Could 2024 be the end of conference championship games?

Well duh. Conference Championships are so dumm! Like, I vote we get rids of the entire regular season for any team not being hyped up to the point of being in the top 12 preseason rankings. If you somehow manage to get in the preseason top 12, the top 4 seeds go to the playoffs, and the 5-12 teams get a trophy to put in their trophy cases. Once the top 4 teams complete the playoffs, uga gets the national championship trophy regardless of who wins, because karby doesn’t even know what the cfp committee looks for anyways — I mean, if you play at Texas, at bama, at Oxford and those are really hard teams— no way yoh know how hard they are if you only watch on tv, you have to be at the stadium to actually know — then win or lose those games, because they are hard!!!!! But win or lose, you should get credit for getting on a big aeroplane and flying there, so you get credit. So uga gets the championship. This should be the new way!
 
None of this will happen for a number of logistical reasons, but with divisions being eliminated now, I'd like to see the regular season reduced to 11 games, followed by each P4 conference having their own 4-team playoff. Championship game participants get auto bids (winners obviously getting the byes) and the other two teams among the 4 subject to consideration for at-large bids--and no one else. Sure, some 2-loss team that loses a tiebreaker and ends up 5th in the conference will whine about being left out, but we should only have so many öööös to give about the national title hopes of a team that can't definitively finish top 4 in their own conference.
 
the entire current situation is a dumpster fire brought on by greed. but CFB is such a great product that the games are still immensly fun to watch.
 
Skydog said:
the entire current situation is a dumpster fire brought on by greed. but CFB is such a great product that the games are still immensly fun to watch.
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I agree with you about the games, but I believe those are under threat as well. On top of the fact that I personally think we're already seeing direct official intervention in games to achieve the ideal result for the Company/conference, the games will begin to mean less as it grows more and more clear that simply winning isn't enough if you don't have the right logo on your 25's.
 
Supersize that order mutt said:
I don't know if it was just wishful thinking or an actually well-thought-out suggestion, but I saw such an arrangement posted somewhere online a month or so ago. Tech would be in a region consisting of Georgia, Auburn, Bama, Clemson and others in the "old" southeast (region, not conference). I really liked the arrangement.
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My only concern is that its too "back-yard." I think the mistake the SEC made and to some degree still makes is not venturing out to kick ass in other parts of the country. They are, on average, too chicken to travel to Oregon or the midwest or far west to play any other regional powerhouses to prove their mettle. Yeah, I know, there are the occasional games between upper echelon SEC and top brass from other conferences but its the rare exception. The dwags went decades without playing a Division I (at the time) team on the road because Dooley was a chicken.

The coward who runs the SEC is the same way - takes zero out of conference risk but wants the credit of a roving band of Vikings that travelled far and wide, kicked ass and came home except they haven't gone anywhere and done anything except the "beat each other up."

While I see the beauty of your suggestion - regional rivalries, close by easy to road trip, well attended, etc. But, like the Vikings, you want the territory? You gotta go get it and that involves leaving the comforts of home, going on the road where you are not welcome, kicking ass, and putting the world on notice.
 
00Burdell said:
My only concern is that its too "back-yard." I think the mistake the SEC made and to some degree still makes is not venturing out to kick ass in other parts of the country. They are, on average, too chicken to travel to Oregon or the midwest or far west to play any other regional powerhouses to prove their mettle. Yeah, I know, there are the occasional games between upper echelon SEC and top brass from other conferences but its the rare exception. The dwags went decades without playing a Division I (at the time) team on the road because Dooley was a chicken.

The coward who runs the SEC is the same way - takes zero out of conference risk but wants the credit of a roving band of Vikings that travelled far and wide, kicked ass and came home except they haven't gone anywhere and done anything except the "beat each other up."

While I see the beauty of your suggestion - regional rivalries, close by easy to road trip, well attended, etc. But, like the Vikings, you want the territory? You gotta go get it and that involves leaving the comforts of home, going on the road where you are not welcome, kicking ass, and putting the world on notice.
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If the NCAA or ESPN or whoever put an alignment like that in place, they could also put a requirement that so-many in-region games must be played, so many out-or-region games must be played, and the remaining games could be chosen from lower division schools. It's simple, but when has something so obvious ever been done in the past?
 
Along the lines of ten team regional conferences mentioned above, if I were to select a ten team ACC, consisting of current ACC schools, I’d pick:

GT, Clemson, FSU, Miami, UNC, NCSU, Duke, Wake, UVA, and VT.

Play a round robin nine game conference FB schedule; 18 game home/away schedule in basketball.
 
Supersize that order mutt said:
If the NCAA or ESPN or whoever put an alignment like that in place, they could also put a requirement that so-many in-region games must be played, so many out-or-region games must be played, and the remaining games could be chosen from lower division schools. It's simple, but when has something so obvious ever been done in the past?
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You know... that is a brilliant idea. Centralized national scheduling. You just saved college football as we know it.

I'm half kidding but half not. So conferences decide which members play each other and set their own schedule for that but only 6 conference games. The other 6 are scheduled by an AI (thinking out loud here) that conjures up the most interesting matchups for the other six games.

Its random and likely deeply flawed but I like where you are going with the idea.
 
Dirty Jacket said:
No bottles were harmed. Just feeling hype af.
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Tomorrow is actually a big game.

And, I salute my StinGTalk brethren who find a way to attend the games and show our team the love and support they deserve. It was pretty clear judging by the UM post-game interviews that the players focused all the energy from the crowd into giving that extra something that won the game. Don't need to point out that if Romello doesn't strip the ball and UM gets a first down, things get dicey. So take the credit you deserve for showing up loud.
 
00Burdell said:
You know... that is a brilliant idea. Centralized national scheduling. You just saved college football as we know it.

I'm half kidding but half not. So conferences decide which members play each other and set their own schedule for that but only 6 conference games. The other 6 are scheduled by an AI (thinking out loud here) that conjures up the most interesting matchups for the other six games.

Its random and likely deeply flawed but I like where you are going with the idea.
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For better or worse, it would get us back to the kind of schedules we had up until Dodd stupidly left the SEC
 
I think the real problem is that even if the conferences and networks were to decide to implement one of the many great ideas for saving college football, it would still be the conferences and the networks doing the implementing, and no idea is so great that it cannot be sacrificed for another cent.
 
SEC and Big10 will always want to hog spots under the present system. Instead do away with conference championships and have a 10 game
season. Then have a 128 team playoff with no byes. Each team would play between 11 and 17 games depending on how far they get in the playoff.
 
00Burdell said:
Tomorrow is actually a big game.

And, I salute my StinGTalk brethren who find a way to attend the games and show our team the love and support they deserve. It was pretty clear judging by the UM post-game interviews that the players focused all the energy from the crowd into giving that extra something that won the game. Don't need to point out that if Romello doesn't strip the ball and UM gets a first down, things get dicey. So take the credit you deserve for showing up loud.
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I’ll piggy back on this and add, does Adidas actually know that navy blue isn’t our primary color? I’m on fanatics and tech’s sites trying to get some cold weather gear, and everything is navy. I’m a white GT gear guy personally. No offense intended to yellow/gold or navy people.
 
Kcs_Tech said:
SEC and Big10 will always want to hog spots under the present system. Instead do away with conference championships and have a 10 game
season. Then have a 128 team playoff with no byes. Each team would play between 11 and 17 games depending on how far they get in the playoff.
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Interesting. We could call it the Regular Season and then let a collection of writers and coaches each choose who they think is the best team after all is said and done.
 
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