CFP director: We're planning for playoff

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College Football Playoff staff is planning for normal regular-season and playoff schedules despite the COVID-19 pandemic that's halted all college sports.

"We're planning on a CFP," executive director Bill Hancock told ESPN's Heather Dinich. "That's what our staff is doing as we speak. Planning for it on time."

Hancock wouldn't discuss what would happen if there was no 2020 football season.

"It's only April," he said. "It's just too soon. It's premature. The decision about whether to have a season and a CFP won't be made by the coaches and commissioners. It will be made by the medical people. We have to be prepared, and we will be prepared, to have a CFP."

Hancock revealed the CFP has yet to create a coronavirus committee for the purposes of monitoring the pandemic and forming contingencies plans.

It's been speculated that a shortened or lost season could lead to an increased push for CFP expansion to help compensate for COVID-19's financial impact on college sports. However, Hancock thinks it's too early to predict if the much-debated change to the playoff's format will happen.

"People can speculate anything about this, but no one knows exactly what will happen," Hancock told Yahoo Sports' Pete Thamel. "It's fun for people to speculate, but no one can see the future for sure."