If you’ve watched immoderate assemblage shot astatine each this season, you’ve almost surely been inundated pinch chat astir nan College Football Playoff, which expands to 12 teams from 4 for nan first clip successful 2024.
The expanded playoff surely provides rather a spot of intrigue, pinch 5 spots guaranteed to convention champions and nan remaining 7 spots up for grabs. How those teams are determined, and really nan 12 teams are yet seeded, is up to nan College Football Playoff action committee.
So, who comprises this College Football Playoff committee?
It’s made up of 13 individuals pinch varying backgrounds successful nan sport. Most are existent athletics directors, though immoderate are erstwhile players, coaches and, historically, Condoleeza Rice.
But who sits connected nan committee this year? Here are nan existent 13 members of nan College Football Playoff action committee, which will find what is judge to beryllium a well-received, non-controversial 12-team field:
- Warde Manuel, committee chair: Michigan athletics director
- Chris Ault: Former caput coach astatine Nevada
- Chet Gladchuk: Navy athletics director
- Jim Grobe: Former caput coach astatine Ohio, Wake Forest and Baylor
- Randall McDaniel: Former Arizona State player
- Gary Pinkel: Former caput coach astatine Toledo and Missouri
- Mack Rhoades: Baylor athletics director
- Mike Riley: Former caput coach astatine Oregon State and Nebraska
- David Sayler: Miami (Ohio) athletics director
- Will Shields: Former Nebraska player
- Kelly Whiteside: Journalist
(Full disclosure: Whiteside antecedently worked for USA TODAY for 14 years.) - Carla Williams: Virginia athletics director
- Hunter Yurachek: Arkansas athletics director