re: Not much buzz for the National Championship

I forgot about it until reading some posts here.

It’s pushed too far out. It needs to start sooner after the season closer to what the FCS does and finish closer to when semifinals took place.

Conference championships would likely have to go away as then teams not good enough to play in conference championship but still in top 12 final selections could be rewarded with a week off against any losers in conference championship games that also still make the playoffs.

Regardless I think they should do away with these super conference championship games or go back to divisions even if only playing 1 team or even zero teams from other division. At least before in the SEC the Western representative played every other western team, and the eastern rep played every other team in the east. There could still be advantages if one plays a weaker team or in the past played multiple weaker teams from other division (divisions make more sense as games against other division lowers in qty), but stacking teams based on very different SEC schedules makes less sense. A committee picking the top 2 teams to play for conference championship almost makes as much sense as basing it only on conference record which in a way proves current set up is flawed.