Coaches say expand College Football Playoff. Now comes the hard part

College football’s largest professional organization for coaches publicly endorsed an expansion to the College Football Playoff , elimination of conference championship games and an earlier end to the season. "Expanding the Playoff is inevitable," New Mexico coach Jason Eck told USA TODAY Sports. "Getting the season completed earlier is crucial for the future of college football.

" While addressing the college football calendar at its recent AFCA Board of Trustees meeting, the association declared its formal support for an expansion to the current 12-team CFP, which just completed its second year after nearly a decade of a four-team format. SEC coach raises alarm on CFP expansion: 'We cannot turn this into college basketball' Opinion: Why this year’s SEC spring meetings could reshape college football The AFCA also outlined a method to conclude the playoffs by the second weekend of January. “Future playoff models should maximize the number of participants while honoring the proposed completion date,” the AFCA said in a statement posted to its website.

In a late-April interview with USA TODAY Sports, first-year Kentucky coach Will Stein adamantly supported a move to a 24-team playoff format. “For us, nine-game (SEC) league, hell yeah," Stein said. “If I’m a Kentucky Wildcat fan and we get to 24, that’s what we want.

That means eight people from this league are getting in. If you get a chance in a knockout round, I’m taking it all day. Get a home-field game here in Kroger Field?