Columbus, Ohio - After winning the first 12-team college football playoff and national championship as a general selection, Ohio State coach Ryan Day hopes to see future models include at least four automatic qualifying venues.

As college football leaders discuss the next version of the next CFP, starting in the 2026 season, there has been a pushback against the template, which includes more automatic spots for Big Ten and SEC.

At last week's SEC Spring Conference, a model that includes automatic entries for the top five champions in the playoffs and 11 full games will be supported, which will expand from 12 teams to 16 teams next year. Last week, Brett Yormark, the 12th National Congress Commissioner, and the Alliance Administrator, also expressed support for the 5+11 CFP model.

The Big Ten has not publicly advocated a specific playoff mode, but it discusses a team that will automatically include four Big and SEC, each including 12 titles and ACC and the other is 5 titles. Big 12 and ACC object to the plan.

"We're in the Big Ten, we have 18 teams and some of the best plans," Day told ESPN. "I feel like we deserve at least four automatic qualifiers."

Day noted how the recent Big Ten expansions have added to the original Pac-12 top teams, including only two - Oregon and Washington - which are four teams with CFP and play for national champions. Washington entered the championship game after the 2023 season, falling to Michigan, where Oregon won the Big Ten title last fall and finished first in the CFP, losing to Ohio State in the quarterfinals of Rose Bowl.

Day refers to the original pac-12. “So it only makes sense if you have 18 teams, especially the quality of a team that you represent (in) the big ten teams.”

Day added that a CFP model with more automated points would benefit the sport as it would inspire more powerful non-conference programs, especially given the differences in the conference scheduling model.

The Big Ten and Big Ten teams compete in nine league games each season, while the SEC and ACC teams played eight games. Ohio State reached last year's CFP with two regular season league losses, but did not face the top four opponents in non-league games. Michigan won the last national championship of four teams CFP without having to play in Power 4 non-conference opponents.

The Buckeyes opened by hosting Texas, last year’s SEC runner-up and a team they defeated in the CFP semi-final showdown at Cotton Bowl.

"If you don't have these automatic qualifiers, it's not likely to play the game like we did against Texas this year because it doesn't make sense," Day said. "If we do that, you're more likely to do it because we play nine conference games in the Big Ten. SEC doesn't. So that's not equal."

Ohio State and the National Runner-up both played 16 games last season, which will be the expanding standard for the playoffs. Day said his team had a great performance during the CFP run and he benefited from a larger roster, noting that the lineup was limited to 105 after the upcoming House-NCAA solution, which would present challenges.

"I'm worried about a 16 or 17-game roster," Day said. "With 120, that's the biggest.