Do you mean the Championship Game ? If so the NCAA does not mandate conferences to hold a CC game.
Final playoff game is January 19th. A player on a playoff team could enter the portal during the playoff.
The Conference Championships need to go. These kids are playing 12 games, then the Conference Championship. If they lose and go to the College Football Playoff, they would have to play 4 more games if they play in the championship. That's 17 games. I know, wrong post for this.
Any regular student can transfer anytime he or she wants too. Why shouldn't student-athletes be able to do the same?
Regular students generally transfer from a large university due to hardship, including a need to cut costs. "Student-athletes" are transferring to get a bigger paycheck.
January 16th would be after classes started at most colleges, January 12th at Carolina. How would any student transfer into a school after classes had started?
I posted some time ago but there was a comparison done between transfer rates of student athletes vs regular students. When players transfer, they are not transferring for academic reasons. They tend to end up in a situation where they transfer and have difficulty landing in an academic program that fits what they were in previously. Credits are lost because schools are often offering "boutique" classes that other universities won't recognize (though they offer their own). Often universities have to create a program/major to accommodate them. The general outcome is delayed academic progress and failure to graduate. Whereas for regular students, they are generally transferring BECAUSE they want to graduate and get on with life.
Most likely. The general trend has been to remove restrictions of all kinds, so I can't see this holding up for very long.
I should have qualified that ... and meant to say at the end of any semester. I did it twice.
Disagree. Math.
I would give up a regular season game to preserve a league championship game. In the SEC and B1G, those are major events that involve capstone achievements.
There's no way the NCAA would give up 60? home games to preserve the league championship game. We know the top two teams in the SEC and B1G are in the CFP. But, it is how Clemson made it in last year.
I was stating a personal preference to continue championship games. I don't know what the tradeoff would be, if any.
They always have been major events and capstone achievements, but I'm not sure that can be said moving forward in a college football world where the playoffs are everything. Winning the Michigan/Ohio State game was always a big freaking deal for those programs, but last year proved that it's not as important as it once was.
I think you have to play that one, using a point system to determine the two participants. People ain't gonna buy into a trophy won strictly by a tie-breaker.
Until 1992, the SEC determined the champion by conference record and there were ties which resulted in "co-champion" status for teams if the two teams with equal records had not played each other during the season.
That was then; this is now. Championship games are now ensconced. They make money, at least in the Big Two; people enjoy them; they have playoff implications.
Do FCS., D-II and D-III conferences hold football championship games or do they just go right into 24-32 team playoffs?
It sounds good in principle, but I imagine it depends on how the athletics aid scholarship contract is written.
To be honest, since Carolina has only been to one SEC Championship, I would rather just watch the Army-Navy game on that day.
