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Why a 24-team College Football Playoff wouldn't be that crazy

Buckeye Talk: Ohio State podcast by cleveland.com

cleveland.com

Sports, Football

4.51.6K Ratings

🗓️ 13 May 2026

⏱️ 71 minutes

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Summary

Is a 24-team College Football Playoff really that crazy an idea? At face value, the answer is yes. But perhaps the sport is in a space where we could wrap our minds around it happening. The coaches seem to think so, and on this episode of Buckeye Talk, Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis make sense of it all. Thanks for listening to Buckeye Talk and sign up to get text messages from experts Stephen Means, Stefan Krajisnik and Andrew Gillis at 614-350-3315. Get the insider analysis, have your voice heard on the Buckeye Talk podcast and connect with the best Buckeye community out there. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

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Buckeye talk is about to begin.

0:50.3

Hey, hey, hey, come on then. Welcome back to Buckeye Talk. I'm Stephen Means. That's

1:04.8

Stefan Kriestnik, and that is Andrew Gillis. We're talking college football playoff here on this

1:09.2

Wednesday show, and we're talking college football playoff expansion, because Wednesday show. And we're talking college football

1:11.4

playoff expansion because, you know, why have four teams when you can have 12? Why have 12 teams when

1:16.3

you can have 16? Why have 16 where you can go right to 24? At least that's what the coaches think.

1:21.2

The coaches had their annual AFCA meetings last week. And Stefan, please fact check me if I'm wrong about this. But there

1:29.1

seemed to be a consensus that people were cool with this thing eventually getting to 24 teams.

1:34.1

And I'm sure a lot of the other things that are going on in the sport, whether CSEC going to

1:39.4

nine conference games, accused being proud of the conversation, all those things are a part of it and like figuring out how you get to 24.

1:46.1

That's not what we're going to do here today.

1:47.8

We just want to have a conversation about do we think we get to 24 by 2030.

1:53.0

And I also put when I sent them the list of things we're doing this week, I said other

1:57.3

questions that I'll bring up later and we'll get into some of those later in this

2:01.9

podcast. But am I right in that reading of things? The coaches essentially said as a collective,

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