Overview
- Commissioners met in Rosemont and devoted roughly 20 minutes to format before leaving without a consensus.
- CFP executive director Rich Clark said the management committee is comfortable keeping the current 12-team field next season if negotiations do not progress.
- Any revision needs joint approval from the Big Ten and SEC, with the Big Ten favoring more automatic qualifiers and larger fields and the SEC backing a 16-team 5+11 model.
- Leaders are weighing a Power 4 athletic‑director working group and will continue small‑group talks ahead of the Dec. 1 deadline to notify ESPN of any change for 2026.
- Options under discussion range from 16 to as many as 24–28 teams, concepts that could eliminate conference championship games and trigger TV contract renegotiation.