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Adam retainberg
Frisco, Texas-Big 12 Commissioner Brett Eurmark so-called 5+11 Future College is “doubled” on football playoff format, while accepting that it can benefit their league more in future.
Big 12 and ACC have pushed the model, which will provide automatic dialects to the five highest-lined conference champions, Plus 11-big dialects set by the CFP Selection Committee. The 5+11 model received some support in SEC spring meetings, while Big Ten has focused more on a model that will reward four automated dialects and SEC teams, as well as two apps for Big 12 and ACC.
Yormark, his fellow commissioner and notre Dame Athletic Director Pete Bewakwa should determine the CFP format beyond 2026 and 1 December.
Only one representative in Big 12 was the champion Arizona StateLast year at the inauguration of 12-Team CFP. Arizona state lost Texas A CFP quarterfinal match at Peach Bowl in two overtimes.
“Five -11 is fair,” Yormark said at his opening address in Big 12 Media Days in The Star on Tuesday. “We want to earn it on the field. This may not be the best solution for Big 12 today … but long-term, knowing what we are making, what we are investing, this is the right format for us. And I am doubling 5-11 today.”
Yormark said he hopes that the ACC Commissioner Jim Philips would take to the same place when the league held his media days in Charlotte, Northern Carolina this month. ACC sent two teams, champions Clemson And runner-up SmuLast year for 12-Team Playoffs. Yormerk postponed Big 12 as a “deepest football conference in the US” and said he believes that the league would have several CFP entries this season.
“I am very confident in the selection process,” said Yormark. “They are doing a complete audit of the selection process to find out how they can be modernized and contemporary and how they use data and how some matrix can be more heavy.”
Yormark told ESPN that it is “relatively confident” that CFP will go to 16 teams in 2026 and complete the next stages to make it.
“The first step is that we got to find out, with the selection process, we are like a deep dive,” he said. “Where can we improve it? Where can we modernize it? Are we using the right metrics? Is whether or not we are going through that conversation? So we are going through that conversation, and I think on his heels, we will go into the format because I think people need to believe that people need to believe, and I will be able to assume that I will be able to assume that I will be able to assume that I will be able to believe them.
In March, CFP named Mac Rhodes, a large 12 athletic director, as the chairman of its selection committee. Yormark stated that in addition to schedule strength, “New Matrix” will be added to the selection process to ensure fairness in all conferences.
Big 12 will have a week 0 phase Iowa state And Canus state Renew your rivalry in Dublin. Other major Nonleague Big 12 matchups include Biler-Obern, Bayler-SMU and Iowa State-Iva.
“I am confident that we will reach the right place,” said Yormark. “And finally, I am confident that we will go to 5+11.”
ESPN’s Pete Thmail contributed to this report.
