The College Football Playoff committee is still trying to finalize plans for the 2025 season and beyond. ESPN’s Heather Dinich appeared on The Pat McAfee Show Tuesday and outlined one major change that could be on the way.
According to Dinich, the committee could decide to change the way seeding is done, possibly as soon as for this coming season.
During last year’s College Football Playoff, the top four seeds were the four highest-ranked conference champions. However, everyone seems to agree that seeding should be done differently moving forward.
“What’s amazing is that all of my sources have told me that within the room, everyone agrees that the seeding should change,” Dinich said. “And it has to be unanimous in order to change it for this fall. But they’re not ready to vote on it because there’s politics involved.
“They also have to figure out what the College Football Playoff is going to look like in 2026 and beyond.”
The top four teams in last year’s final College Football Playoff rankings were Oregon, Georgia, Texas and Penn State. However, the top four seeds were Oregon, Georgia, Boise State and Arizona State.
Boise State and Arizona State each received a bye and top four seed due to being conference champions. There’s a possibility that changes moving forward.
“To be clear so your audience knows what it would be to change it, it would be the top four teams in the ranking get the top four seeds,” Dinich said. “It doesn’t mean you have to be a conference champion. So that means if you have Alabama and Georgia at 1 and 2, they get the 1 and 2 seeds.”
Dinich added that another topic being discussed is whether or not to move from a 12-team playoff to a 14-team playoff. If the CFP does expand, it wouldn’t happen until 2026.
Any changes that are made for 2025 or 2026 could be finalized next month, according to Dinich.
“They have another meeting coming up in June, so they’re going to continue to talk about it. The question is do they tie it in to 2026 and beyond?” Dinich said. “I think that when you talk about the next iteration of the playoff, if I had to guess I would say it’s probably going to go to 14 teams. Does it have automatic qualifiers? All the nitty gritty things are what they’re trying to figure out.
“But the reality is, even in 2026 and beyond with 14 teams, you still have to seed the teams. So I’m having a hard time understanding why you can’t change it for this fall and keep it that way.”
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