
Changes have been made to the College Football Playoff this offseason, and more could be on the way with leaders across college football set to meet in Asheville, NC this week. Talks regarding a new 14 or 16-team format are expected to be at the forefront of these discussions.
Whether a final decision will be made at the meeting has been widely speculated. However, Ohio State athletic director Ross Bjork is calling for these types of discussions to be kept out of the public eye entirely before they become reality.
“The decision-making authority rests with the commissioners in the room, and then they bring that to the governing board of the CFP, which are presidents that represent all 10 of the conferences,” Bjork said. “So, to me, debating it in public, I don’t think that does any good.
“I think what we need to do, from our perspective, is we need to take a step back. We need to keep engaging with our colleagues across — I saw a lot of the SEC AD’s this week. We had those conversations. … There’s so much work that has to be done. We believe in what we believe in. We’re willing to listen, and I think that’s a position that we have to take but playing it out in public and staking claim, what good does that do?”
Various formats which have been pitched at previous meetings have fueled speculation on what the future of the CFP may look like moving forward. The amount of automatic bids per conference has been a contentious topic behind the scenes in some of these discussions. So far, no agreed upon format has been set in stone ahead of this week’s meeting.
“One week it was 4-4-2-2-1. That had a had a lot of traction that was out publicly, and then the next week, it was 5+11, but have we accomplished anything yet? No,” Bjork said. “So let’s play it out where it should be played out in these conversations, where the authority lies. … We’ll figure this out, but I think we need to we need to all just take a step back, and then come back together at the right time to fix it. Because we know we can fix it.”
Bjork said he’s confident that the commissioners across the NCAA will be able to work through these issues. He just hopes that it will be behind closed doors moving forward.
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