The move fell apart, the Big East became a basketball-only league, and Aresco formed the AAC. Back then, he attempted to expand Big East football by adding teams like San Diego State and Boise State to the UConns of his league. It has rising programs in San Jose State, Fresno State, Nevada and San Diego State.Īresco may want to try a coast-to-coast move like what he considered nine years ago. If commissioner Craig Thompson keeps Boise State, the Mountain West would become the most powerful Group of Five conference. Obviously, adding any or all those teams would impact the Mountain West, Conference USA and/or Sun Belt.Īresco seemingly will have to do something.
BIG 12 CONFERENCE EXPANSION PLUS
Last month, the CFP announced the sites for the 20 championship games based on a four-team model, another hurdle to changing the format.Ī new format before 2026 would also mean going back to the bargaining table with ESPN, which pays about $470 million per year for the CFP, plus another $125 million in separate agreements with the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl and Orange Bowl.Įxpansion for the final two years of the current 12-year deal that ends after the 2025 season is estimated to be worth an additional $450 million in net revenue to the conferences. Quarterfinals will be held at bowl sites on or around New Year’s Day, followed by neutral site semifinals about a week later and a championship game in mid-January. The 12-team format calls for four first-round games played at or near campus sites about two weeks after conference championship games, typically held the first weekend of December. “We looked at everything today,” Atlantic Coast Conference Commissioner Jim Phillips said. Last week, the university presidents and chancellors who oversee the CFP pushed forward expansion and directed the management committee to implement a 12-team model by 2026, but as soon as 2024 - if feasible. The management committee, comprised of 10 conference commissioner and Notre Dame’s athletic director, meet again later this month at the Big Ten offices in Rosemont, Illinois. “Really, everything falls from the calendar, kind of feeds from the calendar,” CFP executive director Bill Hancock said. Availability of venues and television time slots could ultimately determine whether early expansion is possible. ”It won’t be by lack of effort, whatever happens.”īut first they need to figure out where and when 11 playoff games can be played. “There are a lot of moving parts, a lot of pieces,” Mountain West Commissioner Craig Thompson said. “You finally get there, and you kind of forget about the long wait.”ĭaniels, defense lead West Virginia past Virginia Tech 33-10 “It’s like when you wait in a long line,” American Athletic Conference Commissioner Mike Aresco said. It’s unclear whether there is still time to accomplish that, but at least now everybody involved appears to be pulling in the same direction. The goal is to sort through myriad issues and have a new format in place for the 2024 season.
The frustrations and hard-feelings that hung over expansion talks most of last fall, and led to some icy gatherings, have seemingly been lifted. The 11-member management committee gathered Thursday for 4 1/2 hours at a hotel in the Dallas-Fort Worth Airport for the first time since their bosses voted last week to expand the CFP from four to 12 teams. DALLAS (AP) - In a meeting room just down the hall from where the plan for a 12-team College Football Playoff came to life almost 2 1/2 years ago, the conference commissioners who manage the postseason system finally began the next phase of expansion: implementation.
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