Miami HC Mario Cristobal has honest take on College Football Playoff expansion

Talks have surfaced lately about the NCAA expanding the College Football Playoff field from 12 teams to 24 teams.

ACC commissioner Jim Phillips said on Tuesday that ACC coaches have expressed their support for the expansion, but Miami Hurricanes head coach Mario Cristobal did not sound too thrilled about the 24-team playoff discussion.

“I’m not for the 24 team thing, that’s a lot. Why play a regular season then? And I’m certainly not for automatic bids. ... Like, why? Like that's never like football. It's not a beauty pageant. OK? It's not a beauty contest. It's a competition. Go win. Go win on the field, and guys that deserve it, get in, and figure it out from there,” Cristobal said during an episode of “This I Football” with Kevin Clark.

Cristobal also had a suggestion to change the calendar, which has been a topic due to the long layoff between the conference title games and the first round of the College Football Playoff.