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How Big Ten and SEC College Football Playoff Format Plans Differ As Deadline Looms

The two power conferences don’t seem likely to compromise on an expansion plan ahead of Dec. 1 when the CFP must inform ESPN of any format changes.

Sports Illustrated · Nov 13, 2025

Forde-Yard Dash: Why 12 Teams in the College Football Playoff Are Enough

Amid recent talks of expanding the CFP to 16, this season’s chaos has proven that the current format might be better as is.

Sports Illustrated · Nov 9, 2025

College Football Execs Punt on Changing Structure of New 12-Team Playoff

For now, the 12-team format remains the same: six conference champions and six at-large teams.

Sports Illustrated · Jan 8, 2024

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Lt. Gen. Richard Clark brings leadership, diplomacy skills to CFP as it expands, evolves

The College Football Playoff is on the verge of major changes, including expansion, its next media rights deal and possibly evolving its role as an organizing body in college sports

The Independent UK · Nov 13, 2023

College Football’s Biggest Names Land in D.C. for Talks on Athlete Compensation

Nick Saban and others are set to meet with lawmakers after the California State Assembly passed a bill requiring athlete revenue sharing for its D1 schools—thrusting issues like NIL into the spotlight.

Sports Illustrated · Jun 7, 2023

SEC Leaders Examining Options to Solve Athlete ‘Employment’ Question

For at least a year now, the SEC’s most powerful executives have explored paths to manage athlete compensation in a more regulated way.

Sports Illustrated · May 31, 2023

Mike Leach, Mississippi State football coach, dies at 61

“Mike’s keen intellect and unvarnished candor made him one of the nation’s true coaching legends,” Mississippi State President Mark Keenum said. “His passing brings great sadness to our university, to the Southeastern Conference, and to all who loved college football.”

Chicago Sun-Times · Dec 13, 2022

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‘This is Bulls---!’ The Secret Calls and Heated Arguments That Led to CFP Expansion

Stakeholders and school presidents describe to SI the secret meetings, last-minute hurdles and one man who was a force for change in approving a 12-team format.

Sports Illustrated · Oct 20, 2022

The College Football Playoff could expand to 12 teams as soon as the 2024 season

The university presidents who oversee the College Football Playoff voted to expand the postseason model for determining a national champion from four teams no later than the 2026 season.

WEKU · Sep 2, 2022

College Football Playoff Will Expand to 12-Team Tournament

The expanded FBS postseason will be implemented no later than the 2026 season.

Sports Illustrated · Sep 2, 2022

CFP Board to Give Guidance to Commissioners to Jump-Start Expansion Talks

Mark Keenum, the chair of the CFP Board of Managers, also said that the “hope” is to have a plan in place in the next year.

Sports Illustrated · Jun 2, 2022

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