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

I agree. Start the playoffs immediately after the regular season games with the natty on January 1st. Open the portal and do signing day on January 2nd.

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I wouldn't blame them if they sat guys

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Why wouldn’t they?

Name, image, & likeness is the equivalency of paying a $1M for a pencil, but hey look, I’m throwing in this college kid who happens to run a 4.4 forty and is supposedly a hell of a football player, because his name, image, nor likeness isn’t remotely worth a million dollars. It’s a sham.

We’ve seen it for years in the NFL, where the final game of the season is meaningless to the majority of the top teams as their playoff slot and home field is locked and you sit your starters.

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I just find it weak minded and stupid

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Very compelling argument you make. Pithy.

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Exactly. The OPer is right, and until your team gets fricked by a conference championship game (State fans won't ever relate), you would want said game done away with too.

There's no point in them now.

They're a liability.

A detriment.

When they inevitably expand the playoffs, they'll finish off conference championship games and do like the OPer said we used to do: have co-champions.

It ain't baseball, guys, your title contender team can't play dozens and dozens of games unfazed and without ramifications. It's not needed anymore. Just crown co-champs and move on to the 64 team playoff bracket with your team of mercenaries.

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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.

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In a perfect world the playoffs go away. I hate what CFB has become.

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For a bubble team you have to win if you’re in it though

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Is that really what we want though? Everyone was crying and complaining after last season because we didn’t get the best teams into the playoffs and so we had a bunch of lopsided playoff games.

If a 3 or 4 loss team gets lucky and wins their conference championship game, they’ll be in the playoff above another team with fewer losses.

The only thing more idiotic than how the committee handles conference championship games is the fact that they bent the knee to the brain dead morons sky screaming about how conference champions needed automatic bids

I pray to God Miami ends up the highest ranked ACC team in the final poll but doesn't get in

6 total conferences of 12 teams

Round robin in conference schedule, alternating home and away per for each matchup/each year

1 marquee OOC game in week 1

Top 2 teams in each conference play a title game, winner advances to playoff

Best 2 conference champs get a bye

Bottom 6 teams relegated and replaced by the top 6 in the group of 5


This is my dream.

It will never ever happen

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I know it won’t happen because these conferences are still making money off of these games

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For how much longer? Conference championships see attendance dip (2024)

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Georgia football coach Kirby Smart said, “I hate to say it, but in pregame, I didn’t think the game had the same juice and atmosphere I’ve seen it have before.” Texas has “one of the nation’s biggest fan bases,” but Saturday’s game was local for Georgia and around only 20% of the fans in the building were “wearing burnt orange.” That was a “fraction of what they were a week ago for Texas’ rivalry renewal against Texas A&M" in College Station (THE ATHLETIC, 12/7).

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This year’s SECCG will be an undefeated team with the easiest possible schedule vs one of 3 1-loss teams that won a tiebreaker. Without the divisions forcing schedule standardization it’s not a legitimate championship, and it’s no longer necessary to secure a bye (or even a spot)

Teams don’t want to play an unnecessary game. Texas fans not giving a shite in their first ever SECCG said it all. The momentum to end them will only get louder because there is inadequate incentive now. Kirby’s one of the loudest and once he and other coaches decide to sit players / run vanilla playbooks, interest will evaporate. There won’t be money to be made

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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.

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People need to make up their minds. This very scenario is why they were giving conf champs BYEs in years prior. Everyone shite on that. So here we are. They both have their flaws.

Byes go only to the conference champs of the top 4 ranked champions.

In this way, a conference championship has meaning.

You lose, you may not make the playoffs.

And if you lose, you play in round one.