🏈 An Iron Bowl rematch in SEC title game? It could happen under ACC deregulation proposal

[BAMANEWSBOT]

According to a CBSSports.com report, the ACC proposal seeks to allow leagues their preference of methods in determining their conference champion, eliminating restrictions that force conferences to split into divisions and pair the division winners in a title game.

If the NCAA were to pass the legislation, which was proposed in collaboration with the Big 12, it could allow conferences to do away with divisions and match their highest-ranked teams at the end of the season, enhancing their chances of placing a team in the four-team College Football Playoff.

If the SEC chose to eliminate its divisions, such a scenario could have set up an Iron Bowl rematch in last year's SEC title game. The Tigers, Tide and SEC East champ Missouri all finished 7-1 in conference play. Auburn was third, Alabama fourth and Missouri fifth in the BCS standings entering the conference championship game.

It would also alleviate the scheduling issues that resulted the SEC maintaining a 6-1-1 format with a permanent cross-divisional rival in order to preserve traditional rivalries between Auburn and Georgia and between Alabama and Tennessee.

Also eliminated under the proposal would be a rule that allows only conferences with 12 or more teams to hold conference championship games, something of particular interest to the 10-team Big 12.

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[TerryP]

Considering the success of the ACC in BCS games, this jumps out to me.

If the NCAA were to pass the legislation, which was proposed in collaboration with the Big 12, it could allow conferences to do away with divisions and match their highest-ranked teams at the end of the season, enhancing their chances of placing a team in the four-team College Football Playoff.​

In their case, looking at past results, it would also practically eliminate the possibility of placing two teams in the playoffs.

Again, based on history, if the SEC continues to have three teams ranked in the top five going into the championship week, the conference is still putting two teams in the playoffs.

You want a post-season filled with argument? Think about 2012 which would have put Bama and UF in the playoffs. Notre Dame would still be in but we'd have Oregon and Kansas State arguing over the 4th slot—both with one loss.

Just thinking back to 2010...one thing that's missing if this were to pass? The ACC is still left out.