In unshocking news, the landscape of college football continues to change seemingly by the day.

Ross Dellenger of Yahoo reports the sport's most powerful conferences, the SEC and Big Ten, are pushing to expand the already recently expanded College Football Playoffs.

With last year marking the first 12-team playoffs, the conferences are now hoping to push it to 14 or 16 teams with automatic bids for their conferences.

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Dellenger says last spring, the SEC and Big Ten threatened to create their own postseason if they were not given control of the current model. The remainder of the FBS conferences and independant Notre Dame agreed to hand the control over.

Now, according to Dellenger's report, 'momentum is building to further expand the playoff to 14 or 16 teams, assign multiple automatic qualifiers per league — as many as four each for themselves — and finalize a scheduling arrangement together that may fetch millions in additional revenue from TV partners.'

An expanded playoffs could clear the way for the SEC to finally agree to expand conference play to nine games, as well.

Under the current system, SEC teams play an eight-game conference slate. Now that the league features 16 teams, divisions have been abolished and schedules have been decided on a year-by-year basis.

If the schedules stuck to eight games, the likely solution would be to stick with one permanent opponent and rotation of the other teams in the league.

Tennessee, likely paired up with Vanderbilt, would lose out on historic rivalries such as the Third Saturday in October with Alabama on a yearly basis under this format as soon as 2026. With a nine game slate, the likely solution for formatting the schedule would be to play six teams on rotation and three on an annual basis.

The three teams that would be permanent opponents have not been decided. However, it'd be shocking if the Tide weren't grouped with the Vols.

The move to automatic bids could also lead to changes to the Power Four conferences' championship games, according to the report.

If the format moved to 14 teams, Dellenger reports that the way it'd likely work is a '4-4-2-2-1+1 model.' The top-two seeds would receive first-round byes.

In a 16-team format, there would be no byes. The seeding would likely be decided directly based off of the College Football Playoff committee's top-25 rankings.

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