Four of the most influential executives in college athletics united Thursday to recommend that the College Football Playoff triple its size to include a dozen teams each year.
The proposal by the working group of executives — the commissioners of the Big 12, Mountain West and Southeastern Conferences, and the Notre Dame athletic director — is not binding on the larger committees that administer the playoff. But the recommendation amounts to the most substantive effort to reimagine the playoff, which debuted with the 2014 season and succeeded the routinely maligned Bowl Championship Series system.
“The four-team format has been very popular and is a big success,” the group said in a statement.