The Rose Bowl is on the clock.
The CFP executive board of presidents does not plan to guarantee the Rose Bowl game its request for an exclusive Jan. 1 window in future iterations of an expanded playoff, sources say, and they have given the sport’s oldest operating bowl a deadline.
Believed to be the last hurdle to expanding the playoff early, the Rose Bowl and its officials have been given a matter of days to make what could be a monumental decision for the future of college football’s postseason. The Rose Bowl can either agree to expand the playoff as soon as 2024, or delay expansion to ’26.