{"id":81108,"date":"2026-11-09T12:55:17","date_gmt":"2026-11-09T17:55:17","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/college-football-playoff-will-double-in-size-to-24-teams-starting-next-year\/"},"modified":"2026-11-09T12:55:17","modified_gmt":"2026-11-09T17:55:17","slug":"college-football-playoff-will-double-in-size-to-24-teams-starting-next-year","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/college-football-playoff-will-double-in-size-to-24-teams-starting-next-year\/","title":{"rendered":"College Football Playoff will double in size to 24 teams starting next year"},"content":{"rendered":"<ul>\n<li>\n<p>Power Four conference title games to be eliminated<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<li>\n<p>Five teams will auto-qualify with rest picked by panel<\/p>\n<\/li>\n<\/ul>\n<p>The College Football Playoff will double in size to 24 teams beginning next year, bringing an end to a three-decade era of conference title games that used to be among the marquee events of the season.<\/p>\n<p>College leaders announced the new format Monday, after ESPN agreed to rework its contract to add the 11 new games. Terms were not announced, though ESPN said it was a deal for five years and an additional $1.7bn, on top of the $7.8bn contract that runs through the 2031 season.<\/p>\n<p> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.theguardian.com\/sport\/2026\/nov\/09\/college-football-playoff-expansion-24-teams\">Continue reading&#8230;<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Power Four conference title games to be eliminated Five teams will auto-qualify with rest picked by panel The College Football Playoff will double in size to 24 teams beginning next year, bringing an end to a three-decade era of conference title games that used to be among the marquee events of the season. College leaders &#8230; <a title=\"College Football Playoff will double in size to 24 teams starting next year\" class=\"read-more\" href=\"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/2026\/11\/09\/college-football-playoff-will-double-in-size-to-24-teams-starting-next-year\/\" aria-label=\"Read more about College Football Playoff will double in size to 24 teams starting next year\">Read more<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_jetpack_newsletter_access":"","_jetpack_dont_email_post_to_subs":false,"_jetpack_newsletter_tier_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paywalled_content":false,"_jetpack_hide_featured_image":false,"_jetpack_featured_image_duplicate_dismissed":0,"_jetpack_feature_clip_id":0,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":"","jetpack_post_was_ever_published":false},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-81108","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog"],"jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"jetpack_featured_media_url":"","_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81108","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=81108"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/81108\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=81108"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=81108"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/news2shorts.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=81108"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}