The first year of college football’s playoff system should widely be viewed as a success.

The inaugural College Football Playoff accomplished much of what it intended to achieve. While the Big 12 may have its gripes with the system, the selection committee did an excellent job selecting the four best teams in the land. The two teams that met for the national championship, Ohio State and Oregon, would have been squeezed out of the BCS Championship just a year prior, and the last team in, fourth-seeded Ohio State, won the whole thing.

Yet before the four-team playoff even got its first run, there were already calls for change. Automatic bids and expansion were the two hottest topics many hit on last winter, and those calls have continued into spring.

For now, the CFP committee has no plans to change the format. As executive director Bill Hancock said in February, the inaugural season was a “home run.”

“I’m not hearing the drum within our business,” Hancock told AL.com. “I’m hearing it from journalists. I think we need to give this a chance. …There is no talk in our group of expanding.”

While expanding likely wouldn’t change the biggest complaints about teams getting edged out — it would simply be the No. 9 team that was miffed instead of No. 5 — it would give more teams a chance to compete for glory. While folks can beat their chest about how expanding the playoffs even further would continue to diminish the importance of the regular season, keep in mind that eight teams entered bowl season with two or few losses last year, showing that the margin for error is still incredibly slim.

Two of those eight teams come from the SEC, and with the way the conference has produced elite teams in the last decade, it’s a no-brainer that expanding the playoffs would benefit the SEC.

Dating back to the beginning of the SEC’s title streak in 2006, the SEC has produced at least two 10-win teams every season, and since 2010 the conference has had no fewer than four 10-win teams. With so many nationally competitive teams, the SEC would be in contention to boast multiple playoff teams every year should the CFP field expand.

While there are more pressing issues on the SEC’s plate at next week’s conference meetings in Destin, Fla. — cost of attendance, satellite camps, beer sales in stadiums — there are good (financial) reasons for the SEC to consider discussing playoff expansion.

With Alabama qualifying for the four-team CFP field and two other schools, Ole Miss and Mississippi State, earning New Year’s Six bowl selections, the SEC raked in the cash from last year’s postseason. The CFP is expected to pay out $87.5 million to the SEC for last season, according to a report from CBS Sports’ Jon Solomon. Those revenues would only rise with more SEC schools qualifying for the playoffs.

There’s plenty of reason to heed Hancock’s words and give the College Football Playoff time to play out as currently constructed. The CFP has a 12-year contract in place with ESPN to broadcast (worth $7.3 billion), so there’s plenty of time for tweaks to the system before talks of totally revamping it come about.

Is the playoff system better off left to run its course for a couple of years before making hasty changes? Perhaps so. But if a change could benefit the SEC — and expanding the playoff field almost certainly would — then it’s worth at least tossing around.