[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.

[u/CrashB111]

https://x.com/MattHayesCFB/status/2111056779366785054

[u/svenSVEN7]

Hear me out now.

Could the conferences reimagine divisions and “divisional champions”? Like what if they left the last week of the regular season open for a matchup based on regular season standings or something like that?
Idk someway to get creative with regular season games and conference standings to make them more interesting. Like NHL has the Presidents Trophy for best regular season record and a bunch of other trophy’s for non post season things. The conferences are way too big anyways for winning the conference so maybe make more pompt and circumstance within divisions?? Idk I’m just brainstorming man.

[u/Signal_Tip_7428 → u/svenSVEN7]

Yeah let’s fuck with rivalry week

[u/crazy_akes → u/svenSVEN7]

I hear you. Maybe make it like more formal with a key flaw before the 24 team playoff. How about calling it the AFC and NFC. They could have two conferences with the SEC and the winners get trophies. 

Now they we have a 24 team playoff, I’m not sure we need another layer of playoffs, but I’m not opposed. At this point the regular season is just round robin P4 feeding into a match madnesss style system.

[u/Pan_TheCake_Man → u/crazy_akes]

If we can get a bunch of 10 team regional divisions within the super conferences that play round robin, I think that would be neat.

Just try to recreate the small conferences within the mega conferences.

I still think it’s fucking stupid to continually push to be like the NFL with divisions and such, but whatever

[u/Alexcox95 → u/Pan_TheCake_Man]

I demand that Texas, Maryland, Penn state, and Syracuse be in the same division

[u/Pan_TheCake_Man → u/Alexcox95]

How about this, we look at the preseason rankings, and the top ten are division 1
11-20 division 2, etc etc on down the line.

[u/svenSVEN7 → u/Pan_TheCake_Man]

I think divisions are a viable way to get the traditional regionality back.

[u/Accomplished-Pin6564 → u/Pan_TheCake_Man]

That would be awesome.

[u/bruhstevenson → u/svenSVEN7]

That’s what they do in the PAC12 this year, so we’ll see how that goes I’m very intrigued. But even still, I love rivalry week, and hope it doesn’t go by the wayside

[u/Green-goonie → u/svenSVEN7]

I’ve said this for years. Have a postseason “bowl” season. Split the conferences into 10 team divisions. Play 11 games. Two non conference games and 9 game round robin season. The top two teams from each division go to the playoffs and go from there.

The rest of the teams play 2 games vs each other. The third place team from division 1 plays the third place team from division 2 and so on.

Then reseed those teams and play again.

Everyone plays at least 13 games. You can award a division/conference champion in January. Is the SEC goes 0-20 in bowl games we mock them. If the MWC goes 20-0, they get rings.

It would be massive.

[u/CzechHorns → u/svenSVEN7]

Rivalry week exists.

[u/svenSVEN7 → u/CzechHorns]

My guy, half of your season is already a rivalry week because Texas is so likable.

[u/CzechHorns → u/svenSVEN7]

Nice that you think of us. What about all the other teams?

[u/HeywardH → u/CzechHorns]

I would also like to hate on Texas. 

[u/CzechHorns → u/HeywardH]

More than Florida, Auburn or GT? no way

[u/HeywardH → u/CzechHorns]

You're right. Today Texas is an ally. 

[u/152is2after150 → u/CzechHorns]

It exists as the last week of the regular season, not as specifically the week/weekend of Nov 24-30 (or w/e). Before CCG it was often Dec 1-7 (or whatever)

[u/TheSmartDog_275 → u/svenSVEN7]

That’s what the pac 12 or mountain west (not sure which) is doing this year to try and promote their teams and get them in.