How to fix the College Football Playoff: Format, schedule changes necessary with expansion on the horizon

Change is coming to the College Football Playoff. We don’t know what the format will look like in 2026 after the Big Ten and SEC gain control over it, but we know it won’t look like the version we saw in 2024. That format didn’t even last a year, as the powers that be saw the flaws in it and — rightfully — made the correct change in going to straight seeds.

It was a refreshing breath of fresh air to see swift and productive change.

It’s also not something I’m counting on becoming the norm. So while The Powers That Be continue to meet over steak dinners in the coming months to hammer out a format, I’ve decided to gently nudge them in the direction they need to go.

Put the company credit cards away, boys, because Tom has all the answers you need.

College Football Playoff’s seeding overhaul levels the field and lays groundwork for other changes in 2026

Chip Patterson

A lot of people have shared their ideas for what the ideal College Football Playoff should look like, and plenty have been good. Some even great. However, I’ve yet to find one that addresses all my concerns, and what I believe to be the concerns of the sport at large.

To be clear, I was never a fan of playoff expansion past four teams. Four teams was fine. There were rarely four teams good enough to win a national title in any given season to begin with, but this is a battle that has been lost. You see, the point of the College Football Playoff was never truly about determining the best team; that was simply icing on the cake. No, the primary reason was money….

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Author : Tom Fornelli

Publish date : 2025-06-16 15:22:00

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