College football keeps changing the sport, and not always for the better.
The American Football Coaches Association board has now proposed four major changes to the college football calendar, including eliminating conference championship games, reducing open weeks, shortening the season timeline, and pushing for expanded College Football Playoff access. The goal is to end the season by the second Monday in January.
And honestly, this sport is starting to feel unrecognizable.
The biggest proposed change is easily the possible elimination of conference championship games. That sounds insane considering some of the greatest moments in modern college football history came from those games. Imagine removing the SEC Championship, Big Ten Championship, or ACC title game from the sport completely. Rivalries, chaos, upsets, playoff drama — all potentially gone because the calendar has become too crowded.
But this is what happens when college football keeps expanding everything.
The playoff expanded to 12 teams, and now coaches are already pushing for even more access, with some discussions centered around a possible 24-team format. The postseason keeps getting larger while the regular season keeps losing importance.
That is the real problem here.
College football used to have the best regular season in sports because every Saturday mattered. One loss could end a title dream. Now the sport keeps drifting toward the NFL model where multiple losses barely matter as long as a team gets hot late in the year.
And the schedule is becoming a mess because of it.
The AFCA also wants fewer bye weeks and a more compressed postseason schedule partly because the season is stretching too far into January and colliding with the academic calendar and transfer portal chaos.
To be fair, some of these concerns are real. Players are dealing with longer seasons, portal movement never stops, and coaches are trying to manage rosters for nearly the entire calendar year. But college football keeps solving problems by making the sport feel more corporate and less emotional.
More playoff games.
More TV money.
More restructuring.
Less tradition.
At some point, college football risks losing the exact thing that made it king in the first place.
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