The College Football Playoff will go to a straight seeding model for the 2025 season, doing away with the previous version that put the four highest-ranked conference champions into the top four spots regardless of the final CFP rankings.It's a good move.The College Football Playoff isn't like the NCAA Tournament, and it's not quite like other playoffs in pro sports. There's such a massive disparity in talent, payrolls, facilities, and other perks that it'll be just about impossible for any underdog to make a deep run.You can't just get hot from three for a few games and end up in the Elite Eight.It wasn't fair that Oregon was the No. 1 overall seed, and as its reward, its first game was against Ohio State.
Had the straight-seed model been in place last year, the CFP first round would've