{"id":872943,"date":"2026-04-23T18:12:21","date_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:12:21","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/872943\/"},"modified":"2026-04-23T18:12:21","modified_gmt":"2026-04-23T18:12:21","slug":"michigan-football-hc-kyle-whittingham-weighs-in-on-cfp-expansion","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/872943\/","title":{"rendered":"Michigan Football HC Kyle Whittingham weighs in on CFP expansion"},"content":{"rendered":"<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">Michigan first-year coach Kyle Whittingham, who spent 21 seasons at Utah, told On3 that 16 teams is the right number, but that he thinks there\u2019s a super league coming to college football with anywhere from 48 to 60 teams. He envisions four quadrants geographically situated in a 16-game playoff.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cThere\u2019s too much money being left on the table, and that\u2019s what it\u2019s all about,\u201d Whittingham said. \u201cUnfortunately, that\u2019s the bottom line, the dollars. And so to me, 16 is the right number, but only in a super-conference structure. You govern yourselves. The NCAA is not involved, and you have your own commissioner.<\/p>\n<p class=\"duet--article--dangerously-set-cms-markup _1teeyfa8 ls9zuh1\">\u201cAgain, we\u2019re talking about minor league NFL, salary cap, the whole thing. I don\u2019t see it going any other way. Now, I could be dead wrong, but I think the odds are that\u2019s what is going to happen.\u201d<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Michigan first-year coach Kyle Whittingham, who spent 21 seasons at Utah, told On3 that 16 teams is the&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":872944,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[2026],"tags":[331,7,580,52888],"class_list":{"0":"post-872943","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-college-football","9":"tag-football","10":"tag-michigan-football","11":"tag-michigan-football-news"},"share_on_mastodon":{"url":"https:\/\/channels.im\/@nfl\/116455377716082433","error":""},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872943","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=872943"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/872943\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/872944"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=872943"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=872943"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.rawchili.com\/nfl\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=872943"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}