Laura Farber, a lawyer by trade, found herself in a courtroom Wednesday defending a deposition when she glanced over at her opposing counsel and delivered to them a message.
“I apologized to him and told him I’d need to take a lot of breaks today,” Farber says.
On one of the more significant deadline days in college football history, Farber successfully completed her juggling act. As the chair of the Rose Bowl Management Committee, she argued a court case and completed the Rose Bowl’s long-awaited decision on College Football Playoff expansion. The oldest active bowl game agreed to amend its contract with the CFP, paving the way for the playoffs to expand from four to 12 teams in 2024.