The CFP Management Committee is exploring a change to the playoff model, but it faces many hurdles including how to handle the Pac-12 in its final days.
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College Football Playoff managers will meet this week, but with the future of the Pac-12 still unsettled, it will be difficult to make a final decision on whether the number of places reserved for conference champions in the soon-to-be expanded field should be six or five. The 10 conference commissioners and Notre Dame's athletic director that comprise the CFP management committee will gather Tuesday and Wednesday at the Big Ten offices just outside Chicago. Since the last CFP meeting, Stanford and California announced they will be exiting the Pac-12 for the Atlantic Coast Conference next year.
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The conference commissioners who manage the College Football Playoff met Wednesday for the first time since a wave of realignment tore apart the Pac-12, raising the possibility that the number of automatic bids in the 12-team postseason format to be implemented next year could be tweaked. With realignment still roiling the landscape of college athletics, the 11-member management committee that still includes Pac-12 George Kliavkoff could only have preliminary conversations about potential format changes after this season, which will be the last one with four teams in the playoff.