College Football Playoff Mull's expansion, change at meetings: What we know

The most important decision -makers of College football held formal conversations on Tuesday to discuss the future of the Playoff format of sport, and while further expansion remains on the table, the managers did not decide what the system will look like , until you have more information.

Commissioners of the 10 FBS conferences and Notre Dame Director Pete Bevacqua, who together include College Football Playoff Management Committee, also consider a change in the way teams are sown in the playoffs in the future.

“We laid the basics,” said Rich Clark, executive director of College Football Playoffs.

“There are still some things that the committee of us wants, some research results that we have to do for you so that you can make good, well -founded decisions.”

He added: “You want not only data shaped, but also informed, but also informed [decisions] … you want to go into it out of a mood. You want to make these decisions really strongly. “

The process of collecting information is currently beginning in expectation of the next college football playoff meeting, a virtual conference planned for March.

The suggestion to change the playoff sowing If the selection committee had rewarded the four best teams in the official ranking in the first round, instead of giving these places the four most rated conference champions like last season.

Any change that comes to College Football playoff in 2025 must be adopted with a unanimous vote, but this requirement disappears from 2026 and beyond.

And then it is expected that the Sec and Big Ten will play an oversized role in the off -season of College football.

During competitors in the field, the two conferences were the practically unchallenged power brokers in sports in the period after realignation.

The executives of these two conferences met in New Orleans at the beginning of this week, where both commissioners agreed from both leagues that they would prefer the “Seeding” model.

Neither the SEC nor the Big Ten Commissioner said with reporters after the meeting on Tuesday, but ACC Commissioner Jim Phillips said that decisions about College Football playoff would have to be made for the 2025 season with the new contract of the format from 2026 .

The expansion also remains an important question For the future format with suggestions to enlarge the playoff to either to 14 or 16 teams.

“Everything is open to us,” said Phillips. “It is really important to do this thing right. Access is the reason why we were expanded from four to 12, and if we are 14 or 16 or around 12 years old and I would say that, none of these models was removed. “

He added: “It is important that we now make these decisions for '25 because they have an impact on what happens in '26 and beyond.”

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