ACC formally backs Big Ten's push for the College Football Playoff to expand to 24 teams

Atlantic Coast Conference commissioner Jim Phillips smiles during an NCAA college football news conference at the ACC media days, July 22, 2024, in Charlotte, N.C. (AP Photo/Matt Kelley, File)

AMELIA ISLAND, Fla. (AP) — The Atlantic Coast Conference is backing the Big Ten’s push for a 24-team playoff, commissioner Jim Phillips said Wednesday.

Speaking at the end of three days of spring meetings in a posh resort in northeast Florida, Phillips said ACC coaches and athletic directors reached consensus on wanting to double the current College Football Playoff model.

“When you’re leaving national championship-contending teams and schools out of the playoff, you don’t have the right number,” Phillips said. “We lived through it.”

Phillips pointed to unbeaten Florida State getting snubbed from a four-team CFP field in 2023 and Notre Dame getting left out of last year’s 12-team model.