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The College Football Playoff selection committee has added the Michigan athletic director, as well as former coach Jim Grobe, Navy athletic director and former USA Today sports writer Kelly Whiteside.
The 13-member group tasked with determining the four best teams in the country will be chaired by NC State athletic director Boo Corrigan. Gary Barta's term as Iowa athletic director expired. The committee members whose terms expired were Charlie Cobb, Paola Boivin, and Tyrone Willingham.
The management committee, which is made up of the 10 FBS commissioners and Notre Dame athletic director Jack Swarbrick, nominated Corrigan as the committee chair. The four new members will be in office for three years.
The addition of Chev, Jim, Warde and Kelly will be outstanding as we enter our ninth season.
Three former players, two former coaches, one former journalist and seven acting athletic directors are part of the selection committee. The American Athletic Conference and the Mountain West Conference are both represented on the committee.
Three of the athletic directors played college football, including Rick George, who was a four-year letter winner at the University of Illinois. Both Grobe and Taylor have played.
The program's first appearance in theCFP has led to the addition of the athletic department head, who is in his sixth year at the helm. After four years as the athletic director at the University of Connecticut, he returned to Ann arbor to take the position of athletic director at the University of Michigan. From 2005 to 2012 he was the athletic director at the State University of New York at Buffalo.
NC State has an athletic director named Corrigan. He worked at West Point for eight years. Army won 20 regular-season or tournament titles and sent 14 teams to the NCAA playoffs under his leadership. The National Association of Collegiate Directors of Athletics named him the Athletic Director of the Year.
Boo was an important member of the committee last year and will serve as a great manager inside the room and a wonderful spokesman for the media.
Corrigan worked in the athletic department at Duke for three years before joining Army. He served five years at Notre Dame and three years at the U.S. Naval Academy.
It was a pleasure to serve alongside the other members, and I thoroughly enjoyed my first year on the committee. I am honored to be asked to serve as committee chair and look forward to working with an outstanding group of individuals who are deeply committed to college football.
The Group of 5 athletic directors include Wyoming's Tom Burman and Navy's Gladchuk, who have led the Midshipmen for the past 20 years. He had held the same position for four years in Houston before coming to the Naval Academy.
Boston College had an athletic director for seven years. He played football at BC.
Grobe was a head coach for 20 years, including at Ohio, Wake Forest, and Baylor. He led the program to five all-time bowl appearances in his 13 seasons with the program. Grobe was national coach of the year after Wake Forest won a school-record 11 games and defeated Georgia Tech to capture the school's second-ever Atlantic Coast Conference title.
One former college football reporter has been at the table since the beginning. Whiteside spent 14 years at USA Today as the national college football writer, and she is the only woman in the group.
Whiteside has covered seven Olympic Games, nine World Cups, the NBA, MLB, NHL, and multiple college sports. She is the first woman president of the Football Writers Association of America. She was a reporter at Newsday and a staff writer at Sports Illustrated. Her work was in The New York Times.
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