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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

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

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

highlander wrote: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.

highlander wrote: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?