The NCAA Basketball Tournament was expanded from 68 teams to a field of 76 on May 7, and talks to increase the number of teams in the College Football Playoff have become much more apparent since then.From 2014-23, the CFP had four teams qualify, while the last two seasons have been under a 12-team format. Over the past few months, ideas have come up about a 16-team and even a 24-team model. The Big Ten has led the push for 24 teams, but the SEC and commissioner Greg Sankey is strongly against it.Former Alabama head coach Nick Saban is quite familiar the College Football Playoff, as the Crimson Tide made the postseason tournament eight times with his leadership, winning it all three times. Saban was asked about potential CFP expansion by ESPN's Mike Greenberg on Get Up on Thursday morning."Well, I just think that there were three occasions where we played 15 games when I was coaching, and I thought 15 games was too many games for college players to play in a season," Saban said. "Now you can potentially play 17. So if we go to anything beyond 16, to me, you're adding games without eliminating conference championship games, which I think are venues that people really enjoy."So I'm kind of going for 16, or you could take the model where you could use the conference championship games as a wild card type of thing, and that's part of the playoff system, so that in effect would go to 20 without adding more games."While more CFP games creates more revenue, it takes a toll on a team. Every team in the sport plays at least 12 contests. There's typically an additional 1-2 for conference championships and bowl game, but an ever further expanded CFP field could reach around 20 like Saban said."We need to take the player into consideration, not just the financial circumstances of increasing the playoffs," Saban said. "I don't think, other than Notre Dame last year, there was any team that didn't get in a playoff that would have a chance to win the championship."So, what's it about? Crowning a champion, or trying to financially squeeze more money out of the College Football Playoff at the expense of how many games a player has to play?"Alabama's College Football Playoff History2014-15: No. 1 seed, lost semifinal2015-16: No. 2 seed, won National Championship2016-17: No. 1 seed, lost National Championship2017-18: No. 4 seed, won National Championship2018-19: No. 1 seed, lost National Championship2020-21: No. 1 seed, won National Championship2021-22: No. 1 seed, lost National Championship2023-24: No. 4 seed, lost semifinal2025-26: No. 9 seed, lost quarterfinalSign up to our free newsletter and follow us on Twitter/X, Facebook, YouTube, Instagram, Threads and Blue Sky for the latest newsAdd us as a preferred source on GoogleFollow