{"id":1184294,"date":"2026-05-19T11:14:34","date_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:14:34","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/?p=1184294"},"modified":"2026-05-19T11:14:34","modified_gmt":"2026-05-19T17:14:34","slug":"finebaum-warns-24-team-playoff-would-destroy-cfb-regular-season","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/finebaum-warns-24-team-playoff-would-destroy-cfb-regular-season\/","title":{"rendered":"Finebaum Warns 24-Team Playoff Would Destroy CFB Regular Season"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>The College Football Playoff\u2019s potential and seemingly inevitable further expansion has taken center stage this week as a real push to\u00a0expand from 12 teams to 24 teams\u00a0has leaked into the sport\u2019s ecosphere.<\/p>\n<p>Despite the fact that an\u00a0overwhelming majority of the fanbase\u00a0does not want it, conference commissioners, a select group of\u00a0coaches, and television executives seem determined to push it through.<\/p>\n<p>The impact on the regular season and everything that makes this sport great is at stake here, and fans can now count SEC analyst Paul Finebaum as someone who will be on the right side of history.<\/p>\n<blockquote class=\"twitter-tweet\">\n<p dir=\"ltr\" lang=\"en\">&#8220;Twenty-four is the worst possibility I think in the history of this game. &#8230; It is going to devalue, dilute and perhaps destroy the greatest football season of them all.&#8221;<a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/finebaum?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">@finebaum<\/a> believes that the CFP expanding will harm the value of the regular season \ud83d\udc40 <a href=\"https:\/\/t.co\/EZOTuQxBXV\">pic.twitter.com\/EZOTuQxBXV<\/a><\/p>\n<p>\u2014 Get Up (@GetUpESPN) <a href=\"https:\/\/twitter.com\/GetUpESPN\/status\/2054923004702822534?ref_src=twsrc%5Etfw\">May 14, 2026<\/a><\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><script async src=\"https:\/\/platform.twitter.com\/widgets.js\" charset=\"utf-8\"><\/script><\/p>\n<p>\u201cThe right number is probably four, but we have 12 and we are going to 16 or 24, 24 is the worst possibility I think in the history of this game,\u201d Finebaum argued. \u201cIt is going to devalue, dilute and perhaps destroy the greatest football season of them all and that\u2019s the regular season of college football. The big games at the end of the regular season are going to be meaningless, this is not the NFL where you try to position for a wild card or home field, there just simply aren\u2019t enough good teams.\u201d<\/p>\n<p>\u201cTelevision and all these other forces are driving it, this is about the Big 10 and they\u2019re getting a lot of help, and the SEC is right to say \u2018No, we don\u2019t want that.\u2019\u201d<\/p>\n<p>As one of the faces of the SEC for the last several decades, nobody understands the value of the college football regular season more than Finebaum, and he is spot on in arguing the danger a further expanded playoff puts that regular season in.<\/p>\n<p>In this sport, every week is a playoff week, and that looks to be on the verge of changing, something which will do irreparable damage to the best regular season in all of sports.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<div class=\"mh-excerpt\"><p>The College Football Playoff\u2019s potential and seemingly inevitable further expansion has taken center stage this week as a real push to\u00a0expand from 12 teams to <a class=\"mh-excerpt-more\" href=\"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/finebaum-warns-24-team-playoff-would-destroy-cfb-regular-season\/\" title=\"Finebaum Warns 24-Team Playoff Would Destroy CFB Regular Season\">[&#8230;]<\/a><\/p>\n<\/div>","protected":false},"author":4874,"featured_media":1184295,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[147],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-1184294","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-featured-news"},"jetpack_featured_media_url":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-content\/uploads\/2026\/05\/dkb251206173_bama_vs_uga.jpg","jetpack_sharing_enabled":true,"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184294","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/4874"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1184294"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184294\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1184296,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1184294\/revisions\/1184296"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/1184295"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1184294"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=1184294"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/wnsp.com\/wordpress\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=1184294"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}