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/Artvandelay29 Vanderbilt Commodores • Houston Cougars 20h ago

I can’t wait to see a three-way tie for conference championships and people to wonder what went wrong and what the fourth tiebreakers are

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u/DrVonD Georgia Bulldogs 19h ago

I mean co-conference championships existed for farrrrrr longer in this sport compared to championship games. What is old is new again

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u/Crying_in_99Ranch LSU Tigers 19h ago

Not in 16 team super conferences. It's gonna be the norm every single year

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u/CodyRCantrell Oklahoma • Red River Shootout 14h ago

Major conferences had co-champions roughly 40% of the time in basically every conference so it already happened almost half the years.

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u/livefreeordont James Madison Dukes 10h ago

Also most conference championships are younger than me. This isn’t Kansas v Mizzou being scrapped

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u/CodyRCantrell Oklahoma • Red River Shootout 4h ago

I want conference championship games to continue existing and this will create a huge problem in CFP selection.

Currently the rumored plan is to give the P4 conference champions a guaranteed bye with four CFP slots but what would happen in a scenario like the 2000 B1G where Michigan, Northwestern, and Perdue were co-champions?

Do we just get fewer at-large bids? Who decides which co-champion gets the singular bye week for the B1G? What about when you have 2-3 co-champions for every P4 conference?