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Ohio State reigned supreme in the first year of the 12-team College Football Playoff, defeating Tennessee, Oregon, Texas and Notre Dame on its road to glory.
Like most things in college sports right now, though, the future of the 12-team format is up in the air once the initial 12-year contract runs out in 2026. There has been considerable informed speculation that the playoff will ultimately expand again, likely to a 14-team playoff format that has gotten more traction with the sport’s leaders than 16 teams.
Should that expansion take place it could come with more automatic qualifiers, a change in conference championship game formats and much more. CBS Sports previously reported there is concern among the sport’s most powerful leaders about whether the current CFP selection process makes sense moving forward.
With that in mind, CBS Sports is offering up what a hypothetical 14-team playoff would have looked like this season under some of the proposed formats.
The 4-4-2-2-2 model
In this scenario, the Big Ten and SEC each get four automatic qualifiers, the ACC and Big 12 get two each, the Group of Five gets one and there is one at-large bid. This proposal got shut down a year ago but expect it to come back up in conversation when the College Football Playoff management committee meets again later this year.
Spinning the rankings to this model is simple. The Big Ten already got four teams in, the ACC received two spots, Boise State would remain as the Group of Five option and Notre Dame as the highest-ranked at-large school gets that spot.
The only real change would be Alabama getting the SEC’s fourth spot and Iowa State, the second-highest ranked Big 12 team, getting that final spot.
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Author : John Talty
Publish date : 2025-01-26 14:57:00
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