Now a decade into its existence, nan College Football Playoff is expanding to 12 teams for nan first clip astatine nan conclusion of nan 2024 season.
The description comes pursuing nan astir arguable section of nan four-team era successful which an undefeated, ACC champion Florida State was near out of nan field. Now, nan caller strategy fundamentally guarantees that will ne'er hap again pinch 5 spots reserved for convention champions and 7 much going to nan highest-ranked at-large teams.
Who gets those spots (and wherever they’re seeded) yet comes down to nan College Football Playoff committee, a 13-member body. At nan caput of that assemblage is nan chair, and successful 2024, Michigan athletics head Warde Manuel is serving successful that position.
Manuel brings some playing and administrative acquisition to nan table. A protect tackle for nan Wolverines from 1986-89, he was named athletics head astatine Michigan successful 2016 aft holding nan aforesaid title astatine Connecticut and Buffalo.
Now entering his 3rd play arsenic a personnel of nan committee aft watching his schoolhouse seizure nan trophy past year, Manuel was tabbed committee chair successful February and will lead nan group tasked pinch determining nan teams that person a chance to compete for a nationalist championship.