Is a 24-team CFP inevitable?! 👀 | Always College Football

Always College Football with Greg McElroy

ESPN

Football, Sports

3.9 • 1.9K Ratings

🗓️ 22 April 2026

⏱️ 38 minutes

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Summary

A 24 team College Football Playoff feels like a matter of “when” not “if” with college football power brokers and a White House presidential committee meeting in North Texas this week. McElroy is here to break down what a 24 team CFP would look like, what the impact of the presidential committee is, the impact it will have on the regular season and why it will be a good thing for the sport. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit podcastchoices.com/adchoices

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1:13.0	What's up y'all? Welcome back. It's always college football. Today is Wednesday, April 22nd, and we're doing something a little different. We're just going to do one story today. Just one big segment, a big conversation, if you will, because there is one big story right now in college football. And that, I guess, there's a lot of stories, I guess, but one that's really moving the needle nationally.
1:17.2	So if I were to add to this episode with spring game recaps from last weekend or spring
1:23.1	game previews for this upcoming weekend, I feel like I'd be doing you a bit of a disservice.
1:28.3	Today is going to be all about the college football playoff and the ever-growing
1:33.9	likelihood that it's about to double in size.
1:36.6	Not that it might double in size or that it could double in size, that it likely is going
1:42.4	to go from 12 to 2014.
1:45.9	Because as we sit here right now,
1:52.5	you got 10 FBS commissioners. You got the athletic director at Notre Dame. You have the White House backed presidential committee. You have executives for major networks at Fox and
2:00.2	at ESPN. And it sounds like the most powerful
2:03.5	people right now are all coalescing around the idea that it's time to probably grow the
2:10.1	college football playoff. And if you listen to Ross Dellinger from Yahoo and he's dropped,
2:15.4	and there's a lot of parts about the industry that are buzzing right now.
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