The College Football Playoff Selection Committee will have a few new members to it in the 2017 season. On Tuesday, the committee announced that former Virginia Tech head coach Frank Beamer, former Air Force running back Chris Howard, and Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith will join the committee for the next three years. Their terms are set to begin this spring.
Frank Beamer’s back, as 1 of 3 new members of the College Football Playoff committee
BEAMER’S BACK (OK, not really, but kinda)!
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The three new members replace Barry Alvarez and Condoleezza Rice, whose three-year terms expired. Lloyd Carr is also getting replaced, who stepped down from the committee for health reasons.
It was also announced that committee chairman and Texas Tech AD Kirby Hocutt received an extension that will go through February 2018, and committee member Bobby Johnson’s term will extend through February 2019. Both of their terms were supposed to to expire in February 2017.
But, a little bit more about these new committee members, whom you maybe have heard of before.
Frank Beamer retired from Virginia Tech a season ago, after compiling a 361-238 record over 29 seasons in Blacksburg. He retired as the winningest active coach in FBS history. Under Beamer, Virginia Tech went to 23 consecutive bowl appearances, had four Atlantic Coast Conference championships, five ACC Coastal Division crowns, three Big East Conference titles, and six BCS appearances. His moment currently most treasured by the college football internet is him celebrating his team’s 0-0 tie to Wake Forest at the end of regulation.
Via the ACC Network
Or this, after the Hokies won the 2013 Military Bowl.
Howard played running back at Air Force from 1988-90. During his career there, he was named a First Team All-American and was the first-ever winner of Campbell Trophy, which is awarded to the top football scholar-athlete that’s a senior. Howard is currently the president of Robert Morris University.
Smith is the current athletic director at Ohio State, where he has been for the last 12 years. Before landing in Columbus, he was the athletic director for Arizona State, Eastern Michigan and Iowa State. He played football for Notre Dame in the 1970s, and was even a member of the 1973 Fighting Irish team that won the National Championship. After graduation, was on Notre Dame’s coaching staff until 1981.
I’m not sure about you all, but it sure will be nice to have Beamer back in college football in some capacity.
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