The College Football Playoff could expand to 16 teams. There is a time and a place for this.
The Big Ten Conference did not vote to expand the College Football Playoff to 12 teams.
The Big Ten's vote was more about how the expansion process was handled than it was about the idea of an expanded playoff.
It was an unlikely setting for bullish chatter about College Football Playoff expansion as the Big Ten began its conference media days.
Gene Smith, Ohio State's athletic director, said on Tuesday that the College Football Playoff is growing in popularity.
Smith said thatSixteen just seems to be out there. You need to pay attention to it.
Smith said that this notion hasn't been talked about formally, but that it has come up frequently in the discussion of the CFP. The most powerful athletic director in the Big Ten is Smith, and the president of Ohio State is on the board of managers of theCFP.
A decision on a format could take a long time. The format will be heavily discussed over the next two years because the current four-team format will end in four seasons.
No reasonable options will be ruled out according to the executive director of theCFP.
The Big Ten's special adviser for football said that a 16-team playoff offers more access. The two 16-team leagues would be in better shape if more at-large bids were present.
USC and UCLA are going to join the Big Ten. The Longhorns and Sooners are expected to start in the SEC in the year 2025. The two leagues are at a significant financial advantage and that has shifted the power of the sport in their favor.
I can live with 12 or 16 and I think we need to expand. Access is important to me. I can live with sixteen.
The Big Ten commissioner spoke openly about the expansion of the CFP on Tuesday. Warren told the media that he's 100% supportive of the expansion of the playoffs. Warren is expected to back off his insistence for an automatic qualification in the next iteration of the playoffs.
Warren made it clear that having multiple media partners is going to be a priority. The Big Ten's most important media partnership is with Fox.
He wanted to know what the right number was. We're going to figure it out. College Football Playoff expansion is going to be resolved. I think we need to open it up to have more than one media partner for college football. We need to look at things from a different perspective.
The College Football Playoff will likely have at least one television partner, similar to the model of the NBA. Fox would be considered the favorite to win theCFP. The three playoff games in the four-team model could be split between the networks if a 16-team model were used.
At the SEC media days, SEC commissioner Greg Sankey said he had heard more chatter about 16 teams becoming a discussion point. The proposed 12-team model was taken off the table in February due to a lot of compromise.
Sankey said last week that people didn't reject that. I was clear at that time that we weren't unanimous for the format. My job is to move people along. I give our members a lot of credit. They were unanimous against them. I'm going to stop my commentary there.
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