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ACC Backs Big Ten's 24-Team College Football Playoff Expansion Plan

The Atlantic Coast Conference is backing the Big Ten's push for a 24-team playoff, commissioner Jim Phillips said Wednesday. Speaking at the end of three days of spring meetings in a posh resort in northeast Florida, Phillips said ACC coaches and athletic directors reached consensus on wanting to double the current College Football Playoff model. "When you’re leaving national championship-contending teams and schools out of the playoff, you don’t have the right number," Phillips said. "We lived through it." Phillips pointed to unbeaten Florida State getting snubbed from a four-team CFP field i...