More changes are coming to college football. The expanded 12-team playoff format shook up how teams qualify for the postseason — and the College Football Playoff Committee has now tweaked that format,

The College Football Playoff will go to a more straightforward way of filling the bracket next season, announcing Thursday that it will place teams strictly on where they are ranked instead of moving pieces around to reward conference champions.

VESTAVIA HILLS, Ala. — Nick Saban's talking points about College Football Playoff expansion remain very similar, no matter how many teams are involved. The former Alabama football coach was never for expanding the CFP, he said, viewing bowl games as too important to the tradition of college football.