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DALLAS — Conference commissioners who are part of the College Football Playoff had discussions about possible changes for next season, including how the 12-team field is seeded.
Several members of the CFP Management Committee, which is made up of all 10 FBS commissioners and Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua, said they need more data and information before deciding on any adjustments.
“We had a really good discussion,” Big 12 Commissioner Brett Yormark said. “Good heartfelt conversations. Everyone gave their point of view and we’ll vet it out and see what happens.”
The committee is expected to meet again in March, a possible virtual session when it could review seeding models and other information. Another meeting is scheduled in North Texas in April.
Any changes to the playoff system or the upcoming 2025 season, the final year of the current CFP contract, would have to be approved by a unanimous vote.
Rich Clark, executive director of the CFP, said much of the meeting, which lasted about seven hours in a hotel at Dallas-Fort Worth International Airport, included a review of last season’s playoff, the first after the field tripled in size from four to 12 teams.
Clark said there was talk about next season’s format, including seeding. But he said there was no talk about the format beyond that, when the CFP’s new contract goes into effect through 2031.
“It’s important we make these decisions for ’25 now, because they’re going to impact what happens in ’26 and beyond,” Clark said.
“You’ve got to look at it in totality,” ACC commissioner Jim Phillips said. “Yes, it’s one contract coming to an end and a new set of a new six-year cycle. But those things have some linkage to them as well.”
The SEC and Big Ten will have the bulk of the control over what happens with the playoff in…
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Publish date : 2025-02-26 22:07:00
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