College Football Playoff EXPANDING Again?! Big 12 LIVE Mailbag
Heartland College Sports: The Big 12 Sports Podcast
Pete Mundo
4.8 • 870 Ratings
🗓️ 22 April 2026
⏱️ 27 minutes
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Summary
In this Big 12 mailbag episode, is the College Football Playoff set to expand sooner than we thought to 24 teams? Or will it hold at 12 or move to 16?
Heartland College Sports' Pete Mundo takes all of YOUR Big 12 mailbag questions including my way-too-early Top 5 in the Big 12, best wide receiving corps, concerns about the transfer portal and much more!
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| 0:00.0 | It's been too long since we have joined you for a live broadcast. |
| 0:04.0 | So let's do it and talk some Big 12. |
| 0:06.5 | I know we've got many football questions. |
| 0:09.0 | I'm Pete Mundo. |
| 0:10.0 | Heartland College Sports is who we are covering the Big 12. |
| 0:13.4 | Thanks for joining us. |
| 0:14.4 | If you're just here for the first time, check, make sure you're subscribed. |
| 0:18.5 | Same thing on the podcast as well drop a five star rating and |
| 0:22.5 | review so appreciate you doing that hit the like button and yes make sure you're subscribed we've got |
| 0:27.5 | your questions in the mailbag and we are going to start with the playoff conversation so |
| 0:35.1 | there are new reports and many of you had questions about this, so I'll just |
| 0:38.3 | hit this right out of the gates. In the meantime, get your questions in right now live. |
| 0:43.2 | The big question is, is the college football playoff going to go to 16 or 24 teams? Well, there is |
| 0:51.4 | reporting that Ross Dellinger put out this week that with all these commissioners and the Notre Dame AD meeting in Dallas this week, it looks like there is a big push towards 24 teams. |
| 1:03.8 | Now, is that the best thing for the big 12? |
| 1:06.8 | Yes. |
| 1:08.1 | Is that the best thing for college football? |
| 1:15.7 | No, it's not. But two different answers, two different questions, right? So here's where this is at right now based on Delinger's reporting. |
| 1:21.1 | Everybody wants 24 teams except for the SEC who wants 16 teams. The reason for that is all these schools are trying to figure out how much money they can make |
| 1:32.0 | and try to obviously prop up the rest of the athletics department, |
| 1:36.0 | which is just being soaked right now by football and to a lesser extent basketball. |
| 1:41.1 | So they think that with a 24-team college football playoff, which would go from |
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