Urban Meyer claims 24-team College Football Playoff is ‘too much’

One of the biggest conversations in the college football landscape is how many teams should be allowed in the playoff field each year. The committee has voted 12 teams into the mix over the last couple of seasons, but that still hasn’t stopped controversy from arising, including from the Notre Dame Irish, who complained ad nauseam after being left out in 2025.

This has caused some to want to expand the playoff field even more, perhaps even doubling it to 24 teams, but one person who is not on board with that idea is legendary college football coach Urban Meyer.

“Yeah, I think 24 is too much,” Meyer said, per The Script, via Nick Kosko of On3 Sports. “But I was wrong about 12. I thought 12 was a little bit too much. Miami gets in there, they would have never gotten in, and they should have won the national title. So, I think 24 is too much. You start dipping down, like you said, (into) the teams that have very mediocre years (and they) should not be in the playoffs, so I think 24 is too much.”

Indeed, the Miami Hurricanes seemed to prove the validity of the 12-team format last year, just barely making it in, in a controversial fashion over Notre Dame no less, and then proceeding to win three straight games to make it to the national championship, and very nearly knocking off Indiana when they got there.

Still, expanding it to 24 games would threaten to make the playoff tournament essentially another regular season in its own right, which would heavily alter the college football calendar, as well as introduce the likelihood of more blowouts.

It remains to be seen if any change will be made on that front anytime soon.

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