Behind the scenes, Petitti has spent more than a year pushing a bizarre 16-team College Football Playoff model in which his conference and the SEC would earn four automatic berths each, the ACC and ...

Coaches and ADs were in lockstep with Tony Petitti’s vision for an access-based CFP field rather than one dependent upon a ...

Colin Cowherd believes that the Big Ten is now the premier college football conference over the SEC headed into the 2025 ...

Learn more Big Ten Conference commissioner Tony Petitti speaks during a news conference after meetings with the Southeastern Conference, Oct. 10, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. Credit: AP/George Walker IV ...

SEC commissioner Greg Sankey publicly said the SEC could stick with the 12-team model if conversations with the Big Ten don’t go anywhere. As with everything in the sport, the future of the CFP ...

The format would allow the Big Ten to add CFP play-in games on championship weekend with, for example, the No. 3 seed facing the No. 6 seed for one of the conference’s automatic bids.

The Big Ten commissioner is reiterating the league’s preference for multiple automatic qualifiers in the next version of the College Football Playoff, increasing the likelihood of a showdown ...

Petitti also bolstered the idea of a weekend's worth of conference play-in games for some of the four automatic bids that would go to the Big Ten in its preferred version of a 16-team playoff. He ...

FILE - Big Ten Conference commissioner Tony Petitti speaks during a news conference after meetings with the Southeastern Conference, Oct. 10, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn. (AP Photo/George Walker IV ...

Big Ten Conference commissioner Tony Petitti speaks during a news conference after meetings with the Southeastern Conference, Oct. 10, 2024, in Nashville, Tenn.