The College Football Playoff will now be seeded based on the final ranking by the selection committee without regard to winning a conference title.

Another wrinkle has developed for the second year of the 12-team extended playoff.

The College Football Playoff committee has reportedly decided on a straight seeding format, while still giving automatic bids to conference winners.

The College Football Playoff will go to a more straightforward way of filling the bracket next season, placing teams strictly on where they are ranked instead of moving pieces around to reward conference champions.Ten conference commissioners and Notre Dame’s athletic director came to the unanimous agreement they needed Thursday to shift the model that drew complaints last season.The new format was widely expected after last season’s jumbled bracket gave byes to Big 12 champion Arizona State and Mountain West champion Boise State, even though those teams were ranked ninth and 12th by the playoff selection committee.That system made the rankings and the seedings in the tournament two different things and resulted in some matchups — for instance, the quarterfinal between top-ranked Oregon and eventual national champion Ohio State — that came earlier than they otherwise might have.“After evaluating the first year of the 12-team Playoff, the CFP Management Committee felt it was in the best interest of the game to…