[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/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/svenSVEN7 → u/Pan_TheCake_Man]

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