Guide To The 2025 College Football Playoff Format

The 2025 season will see some minor changes to the College Football Playoff (CFP) system. . This refresh aims to address previous criticisms and provide a more equitable system. This article explores the details of the new 2025 CFP format.

1. Determining Rankings
   A 13‑member CFP Selection Committee ranks teams weekly during the regular season and produces a final ranking of the top 25 teams
    
2. Automatic Conference Champion Bids
   The five highest-ranked conference champions—including at least one from the Group of Five conferences—receive automatic bids into the 12‑team playoff

1. At-Large Bids
   The remaining seven slots go to the next highest-ranked teams in the final CFP poll, regardless of conference status
    
2. Seeding and First-Round Byes (New for 2025)
   Starting this season, the top four teams overall in the final rankings receive first-round byes, regardless of whether they are conference champions 
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   Last season (2024), byes were reserved for the four highest-ranked conference champions. That format has been replaced for the 2025 playoff 

Should be a fun format refresh! Looking forward to seeing how the season plays out.