The 12-team College Football Playoff was a major success during the 2024 season.
Despite the first round producing blowouts, the quarterfinals, semifinals, and the National Championship Game were all awesome, showing that the CFP Committee was right to expand the field from four to 12. In fact, the two semifinal games featured four teams that weren’t any of the top four seeds.
Ohio State was the eighth seed coming into the playoff, but it didn’t matter since the program ran the table and won its first national title in a decade.
Former Florida and Ohio State head coach Urban Meyer loved the CFP but thinks there could be a seeding change for the 2025 season.
Kevin C. Cox/Getty Images
“Obviously, the seeding is, I don’t want to belabor it, but when you start seeing Boise and Arizona State, great year, great season, they did not earn that bye. I’ve already heard that’s not going to happen again,” Meyer said on “The Triple Option” podcast (first transcribed by On3).
The top four seeds in this year’s CFP were given first-round byes. Oregon got the top seed after winning the Big Ten, followed by Georgia, Boise State, and Arizona State.
All four teams lost in the quarterfinals of the CFP after getting that bye. It’ll be fascinating to see how the CFP Committee fixes this during the offseason since a lot of college football fans and media members weren’t happy that the top four seeds automatically got a bye to the quarters.
Ohio State will try to go back-to-back during the 2025 season and will start the season against Texas on August 30.
There will be plenty of teams trying to unseat Ohio State at the top, including Alabama, Georgia, LSU, Michigan, Oregon, Penn State, Notre Dame, and so many more.
It’s going to be one heck of a season.
Related: SEC Is Dominating College Football’s Hardest Schedule Rankings
