A plan to increase the University Football Playoff delayed Wednesday

A plan to increase the University Football Playoff delayed Wednesday when the monitoring board was not able to come to a consensus on a whether to grow the postseason style from four to 12 teams.

The 10 major university meeting commissioners and Notre Dame's sports director who compose the administration board satisfied to share feedback from their members as well as address worries regarding the growth proposal that was introduced in June.

"As the committee moves forward, there stays issues to be reviewed," CFP Executive Supervisor Expense Hancock claimed in a statement. "Offered the complexity of these issues, the administration board will meet again in Chicago next week to proceed our conversations."

The meeting in the Dallas area, which was gone to personally by a few of the participants and also virtually by others, was an overture to the Chicago session that was meant to consist of the CFP board of managers.

The board is consisted of university presidents and chancellors representing each conference. The board has last word in all issues connected to the playoff and there was hope the management board would bring the head of states a recommendation to accept a format modification.

Rather, the monitoring board will certainly reconvene following week, with the head of states signing up with using Zoom. No ballot is anticipated.

Because the general public rollout of the 12-team playoff plan, there have actually been worries raised concerning components of the layout, consisting of the possibility of enhancing the number of video games in a season needed to play for a champion to as long as 17. There were also worries regarding the impact subsequent seminar adjustment could have on a brand-new version of the CFP.

In July, the Southeastern Meeting invited Texas and also Oklahoma to leave the Large 12 and join the powerhouse organization in 2025 after the Big 12's current tv agreements end.

The Big 12 reacted by inviting American Athletic Conference members Houston, Cincinnati and Central Florida to sign up with the organization along with BYU, which is a football independent that also contends in the West Coast Meeting.

The 12-team plan was established over two years by 4 members of the monitoring board: SEC Commissioner Greg Sankey, Big 12 Commissioner Bob Bowlsby, Hill West Commissioner Craig Thompson and also Notre Dame sports director Jack Swarbrick. The group studied numerous formats, consisting of 6, eight and 16 teams.

Throughout that time the subcommittee was working on growth, three Power Five meetings-- the Atlantic Shore Conference, Big Ten and also Pac-12-- worked with brand-new commissioners.

Pac-12 Commissioner George Kliavkoff, who officially entered the work July 1, and Big 10 Commissioner Kevin Warren, that took control of January 2020-- a year after the subcommittee started work on expansion-- have actually both publicly supported CFP development yet have cut short of completely recommending the 12-team proposal.

"As we said in June when the 12-team playoff was suggested, that was the first step in a long procedure," Hancock claimed. "It is essential that all problems be totally discovered and dealt with.