Posted on 11/29/25 at 9:30 am to TomRollTideRitter
Get rid of conference title games, it's that simple
Posted on 11/29/25 at 9:32 am to KosmoCramer
Yep, they arent needed
Posted on 11/29/25 at 9:33 am to TomRollTideRitter
I kept laughing at ABC flashing title game scenarios over and over again all day yesterday. They are trying to force it as a big game. The game means nothing at all, but ABC needs eyeballs.
Posted on 11/29/25 at 9:33 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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I can assure you A&M was trying to win that game last night.
That is definitely true but still doesn't change the fact that Texas A&M will benefit from the loss.
Posted on 11/29/25 at 9:34 am to Mingo Was His NameO
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I can assure you A&M was trying to win that game last night. It’s not ideal, but it doesn’t really matter
I agree, but I don’t think teams should be punished for competing. In terms of the playoff, A&M would have been better off sitting starters.
What happens if Reed blew his acl on his almost injury? Does A&M still play starters next year?
Narduzzi earlier this year already said Pitt-Notre Dame did not matter.
Posted on 11/29/25 at 9:35 am to TomRollTideRitter
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What happens if Reed blew his acl on his almost injury? Does A&M still play starters next year?
Yes
Posted on 11/29/25 at 9:37 am to KosmoCramer
Kosmo Cramer is clearly right but as long as the conferences (and the networks) make money, the title games won’t go away.
The only thing I can see that will make the conference title games go away is expanding the playoff to 16 teams.
Of course, this has its own problems, namely further diluting the regular season.
The only thing I can see that will make the conference title games go away is expanding the playoff to 16 teams.
Of course, this has its own problems, namely further diluting the regular season.
This post was edited on 11/29/25 at 9:38 am
Posted on 11/29/25 at 9:39 am to TomRollTideRitter
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sad to say about what should be one of the biggest games of the year.
Nothing sad about it, it was a game the SEC created out of greed. They need to eliminate these games.
Posted on 11/29/25 at 9:41 am to KosmoCramer
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Get rid of conference title games, it's that simple
Or just shrink the playoff. Or just go back to the BCS.
Realistically none of these things will happen though because the networks don’t want less content.
The SEC title last year had 16.6M viewers which was higher than every round 1 playoff game and higher than 2 of the 4 quarterfinals.
Posted on 11/29/25 at 9:44 am to TomRollTideRitter
Too complicated.
Break up the superconferences and have a round robin.
Break up the superconferences and have a round robin.
Posted on 11/29/25 at 9:46 am to KosmoCramer
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Get rid of conference title games, it's that simple
They make the conferences a shite load of money.
They aren't going away.
Posted on 11/29/25 at 9:47 am to TomRollTideRitter
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This setup where Texas A&M has benefited from losing to their arch rival is a major problem for college football.
College football has a ton of problems, this isn't one of them. Texas A&M does not benefit from this situation. They are now forced to play an extra elimination game.
Posted on 11/29/25 at 9:47 am to nola tiger lsu
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Nothing sad about it, it was a game the SEC created out of greed. They need to eliminate these games.
I’m talking about Michigan-Ohio State. The stakes of the game being pretty low for Ohio State is what is sad.
I would be fine with doing away with conference title games. I just don’t think it’ll realistically happen.
Posted on 11/29/25 at 10:00 am to TomRollTideRitter
They were giving conf champs bye last year. People bitched. Surprise surprise, they changed and people are still bitching.
This is highly debatable. First of all, they miss out on a conference championship that they've been chasing.
And if we ignore that, yeah you get cake walk in the first round but after that you're playing the better teams earlier than you would have if you had a higher seed.
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This setup where Texas A&M has benefited from losing to their arch rival
This is highly debatable. First of all, they miss out on a conference championship that they've been chasing.
And if we ignore that, yeah you get cake walk in the first round but after that you're playing the better teams earlier than you would have if you had a higher seed.
Posted on 11/29/25 at 10:04 am to TomRollTideRitter
So make a 20 team playoff.
Posted on 11/29/25 at 10:11 am to TomRollTideRitter
The “fix” was not expanding the playoffs to so many teams.
They could’ve had it both ways keeping the playoff field smaller and having 1vs 2 in each conference be a defacto playoff round.
They could’ve had it both ways keeping the playoff field smaller and having 1vs 2 in each conference be a defacto playoff round.
Posted on 11/29/25 at 10:11 am to RollTide1987
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That is definitely true but still doesn't change the fact that Texas A&M will benefit from the loss.
Nah.
They will be the 8 seed now and their path may be Notre Dame then Ohio State.
If they would have won last night, and then lost the SEC Championship Game, they would have been the 5 seed at worst.
Posted on 11/29/25 at 10:12 am to KosmoCramer
quote:bingo
Get rid of conference title games, it's that simple
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