The College Football Playoff is set to double in size, with a new 24-team format potentially debuting in 2027. Recent reports indicated that the CFP and ESPN had reached a preliminary understanding, but the two sides are still working out the official details and final agreement. The current 12-team format remains in place for the 2026 season.
The majority of college football fans are adamantly against it, believing that expansion could make regular-season games less meaningful, give teams more room for losses without missing the playoff, and put money ahead of tradition. There are also questions about whether conference championship games could disappear entirely and what impact a longer season might have on players from an injury standpoint. LSU head coach Lane Kiffin recently appeared on the "Brandon Walker College Football Show" and made his stance on a 24-team CFP very clear.
"I think it had to happen," Kiffin said. "You could say 12 is better, but not when you take into account the way college football is set up now. The conferences are so different, the four conferences.
They're different stadiums, they're different environments, they're different middle to bottom of them. So, you're not playing equal schedules, they're not even close. "If you took an SEC team and gave them another one of those conference's schedules, they'd average two more wins.
So, I say all that to say you had to go to more teams because the system's broke in how they pick them. And that's nothing against the committee. Humans can't see football for whatever reason because it's been this way for so long.
It's all about 12 wins, 11, 10, or 9. And we can't unsee that, where other sports do. "Basketball totally unsees it," Kiffin added.
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