The change is a boost for the Pac-12, which is in the middle of media rights negotiations.
The College Football Playoff announced months ago that it would expand for the 2026 season, if not earlier.
The format calls for the six highest-ranked conference winners to receive automatic bids. There are 10 conferences in the Football Bowl Subdivision: the Power Five and the Group of Five, which includes the American Athletic Conference and the Mountain West. Playoff expansion elevates the importance of the regular seasons for the ACC, Big 12 and Pac-12, which have been relegated to a tier below the SEC and Big Ten behemoths after the former agreed to add Texas and Oklahoma and the latter gobbled up USC and UCLA.
The thunderous news of early CFP expansion comes while the Pac-12 is deep in negotiations for a new media rights agreement in the aftermath of USC and UCLA announcing their departures for the Big Ten.
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