College Football Playoff bracket: Here's what a 24-team playoff would look like with CFP rankings

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In a move that is almost universally opposed by college football fans, the College Football Playoff announced Monday it will be expanding its postseason field to 24 teams starting next year.

The 12-team bracket is in its third and final iteration this season, and then the field will be doubled. Teams fighting for their postseason lives right now such as LSU, Iowa and Texas Tech will be comfortably inside next year's field in November. It will only be a question of seeding. Teams that seemed to have suffered catastrophic losses like Ohio State, Oregon and Ole Miss, will still be comfortably inside the cut line.

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Next season, the top eight seeds will receive byes to the second round of the playoff, while teams seeded No. 9 through No. 24 will play first-round games at campus sites.

Using committee’s current CFP rankings this is what the 24-team bracket would look like.

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What a 24-team CFP bracket would look like

No. 24 Boise State (8-1) at No. 9 Indiana (8-1) - Winner plays at No. 8 Tennessee (7-2)

No. 23 Arizona (7-2) at No. 10 BYU (7-2) - Winner plays at No. 7 Miami (8-1)

No. 22 Missouri (6-3) at No. 11 Kentucky (7-2) - Winner plays at No. 6 Texas (7-2)

No. 21 LSU (6-3) at No. 12 Texas Tech (8-1) - Winner plays at No. 5 Notre Dame (8-1)

No. 20 Ohio State (6-3) at No. 13 Wake Forest (8-1) - Winner plays at No. 4 UCLA (8-0)

No. 19 Ole Miss (6-3) at No. 14 Houston (7-2) - Winner plays at No. 3 Alabama (7-2)

No. 18 USC (7-2) at No. 15 Iowa (7-2) - Winner plays at No. 2 Utah (9-0)

No. 17 South Carolina (6-3) at No. 16 Oregon (6-3) - Winner plays at No. 1 Georgia (8-1)

Breaking down a 24-team field

There are six three-loss teams already in this field, meaning there will be room for multiple four-loss teams when we reach Selection Sunday. That is not going to go over well for a majority of college football fans. ... There are nine SEC teams in the field, followed by six from the Big Ten, five from the Big 12 and just two from the ACC. ... One pod is SEC-themed, with Missouri and Kentucky playing for the right to face Texas, who then would likely face Alabama to get to the Final Four. ... How watered down is this field? Missouri makes the field as a No. 22 seed with one win over a P4 team with a winning record, (Florida at 5-4).

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