The College Football Playoffs are not even a full year old and coaches are already wanting to change it up to at least an eight-team field.
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According to Brett McMurphy a recent ESPN poll from 103 of the 128 total coaches of college football says that 44 percent of them would prefer to change to an eight-team playoff to happen.
This would open up the playoffs for not just conference champions, but some at-large teams, or teams that lost a game that kicked them from the number two spot to a seven or eight.
This year the four team bracket has already proved to bring a lot of controversy as teams like Baylor and TCU are fighting with each other as one-loss teams looking to be one of the final four, which could be without a Big 12 or Big 10 team in the first year. However, if we were to go to a eight-team bracket both of them might make it along with Ohio State.
The poll also found out that only 29 percent, and 17 percent voted for a change to a 16-team playoff bracket. Probably the craziest stat from this poll was that one coach each voted for a two-team, a 32-team and a 64-team playoff.
The new playoff structure isn’t going anywhere, though. The current way of doing it is going to be in place for at least 12 more years, until 2026, and no talks of expanding have taken place as of yet.
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