The Washington Huskies’ road to the College Football Playoff is paved in gold. It’s flat, fresh and straight-forward:
Win and you’re in, the road signs read.
It is that simple.
The College Football Playoff committee is composed of 12 members who will meet once a week starting at the end of October. The committee’s first ranking of 2016 is to be released Nov. 1. Here are the 12 members:
Kirby Hocutt (chair): Texas Tech AD
Barry Alvarez: Wisconsin AD
Jeff Bower: former Southern Miss coach*
Herb Deromedi: former Central Michigan coach*
Tom Jernstedt: former NCAA vice president
Bobby Johnson: former Vanderbilt coach
Jeff Long: Arkansas AD*
Rob Mullens: Oregon AD
Dan Radakovich: Clemson AD
Condoleezza Rice: Stanford professor/former Secretary of State
Steve Wieberg: former USA Today college reporter
Tyrone Willingham: former UW/Stanford/Notre Dame coach
And yet it is, of course, not that simple at all.