In the opinion of most fans and media personnel, the first year of the college football playoff was wildly successful. The games produced drama, shock, and excitement, and while there was still a conversation about who deserved to be in the playoff, it was more muted than it had been in years past under the BCS regime.
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According to the Sports Business Journal, the NCAA may be forced to make some changes to the playoff schedule in the upcoming years. For several years now, going back to the Bowl Championship Series, the national championship game in college football has been played on a Monday night. The NFL and ESPN want to change that.
ESPN is also lobbying the NCAA to change the dates for the semifinals of the playoff. It wants the games moved off of New Year's Eve for next season to avoid competing with the star-studded countdown shows that will appear on many different networks.
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The CFP is also facing pressure from the NFL. The league is looking at expanding the playoffs, and it wants to hold one of the new playoff games that expansion would create on a Monday night, which would directly compete with the college football national championship game.
NFL commissioner Roger Goodell has already had some high-level meetings with the overseers of the CFP, which is when he informed them that playoff expansion would likely lead to Monday night playoff games for the league.
The CFP's contract with ESPN calls for the championship game to be played on a Monday night, and the organizers are opposed to moving the game. "We picked Monday night because it was open and it was the best night for our game. We announced that in June 2012," said Bill Hancock, executive director of the CFP. "We established that our game was going to be on Monday night for 12 years."
If the sides cannot come to an agreement, they may very well end up just going head-to-head with one another. "If it comes down to this, the fans would be the losers if they had to choose," Hancock said. "That would be a shame."
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