If the Big Ten has its way, the College Football Playoff could soon double or more in size.
The conference’s latest proposal for CFP expansion calls for a jump to 24 or 28 teams, with the Big Ten and SEC both receiving seven automatic bids and the ACC and Big 12 each receiving five automatic bids in a 28-team model.
We aren’t fans of the idea.
While the first 12-team playoff was a success – especially for Ohio State – that doesn’t mean the CFP should continue expanding with reckless abandon. There’s an obvious reason why further expansion remains a hot topic – money – but a playoff format that allows 8-4 or possibly even 7-5 teams to make the field threatens to destroy the week-to-week excitement that makes college football’s regular season so great.