Count Michigan coach Jim Harbaugh as ‘in favor’ of a 12-team College Football Playoff.

Harbaugh used his dad’s experience as coach to explain why he’s in favor of the proposed change.

“My dad was a coach at Western Kentucky in 2002, and that’s a 16-team playoff,” Harbaugh said at Big Ten Media Days, via 247Sports. “And I think they might’ve gone into that playoff seeded 13th or 14th, maybe it was 15th or 16th. But it was there, somewhere, and they won ‘em all. The playoffs — that feeling of being on the basketball court, it’s you win and you get to stay out there and keep playing. You lose, you’ve got to go reorganize a team and come back next time. But yeah, that — excited about pretty much all of that stuff.”

He also pointed out that college football is the only major sport with a postseason that only has four teams.

“Now they’re starting to talk about it’s a good thing increasing the number of teams in the playoffs,” Harbaugh said. “College football was the only (sport) that had four, and that’s — you talk about whatever playoff you want. You talk about professional, any sport, college, peewee — anything — high school, grade school, junior high. I mean, nobody’s got just four. … I think it’s good for the sport of college football, you know?”

A 12-team College Football Playoff isn’t official yet, but it could be formalized in the coming months.

The change would theoretically help teams like Michigan, who have yet to reach the four-team CFP. Michigan has finished in the top 12 of the AP Poll twice during Harbaugh’s tenure in Ann Arbor.

The Wolverines are coming off a disappointing 2-4 campaign in 2020, but figure to be in the mix in the Big Ten East this season.

Michigan opens its 2021 campaign with Western Michigan on Sept. 4.