{"id":676,"date":"2026-11-11T13:13:06","date_gmt":"2026-11-11T18:13:06","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=676"},"modified":"2026-11-11T13:13:06","modified_gmt":"2026-11-11T18:13:06","slug":"missouri-s-eli-drinkwitz-questions-need-conferences-24-team-playoff-era","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/?p=676","title":{"rendered":"Missouri&#x27;s Eli Drinkwitz Questions the Need for Conferences in a 24-Team Playoff Era"},"content":{"rendered":"<figure><!-- AVision: picture 1 left out \u2014 the site answered HTTP 500 to POST \/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media with no explanation \u2014 the SERVER failed on the request: a PHP fa --><\/figure>\n<p>With the 24-team playoff now in place and conference championship games gone, some head coaches are questioning why their programs remain tied to conferences at all. Missouri&#x27;s Eli Drinkwitz is among those raising the question of what purpose conferences still serve in this new era of college football.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-source\"><strong>Source:<\/strong> <a href=\"https:\/\/www.breitbart.com\/sports\/2026\/11\/11\/missouris-eli-drinkwitz-questions-the-need-for-conferences-in-a-24-team-playoff-era\/\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Breitbart News Network \u2014 Missouri&#x27;s Eli Drinkwitz Questions the Need for Conferences in a 24-Team Playoff Era<\/a>. Also reported by <a href=\"https:\/\/www.newsweek.com\/sports\/ncaa\/eli-drinkwitz-questions-point-of-conferences-in-24-team-cfp-12700595\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Newsweek<\/a>.<\/p>\n<p class=\"wire-credit\"><em>AI-assisted summary; the reporting is the source&#x27;s. Read the original at the link.<\/em><\/p>\n<p>College Football, Eli Drinkwitz, Missouri, CFP Playoff, Conferences<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>With the 24-team playoff now in place and conference championship games gone, some head coaches are questioning why their programs remain tied to\u2026<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":409,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[675,257,676,673,674],"class_list":["post-676","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-latest-news","tag-cfp-playoff","tag-college-football","tag-conferences","tag-eli-drinkwitz","tag-missouri"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=676"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/676\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/409"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=676"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=676"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/theusdaily.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=676"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}