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/svenSVEN7 Nebraska Cornhuskers 19h ago

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.

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u/Green-goonie 6h ago

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.