The College Football Playoff would expand from four to 12 teams under a proposal to be considered next week, per an announcement Thursday afternoon on collegefootballplayoff.com.
A sub-group of CFP's management committee presented a proposal to change the current format to a 12-team event.
American Athletic Conference commissioner Mike Aresco is among CFP management committee members.
Details from the collegefootballplayoff.com announcement:
The proposal calls for the bracket each year to include the six highest-ranked conference champions, plus the six highest-ranked other teams as determined by the College Football Playoff selection committee. No conference would qualify automatically and there would be no limit on the number of participants from a conference.
The four highest-ranked conference champions would be seeded one through four and each would receive a first-round bye, while teams seeded five through 12 would play each other in the first round on the home field of the higher-ranked team. (The team ranked #5 would host #12; team #6 would meet team #11; team #7 would play team #10; and team #8 would meet #9.) Under the proposal, the quarterfinals and semifinals would be played in bowl games. The championship game would continue to be at a neutral site, as under the current format.
Wednesday's edition of Cincinnati sports can't-miss suggested that UC Bearcats football fans should be encouraged by a report from Yahoo Sports' Pete Thamel that "officials on campuses, in conference offices and in the television world have expressed an openness toward a 12-team playoff."
From Thamel via Twitter on Thursday:
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