This weekend, when conference championship games kick off, exactly two of the 10 FBS conferences—the SEC and the Mountain West—will field games between their two best teams. Apart from Alabama–Georgia and Boise State–Fresno State, the rest of the slate will feature such nail-biters as Ohio State (the Big Ten’s second-best team, per Sports-Reference’s simple rating system of all 130 teams) vs. Northwestern (the Big Ten’s No. 6 team, by SRS) and Clemson (the best team in the ACC) vs. Pitt (SRS’s No. 5 ACC team). Most games will be meaningless barring an upset, and of all the potential outcomes, I’m most curious to see how much the Buckeyes will run up the score to try to prove they deserve a playoff bid.
The Case for Eliminating Conference Championship Week
