We Need Some BCS-Style Chaos This Weekend

The first weekend of December has become a bore in the College Football Playoff era. That needs to change.

This week, there have been a plethora of articles decrying college football’s “championship weekend” and how the entire act reeks of greed. Do we really need 10 conference championship games this weekend? Of course we don’t. In fact, I’d love to see them replaced by a full-blown playoff. But that isn’t happening next year, or in the next decade.

However, it is interesting to see the momentum building against conference championship games this week because the first weekend of December has started to suck.

For all the good the college football playoff has brought to the sport — namely, we have a true national champion every year for the first time — it has severely and completely decimated the conference championship games.

Since the playoff started in 2014, we have had five years of favorites winning conference title games and advancing to the playoff. Heck, in the past three years, we’ve seen one team make the playoff without even playing on this weekend. Sure, there have been some fun pseudo-quarterfinal games like Michigan State/Iowa in 2015 and Alabama/Georgia last year, but something has been missing.