Instead of signing off on a 5+11 expanded playoff, the Big Ten has presented a 24-team plan the SEC won't support.

Deadline looms to expand playoff beyond 12 teams.

SEC favors models heavy on at-large bids. Big Ten likes more automatic bids.

The solution to the College Football Playoff expansion question sits two inches in front of Tony Petitti’s face. And instead of seizing it, the Big Ten is firing shots into the moon.

We’re less than two weeks away from the Dec. 1 deadline that’s set to expand the playoff in time for the 2026 season. Every Power Four conference except Petitti’s had been on board to expand the playoff to 16 teams by adding four more at-large bids in a so-called 5+11 model.

The Big Ten didn’t like that plan. It once pushed its own 16-team plan that nobody els

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