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 go to a more straightforward way of filling the bracket next season, announcing Thursday that it will place teams strictly on where they are ranked instead of moving pieces around to reward conference champions.

The College Football Playoff Management Committee announced today that it has eliminated the first round byes for the 2025-26 College Football Playoff. This is a major change in the second and likely final season of the 12-team playoff.