Sankey and ESPN are a No for now (joined by some here).

ESPN executives 'privately dismissed' 24-team CFP, per report

Here is Ross Dellinger's report referred to in the article.

With CFP expansion talks ongoing, presidential committee pushing for 24-team field - Yahoo Sports

The second article above is a great article....

"While supporters of the 24-team field believe that November conference games get a boost in value, detractors argue that September non-conference games aren’t as meaningful. But those in support of a 24-team field believe that administrators will be more willing to schedule high-level, revenue-generating, non-conference matchups as the penalty for a loss isn’t as severe in a format where a third or even fourth loss doesn’t mean elimination.

“I think 24 solves an enormous amount of problems,” said Fox Sports CEO Eric Shanks last week from the Sports Business Journal’s World Congress of Sports. “You can create (A) more valuable games that the schools need, but (B) one of the big knocks against college football is the first three weeks. It’s actually hard to find great games.”

"While the concept features just one additional round, it adds 12 total games, more than doubling the current 11-game CFP field — perhaps a way to recuperate the financial loss of the power four conference championship games (what many estimate to be a $150-200 million value)."

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2 hours ago, Steven A said:

Sankey and ESPN are a No for now (joined by some here).

ESPN executives 'privately dismissed' 24-team CFP, per report

Here is Ross Dellinger's report referred to in the article.

With CFP expansion talks ongoing, presidential committee pushing for 24-team field - Yahoo Sports

The Oregon Athletic Department is among the very few in the black.

What is a Power 4's most valuable asset by far? Football game inventory.

So, Saint Nick, what's your plan to bring in more money that could save many P4 programs that will not be included in a Super Conference? What's the plan to save non-revenue sports? Your plan to prevent a Group of Eight and instead keep millions of college football fans involved in the game?

You have heard that Kirby Smart and Josh Heupel support a 24-team PO, right? Nick, it's really a 16-team playoff with eight play-in games.

Your employer, ESPN, doesn't want the CFB playoff to expand? No conflict, right? ESPN is not going to support a playoff model that would end its exclusive broadcast rights and ding the value of its bowl game inventory featuring 6-6 teams going at it.

That ESPN is even in the room with conference commissioners is prima facie evidence of Disney's ownership of the postseason and of its undue influence over the selection and seeding of the field.

You don't want the PO to begin and end sooner. You don't want 16 postseason games played on campus. Don't you want the product you so artfully coached to bring in hundreds of millions more dollars?

There are two ways to increase CFB football revenue: expand the playoff or leverage the value of the football inventory through private equity or private capital deals.

Raising the cost of attendance coast-to-coast will be no more than a drop in a huge bucket. Is making the cost of attendance at games prohibitive for many fans good for the growth of the game?

Sorry, Nick, and I don't believe you would suggest this, but I doubt that coaches will agree to a 50% pay cut, and players will willingly agree to a cap on NIL income.

In my seven decades of watching sports, no sport has gone broke as a result of expanding the playoffs. The CFB PO tripled from 4 teams to 12 teams, and more people attended and watched P4 games last season than ever before.

Nick, you are a businessman; how can you not see this?

We're all anxiously awaiting your plan.

What's that?

Yes, relief could come from Congress, but not without you convincing the smarties that run things that the athletes sharing in athletic department revenue are EMPLOYEES.

By the way, the United States of America, via the IRS, taxes the income earned by these non-employee student-athletes. Perhaps the NCAA, CFB, CBB, and college poohbahs should try a dose of substance instead of form.

24 should happen as soon as possible, in 2027-28.

1 hour ago, Charles Fischer said:

The second article above is a great article....

"While supporters of the 24-team field believe that November conference games get a boost in value, detractors argue that September non-conference games aren’t as meaningful. But those in support of a 24-team field believe that administrators will be more willing to schedule high-level, revenue-generating, non-conference matchups as the penalty for a loss isn’t as severe in a format where a third or even fourth loss doesn’t mean elimination.

“I think 24 solves an enormous amount of problems,” said Fox Sports CEO Eric Shanks last week from the Sports Business Journal’s World Congress of Sports. “You can create (A) more valuable games that the schools need, but (B) one of the big knocks against college football is the first three weeks. It’s actually hard to find great games.”

"While the concept features just one additional round, it adds 12 total games, more than doubling the current 11-game CFP field — perhaps a way to recuperate the financial loss of the power four conference championship games (what many estimate to be a $150-200 million value)."

And let's remember the daily efforts of volunteers who help us all by posting these great articles!

NJDuck
Steven A

Smith72

Jon Joseph

Without their efforts--we would all have to go to 15 sites every day to find these articles, and their work is a BIG benefit to being a part of this community.

Thank You!

Every day I'm looking more and more like the guy on the photo far left. 😁

4 hours ago, Jon Joseph said:

featuring 6-6

And the occasional worthy 5 - 7 due to the bloated bowl schedule.