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'A good four years' for College Football Playoff; and no, it won't expand to eight teams

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IRVING, Texas — In Big Ten commissioner Jim Delany’s absence from the College Football Playoff’s annual meeting, the opportunity arose for an epic prank. Text him, one fellow commissioner after another was urged, with a message something like this: “Hey, we’re talking about going to eight teams — wonder what you think?”

There were no takers.

“He’s having a good little vacation,” Mountain West Commissioner Craig Thompson said, chuckling.