As the landscape of college football continues to shift, so does the College Football Playoff (CFP). Last season, the CFP expanded to 12 teams for the first time, and it had mixed results.
With more teams came more excitement throughout the playoffs, but the biggest failing of last year's model was the automatic byes.
After the regular season concluded, all the conference champions were given automatic byes, regardless of where the committee placed them in their final rankings, leading to an unbalanced bracket.
The CFP committee saw the flaw in the design and decided to remove automatic byes from next year's CFP format in favor of a straight-seeding model.