GOPHERS: The Big Ten WILL NOT REST until every team makes the College Football Playoff!
Mackey & Judd -- a Minnesota Sports Podcast
SKOR North | Hubbard Radio
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🗓️ 17 February 2026
⏱️ 44 minutes
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Summary
The Big Ten has circulated an internal document that supports a 24-team college football playoff format. When is enough enough when it comes to the number of teams in the CFP? What would expansion mean for the Minnesota Golden Gophers and the Big Ten? Manny and Ross discuss. The Minnesota Gophers women’s basketball team is a near lock for the NCAA tournament while the men continue to limp to the finish line.
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| 0:00.0 | take your seat settle in and listen up gophers 101 is underway and in session it's time to go to class |
| 0:09.0 | and talk all things gophers all right all right all right all right all right all right all right |
| 0:17.2 | all right manny i have to hand it to the Ten. If you keep adding the amount of teams to the |
| 0:25.2 | college football playoff, eventually everybody in the Big Ten will qualify for the college |
| 0:31.1 | football playoff. I can see right through their plan for expansion into the college football playoff. Welcome everybody |
| 0:39.5 | to Gophers 101. I would be Ross Brendel, Mani Hill. If you're watching at YouTube, you can tell |
| 0:45.6 | he's already mildly disgusted. I'm going to guess he and I share a similar opinion. We're going |
| 0:51.2 | to spend the bulk of this show on potential college football |
| 0:55.6 | playoff expansion. And I know we both have takes. If you're looking for a really good breakdown, |
| 1:01.5 | I don't say this very often, but ESPN.com has a really good breakdown of what the Big Ten |
| 1:07.4 | had floated in an internal document. This is not a formal proposal, but |
| 1:12.8 | Mani, you and I aren't dumb. You leak stuff like this so you can see how the public reacts to it |
| 1:18.3 | and then start pushing your agenda one way or another. Both the SEC and the Big Ten who basically |
| 1:24.6 | control the college football playoff at this point. They control all of college football. |
| 1:29.1 | Correct. And they want expansion, but they want two different things out of expansion |
| 1:33.1 | and what that looks like. |
| 1:35.5 | My first question to you, Mani, I'm going to put this on a T. |
| 1:39.7 | This is me if you're watching on YouTube. |
| 1:41.2 | I'm putting it on a T. |
| 1:43.7 | 24 team playoff in college football. Your thoughts? |
| 1:49.3 | My thoughts can be summarized in with one word. |
| 1:54.9 | Yuck. |
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