True, but with a 12 game regular season, it would not be hard to have all member schools play each other and set tie breaker rules if you have three 8-1 records where team A beats team B who beat team C who beat team A.
You give an automatic birth to power 5 champs with a caveat that they must be ranked a minimum level (say top 10 or top 12). This prevents a "bad" conference champ from making cfp. That said, this year Washington finished 9th in final cfp poll so even with a top 10 caveat they would be in an 8-team playoff.
But that tie breaker just doesn’t feel the same as watching your team standing on stage on national TV and having the SEC commissioner hand the SEC Championship trophy to your smiling coach and teammates immediately after vanquishing your foe. There are T shirts and ball caps and your girlfriend may have a little something for you after the shower.
Actually not true for SEC. Teams played a 7-game schedule prior to 92, except for a period after GT left SEC when UGA was allowed to only play 6 conference games because they had GT each year. 92 was first year SEC schedule expanded to 8-teams. I believe they just had co-champs when a tie, but used a series of tie-breakers to determine Sugar Bowl representative. SECCG is a better method to determine SEC champ than how it was done before 92 IMO.
You're right. It would not be fair to take from Ole Miss the tradition of playing in the the SECCG year in and year out. :biggrin2:
Agree, problem being the PAC 12, Big 12, Group of 5, and possibly even the Big 10 likely won't agree to it.
While it has been true of the division as a whole, the perception regarding the winner has for the most part has been a myth. 4 of the last 11 years have been just good teams, the other 7 have been very good to great. And 2 of the "only good" 4 had won 10 games entering the CCG, one had won 9 and the other had won only 8 but that was because a cupcake had been cancelled due to weather and wasn't made up. 3 losses were had by only 2 teams. There were no Pitts or NWs ever or Washs or Utahs in 9 of the 11 years, in terms of w-l records anyway. 6, over half, were ranked in the top 6. All 11 had 3 losses or less, 9 were 10-2 or better, 6 were 11-1 or better, one was 12-0.
I agree. That one we lost to Florida 24-23 back in the mid-90s was also a doozy.
