Brohm favors expanding College Football Playoff to 16 or 24 teams

Brohm favors expanding College Football Playoff to 16 or 24 teams Published 10:15 pm Friday, June 26, 2026 By Russ Brown Kentucky Today LOUISVILLE (KT) This should come as no surprise to anyone familiar with the landscape of college football: When it comes to the College Football Playoff, Louisville coach Jeff Brohms belief is the more the merrier.

In other words, Brohm is in favor of expanding the College Football Playoff to 16 or 24 teams, which are the two proposals under consideration.

And why wouldnt he, and every other Football Bowl Subdivision coach want to add more teams than the current 12-team setup, thus giving their own squad a better chance of making the field? CFP leaders continued discussing those two options involving the postseason last week in a meeting that was part of a three-day gathering of Division I conference commissioners in Denver.

The current 12-team format debuted in 2014, and ever since then further expansion has been a constant topic among the management committee, which is composed of 11 FBS conference commissioners and Notre Dames athletic director.

I think we probably walked out with more questions than we had going in because it seemed like every answer we had, it drove a couple more questions from the commissioners, which is a good thing, CFP executive director Rich Clark told The Athletic.

We still have a lot of work to do.

.things about the schedule.

What does it look like on paper? What happens with (conference) championship games? What happens with Army-Navy? Student wellness was on top of the list, so that were not putting these games too close together.

Thats an important aspect of it.

The Big Ten proposed doubling the field to 24 late last year and most other conferences have publicly supported that concept.

The SEC has remained a holdout, with commissioner Greg Sankey saying he needs more information but favors moving to a 16-team field.

If you look at college basketball or look at the FCS (Football Championship Subdivision) level, 24 teams will provide the ability for teams from other conferences to get their best teams in and have a bracket where you come out with the best champion, Brohm said during a press conference Monday.

I think for every team to have an opportunity to make it is exciting for fans across the country.

I see us getting to that at some point.

However, when their turn came at the microphone, two of Brohms players dissented, with linebacker Stanquan Clark and offensive lineman Lance Robinson both saying they are satisfied with 12 teams.

Thatll be what, a 17-, 18-game season? Robinson said.

We might as well be the NFL at that point.

How much would a 24-team playoff have benefited Louisville in the past? Plenty.

If the CFP started with 24 teams when it began in 2014 80 different schools would have qualified over the last 12 years, according to a study by Big Ten deputy commissioner Kerry Kenny this spring that was validated by The Athletic.

And the Cardinals would have been one of those 80 on three occasions, although none of the seasons were noted.

U of Ls best records during that span came in 2023 (10-4, 7-1 ACC); 2016 (9-4, 7-1 ACC); and 2014/2024 (both 9-4, 5-3 ACC).

Ohio State and Alabama are the only programs that would have made the field every season.

Clemson would have appeared 11 times in a row until 2025.

Others who would have competed seven or more times are Georgia and Notre Dame, 10; Oklahoma, 9; LSU, Michigan, Oregon and Utah, 8; Penn State and USC, 7.

Every single SEC team would have made the field at least once.

In the ACC, Duke, Cal and Boston College would all have failed to make any 24-team field.

Wake Forest would have made it once.

NC State has never played for an ACC title, nor made the CFP, but would have qualified five times in a 24-team field, tied for second most with Florida State among ACC teams.

The Big Tens plan calls for an eight-game first round, eight first-round byes and an eight-game second round, with quarterfinals held on New Years Eve.

For 24, there are a lot of different ways it can go, so our next steps really are to flush out what the different options look like, and in detail, Clark said.

(The committee) wants to understand how (expansion) could happen before they make the decision as to if it will happen.

Clark said the group might meet again as soon as August.

KELSEY HIRES NEW ASSISTANTIn a program news release Tuesday, U of L basketball coach Pat Kelsey announced the hiring of high school coaching veteran Tim Austing as Special Assistant to the Head Coach.

Austing has coached prep basketball in Ohio for 27 years, the last five at Sycamore High in Cincinnati.

He and Kelsey both graduated from Elder High in Cincinnati, in 1992 and 1993, respectively.

THE VILLE ADDS THREE PLAYERSThe Ville, U of L alumnis TBT team, announced the addition of three players for this summers tournament Jaylen Johnson (2014-17), Angel Nunez (2011-12) and JaeLyn Withers (2020-23).

They join Russ Smith, Edgar Sosa and Malik Williams.

The Ville and UKs alumni team, La Familia, will tip off the TBT on July 18 at Memorial Coliseum in Lexington, with a rematch set for July 20 in Freedom Hall.

If necessary, a third game will be on July 22 in Memorial Coliseum.

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