College football coaches at Florida, FSU, Miami, UCF face CFP pressure

The 12-team College Football Playoff will be implemented starting with the 2024 season. It will give coaches at high-resourced Power 5 programs better access to the CFP.

The current CFP is limited to four teams. The new 12-team CFA will be more lenient on teams with two or three losses. It will increase the pressure on college football coaches. Georgia, Florida, FSU, Miami and UCF have not been in the CFFF playoffs in recent years. Greg McGarity, the former athletic director at Georgia (2010-20), thinks the SEC teams are under pressure to be in a playoff.

Florida, FSU, Miami and UCF football coaches are under pressure to win a place in the CFP. The current 12-team playoff system has 72 more spots than the previous two-person playoff. If the current system had been in place for the past nine years, 66 of the spots would have gone to Power 5 teams. In that period, Florida, Fsu, and UCf would've made two playoff appearances in a 12 team format. If they didn't, their coaches might have been fired or left.

There are 25-30 Power 5 schools who will benefit the most from CFP expansion. The expansion is likely to be limited to 12 teams. The new CFA will be announced in January. It will include teams from the SEC, Big Ten, Pac-12, ACC, and Big 12.

Penn State has never made the playoffs, but it would have made it five times if the CFP existed the past decade. USC, Baylor, Ole Miss and Utah might have done that. The SEC and Big Ten are probably looking at two or three at-large teams and their conference champion making the 12-team CFA in most years. With Big 12 entry, UCF's Malzahn will soon have a bigger hammer as well. Power 5 schools with enormous budgets better take advantage of an expanded football playoff.