The Selection Committee

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One of the most important committees in the country, at least for sports are the 13 members who will select the four teams who play for the college football national championship. They have become the most powerful body in amateur athletics. Who are these people who will dictate the CFB Playoffs?

Jeff Long - (Arkansas AD, Chairman)
Barry Alvarez - (Wisconsin AD)
Mike Gould - (former superintendent of the Air Force Academy)
Pat Haden - (Southern Cal AD)
Tom Jernstedt - (former NCAA vice president)
Oliver Luck - (West Virginia AD)
Archie Manning - (former Ole Miss player)
Tom Osborne - (former Nebraska AD and coach)
Dan Radakovich - (Clemson AD)
Condoleeza Rice - (former U.S. Secretary of State)
Mike Tranghese - (former Big East Commissioner)
Steve Wieberg - (former USA Today CFB reporter)
Tyrone Willingham - (former college football coach)

Their duties are to rank the top 25 teams from midseason to end of the regular season. Then select and seed the best four teams for the playoff. The Committee will also assign eight other teams to the four "host bowls."

I don't know men, hard for me to see this committee as impartial, especially since their votes and totals will not be released.

 

[bigtendominator]

Like anything else, this will be a work in progress. Personally don't like that they have Conoleeza Rice on here. Yes, she maybe a fan, but let's be real here. My Mom is a fan, but I wouldn't recommend putting her on the committee. My guess is in 2 years she resigns.

 

[GoSooners]

Like anything else, this will be a work in progress. Personally don't like that they have Conoleeza Rice on here. Yes, she maybe a fan, but let's be real here. My Mom is a fan, but I wouldn't recommend putting her on the committee. My guess is in 2 years she resigns.

I think Rice is basically there to be a moderator to some of these hard heads on the committee like Barry Alvarez. Judging by all of the rules they've laid down for the committee to follow, it looks like it's going to be a difficult job. But I'm going to reserve my opinion until I actually see it in action. I would have liked for them to do a dry run last year on a trial basis to see how it works. So nobody really knows how this is going to play out. I think it would have made their job much easier if they would have gone to an 8 team playoff system instead of a Final Four...

 

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I just have to wonder how much the AP and Coaches top 25 poll will come into play with each of these individual members. Supposedly these old time ratings don't mean anything anymore....at least in the selection process.

Can you imagine if the AP and Coaches have the same four teams at the top and the selection committee choses four different teams. All hell will break loose with accusations.

 

[Dr.Lou]

I think Rice is basically there to be a moderator to some of these hard heads on the committee like Barry Alvarez. Judging by all of the rules they've laid down for the committee to follow, it looks like it's going to be a difficult job. But I'm going to reserve my opinion until I actually see it in action. I would have liked for them to do a dry run last year on a trial basis to see how it works. So nobody really knows how this is going to play out. I think it would have made their job much easier if they would have gone to an 8 team playoff system instead of a Final Four...

You think some of those clowns will actually listen to her? Good in theory and I hope it works, but we'll see. The dry trial run would have been a great idea and would have loved to have seen it.

Can you imagine if the AP and Coaches have the same four teams at the top and the selection committee choses four different teams. All hell will break loose with accusations.

It would...and for that reason i don't think they will let that happen.

 

[CoachCB]

Agree that Condie should not have been on the committee. She's got a solid background, but there's no logical reason for her to be on this committee. She has no CFB back ground at all. A former D1 AD or even college president would have been a better representative.

Here's what I fear happening; we ALL know the SEC is BY FAR the best conference in CFB....but even if an SEC team is in the top 4 I doubt the SEC will get 2 teams in the playoff.

What excites me? When this BS "playoff" really becomes a playoff and they move it to 8 or 16 teams. 1AA, D2, D3, JUCO, and NAIA have been doing it for years and years.....why can't D1?