FRISCO, Texas — If the College Football Playoff expands to 24 teams, Big 12 commissioner Brett Yormark would like to see his conference increase to 10 league games. Other conferences have also begun to discuss the idea.Speaking to The Athletic from the Big 12 spring meetings on Wednesday, Yormark said he has floated the idea of his league increasing from nine to 10 conference games, and he plans to bring up the idea to the conference’s football coaches on Thursday when they arrive. Any such change would require the approval of member schools. The Big Ten and SEC hold the sole ability to expand the playoff or not, but Yormark supports a 24-team playoff.“If we do go to 24, we should explore going to 10 conference games,” Yormark said. “It’s something I would like to do, on lots of different levels.”For the first time, all four Power 4 conferences will play nine conference games this upcoming season, after the SEC and ACC increased their number to match the Big Ten and Big 12 (the ACC won’t have everyone play nine due to an odd number of members). SEC coaches have not been thrilled about their move to nine games.The then-Pac-10 was the first major conference to move to nine league games in 2006. The Big 12 did the same in 2011, and the Big Ten followed in 2016.The Big 12, ACC and SEC also mandate at least one Power 4 opponent (or Notre Dame) among the three non-conference games. The Big Ten does not. The decreasing number of non-conference games between P4 leagues has made it more difficult for the CFP selection committee to differentiate league strength.As conferences have ballooned to upwards of 18 members, unequal conference schedules have become a larger discussion within leagues. Yormark also sees an increase in the TV value of such a change.“When you look at our ratings, generally speaking, our conference games rate very well,” he said. “As I want to grow our ratings, going to 10 conference games, I think, has some merit, especially if you go to 24. So I’d like to pursue that as something that goes along with 24 at the right time.”The Big Ten and ACC also discussed the idea of 10 conference games in their meetings earlier this month. It didn’t gain much momentum among Big Ten coaches and administrators. A.J. Edds, the Big Ten’s vice president of football administration, told The Athletic that, should a 24-team CFP come to fruition, the league could revisit requiring teams to face 10 P4 opponents as it did when Jim Delany was commissioner.ACC commissioner Jim Phillips floated the idea of 10 league games while discussing the importance of the regular season in a 24-team CFP world, but emphasized it was hypothetical.“This is not cemented or anything, but maybe these leagues have gotten so large, maybe you play more conference games,” Phillips said. “Maybe you play 10 conference games instead of nine and you use the last two for crosspollination. Maybe you stay at nine. I think there’s some things that you can do that can certainly protect the regular season.”Big 12 coaches are scheduled to meet early Thursday morning, but no action is expected, as this idea is in the very early stages and the playoff has yet to expand.— Scott Dochterman and Matt Baker contributed to this report