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/Statalyzer Texas Longhorns 7h ago

Pretty soon we're going to end up with 2 undefeated teams in the same conference.

I guess we'll just name them co-champs?

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u/Orbital2 Ohio State Buckeyes • Big Ten 6h ago

I mean this isn’t unprecedented

Just off the top of my head, Ohio State and Iowa both went undefeated in conference play in 2002 and split the conference title.

Of course splits with teams that had losses happened all the time in the pre CCG days

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u/FearDaTusk Arkansas Razorbacks 5h ago

Alabama just claimed another National Championship 😅

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u/Top_Ladder6702 Boise State Broncos • Maryland Terrapins 4h ago

That was the standard for 100 years before conference championships

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u/1850ChoochGator Oregon State • Washington 4h ago

Now you’ll try to tell me conferences used to play everyone and be more regional 😂

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u/glzzgbblr California • Notre Dame 3h ago

We’ve regressed to the AP poll pre-internet days, where all we do is argue the national champion via newspaper

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u/JohanVonClancy Notre Dame Fighting Irish 6h ago

We will let the AP name the conference champion based on the different strengths of schedule and who was more dominant in SP+ and EPA.