[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/whyisalltherumgone_]

Actually, yeah there were massive conferences lol. The Southern Conference had 23 teams. 13 of those teams split off to form the SEC. The ACC would later also be formed by splitting off from that "super conference."

[u/goodnames679 → u/whyisalltherumgone_]

You know, I’ve heard about the southern conference for many years and somehow I never actually knew that it grew all the way to 23 teams. Apparently that happened around 1928 to 1932

Thanks for the fun fact!