As expected, the proposal to expand the College Football Playoff from four to 12 teams — which wouldn’t guarantee an automatic berth into the competition for any of the Power 5 conference champions — already has the Pac-12 thinking about what it might need to do in order to maximize its teams’ chances of participation.
The way the new system has been drawn up, the top six ranked conference champs, regardless of conference affiliation, will make it into the field. Which, of course, worries the Pac-12, given that it is the only one of the Power 5 conferences that has regularly missed out on qualifying.