Central Florida may be driving the bus, against an inferior schedule, as Paul Finebaum suggests, but the notion of college football expansion has picked up chatter in recent days.

Finebaum was a guest on ESPN’s “Outside the Lines” and took on the topic of expanding the postseason championship field from four teams to eight. Finebaum recalled how the College Football Playoff was born.

“I think the status quo in college football has been going on for too long,” Finebaum said. “It’s worth remembering, Ryan, in 2011 Bill Hancock, the executive director of the BCS said the system is perfect, we love what we have. That was on Friday that he said that. On Monday, Alabama and LSU played in one of the more forgettable championship games ever. Two teams from the same division. The next morning, the college football commissioners went into a room and approved the College Football Playoff. I think we are closing in on that. I understand what Commissioner Sankey says that all these conference commissioners have very valuable championship weekends, but change is needed.”

Between UCF, and conferences like the Big 10 and Pac-12 being left out, the national narrative is growing to expand the Playoff to eight teams. The trouble is deciding what to do with, or how to factor in, conference championship games as Greg Sankey suggested recently that the recent SEC Championship Game was special for college football.

Perhaps the way this year’s CFP plays out, with the semifinal games expected to be lopsided affairs, will play a factor in the future of the postseason.