SEC needs to drop the Championship game

[NRHorn]

No comments from me, title says it all
I said this in August, no sour grapes…

 

[Run Pincher]

I agree it hurts SEC teams more than it helps, but it's not gonna happen. Too much $$ in it.

 

[NRHorn]

I agree it hurts SEC teams more than it helps, but it's not gonna happen. Too much $$ in it.

I hear you… money is driving this.
Boise, ASU get byes? I understand why, however they do not deserve it.
Texas needs to wipe out the non conference schedule and add Mercer, New Hampshire And Maine.

 

[bystander]

They want a clean automatic bid. Less judgment calls the better.

 

[guy4321]

Since PSU, SMU, and Texas didn't get hurt by losing, the CCGs are staying.

 

[X Misn Tx]

The loser didn't get kicked out of the playoffs. Just changed the seeding. I'm OK with that

 

[Saint Jimmy]

Since PSU, SMU, and Texas didn't get hurt by losing, the CCGs are staying.

Too much money involved. The importance of the championship games will be bragging rights and playoff seeding.... as well as an automatic bid for "power conference" champions.

 

[havoc7701]

This Atlanta-only BS has to go though, Superdome makes the most sense geographically but alternating Atlanta and Arlington Billionaire’s Botox Bowl would be fine too.

 

[guy4321]

I like the rotation since very few stadiums are "in the middle." Do Atlanta one year, then Dallas, then Nashville, then Jacksonville, then Houston, then New Orleans, etc.

Even the new Big 12 should rotate. Phoenix, Dallas, KC, and so on.

 

[ViperHorn]

The CCGs have to go as they are needless. Let the CFP Committee sort everything out and allocate the Combined CCG and CFP money.

 

[giveemhell]

I predict the SEC will be the first to eliminate its conference championship game and the rest will follow. Seeing Carson Beck end his season in a meaningless exhibition game was terrible. The conference championship games had meaning when there was just a BCS championship game (and before that when it was just polls choosing the national champion). But an expanded playoff with 12 teams (soon to be more) has rendered the CCGs a pointless anachronism.

 

[Horns11]

They can still go back to the old Big Ten and Pac-10 versions of picking the conference champ (best record and if they can't figure out the multi-way tiebreaker, then whoever won the conference least recently is the champ).

 

[guy4321]

I predict the SEC will be the first to eliminate its conference championship game and the rest will follow. Seeing Carson Beck end his season in a meaningless exhibition game was terrible. The conference championship games had meaning when there was just a BCS championship game (and before that when it was just polls choosing the national champion). But an expanded playoff with 12 teams (soon to be more) has rendered the CCGs a pointless anachronism.

I think it's more likely to go the other way - the SEC sends 4 football teams to its conference tournament. Way too much money involved to end it.

 

[X Misn Tx]

i think picking a conf champ based on convoluted tie breaker rules is wack. wackity wack.

 

[das3603]

i think picking a conf champ based on convoluted tie breaker rules is wack. wackity wack.

I agree. With conferences having gotten so big now, you need a CCG to have some semblance of settling it on the field. How fair would it be to crown a conference champion based on conference record when you only play half the teams in your conference?

At least in the 10 team Big 12 days, everyone played everyone else and their wasn’t any griping about one teams schedule being so much more difficult than another.

And this year in the SEC, imagine if A&M had beaten us. They would have been the top team based on all the tie breakers and be crowned SEC champs, but still be considered the 4th or 5th best team in the conference. Unless you want 4 two loss teams to each claim a conference championship (us, Georgia, Aggy and Tennessee). Is this the 1994 SWC? How goofy is that?

 

[Giovanni Jones]

wackity wack.

Don’t talk back!
~ The Coasters

 

[Giovanni Jones]

If you really want Peak Wack, then a large conference like the SEC needs to institute a mini-playoff to determine its champion. 4 teams at least. Maybe 6.

 

[Horn6721]

This to me the point
"At least in the 10 team Big 12 days, everyone played everyone else and their wasn’t any griping about one teams schedule being so much more difficult than another."

 

[Walking Boss]

The $ec needs to go back to a division method. There would have to be some gerrymandering to try to achieve some competitive balance and protect certain rivalries but at least you won't have your CCG participants decided by a fourth or fifth tiebreaker.