ESPN.com: College football moving to straight seeding model

[PonyPride]

New model awards top seeds and first-round byes to top four in Selection Committee's rankings, regardless of whether they are conference champions.

https://www.espn.com/college-football/s ... ht-seeding

[highlander]

So I guess the conference championship games are going to become meaningless and teams that have already secured a spot will sit them out?

[EastStang]

If the model were this way last year, we would have sat out the Clemson game for sure.

[Dukie]

So I guess the conference championship games are going to become meaningless and teams that have already secured a spot will sit them out?

Yes, and Clemson-Miami would have become a play-in game to secure the ACC championship spot (and something like the 11th seed). It's not the worst system actually. It's just very dumb and will be full of unintended consequences.

[PlanoStang]

So I guess the conference championship games are going to become meaningless and teams that have already secured a spot will sit them out?

That might get you in trouble with your conference. Probable contract obligations?

[highlander]

If this had been in place last year, we would have been the #10 team going up against Tenn. But that assumes we would have even played in the ACC championship game, thus moving to #10 by losing a road game on a walk-off 56-yd FG. We were #8 going in, and so we might have sat out that game and then we might have hosted #9 Indiana.

[Dukie]

Duke board says the ACC rules require good-faith participation in any conference championship for which a team or individual qualifies. What the penalty is, I don't know, but it does seem that the conference would have required SMU to play in Charlotte last year.