The Big Ten has started to “populate” an idea to expand the College Football Playoff, ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported. It could include expanding the field to 24 or 28 teams. The idea would include the elimination of conference championship games and creating more automatic bids for the Power Four conferences, according to ESPN. It would […]
The Big Ten has started to “populate” an idea to expand the College Football Playoff, ESPN’s Pete Thamel reported. It could include expanding the field to 24 or 28 teams.
The idea would include the elimination of conference championship games and creating more automatic bids for the Power Four conferences, according to ESPN. It would include seven spots for the Big Ten and SEC and five bids apiece for the ACC and Big 12. That would leave two bids for non-P4 conferences and two at-large spots.
Under a 28-team format, 20 College Football Playoff games would take place on campus sites – building off an idea which began last year when the 12-team bracket debuted. Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti mentioned the idea with members of the conference Wednesday, according to ESPN, though the idea is “in the very early stages.”
This story will be updated.
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