After months of lengthy debates and multiple meetings about expansion, the College Football Playoff will remain at four teams through the end of its current 12-year contract, which expires following the 2025 season, CFP executive director Bill Hancock announced Friday.
By choosing to remain at four teams for four more years, the 10 FBS conferences and Notre Dame have forfeited roughly $450 million in potential revenue.
“I’ve always said the money was secondary and this proves it,” American Athletic Conference commissioner Mike Aresco said. “Obviously we’re forgoing that. We all know it. It’s something you would have liked to have had because you can use a lot of that for student-athlete health and well-being and the other things, but the feeling was that the most important thing was getting a format that everybody could agree on.”
On Wednesday afternoon, the 10 FBS commissioners and…
