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THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF COMMITTEE WILL CONSIST OF 13 MEMBERS AND TERM LIMITS WILL
BE 3 YRS, BUT SOME WILL BE SHORTER, OTHERS LONGER INITIALLY, TO ACHIEVE A ROTATION. COMMITTEE
MEMBERS DIRECTLY ASSOCIATED WITH ANY TEAM UNDER CONSIDERATION DURING THE SELECTION PROCESS
WILL REMOVE THEMSELVES FROM ANY DELIBERATIONS ASSOCIATED WITH THAT TEAM, AND WILL NOT PARTICIPATE
IN ANY VOTES INVOLVING THAT TEAM. THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS ARE AND EXCUSE ME IF I MISPRONOUNCE
SOME OF THEIR SAMES: JEFF LONG, VICE CHANCELLOR AND DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS AT THE UNIVERSITY
OF ARKANSAS. BARRY ALVAREZ, DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF WISCONSIN. LIEUTENANT
GENERAL MIKE GOULD, FORMER SUPERINTENDENT OF THE UNITED STATES AIR FORCE ACADEMY. PAT
HADEN, DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA. DAN RADAKOVICH, DIRECTOR
OF ATHLETICS AT CLEMSON UNIVERSITY. CONDOLEEZZA RICE, FORMER UNITED STATES SECRETARY OF STATE.
TOM JERNSTEDT, FORMER NCAA EXECUTIVE VICE PRESIDENT. OLIVER LUCK, DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS
AT WEST VIRGINIA UNIVERSITY. ARCHIE MANNING, FORMER OLE MISS QUARTERBACK AND ALL-PRO NFL
QUARTERBACK. TOM OSBORNE, DIRECTOR OF ATHLETICS AT THE UNIVERSITY OF NEBRASKA. MIKE TRANGHESE,
FORMER COMMISSIONER OF THE BIG EAST CONFERENCE. STEVE WIEBERG, FORMER COLLEGE FOOTBALL REPORTER
FOR USA TODAY. TYRONE WILLINGHAM, FORMER HEAD COACH AT THREE DIFFERENT FBS PROGRAMS. THE
COMMITTEE'S TASK WILL BE TO SELECT THE BEST TEAMS, RANK THE TEAMS FOR INCLUSION IN THE
PLAYOFFS. THEY WILL MEET IN PERSON BEGINNING AT MID-SEASON AND WILL MEET SEVERAL TIMES
TO PRODUCE INTERIM RANKINGS BEFORE SELECTION WEEKEND EACH SEASON. THE INTERIM RANKINGS
WILL BE MADE PUBLIC. THEY WILL MEET AGAIN DURING SELECTION WEEKEND TO DECIDE THE FINAL
RANKINGS AND ANNOUNCE THE PAIRINGS. THIS MEANS AP AND COACHES RANKINGS WILL NOT MATTER IN
WHO PLAYS FOR THE TITLE. THE 13 PERSON COMMITTEE CHOOSES AND IT DOESN'T HAVE TO BE THE TOP 4 TEAMS AS THE AP
AND COACHES SEE IT. FOR INSTANCE ALTHOUGH IT IS UNLIKELY IF THE COACHES
AND AP RANKING HAVE THE SAME TEAM AT NUMBER ONE AND THE COMMITTEE HAS THAT TEAM AT NUMBER
FIVE THEN THAT TEAM IS OUT. THE GUIDELINES USED ARE CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIPS WON WHICH
IS A PLUS BUT YOU DO NOT HAVE TO WIN OR EVEN PLAY IN A CONFERENCE TITLE GAME TO QUALIFY.
STRENGTH OF SCHEDULE AND HEAD-TO-HEAD COMPETITION. COMPARE OUTCOMES OF COMMON OPPONENTS WITHOUT
USING MARGIN OF VICTORY. OTHER RELEVANT FACTORS SUCH AS KEY INJURIES THAT MAY HAVE AFFECTED
A TEAM'S PERFORMANCE DURING THE SEASON OR LIKELY WOULD AFFECT ITS POSTSEASON PERFORMANCE.
