12-team College Football Playoff should bring major adjustments to CFB

If we are going to keep conference championship games intact (which, as noted above, is not necessarily something college football should do in the 12-team playoff era), players should get compensation for having to play an extra game.

Similarly, if conferences adopt conference semifinal games, players should be compensated for playing in those games.

Players should get compensation for making the playoff, and then for winning playoff games.

All this stuff isn’t in place now, but should be for 2026 and the start of the new (and lucrative) TV rights deal.