Changes to the 2025 College Football Playoff are underway with a new seeding model set to debut this fall. First-round byes remain, but they will now go to the selection committee's top-four seeds independent of conference championships.

The College Football Playoff will use a more straightforward way of filling the bracket next season, placing teams strictly on where they are ranked.

One year after expanding to 12 teams, the College Football Playoff is changing its seeding model to remove automatic byes for conference champions.