ESPN: ‘No one is expecting a financial windfall from a potential 24-team playoff’

Over the past year, the potential of a 24-team College Football Playoff has steadily moved closer to reality. Now, CFP leadership and ESPN are negotiating the specifics, and most insiders have already resigned themselves to the fact that doubling college football’s postseason seems inevitable. As with any change in college sports, money is the impetus. FBS conference commissioners, who together form the CFP leadership group that decides the sport’s postseason future, see expansion to 24 teams as a way to earn more television revenue, money that would then be distributed back to member schools.