IN OTHER WORDS IF A STAR QUARTERBACK IS HURT IN THE LAST GAME OF THE REGULAR SEASON, THAT
TEAM CAN BE LEFT OUT OF THE PLAYOFFS. THE VOTING PROCESS WILL INCLUDE A SERIES OF BALLOTS
THROUGH WHICH THE COMMITTEE MEMBERS FIRST SELECT A POOL OF TEAMS TO BE CONSIDERED, AND
THEN RANK THOSE TEAMS. IN THE PLAYOFF, THE TEAM RANKED NO. 1 BY THE SELECTION COMMITTEE
WILL PLAY TEAM NO. 4 IN THE SEMIFINALS. TEAM NO. 2 WILL PLAY TEAM NO. 3. THERE WILL BE
NO LIMIT ON THE NUMBER OF TEAMS THAT MAY PARTICIPATE FROM ONE CONFERENCE, AND MATTERS SUCH AS REMATCHES
WILL NOT BE A CONSIDERATION. THE SELECTION COMMITTEE'S GOAL WILL BE TO PROTECT THE TOP
TWO SEEDS FROM PLAYING IN ROAD ENVIRONMENTS IN SEMIFINAL GAMES. FOR INSTANCE, IF LSU WAS
THE NO. 1 SEED AND USC WAS THE NO. 4 IN 2014, THAT SEMIFINAL COULD BE PLAYED IN THE SUGAR
BOWL BUT NOT THE ROSE BOWL. SIX BOWLS WILL ROTATE AS HOSTS OF SEMIFINAL GAMES. THOSE
BOWLS ARE: ROSE, SUGAR, ORANGE, COTTON, CHICK-FIL-A AND FIESTA.
TWO PER YEAR WILL HOST A SEMIFINAL. IN SEASONS THE BOWLS DON'T HOST THE SEMIFINALS, THEY WILL FEATURE MATCHUPS DETERMINED BY CONFERENCE
CONTRACTS OR DESIGNATED BY THE SELECTION COMMITTEE. THE ROSE BOWL AND THE SUGAR BOWL WILL HOST SEMIFINALS IN 2014.
THE NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP GAME WILL BE BID OUT SEPARATELY AND HAS ALREADY
BEEN DETERMINED FOR THE FIRST THREE YEARS. FOR THE 2014 SEASON, THE TITLE GAME WILL BE
PLAYED AT AT&T STADIUM IN ARLINGTON. FOR THE 2015 SEASON, THE TITLE GAME WILL BE PLAYED
AT UNIVERSITY OF PHOENIX STADIUM IN GLENDALE, ARIZONA. FOR THE 2016 SEASON, THE TITLE GAME
WILL BE PLAYED AT RAYMOND JAMES STADIUM IN TAMPA BAY, FLORIDA. LET ME GIVE YALL AN EXAMPLE
IF THE PLAYOFF WAS THIS PAST SEASON, GOING INTO THE BOWL SEASON LAST YEAR WE HAD FLORIDA
STATE NUMBER 1, AUBURN NUMBER 2, ALABAMA NUMBER 3 AND MICHIGAN STATE NUMBER 4. LET'S SAY THE
COMMITTEE ALSO HAD THESE TEAMS RANKED THE SAME WAY. THE ROSE BOWL IN CALIFORNIA WOULD
BE ONE SIGHT FOR A PLAYOFF AND THE SUGAR BOWL IN NEW ORLEANS THE OTHER. NUMBER ONE SEED
FLORIDA STATE WOULD PLAY NUMBER 4 SEED MICHIGAN STATE. SINCE FLORIDA STATE IS THE NUMBER ONE SEED
THEN THEY WOULD MOST LIKELY PLAY THE GAME IN NEW ORLEANS SINCE IT IS CLOSER TO TALLAHASSEE,
THEREFOR GIVING THEM WHAT AMOUNTS TO HOME FIELD ADVANTAGE AND THEN ALABAMA WOULD
PLAY AUBURN IN THE ROSE BOWL. IT IS IMPORTANT EVERYONE REMEMBER THAT THE COMMITTEE OF 13 DECIDES WHO
PLAYS IN THE PLAYOFFS. NOT THE AP OR COACHES POLL. SO IF YOUR TEAM IS RANKED
IN THE TOP 4 THERE IS NO GUARANTEE THE WILL BE PLAYING IN THE PLAYOFF. ALSO IF JAMIES
WINSTON WOULD HAVE BEEN BENCHED FOR LEGAL REASONS AFTER THE ACC CHAMPIONSHIP GAME THEN
THE COMMITTEE COULD OF LEFT FLORIDA STATE OUT OF THE PLAYOFFS TO ENSURE A QUALITY GAME.
ALTHOUGH UNLIKELY 4 TEAMS FROM THE SAME CONFERENCE CAN BE SELECTED TO THE PLAYOFFS. THE SEC WILL
MOST LIKELY HAVE 2 TEAMS EVERY YEAR AND LIKELY HAVE A CHANCE FOR 3 SOME YEARS. I HOPE THIS HELPS YOU UNDERSTAND
THE COLLEGE FOOTBALL PLAYOFF SYSTEM A LITTLE BIT BETTER. READY
OR NOT HERE IT COMES. ROLL TIDE ROLL