Eleazar |
12-02-2014 07:50 PM |
I actually agree about the conference championship games, but not for the exact same reason. If every conference had one, then you have a level playing field where you have to win your conference outright in order to get a title shot.
But since the Big 12-2 got rid of their championship game, you'll have a team that avoided a potential loss against a quality opponent jockeying for position against teams from the Big Ten and SEC that had to risk it all against a conference runner-up.
If the Big 12-2 were to somehow politic one of those teams into the playoff with "Well, ___ didn't win their conference, even though they are ranked ahead of ____ and ____, both of these teams are conference co-champions!" - so why would any conference have a championship game?
If the Big 12-2 is going to lower the bar for what a champion means, why should other conferences let them pull that nonsense?
(You might think of the bar being three notches lower for Big 12-2 teams, only having to finish ahead of 8 other teams instead of 11 or 15 others, by not having a championship game, and by allowing multiple teams to say they won their conference)
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