Believe it or not, the start of the 2025 college football season is just around the corner. Tuesday marked the start of Big Ten football media days in Las Vegas, kicking off the year for the sport’s biggest conference.
Starting the event was Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti. In his press conference, Petitti discussed the potential future College Football Playoff format amid talks of expansion.
“The Big Ten has been consistent in its strong preference for a Playoff system that allocates spots based on conference standings and the results of playing games,” Petitti said, via The Athletic. “We want to better connect the regular season and the postseason.
“We are open to considering any format ideas that come from our (conference) colleagues or the CFP staff. But to be clear, formats that increase the discretion and role of the CFP selection committee will have a difficult time getting support from the Big Ten.”
Petitti’s argument seems to be for a system in which each conference is guaranteed a certain number of playoff bids regardless of regular season results. For USC and other Big Ten teams, that would likely be beneficial. It would give them more room for mulligans during the season, especially in nonconference games. For schools from smaller conferences, however, it would seemingly give them even less margin, since there would likely only be a few bids left for schools outside of the Big Ten and SEC.
Those changes will not go into effect until 2026 at the earliest. For this upcoming season, the CFP will utilize the same format as last season, with the exception that first-round byes will simply go to the four highest-ranked teams, rather than the four highest-ranked conference champions.
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