Dan Wetzel is among the best sports columnists in the country, and the only reason “among” is included here is that Sally Jenkins exists. Dan is great with profiles, great in courts, great with thoughtful pieces, great when he’s angry, and great when he’s laughing.
But the best Wetzel is the Wetzel who writes about college sports, particularly the structure and money around the NCAA, and this is a lead in to say that if you haven’t read him on why conference championship football games need to die you should do so now.
Here’s the link, and here’s the gist:
Conference title games are already the de facto first round of the playoff, so why not drop the pretense, kill the often meaningless relics and expand the actual playoff?