Jim Harbaugh may have finally discovered a way to get his Michigan program into the College Football Playoff.

On the first day of Big Ten Media Days, the Wolverine coach made waves by expressing his thoughts on a potential expansion of the College Football Playoff.

“More would be better in the playoffs. Let’s go to 8 and eventually get to 16,” Harbaugh said.

That would certainly help his case in Ann Arbor, as Michigan has yet to finish higher than No. 3 in the division since Harbaugh’s arrival. If the Big Ten argues that the Big Ten East is the nation’s best conference long enough, the No. 3 team in the division could hypothetically get into a 16-team College Football Playoff.

While he’s made his feelings well known on the subject, the bad news for Harbaugh is the Playoff doesn’t have plans to expand in the near future.

Here’s what Bill Hancock, the executive director of the College Football Playoff, had to say on the subject during his recent appearance at SEC Media Days.

“What is ahead for the CFP? First of all, a championship on the West Coast after semifinals this year in Miami and Dallas. And I will go ahead and answer the question that I know is on some of your minds: There is no talk about expansion among the university presidents and the conference commissioners who sit on our boards,” Hancock said in Atlanta.

“The CFP works. It works well. Four teams keeps the focus on this wonderful regular season, the most meaningful and compelling in all of sports; four lets us keep the bowl experience for thousands of student-athletes; four keeps college football within the framework of higher education.”

Apparently, Harbaugh didn’t get the memo.