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Report: More Changes Likely Coming to 12-Team College Football Playoff After Realignment

With the landscape of college football set to look very different in 2024, the College Football Playoff will reportedly respond accordingly.

The conference commissioners who make up the CFP management committee are recommending that the CFP’s format be tweaked to include five conference champions and seven at-large bids rather than the six conference champions and six at-large bids originally suggested, according to a Friday evening report from Ross Dellenger of Yahoo! Sports.

The College Football Playoff is set to expand to 12 teams next year from the four teams it has included since 2014.

The College Football Playoff’s upcoming 12-team format could be changed once again, with significant departures from the Pac-12 set to take place ahead of next season.

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The original model was formulated before the Pac-12's de facto collapse this offseason. USCUCLAOregon and Washington will leave that league in ’24 for the Big Ten, while ArizonaArizona StateColorado and Utah will join the Big 12 and California and Stanford will migrate to the ACC.

A second stipulation reportedly added by commissioners is a rule mandating a conference have eight teams for its champion to be eligible for an automatic CFP berth—a rule germane to Oregon State and Washington State if they carry on the Pac-12 as a two-team league.

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