Conference Deregulations Could Change College Football Landscape

With the Power 5 conferences getting their much deserved autonomy over the past few months, things are starting to change in the landscape of college football. But how far will these changes go?

It was rumored that the ACC would consider changing to a three division conference before the 2016 season, but ACC commissioner John Swofford put that rumor to rest.

However, there have been many deregulations for each of the conferences since the autonomy vote on January 17, including a deregulation on how conferences decide a conference champion.

In 2016, each conference will have the power to determine whether or not they will require a conference championship game to decide a league champion.

As we all know, with the rules stating that a conference can only have a conference championship game with 12 or more teams, the ten team Big 12 champion was left out of the inaugural College Football Playoffs, and most will say that the reason was that the conference decided to name both TCU and Baylor as conference co-champions.

The College Football Playoffs has changed and will continue changing the landscape of college football. However, at some point, these excessive number of changes will come back to haunt the sport in some way, shape, form, or fashion. It seems minute and trivial now, but remember that one way to make a dollar is to combine 100 pennies.

Change is necessary for progress, but too much change can ultimately be detrimental to the original goal.

The goal being to crown a true national champion in the sport of college football.