Last week the NCAA Division I Council announced that it will relax their stance on college football’s conference championship games, paving the way for conferences to make their own decisions on how they determine who plays in their respective conference championship games.
This decision, essentially, allows for conferences to eliminate divisions altogether and place the top two teams in terms of winning percentage into the conference title game. Shortly after the council made that decision the PAC-12 scraped its divisions in favor of the two top teams model, which will start in 2022.
Division I Council relaxes restrictions for FBS football conference championship games; FBS conferences to determine their championship game participants.