{"id":293381,"date":"2025-08-16T18:27:11","date_gmt":"2025-08-16T18:27:11","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/293381\/"},"modified":"2025-08-16T18:27:11","modified_gmt":"2025-08-16T18:27:11","slug":"big-ten-proposing-massive-college-football-playoff-change","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/293381\/","title":{"rendered":"Big Ten proposing massive College Football Playoff change"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The College Football Playoff could be in for a massive expansion.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>This week, the Big Ten floated the idea of increasing the playoff to 24 or 28 teams, <a href=\"https:\/\/www.espn.com\/college-football\/story\/_\/id\/45994245\/big-ten-floating-idea-24-28-team-cfp-sources-say\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">according to ESPN\u2019s Pete Thamel<\/a>, although the possibility is still reportedly a ways off.<\/p>\n<p>The proposal would eliminate \u201cconference title games and [offer] a large number of auto bids for all four power leagues,\u201d sources told Thamel.<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.49926794;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36850171\" width=\"885\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/AP_College_Football_Playoff_Football_78647-1d76a-0.jpg\" alt=\"College football playoff game.\" class=\"wp-image-36850171\"  \/>Ohio State running back Quinshon Judkins (1) runs with the ball against Notre Dame during the College Football Playoff national championship game on Monday, Jan. 20, 2025, in Atlanta. AP<\/p>\n<p>Under Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti\u2019s 28-team proposal, college football heavyweights, the Big Ten and SEC, would each get seven auto bids.<\/p>\n<p>The ACC and Big 12 would each get five auto bids, while two more would go to the non-power conferences and two at-large teams.<\/p>\n<p>The playoff committee would seed the teams and decide on the at-large bids.<\/p>\n<p>The latest CFP report comes as college football enters its second year with a 12-team playoff.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p><img style=\"aspect-ratio:1.50146628;display:block\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" data-modal-image=\"36850177\" width=\"886\" height=\"590\" src=\"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/08\/GettyImages-2192160809.jpg\" alt=\"The Big 10 logo before the Penn State Nittany Lions versus Boise State Broncos College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl on December 31,2024, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, AZ. \" class=\"wp-image-36850177\"  \/>The Big 10 logo before the Penn State Nittany Lions versus Boise State Broncos College Football Playoff Quarterfinal at the Vrbo Fiesta Bowl on December 31, 2024, at State Farm Stadium in Glendale, AZ. Icon Sportswire via Getty Images<\/p>\n<p>Starting this season, <a href=\"https:\/\/nypost.com\/2025\/05\/22\/sports\/major-shakeup-emerges-for-2025-26-college-football-playoff\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">playoff teams will be seeded 1-12<\/a> based on the selection committee\u2019s rankings rather than reserving the top four seeds for the conference champions.<\/p>\n<p>The Big Ten\u2019s new idea is a significant step up for the <a href=\"https:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/athletic\/6369665\/2025\/05\/21\/college-football-playoff-expansion-16-teams\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">14- or 16-team proposal<\/a>, which was seen as a likely landing place for the 2026 season.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>Disagreement over the number of auto bids and at-large teams has been a sticking point holding up negotiations over an expansion, per Thamel.\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>No matter where the powers that be land, the CFP is overwhelmingly likely to expand when the 12-team playoff model\u2019s contract ends after the 2025 season.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"The College Football Playoff could be in for a massive expansion.\u00a0 This week, the Big Ten floated the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":293382,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[2786,331,332,7,9],"class_list":{"0":"post-293381","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-big-ten","9":"tag-college-football","10":"tag-college-football-playoff","11":"tag-football","12":"tag-sports"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/115039859136123993","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293381","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=293381"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/293381\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/293382"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=293381"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=293381"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=293381"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}