We’re unsure what the College Football Playoff will look like in 2025.
That’s largely a result of the fact that college football’s leaders have yet to agree on a new seeding format for the 2025 season. Currently, the top four conference champions earn a bye, with a fifth highest-ranked conference champion guaranteed to make the 12-team field.
Here’s how Yahoo! Sports broke it all down:
“At a meeting here Tuesday, playoff executives explored changes to the 2025 postseason but came to no decision on a proposal from the Big Ten and SEC to alter the playoff seeding. In interviews afterward, conference commissioners say they need more data before making a decision to move to a ‘straight seeding’ model that would eliminate the automatic first-round byes assigned to the four highest-ranked conference champions — a shift that Big Ten and SEC leaders support but a move that requires unanimity from the CFP Management Committee (the 10 FBS conference commissioners and Notre Dame’s athletic director). However, a financial compromise was discussed on Tuesday among the 11-member group, several people with knowledge of the talks told Yahoo Sports. In the current 12-team format, the top four seeds — and first-round byes — are reserved for the four highest-ranked conference champions. Each of those teams automatically earn $8 million as part of the CFP’s performance-based distribution model. They get $4 million for qualifying for the event and another $4 million for advancing to the quarterfinals. Under discussion is the possibility of the four highest-ranked conference champions continuing to earn that additional revenue despite not receiving a top four seed and first-round bye.”
WHAT THEY’RE SAYING ABOUT THE LONGHORNS
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Austin American-Statesman: Quinn Ewers Injury: Texas football QB played with oblique tear in 2024
Austin American-Statesman: Texas football QB Quinn Ewers will reportedly throw at scouting combine
247Sports: Arizona State transfer second baseman Ethan Mendoza becoming go-to guy for No. 15 Texas baseball
247Sports: NFL Combine schedule for more than a dozen Texas football players who are participating
247Sports: Four Downs: Quinn Ewers respect, Texas WBB are title contenders, Duane Akina and more
247Sports: Texas freshman pitcher Jason Flores impresses with first win as a Longhorn in 6-0 victory over Incarnate Word
Inside Texas: ITYT: Texas basketball in bubble trouble after a losing streak, how the Horns can still finish strong
Inside Texas: Comparing recruiting rankings to NFL draft projections for Longhorn offensive players at the combine
Inside Texas: The Longhorns’ new Edges coach is drawing praise
Inside Texas: Alfred Collins trying to model his game after Chris Jones at the NFL Combine
ICYMI IN BURNT ORANGE NATION
No. 15 Texas handles UIW in 6-0 win
Texas travels to Arkansas after bad loss to South Carolina
Reordering the timeline and severity of Quinn Ewers’ oblique injury and season narrative
RECRUITING ROUNDUP
Austin American-Statesman: Texas baseball 2026 commit throws perfect game, strikes out 18 batters
247Sports: Which Texas targets have already scheduled official visits with the Longhorns?
247Sports: Report: No. 1 women’s basketball recruit Aaliyah Chavez sets decision date
Inside Texas: KJ Edwards, On3’s No. 35 overall prospect, connecting with Texas, setting up trips, decision date
SEC SHOWDOWN
247Sports: SEC top returning cover cornerbacks for 2025 college football season: Tennessee, Oklahoma stars lead
Good Bull Hunting: Texas A&M ranks No. 6 in returning production
Rock M Nation: Mizzou Baseball survives early scare, beats Lindenwood
And The Valley Shook: William Schmidt earns first career win as Tigers beat Nicholls 13-3
Red Cup Rebellion: Ole Miss handles Southern Miss in offensive showdown
Rocky Top Talk: Tennessee beats North Alabama in AJ Russell’s return to the mound
Roll ‘Bama Roll: Alabama makes Bulldogs behave
A Sea Of Blue: The curious case of Amari Williams’ efficiency and the need for Brandon Garrison to step up
WHAT WE’RE READING
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SB Nation: Where will the ACC women’s basketball tournament be in 2026?
NEWS ACROSS LONGHORN NATION AND BEYOND
- Quinn Ewers will throw at the NFL Combine.
NEW: Quinn Ewers played most of last season with a torn oblique muscle, not a strain as was once thought.
That’s pretty ridiculous given the numbers he wound up posting in 14 games.
Ewers, per sources, will throw this week at the NFL Scouting Combine: https://t.co/sIXZo72DRY
— Josh Newman (@Joshua_Newman) February 25, 2025
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