Overview

• Sanders proposes an NFL-style system that pays every player for making the College Football Playoff with larger payouts for each win.
• Saban says the bonus plan "sounded like a good idea" and rejects giving any league guaranteed playoff spots, saying teams should play their way in.
• Both urge tighter structure for NIL agreements and highlight concerns about most athletes’ financial futures after college.
• Under the current model, conferences receive $4 million when a team makes the 12-team field with increases for advancing, not direct payments to players.
• The comments came in an Associated Press interview tied to a new Aflac ad, as stakeholders discuss future CFP formats including reported expansion scenarios.