r/CFB • u/Thomallister1291 Oregon Ducks • Alabama Crimson Tide • 21h ago

News [Pete Thamel] Per sources, the amount Fox is expected to get back for the cancellation of the Big Ten title game, which it owns the television rights to, is estimated in the $50 million range annually.

https://x.com/PeteThamel/status/2111241297298387030
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u/SlamDunkly Oregon Ducks 19h ago

Do conference championship games even do an accurate job of showing who wins their conference anymore though?

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u/aure__entuluva UCLA Bruins • Michigan Wolverines 18h ago

I've been half joking that the conference is so big now that we need a 4 team playoff for the conference championship. I know there's not another week to fit a game in, but the fact that you could have who goes be determined by some nonsense tie breakers when the two teams in question haven't played each other is criminal. Getting rid of the conference championship game altogether?

More criminal as far as I'm concerned.

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u/HistoricalTaste22k Ohio State Buckeyes 15h ago

Before you came along, it was really just how much was the east going to score on an overhyped B1G west team.

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u/megamanxzero35 Iowa State Cyclones • Fiesta Bowl 9h ago

This is my thought. Conferences are so big now you can probably find 3 schools each year that don’t play each other so they could all go 9-0 and some other weird tie breaker is the reason someone gets left out.

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u/matgopack NC State Wolfpack 19h ago

Yeah, this seems like complaining for the sake of it TBH. Conference championship games are at this point a relic of a very specific time it seems, I don't think they're good.