Clay Travis argues college football should eliminate conference title games

Outkick the Coverage‘s Clay Travis provided an interesting take on the importance of conference title games in college football. Travis argued that there is “no need for title games this year, or pretty much any year” on his blog Monday.

“We don’t need a conference title game to decide a champion, that’s the point of the entire regular season. We typically know the best team in the conference already. And if we do need a conference title game, it should be played by the two best teams in the conference, not by arbitrary division champs.”

He makes an interesting point. In most cases, including within the SEC, there is a sizable advantage between divisions and the games are usually predictable.

Several other college football analysts have to weighed in on whether to end conference title games.

Totally agree about conference championship games. Attendance for most part very low too (SEC lone exception)

— Chris Fallica (@chrisfallica) October 17, 2016

It is only a matter of time before there is an upset in a conference championship game.

— Heather Dinich (@CFBHeather) October 17, 2016

Think it's going to happen this year, HD, and make things really interesting for the committee. https://t.co/LV8FL09Ymi

— Chris Low (@ClowESPN) October 17, 2016

Both Dinich and Low bring up interesting points. It’s been rare that a conference championship game ends in an upset, but that would provide a huge shakeup in the College Football Playoff standings.

Eventually, it’s going to happen and could spoil a team’s chances at a national championship, despite being the conference’s best team through the regular season.

Jason Hall

Jason covers SEC football for Saturday Down South.