Start your emails: CFP Committee forming
Names are leaking out about who will be on the 12-to-18 member committee starting in 2014 to pick the 4 teams in the College Football Playoff (TM) (because they spent $1M to hire a marketing company to pick the best name for the college football playoff, and all that money resulted in the unique name, College Football Playoff -- hey, they capitalized it, at least).
Here's the current list of names:
Condy Rice is the interesting pick. Alvarez seems kind of obvious from the B1G -- you can't have UM or OSU on the committee, b/c over the next few years, they'll be picking themselves. Pat Haden (what's he been doing lately)?
They mention that Rice is of course a huge Stanford booster, but didn't she grow up in Alabama and wasn't she rumored for a while to be a potential gubernatorial or senatorial candidate from Alabama? I would imagine she's a Tide fan, too. ESS EE SEE.
October 5th, 2013 at 3:07 AM ^
I don't know, I read that list and see a lot of southern ties and Pac-12 ties. Not really liking what I see so far at all. Let's just see what we're working with.
1) RIce - Notre Dame, Stanford, 'Bama
2) Manning - Tennessee, Ole Miss
3) Oliver Luck - WVU, Stanford, born in Ohio
4) Pat Haden - USC
5) Barry Alvarez - Notre Dame, Wisconsin
6) Jeff Long - Arkansas, Michigan
7) Dan Radakovich - Clemson, South Carolina, LSU
So basically we have 4 people out of 7 I have listed with SEC bias. Then you realize the Mannings probably hate Michigan, Pat Haden probably hates Michigan, Alvarez dislikes Michigan, and if I had to guess Rice probably isn't a fan of Michigan either. So you've got Notre Dame bias, SEC bias, and a bunch of people who most likely at least dislike Michigan. Now, I'm not suggesting that will affect how people choose, but you can see where Michigan might get screwed by biased people. You know, when Michigan needs one more vote to get in and all Archie can think about is Woodson beating Peyton for the Heisman, yeah I'm sure he'll vote unbiasedly. /s sort of, but sort of seriously. I'm sure Archie's been looking for a way to get back at Michigan ever since. Hopefully it never comes down to his one vote!