[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.

[u/Thomallister1291]

https://x.com/PeteThamel/status/2111241297298387030

[u/Alt4816]

You didn't need conference championship games when the conferences were small enough to have all play all.

Tell that to the 10 team Big 12 in 2014 when it was unwilling to name a single conference champion and that helped keep both Baylor and TCU out of the 4 team playoff.

Personally I think conference championship games only worked well when conferences had two separate divisions but now the conferences have grown too big to even have divisions. With divisions teams earned their spot in the championship game through playing every other team in their division. If a tie breaker was needed to determine who played in the game usually it was settled simply through who won the head to head matchup.

Now without divisions we keep seeing non-head to head tie breakers need to be used to determine who gets to play in the conference championship. Last year the ACC had a 5 way tie for second. then for certain conferences it's questionable if it's even good for teams to be in that game instead of teams getting to keep their resume as is.

I'm fine with getting rid of these games and going back to naming teams co-conference champions if they have the same in conference record. If teams want to be sole conference champions then they should go undefeated in conference.

[u/megamanxzero35 → u/Alt4816]

IMO, that was on the Big 12. They tried to have their cake and eat it to that year by declaring them co-champions to try and get 2 teams in when they did play head to head so their was an easy tie breaker for who the winner should be.

[u/Teach_Piece → u/Alt4816]

We (the XII) were never getting in over an OSU that demolished Wisky. I don’t care if the XII gave Baylor the trophy in a coronation ceremony in Buckingham Fucking Palace.

All conferences should be forced to go to 10 team round robin schedules tbh. That was a very fun format

[u/fawkie → u/Alt4816]

I mean the big ten could easily split into two divisions of 9 with one cross-division game for each team. It just doesn’t because it wants Oregon and USC playing the former Big 10 east big boys as much as possible

[u/HistoricalTaste22k → u/Alt4816]

I thank them for making it easier to prove who the best team was that year.

[u/Teach_Piece → u/HistoricalTaste22k]

Shush, you got blown out by Virginia Tech.

[u/HistoricalTaste22k → u/Teach_Piece]

Boy, we have the trophy.