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/purpscurp93 Arizona State Sun Devils 1d ago

Uh. Worst take ever. With larger conferences crowning a champion means a lot more when you don't play half the teams there. This is what everyone in the non sec and big10 conferences play for. But yes. The Notre Dame fan has the best perspective on this

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u/SmoothBrain3333 Iowa State Cyclones 23h ago

I would say you have the worst take ever. Why would it mean more when you don’t play half the teams. It just makes it way harder to determine who should be in the championship game. Schedules are so imbalanced and you are relying on tiebreakers every year to determine the participants. Playoffs and national titles are what teams are playing for now.

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u/purpscurp93 Arizona State Sun Devils 23h ago

Because a team might play a soft schedule in the conference. Or a team might have gotten the other best team on the road. Like I said for most teams in the NCAA (non sec ND or big10) the conference championship was the real championship, and you take that away from them. especially big12 schools in this scenario