This article from the Wall Street Journal appears to be blocked but it is not.

https://www.wsj.com/sports/football/24-team-college-football-playoff-693bef04?st=SjwjL3&reflink=desktopwebshare_permalink

I love the expansion to 24 teams.

49 minutes ago, VegasDuck said:

I love the expansion to 24 teams.

I agree. This lets a lot more fan bases have a rooting interest later into the season and actually makes more meaningful games during the season.

It worked in Pro football, baseball and basketball.

Sorry purists, your ship sailed years ago.

Probably means we will always have a ND / usc matchup when the series resumes. And hopefully other cross conference rivalries.

Thanks for the post.

If the NCAA managed a D1 football playoff, decades ago there would have been 24 or more teams in the field.

For 'purists' who abhor the idea of 24, try this.

It's a 16-team PO with eight on-campus play-in games. Eight meaningful games instead of the teams playing in meaningless bowl games with the best players sitting out the games. No rematches are allowed in the first round's eight games.

Eight second-round on-campus games give the fans of the top 8 seeds a chance to watch their team without having to travel hither and yon, and paying jacked-up airfare and hotel prices.

None of these naysayers have a plan to keep the Power 4 viable and hold off a Super Conference that, with the consolidation to forty or fewer teams, would 'disenfranchise' millions of CFB fans.

If you cannot sell your game inventory, what do you have to sell?

Please, do not try to tell me that CFB fans will not watch a PO game rematch of Alabama vs. Tennessee or Ohio State vs. Indiana.

CFB fans are hungry for new blood, not watching the same old blue bloods. The Miami vs. Indiana championship game drew millions more viewers than Notre Dame vs. Ohio State.

Tony Petitti is not stupid. He helped engineer MLB postseason expansion. Post-expansion, more people have attended regular season games and tuned in to watch the expanded playoffs.

At 79 years of age, I can't tell you how often I've heard that expanding the number of teams in the postseason will ruin the regular season. It hasn't happened.

There is a narrative out there in the press that everyone hates this and it's only been done for money.

I'm not going to say money isn't a driving factor, but that doesn't mean it's a bad decision. These purist press folks are in an echo chamber.

There are so many reasons to love a 24 team playoff as I've talked about before, and I think a lot of people get it.

But no matter, everyone will come around to it eventually.

Time to buy stock in a glass slipper company.