To some, college football’s conference championship games need to become a relic of the past, like single-bar facemasks or players being true amateurs.

Remember that version of college football?

The College Football Playoff is taking up more and more of the air in the room — at least the air not reserved for bombast over Lane Kiffin’s move from Ole Miss to LSU. The playoff went from four teams to 12 in 2024, may expand to 14 or 16 teams in January, and there are reports the Big Ten wants it to grow to 24 to 28 teams.

That said, when the first Saturday in December comes ‘round, it’s the SEC championship game — the original conference championship game started way back in 1992, the grandaddy of them all in that realm — that still takes center stage.

OK, maybe not quite center stage on th

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