College Football Playoff balloons to 24 teams, killing conference title games
The College Football Playoff is blowing up to 24 teams next year, per the Associated Press. The move shuts down conference championship games after roughly thirty years of deciding the postseason picture. It reshapes how every conference's season ends.
- Original source: apnews.com.
- The source published it on Nov 9, 2026 at 4:43 PM.
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The College Football Playoff will grow to a 24-team field next year, the Associated Press reports. The expansion also ends conference title games, a fixture of the sport for three decades.
That's the whole of what AP laid out: a bigger bracket, and no more championship weekends deciding it. Conference races will now funnel straight into the playoff instead of a standalone final.
No details yet from AP on how the field gets picked, when the games are played or what happens to the conferences that built their season around that title game payday.
TopicsCollege Football Playoff · Associated Press
Source: apnews.com
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