Urban Meyer disagrees with mindset Ole Miss HC Lane Kiffin pointed out some SEC coaches have on conference titles
We are about to embark into territory that has not yet been experienced in college football. The 12-team College Football Playoff format is approaching for the first time and it is unknown how it is going to go. Do we see the first-round bye being key and one of those teams winning it all? Or, […]
We are about to embark into territory that has not yet been experienced in college football. The 12-team College Football Playoff format is approaching for the first time and it is unknown how it is going to go.
Do we see the first-round bye being key and one of those teams winning it all? Or, do we see a lower-seeded team get hot and have quite the run to win a National Championship? We will soon find out.
Ole Miss HC Lane Kiffin recently made a comment that some coaches in the SEC may rather miss out on a conference championship game because it just may not be worth losing and missing out on the big picture.
“I think it has ended up being a very unique situation of all postseason sports, the way that system is set up there. How you could go to [the SEC Championship] and get knocked out [of the CFP race]? And if you don’t go [to the SEC Championship game], you’re in,” Kiffin explained.
Former college football head coach and current Fox analyst Urban Meyer disagreed with the take and the approach. Not that Kiffin believes that, but that other coaches are actually looking at it that way.
“What do you (mean), you hope you don’t go to the championship game? Like, I don’t, what do you like, you go and then you eat dinner afterward? You get up in the morning, as you’re driving to work, do you say, ‘Boy, I hope we don’t win the SEC Championship.’ I mean, that doesn’t compute,” Meyer said via The Triple Option.
Meyer knows a thing or two about winning it all and has a couple of rings to prove that. On the other hand, Kiffin has a team that is in a great spot to be in the mix for it all this season. The Rebels are coming off of their bye week and ranked No. 9 in the country with an 8-2 record. They’ll play at Florida on Saturday following their bye week last week.
To see if coaches really do feel that way about conference championship games, we may just have to let a few years of the 12-team playoff play out. Both sides have a valid point on the surface level.
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