r/CFB • u/CrashB111 Alabama Crimson Tide • Iron Bowl • 20h ago

News [Matt Hayes] The SEC willingly flushed its conference championship game that last year had better ratings than all eight first round CFP games of the brief, 12-team era.

https://x.com/MattHayesCFB/status/2111056779366785054
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u/rageb8err Ole Miss Rebels • BYU Cougars 19h ago

Conferences existed for a hundred years without CCGs, they’ll be okay.

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u/Don_Cornelius- LSU Tigers 19h ago

Spoken like somebody who’s never played in a CCG in its entire existence

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u/rageb8err Ole Miss Rebels • BYU Cougars 18h ago

Not necessary, we win super bowls vs LSU.

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u/serial_mouth_grapist Florida Gators • Notre Dame Fighting Irish 19h ago

But they weren't so huge that you didn't play half of the conference...

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u/VariousLawyerings Tennessee • Georgia Tech 17h ago edited 17h ago

SEC logistics used to be so horrible that this kinda happened anyway. In the 50s and 60s there was a 14 year gap in the UT-UF series and the drought was only ended by a damn bowl game.

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u/onrocketfalls Florida Gators • Sickos 9h ago

Miss you. Bitch.

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u/pyrogeddon Baylor Bears • Tennessee Volunteers 17h ago

The Southern Conference was like 23 schools large in the 20s

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u/serial_mouth_grapist Florida Gators • Notre Dame Fighting Irish 17h ago

Right and it was such a nightmare the sec split off in the thirties and ACC after ww2

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u/Coteup Central Michigan • Michigan 19h ago

That was before media rights deals were remotely close to what they are today