re: How long before one of the teams from the Power Four op out of championship game?

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Conference championship games are part of the process. No reason to remove them. If any team finds themselves not caring about a conference title game because they think it doesn't matter, then they can play a bunch of walk-on's and get embarrassed. Otherwise, man up and play the game to win. I'm tired of people trying to ruin everything that was good about this sport, by replacing everything with never ending expansion, realignment, pseudo free agency, and trying to duck out of playing games, for one reason or another.

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They are an unnecessary "part of the process". They were created SOLEY as a money grab. Nothing more. Conferences operated for decades just fine without them. With the CFP, all those games do is create an imbalanced system. On the one hand, it gives a team that probably shouldn't make the CFP (see Duke this year, Clemson last year) a chance to knock out a more deserving team for no other reason than they play in a weak conference. On the flip side, it requires a team already in the CFP to pay another unnecessary game that (a) risks injury (see Georgia last year) or (b) could knock them out of a position they would not have been in had they not been forced to play another game. For example, 2017 Auburn. They beat both Alabama and Georgia in the regular season. When the regular season ended they were ranked No. 2 in the CFP poll. However, because they were forced to play another game, which they lost, a team they beat (Alabama) got to sit home and get into the CFP for NO other reason except they weren't forced to play in the SECCG.

Everyone is bitching about the college football calendar right now. Well, one solution could be to end the conf. championship games and start the CFP a week (or two) earlier so the season ends around Jan. 1. At that point the portal and NSD (if the early NSD is eliminated) could occur AFTER the CFP

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What does Georgia or Alabama have to gain by playing the SECCG?

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Nothing. But the conference and thus the teams makes a frick ton on money from it. So the SEC is going to want to be able to make up that money before they are willing to give it up

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You are definitely in the minority when it comes to this line of thinking

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Says who?

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They need to get rid of conference championship games

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2 easy fixes to the calendar:

1) Just make week zero, week 1 for everyone and start the season then

2) Eliminate Conference Championship games

That would give us 2 extra weeks to work with to get the playoffs done and figure out the transfer portal and all.

The issue should be on the conferences to amend their tie breaker system. I have no dog in this hunt, but AM should be the 2nd highest Sec playing in the championship game. Same issue in the ACC with Duke getting the 2nd ranking.

Fix the conference tie breaker rule and the the CFP should only be obligated to the top 3 conference teams. If you cannot be in the top 3 in your conference you should have no opportunity to win a national championship. The conference whining is trying to change the purpose of the CFP to give teams that deserve a chance to compete for a championship that opportunity. It should not be to give mulligans to the top conference teams that cannot finish in the top of their own conference.

Wins matter and so do losses.

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I suppose they could do that. I don't see any incentive for a school to play any of their starters in that scenario though. I think you'd be watching a glorified scrimmage between backups.

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That’s definitely the knock on that solution. Teams in the 10-12 range have plenty of incentive because they don’t want to get bumped by a lower-ranked conference champion. But teams that are comfortably in the top 8 or so wouldn’t have much to gain. That’s why I said it worked a little better when the first-round byes were still reserved for conference champions.

I do think SEC titles still mean something to players, coaches, and fan bases though.

Since no conference division, no need for a championship game.

michigan* cheated hard in 2024, ohio state shouldn't have been in a playoff due to their regular season performance and UGA hurt their QB in the sec champ game.

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Says who?

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Read the room bro…

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But they are pointless, and they create an unfair and unbalanced system. The sport is evolving and with that evolution, changes need to be made to improve the process. Also, what you described is exactly what's killing the sport. You are advocating for a game in which teams might be inclined to play a bunch of walk-ons instead of a playoff game in which every team would be desperaely trying to win.

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I never advocated for the stupid 12 team playoff. These conference championship games held a lot more importance when we weren't watering down the field with this stupid format. So no. My position isn't what's ruining the sport. It's the people who are constantly trying to fix what wasn't broken who are ruining the sport.

All of this complaining about an "unbalanced system". The system is unbalanced no matter what you do, because there are so many different conferences, unlike in professional sports, and the level of competition is each conference is nowhere near comparable to one another.

So people try to "fix" it by adding more teams to the playoff. Then more, and more, and more. When will it be enough? Take a look at the basketball tournament. It's never enough. And that's the problems with all of these "fix it" people. Sometimes you just have to leave well enough alone, and stop complaining.