The moment has arrived. I thought it would never happen. The conference championship games will end this season.
The SEC conference championship game has been played since 1992, followed by the Big 12 (1996), ACC (2005), and Big 10 and PAC-12 (2011).
This week, the College Football Playoff Committee eliminated conference championship games to make way for an expanded 24-team playoff. Fueled by a $1.7 billion contract with ESPN, the expanded 24-team playoff will launch next season. The expanded playoff will include the Power Four champions, 19 at-large bids, and one top-ranked Group of Six champion.
That means we’ll see the final set of conference championship games on December 4 (Big 12) and December 5 (ACC, SEC, and Big Ten).
How do you feel about this? Personally, I don’t like eliminating yet another college football tradition.
