* team CFB playoff

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Several "influential voices in college football" are reportedly prepared to discuss increasing the number of College Football Playoff teams from four to eight.

Nicole Auerbach of The Athletic reported Wednesday that CFP expansion has received a "groundswell of support" with hopes the change can happen before the current contract with ESPN, the event's broadcast partner, expires in 2026.

"It's an appropriate thing to begin thinking about," Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby told Auerbach.

Although the College Football Playoff has received less criticism than its predecessor, the Bowl Championship Series, it's still created issues. There isn't enough space for a representative from each of the Power Five conferences, and it has left virtually no path to a championship for schools from smaller conferences.

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I’ve been telling everyone the 4 team playoff wouldn’t last through the contract.

First round being hosted by teams would be great.

Realistically I see It always being bowls but idk.

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8 team CFB playoff format

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Can't wait to bitch about how the 8 team playoff format sucks.

6 or 12 is the way to go, with all higher seeds hosting ON CAMPUS until a final neutral site championship game. This still keeps tremendous importance on the reg season: you want to scrap for the bye and or home games. Imagine a 9 seeded LSU traveling to 8 seeded okla st one year, and travelling to Stillwater in december.The winner gets rewarded with a trip to #1 Ohio st. LSU would strive in the reg season to avoid that.

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5 auto bids to P5 conference champions

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Yep, effectively makes the playoff more of a 13 team playoff as the conference championships would be like a first round play-in game. Of course the loser of the championship game would still have the potential to make it should they remain ranked high enough to get an at-large bid.

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2 at large bids
Auto bid to highest ranked G5 conference winner

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I disagree here. Gotta make it 3 at-large bids with an auto bid to a G5 team only if ranked in the top 10. Can't just give the best G5 team an auto bid because in some years that could be a wasted spot.

they will find a way. who cares about in what format. They will chase the $.

I really am not a fan of an enlarged playoff. The comissioners just want it to guarantee their conferences the money in the years where their best teams aren't good enough to make it. There really aren't more than 2-3 deserving teams in any one year. Then after this people will just bitch about the 9-10 teams and it'll probably expand to 16. The product gets more and more diluted and over saturated each year.

ETA: No G5 teams deserve to play in the playoff. They don't play the schedule and they only beat uninspired teams who if we're being real don't give a shite about playing them in the past when they have sprung these upsets (OU 2006, Alabama 2008, Auburn 2017). A G5 team will NEVER beat 3 straight top 8 teams to win a championship.

Just use the division II or FCS model... this isn't that hard