Because the 2024 season is the first-ever campaign with a 12-team College Football Playoff, grand statements are not hyperbole.
This is the most consequential week of conference championships in the history of the sport. Several teams aiming for a league crown are already unofficially locked into the CFP, but six others—Clemson, Arizona State, Iowa State and presumably either Boise State or UNLV, along with maybe SMU—are fighting to protect a shot at a national title.
Again, these stakes have never existed at such a deep level.
While that storyline understandably reigns over the weekend, though, every game matters.