With a straight-seeding approach, the 2024-25 edition of the CFP would have still included Oregon and Georgia s the top two seeds. Instead of Boise State and Arizona State, Texas and Penn State would ...

By Patrick Weider The 12-team College Football Playoff will change its seeding for next year after it was approved by the 10 ...

The College Football Playoff format will change this season, to a straight seeding option that presents big changes en route to the 2025-26 National Championshi ...

What’s an offseason with a major change?

The new format was widely expected after last season’s jumbled bracket gave byes to the teams ranked ninth and 12th by the ...

This is the new format and how teams are picked for the College Football Playoff, where semifinals rotate among the Cotton, Fiesta, Orange, Peach, Rose and Sugar Bowls.

Entering Year 2 of the 12-team College Football Playoff era, the seeding system will look a bit different from 2024.

The College Football Playoff has made a big change that will go into effect for the 2025-2026 season, and it’s one that ...

Oregon players walk off the field after the No. 1 Ducks fall 41-21 to the No. 8 Ohio State Buckeyes in the College Football Playoff quarterfinal at the Rose Bowl in Pasadena, California on Wednesday, ...

College Football Playoff ditches first-round byes for highest-rated conference champions, embraces straight-seeding in 2025.

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