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Change is on the horizon for college football fans as the College Football Playoff (CFP) undergoes a major transformation for the 2024 season.
This season the playoff bracket will expand from four teams to 12, introducing a new era of excitement and opportunities for teams across the nation.
How will the 12-team College Football Playoff work?
The playoffs will now include the six highest-rated conference champions, determined by the CFP Rankings, along with the next six highest-ranked programs.
The top four conference champions will earn coveted byes into the quarterfinals, injecting a fresh layer of strategy and anticipation into the postseason.
In the new format, the lower seed team will choose the host venue during the first round of the playoffs, and the quarterfinal games will consist of bowl games.
For the semifinals, the bowls will be played on a rotating basis while the national championship will still take place in a neutral site.
The expanded playoff format, conceived with each Power 5 league in mind, now encounters the changing landscape of the Pac-12.
The current requirement of six represented conferences may be reevaluated, raising questions about the fate of automatic qualifiers and the inclusion of at-large bids.
As the playoffs expand, teams are presented with new opportunities to secure a spot, potentially avoiding the heartbreak of being left out, as experienced by Florida State in previous seasons.