Inside ESPN’s Game-Changing Playoff Plan That Could Shake Up College Football Forever

While the ACC is supporting 24-teams, Phillips also revealed one other major player may not be interested in playoff expansion, and that is ESPN.

“ESPN has been pretty clear with all of us that they’d like it to stay at 12, maybe 14, but no higher than 16,” Phillips said.

It would make sense for ESPN not to be interested in further expansion. The company owns the broadcast rights to the CFP, and currently sublicenses some games to TNT. They own the rights up to a 14-team field, meaning that if the CFP expands beyond 14 teams, they would need to bid for additional games. That could lead to other networks holding the rights to some of the college football playoff games.

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