While the decision to move to a College Football Playoff was a step in the right direction, the calls are growing larger for the field to expand beyond four teams.
A sub-group of the College Football Playoff management committee recently proposed to change the current four-team format to a 12-team event. It seems like expansion of the playoff, albeit at a slow pace, is inevitable.
With that in mind, here’s a look at how Jim Harbaugh’s team’s would have factored into a 12-team College Football Playoff — four years of which they were in the thick of things with two years where they wouldn’t have been in contention (2017, 2020).