GRAPEVINE, Texas — On the fourth floor of the gargantuan Gaylord Texan Resort in this Dallas suburb, the conference commissioners spent three hours in the same room where the College Football Playoff selection committee members gather each December to decide the playoff field.
On the final day of three days of CFP meetings here this week, commissioners walked through a mock selection, getting a firsthand look at the data and process used by committee members — perhaps a last gasp from the CFP to show these decision-makers that the committee’s role should not be de-emphasized under any new playoff format.