College Football Playoff Expansion: How This Proposed 24-Team Model Would Work

Wake up, college football fans. 

A new College Football Playoff expansion model just dropped — and it's one that FOX Sports lead college football analyst Joel Klatt is a fan of. 

A 24-team College Football Playoff (CFP) format seems to be picking up steam ahead of the Dec. 1 deadline for the committee to either expand from the 12-team format or not. In the 24-team CFP format, the four power conferences (ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, SEC) would each get four automatic qualifiers, while there would also be two total automatic qualifiers from the non-power, Group of 6 conferences (American, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West, Sun Belt and Pac-12). 

To help round out the 24-team field, six at-large teams would make the tournament. The six at-large bids would be the only teams that the committee gets to pick for the College Football Playoff.

Reducing the number of teams the committee picks to make the CFP field while also expanding the field itself is the top reason why Klatt is a fan of this proposal.

"No. 1, any change to the playoff, in any form, I think really needs to minimize the committee and create better roads of access, rather than selection," Klatt said on "The Joel Klatt Show." "So, the selection being moved down to six picks and getting 18 defined paths would be a quality thing." 

In this proposal, the eight highest-ranked teams would get a first-round bye. But unlike the 12-team field, those teams would get to play a CFP game at home because games in the first two rounds would be held at the home site of the higher-ranked team. 

That would be another win for playoff expansion, according to Klatt.

"You need to get more [College Football Playoff] games on campus," Klatt said. 

Finally, Klatt also likes the idea of each