In the end, expanding the College Football Playoff to 12 teams was a no-brainer decision for the sport. The amount of additional television money available, combined with a widespread feeling that the four-team format wasn’t giving enough schools and conferences access to college football’s premiere product, made it impossible to delay any longer.
Despite some of the complications, which are still being worked out as we speak, the sport’s decision-makers have now agreed that expansion is the way forward.