Which teams will suffer due to division-less college football?

There are several college football teams that had a straight path to a conference title game. What teams will have a hard time getting to the title game?

College football seems to be getting closer and closer to eliminating divisions from its conferences. The Pac-12 title game will consist of the two teams with the highest winning percentage this fall (though they will keep their divisions).

The SEC has begun preliminary discussions on scheduling conference games with Oklahoma and Texas coming by 2025. Those talks do not include divisions. Conferences moving toward playing without divisions has several benefits.

College football fans get exciting conference matches more often than they would in divisions. For example, Georgia vs. Alabama would happen every 2-3 years during the regular season instead of every decade under the current model.

Like most things with college football, however, some losing divisions would hurt. The entire Big Ten west will have a more arduous road to the title game without divisions. Wisconsin was the last team not in the east division to win a conference title, and that was when they were the Legends and Leaders. Ohio State was also on probation.

Georgia Tech and Duke each have ACC Championship game appearances; both will find it incredibly difficult to replicate those results from the early 2000s.

Here are five other teams with a tough road to getting to a conference title game.