The College Football Playoff announced in a news release Monday that it would expand to 24 teams beginning in 2027-28, marking the end of the SEC championship game.
Introduced in 1992, the 35th edition of the SEC championship game will be its last, as the expanded field diminished the need for conference title games. Instead of the traditional conference title game weekend before Selection Sunday, teams that made the field will receive a week off following their final regular-season games.
“The SEC Football Championship Game has been a defining event in college football for more than three decades, producing unforgettable moments and crowning legendary champions,” said SEC commissioner Greg Sankey in a statement released Monday. “What began with the vision and leadership of commissioner Roy Kramer in 1992 helped reshape the landscape of college football and established a tradition that has endured for 35 years. As the sport evolves with an expanded College Football Playoff, we look forward to celebrating the remarkable legacy of this event with its 35th and final edition and recognizing the city of Atlanta, Mercedes-Benz Stadium and AMB Sports and Entertainment, and the many partners who have contributed to its success.”
Alabama won the inaugural SEC championship game in 1992, when it was held at Legion Field in Birmingham. Since then, the program has appeared in the game 16 times and posted an 11-5 record, including nine SEC titles under former head coach Nick Saban.
The new-look 24-team CFP will include 16 on-campus playoff games, compared to the current 12-team format’s four. The field will consist of conference champions from the SEC, Big Ten, ACC and Big 12 — collectively known as the Power Four — and the highest-ranked Group of Six team in the CFP’s ranking.
Nineteen at-large teams will make the rest of the field, with the top eight seeds receiving first-round byes. The CFP will also introduce new scheduling standards to encourage teams to schedule what it called “additional compelling non-conference, regular season matchups.”
Whether this expansion will be beneficial to college football or a failure similar to that of NASCAR’s expanded playoff system it implemented in the mid-2000s remains to be seen. The end of the SEC championship will leave a revenue gap estimated to be between $80 million and $100 million, according to ESPN.
“I don’t think it’s great for the transfer portal to be ending the season that late, and if that championship game is in the way of that, or gets put on the back burner because of that, I think you’d have to accept it,” said Georgia head coach Kirby Smart. “But I’m really more worried about the financial burden that we’re under right now of paying for all of the athletic department. And when you take that revenue stream [from the SEC championship game] out, can we make it work, and that is it sustainable to do without it? [That] would be my biggest concern.”
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