The impact of the legacy conference championship game, especially for the P2 and the Big 12/ACC will be reduced to basically nothing once the CFP field expands beyond 12. Nobody will care. Add to that the concerns expressed by Kiffin, who may be a blowhard, but isn't necessarily wrong, and you wind up with a situation where the players/coaches don't want to be in them, and the broadcasters don't want to pay top dollar for them. Once you're looking at that kind of math, it will take about 30-40 seconds to announce they're done. Think about it for a second - if you're in the Big 10 or SEC, and you make and have to play in the conference championship game, you're already basically guaranteed to be in the CFP field - why wouldn't you just rest all your starters? And if you're in the ACC and Big 12, all the championship game represents is another opportunity to lose a game to a dangerous opponent and get knocked out of the field so one more 7-5 SEC team can get in. Those games are already done - Sankey is just doing what he does best: toeing the Disney company line. ** Edited by Baltimore_Hokie at 5/27/2026, 3:25:30 PM