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2. A conference championship is dependent on your schedule. Sometimes your crossover games are easy, like if Bama had Vandy and a bad Tennessee while Auburn has Georgia and a good South Carolina for example.

True, but despite Bama having an easier road, they still didn't win the Iron Bowl. They were left out.

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3. The only P5 conference that crowns a champion from a true round robin is the Big XII, and say a 7-2 team beats a 9-0 team in the championship game. The "champion" is now 8-2 and the "runner up" is 9-1.

The Big 12 has problems, and their conference Title game is a joke. They should have added BYU and Memphis when they had the chance.

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4. Sometimes a conference will have a GOAT type of team like '11 LSU going into the bowls. That in no way should diminish what anyone else in the conference did or how they compare to the competition, bc Bama that year made the most of the chance they shouldn't have got

Well, if you don't win your division, you're clearly not the best team in the country. In Bama's case, they may have been the second best team in the country, but that was debatable. There was another 1 loss team that had won its division and then won its conference title game. While Bama should be commended for making the most of its opportunity, it is always much harder for the team that won the first game to win a rematch. That is the problem Auburn, USC, and Oklahoma will face on Saturday. All of those teams are facing off against teams they beat during the regular season in a conference Title Game. I would not be shocked to see more than one of those teams get upset by formerly vanquished foes.

Conference Championships matter because it's one more game played against a typically top-tier foe. It gives a team the change to pad their resume and prove that if they're the best team of those 10-14 teams with which they share a conference, that they might be among the 4 best teams in America.