DALLAS — The format for this year’s College Football Playoff remains in limbo.
Perhaps, it can be solved with a familiar thing: money.
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).