Err ESPN, my bad

ESPN exclusive rights holder of expanded CFP - ESPN

And no conference championship games anymore....as the each conference will determine their formula for the conference champion. Four conference champions, 19 at-large teams, and the best Group-of-Six team. This will make the regular season have some spicy games....

On one hand I kind of don't care about the SEC ESPN relationship with a 24 team playoff. It's doubtful teams ranked 20-30 would win it all.

One scenario is the whole SEC is rated too high and therefore seeded too high and then get wiped out of the playoffs.

The way the ranking favoritism would play in their favor is to have more hone games in the warm south I stead of playing tundra games against teams further north that they aren't used to.

I mean really who can wait to see Alabama play Michigan in a snow storm? But SEC influence could theoretically prevent that from happening.

This development will require our OBD to make some changes to the upcoming non-conference games.

"Each A4 institution will be expected to play at least 10 qualifying regular season games consisting of the following:

• Conference Games

• Non-Conference games versus A4 conference opponents and Notre Dame."

https://collegefootballplayoff.com/news/2026/11/9/24-team-expansion

The B1G plays 9 conference games, which means each team in the B1G, including OBD, will have to schedule at least one non-conference game against another power conference opponent or Notre Dame. Here is our current non-conference schedule for the next 3 seasons:

• 2027: Eastern Washington, Coastal Carolina and Western Kentucky

• 2028: North Dakota State, Sacramento State and at Oregon State

• 2029: Portland State, Utah State and Oregon State.

So we'll have to replace at least one non-conference game in each of the next three seasons, which personally I like as this non-conference slate did not have my excited in the least.

"The CFP Selection Committee will not give any weight to a win over more than one (1) FCS opponent per season."

Yes! Teams can no longer pad their resumes with three guaranteed wins over FCS schools.

Ideally we could schedule some old P12 teams for home/home series. Sorry Beavs and Cougs you don't count as A4 ;-)