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College football world reacts to CFP’s expansion decision
By Paul Harvey
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The College Football Playoff is sticking at 4 teams for the near future.
That announcement came Friday morning with a press release from CFP Executive Director Bill Hancock. According to Hancock’s release, the CFP will remain at 4 teams for at least the next 4 seasons with negotiations about expansion centered around implementing a new system for the 2026-27 season.
It was a decision that was frustrating for many. After months of deliberation and speculation that expansion might be imminent, the CFP’s move was met with an expected reaction across social media.
Take a look:
Well done, everybody. What a colossal waste of the last eight months. https://t.co/hYocLcdarm
— Stewart Mandel (@slmandel) February 18, 2022
The NCAA tournament would not be the mainstream sports event that it is every March if it didn’t expand from 16 to 64 from 1975-1985 https://t.co/O1N2u7AUyl
— Yahoo Sports College Football (@YahooSportsCFB) February 18, 2022
Public opinion: The College Football Playoff should expand right away!
The College Football Playoff: LOL, nah. We’re staying at four teams for the next four years. https://t.co/VbsDM4qntK
— Yahoo Sports College Football (@YahooSportsCFB) February 18, 2022
People will say the last year of Playoff expansion meetings was a waste, but that’s not fair. It completely ignores how many airline and hotel points all those administrators banked
— Alex Kirshner (@alex_kirshner) February 18, 2022
Mentally preparing for four more years of College Football Playoff expansion debates with no resolution in sight pic.twitter.com/Zj5uffj9re
— Pickswise (@Pickswise) February 18, 2022
It’s great that the CFP is holding off on expansion and not ending the current 12-year contract early. It should be extended indefinitely.
Excellence over access.
(CFB should go back to the BCS … but that ain’t happening)
— Barrett Sallee (@BarrettSallee) February 18, 2022
Eight months ago, the leaders of the CFP were patting each other on the back about how its 12-team Playoff proposal came together for the good of college football, and yet here they are after mounds of BS, still sitting on four teams: https://t.co/YeFJfTh6DC
— Bruce Feldman (@BruceFeldmanCFB) February 18, 2022
If CFP expansion ever does happen in 2026 or later, the landscape of the sport is going to be awfully different by then.
OU and UT in the SEC by 2025, new-look Big 12 in effect, reworked TV deals, and who knows what other dominos will fall. Intriguing road ahead.
— Dean Straka (@DWStraka49) February 18, 2022
CFB relegation > CFP expansion
We’ve already been over this. The suits don’t care.
— Kegan Reneau (@KeganReneau) February 18, 2022
Honestly, CFP expansion has been one of the most anti-climactic college football storylines ever. https://t.co/DwAbmU6Jiq
— The Ten12 Network (@Ten12Network) February 18, 2022
Paul is a lifelong fan and student of all things college football. He has been covering college football since 2017 and the B1G since 2018.