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The Paul Finebaum Show

Hour 1: Are we looking at another CFP expansion?

The Paul Finebaum Show

ESPN Radio

Sports

3.31.3K Ratings

🗓️ 21 April 2026

⏱️ 41 minutes

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Heather Dinich, ESPN CFB Writer                 Connor Riley, DawgNation    Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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0:47.0

Yeah.

0:48.0

You can't welcome in.

0:49.0

You have another day.

0:50.2

This Tuesday, we can't wait to get started.

0:52.1

A lot happening, including a CFP meeting.

0:56.3

Let's begin with some news, and we'll talk to Heather Dinich in just a moment, so a lot to deal with this afternoon.

1:04.8

Let's not keep Heather waiting any longer because I'm sure there is so much happening, Heather, out there at your meetings. Good afternoon and tell us all about it.

1:15.6

Good afternoon, Paul. Yes, I am at the Swanky Ritz-Carlton Hotel in Las Colinas in Irving, Texas, where leaders of the college football playoff are meeting. This is their annual spring

1:28.4

meeting, so there's a lot of nuts and bolts and things that they're planning for this year's

1:33.8

national championship game. But tomorrow it's going to get more interesting because on the agenda,

1:39.4

they do have format down as something to talk about. and multiple sources have told me that there is some

1:48.7

momentum for a 24 team playoff and that stems from conversations that you and I Paul have been

1:55.8

talking about in the White House and there are these subcommittees and the CFP format is now tangled into

2:03.3

those conversations because it's a source of revenue overall for college athletics. But I am told

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