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.