Six of the nine Bowl Subdivision conference championship games will be rematches of regular-season meetings, and while coaches often talk about the difficulty of having to beat a team twice in the same year, there have been more sweeps than splits in such situations since 2000.
The rematches: BYU-Texas Tech in the Big 12, Georgia-Alabama in the SEC, Duke-Virginia in the ACC, Kennesaw State-Jacksonville State in Conference USA, UNLV-Boise State in the Mountain West and Miami (Ohio)-Western Michigan in the Mid-American.
Texas Tech, Alabama, Virginia, Jacksonville State, Boise State and Miami won the regular-season meetings.
Since 2000, according to Sportradar, there have been 82 same-season rematches, with 45 sweeps and 37 splits.
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