The change means the top four seeds will go to the four highest-ranked teams regardless of their finish within the conference.

College Football Playoff administrators approved a proposal for a straight-seeding model for the 2025 postseason, a major change in Year 2 of the expanded playoff. Happy trails to automatic first-round byes for the four highest-rated conference champions and welcome to a less complex power-ranking of the selection committee's top 12 teams.

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.