The Notre Dame football team has been to two of the last three College Football Playoffs, but what would expansion mean for the Irish moving forward.
Over the offseason, Notre Dame football saw their athletic director Jack Swarbrick be one of four people who came up with a plan for an expanded College Football Playoff. The three others were SEC, Big 12, and Mountain West commissioners Greg Sankey, Bob Bowslby, and Craig Thompson.
The plan they came up with, which was widely accepted as being what was going to happen sooner than later, was for a 12 team Playoff, which included access to the top six ranked conference champions, six at-large bids, and a bye week to the top four conference champions.