The College Football Playoff expanded to 12 teams in 2024, hoping to give more deserving programs and Group of 6 schools a chance to compete for the national championship.
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In 2025, the CFP had two Group of 6 programs make the tournament: James Madison and Tulane.
JMU and the Green Wave lost in blowouts during the first round of the CFP.
While allowing Group of 6 teams to make the CFP keeps the sport from facing antitrust issues, there was some chatter in the college football world that changes should be made after Notre Dame and BYU were kept out of the playoff for a program that didn’t have a chance to win the title.
During an interview this week with Front Office Sports, ESPN college football analyst Kirk Herbstreit argued that the sport needed to create a separate league for Power 4 programs.
“I think the Power 4 needs to break away, create their own world, create their own governing body,” Herbstreit said. “Allow the Group of (6) to kind of create their own world, allow them to have their own playoff, much like at FCS and Division II and III. Just create a new level, which would be the Power 4.”
Herbstreit thinks such a super league would need a commissioner like the NFL has with Roger Goodell.
“Imagine if the NFL didn’t have Roger Goodell, but the AFC South had a commissioner, the NFC South had a commissioner, the AFC East had a commissioner, and all the way around,” Herbstreit said. “And then you ask them all to get on the same page. Meanwhile, they all have their own goals, their own agenda. That’s what we have in college football.”
It’ll be interesting to see if that’s where the sport goes in coming years. The idea of a super league and commissioner are not new, but recent changes in college football have made those two ideas more popular.
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