College Football Playoff announces new committee members
If you were unaware of how the College Football Playoff manages its annual selection committee, members are given three-year terms and are annually rotating members in and out out of the lineup.
On Tuesday, the College Football Playoff announced the additions of Kentucky AD Mitch Barnhart, N.C. State AD Boo Corrigan, Texas AD Chris Del Conte, former Nebraska lineman Will Shields and Virginia Union AD Joe Taylor to the selection committee.
These selections take the place of Oklahoma AD Joe Castiglione, former coach Ken Hatfield, former player Ronnie Lott, Georgia Tech AD Todd Stansbury and Florida AD Scott Stricklin. Those members all had their tenures on the Playoff committee expire.
The next College Football Playoff is set to take place Friday, Dec. 31, 2021, with the upcoming Cotton Bowl in Arlington, Texas, and Orange Bowl in Miami.
The next Playoff National Championship Game is set to be played Monday, Jan. 10, 2022, at Lucas Oil Stadium in Indianapolis.
Glad to see Tech and UF off. whew.
I was going to post the exact same thing. You know both of them voted for Oklahoma over Georgia in 2018, as did the Oklahoma AD on the committee.
OK AD would have had to recluse himself.
I don’t think A&M will get much love from the Texas AD.
Count on it if the opportunity presents itself. The rivalry mindset doesn’t go away just because you’re now on the CFP committee for 3 years. Georgia got screwed out of the playoffs in 2018 due to both the Florida and Georgia Tech ADs on the committee voting for Oklahoma rather than Georgia for the 4th seed. The Oklahoma AD was on the committee as well, and you know how that vote went.
You can’t eliminate partisanship on the committee, but having multiple rivals at one time when you have a strong playoff case just sucks. Be glad the Oklahoma AD rotated off – if A&M has another year like this past one, you don’t want Texas and Oklahoma deciding your case.
I don’t think there is any truth in this entire post. Members individual votes are not announced and the OU AD couldn’t vote. You are normally way better than this.
I agree this is all speculation, and I hate to sound like a conspiracy theorist, but while the OU AD would have to recuse himself from voting, that doesn’t mean he can’t talk to the others who are voting.
Still ranked #5 even after going 13-0.
Texas AD will probably constantly lobby to have Texas in the no. 1 spot.
Didn’t you here? They are now Bama West.
I thought they said Bama was tu East.
I think it is really more of a task force that makes recommendations. Then ESPN decides who they think will sell the most advertising and the CFP rubber stamps the decision.
The NCAA has real play-offs…. but they sure aren’t the Division 1’s. The more they claim it… the more ridiculous it sounds. Why doesn’t the D1 have a play-off ? Because it would mean sacrificing numerous weekends on the road and this would cost money in lost home game attendance and sponsorship. Attend some Division 2 play-off games for a real play-off championship feeling and experience. I’m not saying it’s better football or it isn’t. But it is clearly a real “play-off” and you’ll feel the difference.
So what should the NCAA Division 1 do? Go back to the old model. It worked fine.
It allowed (still allows) a larger body over 40 systems with set rules to rank every week, The media buzz from the Associated Press, United Press International, even the Hester Poll (designed by two college men in their dorm room) made college football the popular game it is today. Making a false claim about a “play-off” is slowly killing bowl season interest by shouting down everyone else’s bowl game ranking opinions before the games are even played. The idea that Conference Champions can be voted out of a single selection process is so illogical, offensive, and dismissive to numerous fan bases that it guarantees finger flipping and anger that doesn’t go away every year.
Here is another “fix” the NCAA needs to outlaw: the use of the term “division champion”. Everyone knows that a division champion is a team that has the best record IN THE DIVISION for heaven’s sake. So “NCAA”, outlaw the use of anything else calling itself that. That doesn’t mean extra division games can’t be played. Once a conference fixes that, then a complete round-robin conference like the Big 12 is trumped by the double-round robin with a play-off that selects the team playing the best football at the end of the season.
After that put all the conference champions in the “Play-off” or just let the voters have their own bowl game opinions about which bowl is the real deal. Now shut up CFP, you’re full of manure.