The change supported by the leagues would eliminate the reservation of top-four seeds and first-round byes for conference champions.

Notre Dame is undoubtedly a top-eight team next year, but they earned the right be a top-four team.

We are still a long way away from the start of the 2025 college football season, but it's never too early to look ahead and make some predictions about what is expected to be another highly competitive season.

Big Ten Commissioner Tony Petitti said both conferences are in favor of going to “straight seeding,” so that “there’s no difference between rankings and seedings.”