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Been a lot of talk about the SEC Championship and whether or not you should even want that for your team in the age of the expanded playoff. The old school fan in me wants an SEC Championship. The pragmatic in me wants a fresh team for the playoff. Interesting to even think that the unintentional consequence of this expansion would be teams no longer wanting to play in the championship.

I don't think the Vols have much to worry about either way. They'd require both Georgia and A&M to lose this week. I don't see that happening. More of a thought exercise.

What say you fellas? Is it still worth it?
 
Spurhunter said:
The SEC Championship Game should be eliminated.
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Almost a punishment to whoever plays when you think about it. The top 3 SEC teams are likely to make the playoff every year. We don't require a guaranteed spot like the others. And if the SEC is down bad one year then they don't deserve to make the playoff.
 
With now having a 12 team playoff, I think the Conference championship should be eliminated. It is "worth" something, but there are way too many variables and injuries in football to play it imo. It is a way for the committee to give a bye to the Conference champions, but you may end up with a three loss conference champion that gets a first round bye. I think those should go to whoever the voters think are the best 4 teams.

I would also love to see it where the Big 10 and the SEC play each other in the first game of the year next year. So first place plays first place, second plays second, etc. THAT would be a lot of fun!
 
I would hate to see the SECCG eliminated.
When I thought Alabama was going to make it to the SECCG. I wanted them to. You have a chance to be crowned Champions of the best conference in college football. I understand the cons of making it and even playing in it. I also know you can have a champion without a championship game.
Last years Alabama team won the SECCG. They made the playoffs and lost but they will be champions forever.
 
UCStandSitter said:
Been a lot of talk about the SEC Championship and whether or not you should even want that for your team in the age of the expanded playoff. The old school fan in me wants an SEC Championship. The pragmatic in me wants a fresh team for the playoff. Interesting to even think that the unintentional consequence of this expansion would be teams no longer wanting to play in the championship.

I don't think the Vols have much to worry about either way. They'd require both Georgia and A&M to lose this week. I don't see that happening. More of a thought exercise.

What say you fellas? Is it still worth it?
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I'd read that UT was eliminated from the SEC championship due to tiebreakers.
 
I have big conflicting thoughts on the SECCG:

1) Unbalanced schedules - not every team plays the same teams. Even within the SEC there is massive disparity in strength of schedule. Hard to fault a team with multiple losses to really good teams, while a team gets in who has only played the bottom feeders… for two consecutive years

2) Possible penalty for champ game loss - this has already been discussed above

3) First round bye - The B1G and SEC have pretty tough teams for their champ game (even though the B1G falls off much harder after the top 4). Everyone else plays patsies and it's almost an automatic win. And then ND plays no one and gets a bye week after their historically weak reg season schedule.

2 & 3 combined make the ultimate famine or feast proposition out of the SECCG. Highly likely that the loser of the SECCG is left out of the playoffs.
 
UCStandSitter said:
NYT link. What I'd expect of you. I'm not gonna pay to read your source
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I just googled. The info came from SEC, which they quote, but I couldn't find their release. Here's another link, or you can look it up yourself.

collegefootballnetwork.com

Why Is Tennessee Eliminated From the SEC Championship Game?

Tennessee's SEC Championship Game hopes were dashed by outside factors, but are they practically a shoe-in for the College Football Playoffs entering Week 14?
collegefootballnetwork.com collegefootballnetwork.com
 
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Read this link. Some disparity between it and CBS. Maybe CBS has their order wrong on tiebreakers and assumes overall record would come higher. Dunno. Doesn't matter, even if CBS were correct it is beyond improbable.
 

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