ESPN: All 10 FBS conferences, Notre Dame agree to College Football Playoff contract beginning in 2026

After plenty of discussion in recent weeks about what the future of the College Football Playoff will look like, everyone is reportedly on board.

According to Heather Dinich, all 10 FBS conferences, as well as Notre Dame, have agreed to a new College Football Playoff contract. The new contract is set to begin in 2026.

Here’s what Dinich had to say about the matter on Twitter:

“All 10 FBS conferences and Notre Dame have agreed to the next College Football Playoff contract, which will begin in 2026 and bring the sport’s postseason much closer to an expected 14-team field with guarantees for conference champions, sources told ESPN on Friday,” Dinich posted on Twitter.

As Dinich hinted at, the CFP is expected to go to 14 teams with the change, although those details are still being ironed out.

Dinich shared that “the field will have at least 12 teams in 2026 and beyond, but sources indicate there is a strong preference for a 14-team field that includes the five highest-ranked conference champions and the next nine highest-ranked teams.”

The exact format for the College Football Playoff is still being finalized, according to Dinich.

According to Ross Dellenger, the new revenue model will see the Big Ten and SEC both getting 29 percent. The ACC will receive 17.1 percent, with the Big 12 at 14.7 percent. Notre Dame will receive 1 percent, with UConn, Oregon State and Washington State receiving less than 1 percent.

Dellenger added that if Notre Dame or any independent qualifies for the College Football Playoff, they will receive an additional $6 million.

The new College Football Playoff is expected to bring in four times the amount of the four-team playoff, per Dellenger.

The FBS conferences that reportedly agreed to the new deal are — American, ACC, Big 12, Big Ten, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West, Pac-12, SEC and Sun Belt. The Pac-12 conference will not exist as is in 2026, but Oregon State and Washington State — the remaining two teams in the league — will get less than 1 percent of revenue, per Dellenger.

The discussions around the College Football Playoff in recent weeks have involved several topics, including how much more money and how many extra teams the SEC and Big Ten will receive.

At one point, the SEC and Big Ten were asking to be the only conferences to receive a bye in the CFP. It remains to be seen what the exact format will look like, but we do know that everyone has agreed to the terms, with the SEC and Big Ten getting 29 percent of the revenue.