No matter your take on how many teams should be included in the College Football Playoff (it better not be 28), we can all agree that one of the most insufferable portions of last year’s season was the discourse around the final two spots in the final rankings. Five auto-bids and five teams between the Big Ten, SEC, and Notre …
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College football programs with tougher schedules will be rewarded. PublishedAugust 20, 2025 1:37 PM EDT•UpdatedAugust 20, 2025 1:37 PM EDT Facebook Twitter Email Copy Link The offseason talk surrounding how the college football playoff committee ranks teams was one of the main talking points for a number of teams across the sport, but clearly, the SEC was leading the charge …
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Let’s just turn the College Football Playoff into a tournament that resembles March Madness. That is the most logical plan now for the sport, since nobody can seem to agree on what the format should look like moving forward following this season, right? Over the past few weeks, Big Ten administrators and commissioner Tony Petitti started discussing the idea of …
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The Big Ten has been working on a super-sized potential College Football Playoff format that could at least double the current 12-team field and convert conference championship weekend into an expansive first round, according to multiple people who have been briefed on the concept. The idea for a tournament with as many as 28 teams is just that at this point: …
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The Big Ten has considered an idea of a massive expansion of the College Football Playoff that would grow the postseason to 24 or 28 teams, sources told ESPN. While the idea is in the very early stages, the proposal eliminates conference title games and offers a large number of auto bids for all four power leagues, sources said. For …
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When the Big Ten was still waffling on whether or not to play football late in the pandemic summer of 2020, an idea was hatched on a series of Zooms. If the conference played a shortened slate of league-only games that season, how could they increase the broadcast inventory? The result was Champions Week. The then-14-team league would hold its …
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LAS VEGAS — Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti’s entrenched position regarding a controversial future College Football Playoff format has sparked a question: Why is he so committed to a largely unpopular position? One answer, according to four sources familiar with CFP discussions, is that Petitti has made assurances of a play-in payday for Big Ten broadcast partners and campus administrators. …
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Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti on Tuesday defended his proposed 16-team College Football Playoff format that would allocate twice as many automatic berths to the Big Ten and SEC. Speaking on the first day of his conference’s media days, Petitti said a field primarily determined by conference standings, rather than the CFP rankings, would make the selection process more objective …
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ATLANTA — Missouri coach Eliah Drinkwitz on Thursday unabashedly advocated for a playoff format that runs contrary to the one supported by many of his SEC peers, aligning himself with the Big Ten’s proposal of four automatic qualifiers for the Big Ten and SEC in a 16-team field in 2026. Drinkwitz, speaking to ESPN on the last day of SEC …
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ATLANTA — SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said Monday that expansion of the College Football Playoff is not a done deal, and that the format could just remain at 12 if he and other commissioners, especially his Big Ten counterpart, cannot agree on an expanded format. At the moment, they do not. Sankey’s remarks came during a question-and-answer period on the …
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