College Football Playoff meetings could impact WVU’s future postseason path

MORGANTOWN — This is a big week for college football with the NFL Draft and the future of college football altogether. This week, the leaders of the College Football Playoff will meet for the spring meetings, where they will reflect and discuss the future of the playoff format.

These discussions could greatly impact West Virginia because its path to the postseason could change.

The Mountaineers haven’t been even close to postseason contention since 2018. The highest they were ranked was seven. That was two coaches ago, though, and now Rich Rodriguez is here, who in his final season with WVU had a shot at being in the national championship.

Rodriguez came back to Morgantown to do one thing, and that’s to get back to where he left off.

However, it might be harder for Rodriguez because there might be fewer opportunities in the future than if he coached in another conference.

This year’s 12-team playoff was far from perfect, with seeding being the biggest issue. The highest-ranked conference champions were guaranteed a bye and a top-four seed, and then, the fifth conference champion received a bid. There were some issues with this format because there were a lot of blowouts due to the automatic byes.

So far, with no major decisions expected during this meeting, the format will be the same. With that said, WVU would have to win the Big 12, last year Arizona State won the bid, or be one of the seven highest-ranked teams remaining to make the playoff.

There are two rumored formats up for consideration to fix it, according to ESPN’s Heather Dinich. 

One of the formats receiving the most attention is a 14-team model that guarantees four automatic bids for both the Big Ten and SEC, then two for both of the Big 12 and ACC, one for the Group of Five, and one at-large spot,…

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Publish date : 2025-04-24 02:38:00

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