The Ohio State football program has benefitted each time the format of the College Football Playoff has changed. When the first four-team CFP started, they won the national championship. In 2024, they won the title when the first 12-team Playoff started.
Now, the Big Ten is pushing for more expansion. They recently released a proposal for a 24-team CFP that wouldn't involve any conference championship games. In that proposal, it would be a 23+1 model, meaning that just one G6 team would get a bid. This model would see more on-campus games.
This ridiculous model would pretty much take away any value of the regular season in a sport that had the most important regular season of any sport. This is something that the Buckeyes need to distance themselves from and make sure they don't support.
The Ohio State football team needs to not support the Big Ten's CFP proposal
Ross Bjork supports expansion and wants it to happen sooner rather than later. What he needs to support is a 16-team model instead of this ridiculous 24-team model. What makes the sport so special is that the regular season matchups matter so much, and one or two losses could crush a team's hopes.
If everyone makes the Playoff, fans will start to have apathy about the regular season product. TV numbers will go down, attendance will go down, and revenue will go down. College football administrators are trying to make everything a money grab, and it is going to come back to bite them.
Right now, the Big Ten has an advantage in the NIL era. The conference has won the last three national championships. Opening up the CFP to this many teams, without any of them having to have a good resume, would water down the sport to a horrible degree.
For once, the SEC has the right model for something. It's time the Big Ten thinks about the good of the sport instead of just trying to make as much money as possible. The Buckeyes need to lead that charge. Ryan Day believes the opposite, so fans will only have their coach and AD to blame if this ends up happening.