I've said all along this was dumb. No more conference championships alone makes this a stupid move.
Never cared for the conference championships for two big reasons:
One, they weren't standardized -- if they help/hurt your cause, then EVERY conference should have been made to have one.
This is just one of the many inconsistencies in College Football that needed fixing.
Two, speaking of helping/hurting a team's cause, it didn't always work out that way and oftentimes made the games redundant.....even BEFORE the playoffs expanded.
Basically, you had a system where some conferences held championship games while others didn't, creating an inherently uneven playing field. One team could sit at home with its playoff position secure while another, with an identical record, had to risk its entire postseason standing by playing an additional game.
And the inconsistencies didn't end there. Sometimes losing a conference championship game effectively eliminated a team from playoff contention. Other times, a team could lose that same game and still be virtually guaranteed a playoff berth. Hell, there were even teams that didn't qualify for their own conference championship game but still made the playoff.
There are a number of things I could list about the way College Football used to be or used to have that I wish would either come back or return to how it was before.
But those bullshit Conference Championship games and their lack of competitive uniformity isn't one of them.
