{"id":884401,"date":"2026-05-06T23:54:16","date_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:54:16","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/884401\/"},"modified":"2026-05-06T23:54:16","modified_gmt":"2026-05-06T23:54:16","slug":"clemson-news-dabo-swinney-rips-cfp-system-that-axes-conference-title-games","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/884401\/","title":{"rendered":"Clemson news: Dabo Swinney rips CFP system that axes conference title games"},"content":{"rendered":"

The College Football Playoff format has been a contentious talking point<\/a> in recent years, and now it looks like the field is going to be expanded again. After a ton of buzz surrounding a possible 24-team format, the AFCA is now beginning to show support for the 24-team format that would also eliminate conference championship games.<\/p>\n

Losing conference title games would be a tough pill<\/a> for many college football fans to swallow, as championship weekend is one of the most prestigious weekends on the college football calendar, and now it appears it’s going to look a lot different moving forward.<\/p>\n

Clemson football<\/a> head coach Dabo Swinney<\/a> has never held back his feelings regarding some of the major changes in the sport, and it’s not doing it with this one either. The two-time national champion defended championship weekend<\/a> on the\u00a0Always College Football podcast, via On3 Sports.<\/p>\n

\u201cI hate to see the championship games go away, but also I get it,\u201d Swinney said. \u201cI played in the first ever championship game, the 1992 SEC Championship Game. I hate to see that go away. I think it\u2019s just awesome to be a part of that. There\u2019s a lot of people out there that want it to go away because they can\u2019t ever get to it.\u201d<\/p>\n

Swinney and Clemson have had a ton of success in ACC Championship Games during his time as the head coach there. Swinney has led the Tigers to eight conference titles, including five in a row from 2015-19.<\/p>\n

However, as the College Football Playoff has continued to expand, all of the focus on the postseason has become about qualifying for the final bracket in the best shape possible. Playing in a conference title game, an extra game on the schedule, has been viewed as a disadvantage by some.<\/p>\n

Now, it looks like all of that is potentially going away with the proposed 24-team playoff coming into effect sooner rather than later.<\/p>\n

The College Football Playoff format has been a contentious talking point in recent years, and now it looks like the field is going to be expanded again. After a ton of buzz surrounding a possible 24-team format, the AFCA is now beginning to show support for the 24-team format that would also eliminate conference championship games.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The College Football Playoff format has been a contentious talking point in recent years, and now it looks…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":884402,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[5],"tags":[2819,332,382,7,49,48],"class_list":["post-884401","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","category-ncaa-football","tag-clemson-football","tag-college-football-playoff","tag-dabo-swinney","tag-football","tag-ncaa","tag-ncaa-football"],"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116530332593558506","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884401","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=884401"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/884401\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/884402"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=884401"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=884401"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=884401"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}