MIAMI GARDENS, Fla. (AP) \u2014 While fans trickled into the Orange Bowl stadium for a quarterfinal where tickets were going for as little as $39, the commissioner of the Big 12 said \u201ceverything is on the table\u201d when it comes to rebooting the College Football Playoff, including potentially moving more games onto campus.<\/p>\n
The commissioners have until Jan. 23<\/a> to figure out what the playoff will look like next year. Expansion from the current 12-team format and automatic bids have been the two biggest headlines in that discussion, though the idea of keeping more games on campus will factor in.<\/p>\n \u201cWe have to examine that, too,\u201d Brett Yormark said Thursday, about a half-hour before kickoff of the quarterfinal between Texas Tech and Oregon<\/a>. \u201cOperationally, can we do it? The first-round games have been fantastic in every respect. I think it\u2019s a differentiator.\u201d<\/p>\n Under the 12-team format, now in its second season, first-round games involving the fifth through 12th seeds have taken place on the campus of the better-seeded team. The rest of the rounds are at traditional bowl sites, with this year\u2019s final coming to Miami Gardens.<\/p>\n Oregon\u2019s 23-0 win over Texas Tech kicked off in front of thousands of empty seats at Hard Rock Stadium. The Ducks traveled 3,200 miles to get to Miami and will next head to Atlanta for the semifinals in the Peach Bowl. If they return to South Florida for the final on Jan. 19, they will travel around 17,500 miles in the span of three weeks.<\/p>\n \u201cThis is a playoff. A playoff in my opinion should\u2019ve been played in Lubbock, Texas,\u201d Oregon coach Dan Lanning said. \u201cThere are a lot of people who do playoffs. Playoffs have looked a certain way for a long time. We\u2019re trying to serve two purposes here. The amount of time between games, obviously it\u2019s tough for teams. We experienced it last year.\u201d<\/p>\n Including Oregon\u2019s loss last year (in the Rose Bowl after a bye) and Texas Tech\u2019s loss<\/a> on Thursday, teams with first-round byes in the 12-team playoff fell to 0-6 with two quarterfinals left. Yormark said the sport\u2019s \u201cclunky\u201d calendar \u2014 an issue that encompasses long layoffs, the transfer portal and an ever-moving coaching carousel \u2014 is another issue the commissioners will discuss.<\/p>\n There has been a wide gap between the Southeastern Conference and Big Ten visions of what the next iteration of the playoff should look like. The SEC sees a 16-team field filled with at-large bids; the Big Ten has pushed for a field of 16 or more with more automatic qualifiers.<\/p>\n Under terms of the agreement that goes into play next year, the other two Power Four conferences \u2014 Big 12 and Atlantic Coast Conference \u2014 are presumed to not have decision-making power in what comes next, though Yormark insisted \u201cwe have a big voice in that room.\u201d<\/p>\n Yormark would not bite on the question when asked whether Group of Five conferences still belong in the tournament. Counting the first-round losses by Tulane<\/a> and James Madison<\/a> this year, those teams have lost by an average score of 41-19 over two seasons.<\/p>\n \u201cEverything\u2019s on the table and, and hopefully we\u2019ll be very thoughtful about it, and if there\u2019s change, we\u2019ll announce it in due time,\u201d Yormark said. <\/p>\n Commish says disputed CSC agreement will get signed<\/p>\n Yormark also said problems keeping schools from signing the participation agreement sent out by the new College Sports Commission are being resolved, and he expects the 68 Power Four teams to sign the contract soon.<\/p>\n A number of state attorneys general told their schools not to sign<\/a> the agreement the commission sent out in November. Among the issues were that it stripped universities of their right to legal action regarding decisions the CSC makes.<\/p>\n Yormark says the agreement is being reworked in a way that all the schools can sign it so, as he said, \u201cwe\u2019re all signing up for the same rules of engagement.\u201d<\/p>\n \u201cBut one person\u2019s opinion is, you don\u2019t need a piece of paper to enforce\u201d the rules, he said.<\/p>\n In a separate interview with The Associated Press<\/a> earlier this week, Texas Tech head of regents Cody Campbell also said he suspects the agreement will get signed, though he\u2019s not sure it will have any impact.<\/p>\n \u201cI don\u2019t think it\u2019s going to be that helpful in terms of creating any kind of stability,\u201d said Campbell, who would like to see Congress set up a completely new entity to run college sports. \u201cAnd it\u2019s going to be challenged in court, already is being challenged in court, and it\u2019s not going to go well for the CSC.\u201d<\/p>\n ___<\/p>\n Get poll alerts and updates on the AP Top 25 throughout the season. 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