What if there was a 16-team playoff this ... What a 16-team College Football Playoff bracket would look like in ... against Illinois and Oklahoma against Tech. Ohio State and Texas would have byes.

Now, 16 seems to be the sweet spot because access trumps everything else when it comes to the Playoff. Just like when CFP architects jumped from four to 12 teams during the initial expansion ...

A potential 16-team College Football Playoff bracket has “growing” Big Ten and SEC support after an in-person meeting, Yahoo Sports’ Ross Dellenger reported. Power conference commissioners ...

Ole Miss football head coach Lane Kiffin believes a College Football Playoff that includes the 16 best teams and doesn't award automatic bids would be the "best" postseason system.

What's interesting about their model for the 16-team CFP is that the four-lowest ranked teams would face each other in the opening round. The 13th-seeded team would take on the 16th-seeded team ...

This comes just one year after the CFP expanded to a 12-team format in 2024, which introduced campus-site games and byes for top conference champions. Under the proposed 16-team bracket, ...

Many of these same people said the 12-team playoff ruined college football. The 16-team version would get rid of first-round byes. It would also come with more automatic bids.

Ole Miss was No. 14 in the CFP rankings when the bracket was unveiled, missing out on the 12-team field by two spots. MORE: Ole Miss football coach Lane Kiffin on 'College Football 26' deluxe cover ...

"The best system should be 16 (teams), and it should be the 16 best." That scenario would have benefitted the Rebels in 2024. Ole Miss was No. 14 in the CFP rankings when the bracket was unveiled ...

The commissioner said he is neither committed to the 16-team idea, nor to the oft-floated idea of providing up to four automatic bids to both the SEC and Big Ten in whatever format comes next.

"The best system should be 16 (teams), and it should be the 16 best." That scenario would have benefitted the Rebels in 2024. Ole Miss was No. 14 in the CFP rankings when the bracket was unveiled ...