Craig Thompson, the commissioner of the Mountain West Conference and a member of the College Football Playoff management committee, hopes that with the event’s expansion, more games will be played on campus rather than tied in with the existing bowl structure within the sport.
Speaking to Sports Illustrated on the heels of a wild Week 7, Thompson argued that the biggest games should be on campus, rather than at neutral sites as is the case with the current four-team Playoff system and bowl games.
“Maybe we need to have more Playoff games on campus,” Thompson says, after a weekend that saw Tennessee beat Alabama, TCU beat Oklahoma State and Utah beat USC in exciting ranked battles as home teams.