Winning the conference championship is every team's first goal going into the season, and its importance stretches far past the shiny trophy: If you’re a fan, it will give you a year’s worth of bragging rights within the boundaries of your region. If you’re a coach, you can use it to impress a recruit. If you’re a team, you must win it to have any chance to play for a national title (unless a time machine puts us back in 2003 and you’re the Oklahoma Sooners). There are a lot of questions going into this year’s college football season. Will we have another three-way-tie (nightmare) like we did in the Big 12 south? Will another conference Goliath like USC have to nervously wait for a David like Oregon State to implode down ...

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