Sources: The Big Ten has begun populating an expanded College Football Playoff idea, which could include 24 or 28 teams. Just an idea at this point. pic.twitter.com/0NlTQ1BN8F
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) August 16, 2025
While we just finished the first season of a 12-team College Football Playoff, where Notre Dame went to the championship game, the Big Ten is starting to have ideas of a bigger expansion.
There has already been chatter of expanding the field to 16-teams, with the Big Ten and SEC being the main benefactors of that move. On Saturday, the conference looks like they might be laying the groundwork for an even bigger expansion, either 24 for 28 teams reports ESPN’s Pete Thamel.
The potential proposal would see the elimination of conference title games, giving more automatic bids to power conferences, and just two at-large bids. This clearly would not be the best case for the Irish, as both the Big Ten and SEC would have 7 bids, with the ACC and Big 12 each getting five.
It would have the Group of Five teams getting an extra bid as well, but it might not make a difference at all of Notre Dame continues to stay inside the top-25 teams. It’s hard to imagine that won’t happen, especially considering how well the program has done since Marcus Freeman took over.
Personally, I hate this idea, as there aren’t typically more than six teams that can realistically win a title. It also waters down an already watered down bowl season, where if you aren’t in the CFP, it’s almost as if it doesn’t matter. I’m still in the camp that eight teams is enough, and while this past season was extremely exciting, it was drawn out too long.
Imagine if this did pass how much longer the playoff would be, even with eliminating conference championship games. Another aspect of this that I don’t like, its great to see the…
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