The Ohio State football program has benefited from every change in the College Football Playoff. They have won both the first four-team Playoff and the first 12-team Playoff. The Buckeyes have done well every time that they decide to expand the race for a national championship.
College football has decided that they need to expand the Playoff pool once again. It's something that athletic departments seem to want because of how much more money they would be able to make by adding more teams to the tournament. The SEC wants 16 teams while the Big Ten wants 24.
Ted Carter, the President of the Ohio State Buckeyes, doesn't like what the Big Ten is proposing. In fact, it doesn't sound like he supports expanding the CFP at all. He let that be known in a recent interview, claiming that 12 teams is the ideal number of teams for the CFP.
Ohio State president goes against BIg Ten's CFP expansion plan
In a recent interview, Carter let it be known that he likes the 12-team CFP.
"I'm a little bit like a lot of fans. We don't need more teams. Let's go back to the old format when there were only four teams in it. If you're Ohio State, and you're one of the four, your odds are a heck of a lot better, right? So with 12, if we can get the scheduling down right, that's going to make us competitive. But I do believe there is going to be some level of expansion."
Carter doesn't seem to support expansion at all based on those comments. The Big Ten's proposal is silly, as they don't care about the betterment of college football at large. They only want as many Big Ten teams in the CFP as possible. It's not something that helps the fans of the sport.
Carter understands that expansion is almost an inevitability. He knows that it is something that can't be avoided. Still, 24 teams are way too many teams to put in the CFP. That adds too many games to the schedule, which is bad for the football players.