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/jakewhitacre LSU Tigers • Old Dominion Monarchs 1d ago

I'm going to go out on a limb and guess the cumulative value of have 4 or 5 more playoff games involving SEC more than makes up for that from a ratings perspective. 

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u/Time-Wolf USF Bulls 1d ago

It’s a fairly hardy limb because they wouldn’t be doing it if it didn’t lol