In the expanded CFB Playoff era, are conference title games on their way out?

December 4, 2024

By Ross Dellenger, Yahoo Sports: In 2014, the first year of the four-team College Football Playoff, the selection committee made a controversial decision: The group left out not just one but both Big 12 co-champions, TCU and Baylor.

The committee instead put into the field Big Ten champion Ohio State, which, thankfully for the committee, went on to win the national championship that year. The Buckeyes are one of only two No. 4 seeds to do it — justification, in the end, for the decision.

But TCU and Baylor were left at home to stew over what many believe was the reason for their snub: The Big 12, then, did not play a conference championship game.

TCU and Baylor lacked a 13th game that all other participants had. The absence of the infamous “13th data point” sparked the conference to revive their championship game three years later.

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Are college football conference title games on their way out?

Should SMU fall out of the bracket if it loses? Should another team benefit from sitting at home instead of playing an extra game? Conference title games are already creating headaches in the expanded CFP era.

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