r/CFB • u/CrashB111 Alabama Crimson Tide • Iron Bowl • 1d 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/YoungKeys Notre Dame Fighting Irish 1d ago

Conferences are too large for conference championship games now. It’s time to get rid of them imo

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u/mind-blowin Michigan Wolverines 1d ago

It’s true, the teams that make it are usually the result of scheduling and convoluted tiebreakers and not really because of results. Big game James made it for Penn St a couple years ago solely because he didn’t have to play any of the top Big Ten teams.

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u/boy-detective Iowa Hawkeyes • Stanford Cardinal 1d ago

It was fun to gaslight Penn State fans into thinking that Franklin was a mid-to-submid coach. Who knew they would believe it?

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u/livefreeordont James Madison Dukes 15h ago

I thought all the Penn staters believed he was a good coach who couldn’t win the big games and then lost the locker room in his last season. Is that not what happened?

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u/boy-detective Iowa Hawkeyes • Stanford Cardinal 10h ago

The “lost the locker room” part was funny too given the way players reacted once he was fired and how many voted with their feet to follow him.

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u/Manning_bear_pig Montana State Bobcats • Miami Hurricanes 21h ago

Wtf are we doing here. I'm not a Penn State or a Virginia Tech fan at all, but Franklin is clearly way beyond a "mid-to-submid coach".

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u/boy-detective Iowa Hawkeyes • Stanford Cardinal 21h ago

That’s what made it gaslighting.

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u/Balogunned Rice Owls • Northwestern Wildcats 13h ago

Best part is that they hired the mid to sub mid coach to replace him.