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.

After one year of the College Football Playoff fielding a 12-team bracket, a significant change is coming to the postseason for the 2025 season. On Thursday, the College Football Playoff announced it will give the four highest-ranked teams according to the selection committee's final rankings a first-round bye in the College Football Playoff with no requirement to be a conference champion.