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Rebrand conference title week to conference play in week
Posted on 12/3/24 at 3:33 pm
Posted on 12/3/24 at 3:33 pm
Instead of Georgia-Texas playing a non sensical game this weekend, Alabama-South Carolina should be playing for a playoff spot. Keep it in Atlanta. Likewise across the college landscape. Indiana-Illinois, Clemson-Miami, etc.
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Posted on 12/3/24 at 3:41 pm to Ssubba
They wanted to try to keep conference championship relevant by reserving the top 4 spots for them but it doesn't really work out that way.
Sure if you win you get a bye, but you have to play in the championship game itself so you have ot play and win an extra game to "earn" the bye, so it's not really a bye.
And the fact both participants in many title games are guaranteed a spot robs them of drama.
Both Oregon and Penn State are in, both Georgia and Texas are in, etc.
Most years both participants in the Big Ten and SEC games are gonna be guaranteed spots.
Sure if you win you get a bye, but you have to play in the championship game itself so you have ot play and win an extra game to "earn" the bye, so it's not really a bye.
And the fact both participants in many title games are guaranteed a spot robs them of drama.
Both Oregon and Penn State are in, both Georgia and Texas are in, etc.
Most years both participants in the Big Ten and SEC games are gonna be guaranteed spots.
Posted on 12/3/24 at 3:41 pm to Ssubba
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Alabama-Ole Miss should
FIFY
Posted on 12/3/24 at 3:43 pm to Ssubba
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Rebrand conference title week to conference play in week
so basically you're proposing college football do what major league baseball does. Have a bunch of wild card teams play each other for a spot in the playoffs while the division (conference) champs are already locked in. Honestly wouldn't hate it.
Let the regular season dictate conference champs. Let some sort of computer metric dictate seedings for those teams. Then the wild card teams play however many games necessary to complete the field, with those matchups/seedings also determined by the same computer metric.
Would certainly be more interesting than letting a bunch of nerds in a room select a field and have a conference championship weekend be full of largely inconsequential games
This post was edited on 12/3/24 at 3:45 pm
Posted on 12/3/24 at 3:50 pm to Ssubba
People often say that it's all about the money, and in this case it has to be all about the money.
17 million people watched the SECCG, and the conference championship games provide an entire extra weekend of college football for the television partners.
Obviously I wasn't in the room, but when the powers that be were discussing the 12-team playoff setup, I'd bet money that they thoroughly discussed the importance of the conference championship games and the revenue from the conference championship games. How do we keep them relevant? How do we keep the conferences from canceling conference championship games. What would happen if a team actually opted out or tried to opt out of a conference game.
17 million people watched the SECCG, and the conference championship games provide an entire extra weekend of college football for the television partners.
Obviously I wasn't in the room, but when the powers that be were discussing the 12-team playoff setup, I'd bet money that they thoroughly discussed the importance of the conference championship games and the revenue from the conference championship games. How do we keep them relevant? How do we keep the conferences from canceling conference championship games. What would happen if a team actually opted out or tried to opt out of a conference game.
Posted on 12/3/24 at 3:57 pm to Ssubba
ABC Trifecta
11:00 - Alabama vs Ole Miss - Winner advances to Playoffs
2:30 - Tennessee vs South Carolina - Winner advances to Playoffs
6:30 - Texas vs Georgia - Both advance. Winner gets bye.
11:00 - Alabama vs Ole Miss - Winner advances to Playoffs
2:30 - Tennessee vs South Carolina - Winner advances to Playoffs
6:30 - Texas vs Georgia - Both advance. Winner gets bye.
Posted on 12/3/24 at 4:15 pm to Ssubba
I wanted to hate this idea and call you an idiot but this makes more sense than teams trying to avoid the conference championship game.
Posted on 12/3/24 at 4:22 pm to ukraine_rebel
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Alabama-Ole Miss
Yeah this is the appropriate game since both bama and ole miss have beaten USC. The conference fricked itself with these ambiguous schedules. The divisional formant wasn’t perfect but it guaranteed the necessary tiebreakers to avoid a situation like this.
Posted on 12/3/24 at 4:23 pm to Ssubba
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Instead of Georgia-Texas playing a non sensical game this weekend, Alabama-South Carolina should be playing for a playoff spot. Keep it in Atlanta. Likewise across the college landscape. Indiana-Illinois, Clemson-Miami, etc.
I accept this if you are crowning Texas SEC champs
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