More Campus Games? Big 12 Commish Says 'Everything is on The Table' for CFP

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 "everything is on the table" when it comes to rebooting the College Football Playoff, including potentially moving more games onto campus.

The commissioners have until Jan. 23 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.

"We have to examine that, too," Brett Yormark said Thursday, about a half-hour before kickoff of the quarterfinal between Texas Tech and Oregon. "Operationally, can we do it? The first-round games have been fantastic in every respect. I think it's a differentiator."

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's final coming to Miami Gardens.

The Oregon-Texas Tech game kicked off in front of thousands of empty seats at Hard Rock Stadium. The Ducks traveled 3,200 miles to get to Miami and, if they keep winning, would head to Atlanta for the semifinals (Peach Bowl) before returning to South Florida for the final on Jan. 19. That's around 17,500 miles in travel over three weeks.

"There’s a better way to do all of this," Oregon coach Dan Lanning said the day before the game. "We’re not inventing the wheel here."

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