The American Football Coaches Association (AFCA) has proposed some major changes to the NCAA. One of those changes however has drawn extra interest from Georgia fans.
The AFCA has proposed to eliminate conference championship games that are normally played the first weekend of December. They are proposing this in order to make more room for more games as they look to expand the College Football Playoff to 24 teams.
This change is being met with mixed reviews even from Georgia fans, but if this was implemented three years ago the Bulldogs could've been celebrating a third National Championship victory in a row.
Proposed AFCA changes are too little too late for Georgia
Georgia was in position to win a third National Championship under Kirby Smart after winning back-to-back titles in 2021 and 2022. They were 12-0 entering the 2023 SEC Championship game and the No. 1 team in the country for the third week in a row, but all it took was one loss to Alabama in the conference championship game to be left out of the playoff as the committee dropped them all the way to No. 6.
Had this change be in effect though the Bulldogs would've entered the playoff as the No. 1 overall seed with a 12-0 record. While it's impossible to say with 100 percent certainty that Georgia would've ended up winning it all, they had as good of a chance as anyone.
The Alabama team they lost to who ended up making the playoff would've been left on the outside looking in, so there wouldn't be an argument that Georgia would've just lost to them in the playoff. Instead they would've played Texas who would've been the 4-seed. If they won that game then they likely would've played Michigan in the championship game who was the champion that season, but that Michigan team had a lot of holes in it that Smart could've exploited.
Eliminating the conference championship games is a bit disappointing, but if it is going to happen why couldn't it have happened sooner? That would've given Georgia a great opportunity to win a third national title in a row which hasn't been done since 1936.
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