In new College Football Playoff era, do conference title games matter?

January 17, 2025

By Dennis Dodd, CBS Sports: The value of a conference championship has diminished before our eyes. Like it or not, they just don’t matter as much.

Monday’s Notre Dame-Ohio State College Football Playoff National Championship was long ago guaranteed to produce only the fourth ever national champion that did not win its conference in the championship game era.

That history goes back to 1998, when the BCS first decided the championship on the field. Since then, Alabama (2011, 2017) and Georgia (2021) did not win the SEC title game but won the national championship. In both 2011 and 2017 the Crimson Tide didn’t even play in the SEC title game.

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