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College Football Playoff expands to 12 teams in 2024 season

By RALPH D. RUSSO the commissioners, direct-
AP College Football Writer ing them to try to expand
The College Football Play- by 2024, if possible.
off announced Thursday it No longer haggling over
will expand to a 12-team the format, the commis-
event starting in 2024, com- sioners needed to work
pleting an 18-month pro- through when and where
cess that was fraught with the games would be
delays and disagreements. played and whether bowl
The announcement came partners and champion-
a day after the Rose Bowl ship game hosts cities could
agreed to amend its con- accommodate a change
tract for the 2024 and 2025 in schedule for 2024 and
seasons, which was the last 2025.
hurdle CFP officials needed The Rose Bowl issue was the
cleared to triple the size of last to be settled, as orga-
what is now a four-team nizers for the 120-year-old
format. “I never gave up,” bowl game were hoping to
CFP Executive Director Bill get some assurances from
Hancock said. the CFP that they would
The first round of the play- The College Football Playoff logo is shown on the field at AT&T Stadium before the Rose Bowl NCAA keep their valuable New
off in 2024 will take place college football game between Notre Dame and Alabama in Arlington, Texas, Jan. 1, 2021. Year’s Day time when new
Associated Press
on campus sites match- contracts go into effect in
ing teams seeded 5-12 the final minutes of the fourth next year will be played June 2021, but conference 2026.
week ending Saturday, quarter. And there was no Jan. 19, 2026, in Miami Gar- commissioners who man- CFP officials balked. Fac-
Dec. 21. Exact dates are still overtime. And if we hadn’t dens, Florida. Both are more age the CFP could not ing the possibility of being
to be determined. reached an agreement, than a week later than the come to the unanimous painted as an obstruction-
The quarterfinals and semi- there’s no question in my current title game timing. consensus needed to push ist and potentially being
finals will be played in the mind that we would have Expansion is expected to the proposal forward. Ex- shut out of the expanded
bowls that have been ro- continued the four-ream produce about $450 million pansion for the 2024 sea- playoff in the long term, the
tating as hosts of the semi- playoff through the ‘2024 in additional gross revenue son was pronounced dead Rose Bowl agreed to move
finals in the current for- and ‘25 seasons. But we’re for the conferences and back in February. forward in good faith.
mat: Rose, Sugar, Orange, here to celebrate the schools that participate. University presidents and “It’s our intent to keep the
Peach, Cotton and Fiesta. fact that we did reach an The College Football Play- chancellors who oversee Rose Bowl game on Jan.
“I want to re-emphasize agreement.” off’s 12-year contract with the CFP stepped in and re- 1,” said Laura Farber, chair-
that all the bowls stepped The championship game ESPN runs through the 2025- vived the process over the woman of the Rose Bowl
up, all six,” Hancock said. for the 2024 season will be 26 season. summer. They approved Management Committee.
“And there’s no secret played Jan. 20, 2025, in At- The plan to expand the the original plan for use by “But we’ll remain flexible in
that we were down to the lanta. The title game the playoff was unveiled in 2026, and threw it back to scheduling as needed.”q

LeBron: Media disparity between Jones photo, Irving comments

LOS ANGELES (AP) — LeB- rounding Kyrie Irving. School in Arkansas on Sept. photo. “When I watched that the whole Jerry Jones
ron James has questions The photo of Jones, cap- 9, 1957. The group was Kyrie talk, and he says, ‘I situation, the photo, and
about the disparity of me- tured by an Associated blocking six Black students know who I am, but I want I know it was years and
dia scrutiny he believes is Press photographer, shows who were attempting to to keep the same energy years ago, and we all
being applied to a 1957 him standing among a desegregate the school when we’re talking about make mistakes, I get it. It
photo of Jerry Jones and group of white students and news reports said that my people and the things seems like it’s just been
the recent controversy sur- at North Little Rock High moments after the image they’ve been through,’ buried under, like, ‘Oh, it
was taken, the students and that Jerry Jones pho- happened. OK. We just
were shoved down a flight to is one of those moments move on.’ And I was just
of stairs. The photo ac- that our people, Black peo- kind of disappointed that
companied a Washington ple, have been through I haven’t received that
Post story last month that in America,” James said question from you guys.”
was about Jones’ legacy after the Los Angeles Lak- Irving was suspended for
as owner of the Dallas ers’ game on Wednesday an eventual eight games
Cowboys, including how night. “And I feel like as a by the Brooklyn Nets earlier
the team has never had a Black man, as a Black ath- this season after the guard
Black head coach. lete, someone with power a former teammate of
James has spoken often and with a platform, when James’ with the Cleveland
about the Cowboys he we do something wrong Cavaliers tweeted a link
was a fan of the team or something that people to a film containing antise-
for years before saying don’t agree with, it’s on mitic material.
in October on Instagram every single tabloid, every James was asked by re-
Live that he has switched single news coverage. It’s porters about that last
Los Angeles Lakers forward LeBron James, left, passes the ball as allegiances but said on the bottom ticker. It’s month, and he made
Portland Trail Blazers forward Justise Winslow defends during the Wednesday that he found asked about every single clear that he thought Ir-
first half of an NBA basketball game Wednesday, Nov. 30, 2022, it interesting that he wasn’t day. ving made a significant
in Los Angeles.
Associated Press asked about the Jones “But it seems like to me mistake.q