As the first 12-team College Football Playoff ends, leaders are discussing what to change in the future. Here are the main topics.

Notre Dame’s athletic director said “I think there’s a chance” there will be tweaks to the way the College Football Playoff awards byes next year — an issue that will be discussed this weekend but that would need unanimous approval from the 10 conferences and the Fighting Irish.

The Notre Dame Fighting Irish athletic director, Pete Bevacqua, said that the school would prefer to remain independent in football, even if that means no byes in the College Football Playoff.

Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua said the school prefers to remain independent even though the Irish are ineligible for byes under the current CFP model.

The 12-team College Football Playoff has been a success in its first year in action but some people want part of the format to change. A dozen teams in the field is good but some fans and media members want the "conference championship bye" eliminated.

Notre Dame athletic director Pete Bevacqua suggested Saturday that the school has no plans to join a conference in football despite the current design of

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Notre Dame remains bullish in its belief that its independent status is the right choice and has the Irish "in a very good spot now," athletic director Pete Bevacqua told ESPN on Friday.

The new format bodes well for the school's continued football independence, which has been an integral part of the Notre Dame experience for decades.

Notre Dame’s biggest knock and why it would benefit from a conference affiliation is exposure. They have an exclusive deal with NBC to air their games. But NBC isn’t ESPN or CBS. They get on TV, but they often play inferior opponents hardly anybody cares to watch.

Freeman is one of multiple playoff coaches to reportedly generate NFL buzz. Oregon's Dan Lanning earlier this season became a popular name among general managers, and ESPN's Adam Schefter said Sunday that he expects Texas' Steve Sarkisian to receive calls from NFL teams amid new interest from front offices across the league.

FOX college football analyst Joel Klatt stepped into the hypothetical shoes of a national college football commissioner, aiming to fix the controversy around the sport's scheduling practices once and