Last season was the first season of the new 12-team College Football Playoff format, and it was met with high praise.
The expansion also came with automatic first-round byes for the four conference champions, regardless of where the committee ranked them in the final playoff rankings of the season.
The four conference champions that received an automatic first-round bye last season were Arizona State (Big 12), Boise State (Mountain West), Georgia (SEC), and Oregon (Big Ten).
Boise State was given the nod over ACC champion SMU for the final automatic bye, despite the Mountain West not being generally considered part of the Power Four Conferences, unlike the ACC.
After the bracket was unbalanced due to the automatic byes, the committee decided to remove them and go with a straight-seeding method.
This method gives the highest-ranked teams an automatic bye instead of giving it automatically to a conference champion.
During last season's CFP, all four teams that received an automatic bye were knocked out in their first game.
Following the adjustments, additional changes are being implemented on the administrative side of the selection process.
The changes being made are regarding how the committee determines the strength of a team's schedule. The committee announced it will now apply "greater weight to games against strong opponents."
In the same press release, the committee announced that a record strength component has also been added that "goes beyond a team's schedule strength to determine how a team fared against the schedule.
Following multiple complaints, mainly by SEC programs, changes were implemented after Indiana and SMU's addition to the bracket over teams like Alabama, Ole Miss, and South Carolina.
The SEC claimed their schools have a tougher overall schedule and should not be penalized for playing stronger teams.
The committee accepted their arguments and will now use a stricter policy based on the strength of schedule and record.