BYU football knows better than anyone how unjust College Football Playoff exclusivity has been rampant through the NCAA in past years, even with the expanded 12-team format.
Even with one of the soundest resumes in the nation -- only losing to a top-four program in Texas Tech, and boasting a critical win over 10-2 Utah -- the mainstream media went on a campaign of misinformation and erasure to ensure that public opinion didn't back a BYU football team that the dominant SEC and Big Ten voices didn't want to include in the final bracket.
The evidence of this was blatant, shameless, and a black stain on the competitive structure of college football as a whole. BYU, despite being the only team in the nation with back-to-back 11+ win seasons to not reach the college football playoff, was treated as if it had been a Group of Five program, and the biggest voices in the SEC still believe that the Cougars were given too much credence in a year that saw them locked out of the final 12-team field.
They were upset because 11-2 BYU wasn’t punished EVEN MORE 😂😂😂
— CFB Kings (@CFBKings) May 28, 2026
10-3 Alabama putting up -3 rushing yards and losing by 21 to Georgia (and also by 14 to 5-7 Florida State and also at home to Oklahoma. Plus, looking awful against 4-8 South Carolina and 5-7 Auburn): GOOD CFP… https://t.co/pVMmQ2FxpE pic.twitter.com/HVhzQ2RmHO
In theory, the propossed 24-team format cures this unjust practice. Despite the Cougars already creeping into unprecedented territory as the only 1-loss power four team to be kept out of the top 10 in decades, the playoff selection committee can't keep any 11-win team out of the Playoff. Period.
It's unsurprising to learn that the Big 12's coaches are unanimously in favor of Playoff reform, joining their voices with the unanimous vote of the Big Ten.
Big 12 football coaches unanimously voted in favor of a 24-team College Football Playoff format in Big 12 meetings today. Not a surprise, but unanimous like the Big Ten.
— Pete Thamel (@PeteThamel) May 28, 2026
If this motion becomes a reality, the College Football Playoff becomes even more exciting. More teams will have a chance at the championship than ever before, and programs that have historically been excluded from sitting at the "Big Boy Table" would get a chance to prove their worth on the field.
BYU is tired of being barred from a postseason they feel they've deserved. Perhaps the barrier for entry won't be so nebulous in the future.
That is, of course, until the SEC and Big Ten each request 8 auto-bids, or something like that. Maybe I'm just cynical at this point.
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