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DALLAS — Representatives from Notre Dame and college football’s 10 Bowl Subdivision conferences did not reach an agreement on the 2025 College Football Playoff format after gathering for over seven hours inside the Grand Hyatt at Dallas Fort Worth International Airport Tuesday.
Multiple conference commissioners said the group could meet again in March.
Both Big Ten commissioner Tony Petitti and SEC commissioner Greg Sankey told reporters after a meeting in New Orleans last week that they believe the way the CFP seeds its participants must change. Neither stopped to speak to the gathered media on Tuesday, but ACC commissioner Jim Phillips said that the group discussed the issue of seeding at the end of the meeting.
That discussion did not yield a decision.
The distribution of first-round byes forms the crux of the seeding issue. Under the 12-team playoff format deployed in 2024, four byes were awarded to the conference champions ranked highest by the CFP selection committee. Last season, those four teams were Oregon (Big Ten), Georgia (SEC), Boise State (Mountain West) and Arizona State (Big 12).
Had byes been distributed only according to the final CFP rankings, Oregon (Big Ten), Georgia (SEC), Texas (SEC) and Penn State (Big Ten) would have been the committee’s picks.
Ohio State running back TreVeyon Henderson (32) holds the national championship trophy after his team’s defeat of Notre Dame in the College Football Playoff title game at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta on Jan. 21, 2025.
Sporting fairness is not the only force driving the issue. The SEC and Big Ten are financially incentivized to negotiate for a more favorable setup as it relates to first-round byes. In 2024, conferences received $4 million for each of their members that cracked the field and another $4 million for every school that reached the…
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Publish date : 2025-02-25 23:51:00
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