College Football Playoff Eying 24 Team Expansion: Is Bigger Better? | The Ricky Cobb Show The college football playoff could expand to 24 teams — and a lot of people aren’t happy about it. After just moving to 12, this feels like overkill. Is the sport trying to fix something that wasn’t broken? What makes college football special, and for some fans, superior to the NFL, is that big games mean something.  The shorter regular season, smaller playoff field relative to the size of the sport,