| NCAA rules stipulate that if you have 12 teams in your conference, you can hold a conference championship game. Once again, this is all about raising $$$ for the conference. Although, you can have a team like Texas run the table during the regular conference schedule and potentially lose to a scrub like Nebraska and thus Nebraska would be the conference champion. Not an ideal situation. The most logical way to hold a conference championship game is to split the league into 2 divisions of 6 teams. SEC has a West and East Division, ACC has a Coastal and Atlantic division. Holding a conference championship game was why the ACC raided the Big East and got Miami, BC, and Va Tech. |