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Who is on the 2016-17 College Football Playoff Committee?

By Parker Hurley

Dec 6, 2015; Grapevine, TX, USA; College football playoff selection committee chairman Jeff Long speaks to the media during selection day at the Gaylord Texan Hotel. Mandatory Credit: Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports
Dec 6, 2015; Grapevine, TX, USA; College football playoff selection committee chairman Jeff Long speaks to the media during selection day at the Gaylord Texan Hotel. Mandatory Credit: Kevin Jairaj-USA TODAY Sports /
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Who decides which teams make the College Football Playoff? These are the people making up the College Football Playoff Committee.

We are now closing in on year three of the College Football Playoff. With that becomes the third year that the NCAA will have a College Football Playoff Committee. The committee is made up of 13 members. Most members are selected to the committee for a three-year term, but in some cases, terms were made longer and shorter to achieve a strong rotation of members to start.

Since the committee began in 2014, there have been six members who have left for different reasons. Those members are Archie Manning, Oliver Luck, Pat Haden, Mike Tranghese, Tom Osborne, and Michael Gould.

The six were replaced by former Vanderbilt head coach Bobby Johnson, Texas Tech AD, Kirby Hocutt, Oregon AD Rob Mullens, former Central Michigan coach Herb Deromedi, former Michigan coach Lloyd Carr, and former Southern Miss head coach Jeff Bower. Hocutt was selected as the chairman of the committee after the initial 2014 season.

The other seven members include, Wisconsin AD Barry Alvarez, former VP of the NCAA Tom Jernstedt, Arkansas AD Jeff Long, Clemson AD Dan Radakovich, former secretary of state Condoleezza Rice, former USA Today reporter Steve Wieberg, and former head coach Ty Willingham.

The committee has a nice blend of former and current athletic directors and coaches, as well Rice and Wieberg, who are a smaller step away from the game than some of the other committee members . They also did a nice job of spreading out the number of committee members geographically. All in all, they did a good job to eliminate the bias and to get a nice assortment of diverse opinions.

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