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/beornn2 Texas Longhorns 8h ago

At this point it’s time to do away with conferences and go to divisions if they’re fully committing to a massive playoff system. Doesn’t make sense to keep them around, they’re relics now and serve no purpose.

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u/turtledancers Florida State Seminoles 6h ago

SEC good ole boys are some of the strongest pearl clutchers in the country and they are very politically connected (which is a complete joke that that matters in the first place). Also relationships with networks for TV deals right?

I agree this should happen but it’d essentially be like telling them to remove monuments from their towns. It’s going to get ugly.

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u/beornn2 Texas Longhorns 6h ago

It’s gotta go. No way some 9-3 SEC team should get in over a two or one loss team because “SEC”. Break everything up by region, schedule your traditional rivalry games outside of divisional schedule if they’re not aligned in the same division. The conference circle jerk needs to end.

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u/TXOgre09 Texas A&M Aggies 4h ago

By region the way things were before?

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u/beornn2 Texas Longhorns 4h ago

If that ends up resurrecting the old SWC then so be it. I wouldn’t care where Texas ended up as long as it was equitable across the nation and did away with any sort of conference bias.

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u/turtledancers Florida State Seminoles 6h ago

They gave Jayden Daniels the heisman over Micheal Penix and snubbed FSU for Alabama. That’s all recent history too. People barely batted an eye and ESPN told everyone to get over both of those events.

I’ll celebrate the day the SEC and ESPN (SECs main partner and propagandist) loses power.

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u/beornn2 Texas Longhorns 5h ago

Fully agree, though 14 year old me still holds a massive grudge for 1993 when FSU got voted champ over Notre Dame (in spite of the head to head win that the Irish had over FSU that year).

That’s why I’m kinda ok with playoffs as long as they do away with all the other things that give an unfair bias or edge, like conferences. Settle everything on the field.

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u/turtledancers Florida State Seminoles 5h ago

Probably pressures to join a conference but yes that’s not fair.

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u/SirMellencamp Alabama Crimson Tide • SEC 3h ago

We just all have to pretend that we think UTSA is better than Florida

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u/mowtowcow Georgia Bulldogs 5h ago

Not allowing certain teams in with better win/loss because "SEC" or "BIG10" is so we don't end up with UGA vs TCU. As soon as they start catering to "WELL OMG THEY ARE UNDEFEATEDDDDDDDD, they beat this really good team!" 65-7 happens in a National Championship. Which is boring as fuck.

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u/beornn2 Texas Longhorns 4h ago

Oh so blowouts are a recent development? Your conference bias is showing.

I couldn’t care less about the result of the game, I care about the whole process. Whatever happens on the field happens. Alabama got in last year because SEC reasons, and with how the teams were playing down the stretch there’s zero rational reason to think Notre Dame wouldn’t have run them out of the building. But we’ll never know because the good ‘ol boy system worked out for them.

Abolish the conferences, group by region, and whatever traditional rivalries are can be played outside divisional play just like every other professional league.