College Football Playoff
The College Football Playoff is an annual postseason knockout invitational tournament to determine a national champion for the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. Four teams play in two semifinal games, and the winner of each semifinal advances to the National Championship game. The inaugural tournament was held at the end of the 2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season and was won by the Ohio State Buckeyes.
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The College Football Playoff is an annual postseason knockout invitational tournament to determine a national champion for the National Collegiate Athletic Association Division I Football Bowl Subdivision. Four teams play in two semifinal games, and the winner of each semifinal advances to the National Championship game. The inaugural tournament was held at the end of the 2014 NCAA Division I FBS football season and was won by the Ohio State Buckeyes, who defeated the Oregon Ducks in the championship game. A 13-member committee selects and seeds the four teams to take part in the CFP. This system differs from the use of polls or computer rankings that had previously been used to select the participants for the Bowl Championship Series from 1998 to 2013. The current format is a Plus-One system, an idea which became popular as an alternative to the BCS after the 2003 and 2004 seasons ended in controversy. The two semifinals rotate among six major bowl games, referred to as the New Year’s Six: the Rose Bowl, Sugar Bowl, Orange Bowl, Cotton Bowl, Fiesta Bowl, and Peach Bowl. The winner of the game is awarded the College Football playoff National Championship Trophy. As of March 2020, the members of the selection committee are: The committee members include one current athletic director from each of the five \”major\” conferences—ACC, Big Ten, Big 12, Pac-12, and SEC—also known as the Power Five conferences. Other members are former coaches, players, athletic directors, and administrators, plus a retired member of the media. The committee releases its top 25 rankings weekly on Tuesdays in the second half of the regular season.
During the season, the committee meets and releases rankings six or seven times depending on the season. The group, which meets at the Gaylord Texan in Grapevine, Texas, reportedly meets 10 total times a year. A team’s strength of schedule is one of the most pertinent considerations for the committee in making its selections. Other factors that the committee weighs include conference championships, head-to-head results, and other points such as injuries and weather. Unlike the AP Poll, computer rankings are not used to make the selections. Advanced statistics and metrics are expected to be submitted to the committee, though they have no formal role in the decision making process. Long-time members are not required to attend games but are not considered less frequent, but ultimately considered less likely to attend the games. The group consists of 13 members who generally serve three-year terms, although some initial selections served terms both shorter and longer than three years to achieve a rotation of members. The goal was for the panel to consist proportionally of current Athletic Directors, former coaches and a third group of other voters, excluding current conference commissioners, coaches, and media members. During the selection process, organizers said they wanted the committee to be geographically balanced. Conference commissioners submitted lists totaling more than 100 names from which toselect the final committee members. A former U.S. Secretary of State and Stanford University provost, Condoleezza Rice, was met with some backlash within the sport and the media, citing gender and lack of football experience.
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