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When the news broke that the College Football Playoff would expand from four teams to 12, it was reported the change would happen no later than 2026. According to SEC commissioner Greg Sankey, it’s unlikely the CFP format changes before then.
“If history’s a lesson to help us understand the future, it won’t be easy,” Sankey told reporters Saturday. “But minds change, motivations change. … There’s a bunch of moving parts. That’s where I wish we could have used the last nine months to work. We’ll have to accelerate our consideration to make it happen.”
