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The College Football Playoff is expanding to 24 teams. What does it mean for WSU?

While many college football fans are disappointed by the recent news, it was announced Monday that the College Football Playoff will expand to 24 teams in 2027, with conference championship games being eliminated.

✦ Extractive summary — built from the sources' own reporting•From 3 sources•2 min read•Updated November 10, 2026, 3:07 AM UTC
Key points
  • Power Four conference title games to be eliminated Five teams will auto-qualify with rest picked by panel The College Football Playoff will double in size to 24 teams beginning next year, bringing an end to a three-decade era of conference title games that were among the marquee events of the season.
  • The News The Democrats’ historic sweep in US elections has been setting markets askew, as investors guess at what it could mean for economic policy or the billions of dollars being poured into AI infrastructure.
  • For much of the last half of the year, the cost of capital has only been going up — yields on sovereign debt and corporate bonds alike have been rising, as hyperscalers loaded up on debt and the data center buildout faced pushback on the ground.

The College Football Playoff is expanding to 24 teams beginning next season, opening up more spots for more teams, but also opening doors to untold amounts of other consequences.

Additional details
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  • If there’s an austerity program that’s put in place, it’s not a question of what the yields are, it’s a question of, ‘what do I need to see happen?’ The yields are already very high and they’re already attractive.
  • It’s evident in the data on how much issuance there’s been by corporations and it’s slated to continue potentially for another two years based on the CapEx intentions that the hyperscalers have divulged to investors already.
  • College leaders announced the new format Monday, after ESPN agreed to rework its contract to add the 11 new games.
  • Terms were not announced, though ESPN said it was a deal for five years and an additional $1.7bn, on top of the $7.8bn contract that runs through the 2031 season.

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