Utah athletic director Mark Harlan to replace USC’s Jennifer Cohen on College Football Playoff committee

rewrite this content material with complete period and stay HTML tags Utah athletic director Mark Harlan will replace new USC athletic director Jennifer Cohen on the 2023 College Football Playoff committee, govt director Bill Hancock stated Monday. Cohen opted to step down to focal point on her new place, which she took in August. The first CFP Rankings will likely be launched on Oct. 31. With Harlan’s addition, the committee could have one athletic director consultant from each and every of the 5 energy meetings. Harlan joins Michigan athletic director Warde Manuel (Big Ten), Kansas State’s Gene Taylor (Big 12), Kentucky’s Mitch Barnhart (SEC) and NC State’s Boo Corrigan (ACC), who additionally serves because the committee’s chair. The playoff committee has most often featured 5 sitting athletic administrators from the ability meetings subsequent to a large mixture of representatives from other backgrounds and ranges. Other athletic administrators on the committee come with Miami (Ohio) athletic director David Sayler, Navy’s Chet Gladchuk and Virginia Union’s Joe Taylor. “We are pleased to have Mark join the committee. His vast knowledge and experience as a college administrator has him well prepared for this new role,” Hancock stated in a observation. “While we are sorry Jennifer has had to step down from the committee, we certainly understand the exciting and challenging responsibilities she has with her new position at USC.” Cohen was once decided on as considered one of 3 new additions to the committee in March whilst she was once the sitting athletic director at Washington. At the time, she changed Colorado athletic director Rick George as a Pac-12 consultant. Former Nevada trainer Chris Ault and Sayler had been additionally introduced as committee contributors with three-year phrases. Hancock instructed journalists closing week in Dallas that Cohen was once not likely to serve a complete three-year time period after her transfer to the soon-to-be Big Ten establishment and would get replaced after one season. Cohen’s appointment would had been in query after the 2023 season regardless as Manuel is already a sitting Big Ten athletic director on the committee. “This decision was not an easy one, as the opportunity to serve on the College Football Playoff Selection Committee is truly an honor, and the committee members and CFP staff are exceptional people,” Cohen stated in a observation. “However, to do exemplary work on the committee demands an enormous amount of time, work, research and travel, and after making this transition, it is clear to me that now at a new institution my full focus and energy must be on USC Athletics and on our student-athletes, coaches and staff. I am confident that this decision in the best interests of USC and the CFP, and I am grateful for the support and understanding of President Folt, Lincoln Riley and Bill Hancock and wish the committee the very best in the months ahead.”  While Harlan will constitute the Pac-12 in 2023, Utah will go away for the Big 12 in 2024. In a observation, Harlan stated that his dedication to the committee is for the 2023 season. However, Big 12 consultant Taylor may be within the ultimate 12 months of his three-year time period. That may in the end open the door for Harlan to stay on the committee heading ahead if the CFP group makes a decision to retain him. “I’m honored to serve in this important role, and I’d like to thank the CFP management committee for this opportunity.” Harlan stated. “I recognize the importance of this committee for college football and for our industry, and I’m eager to join the current committee members in this commitment for the 2023 season.” Complicating the choice is the continued standing of the Pac-12. At this level, Oregon State and Washington State are the one colleges that experience now not made formal plans to sign up for some other convention. If a brand new grant of rights isn’t signed by way of July 1, 2024, the Pac-12 legally ceases to exist after greater than 100 years of operation.  Both Oregon State and Washington State have expressed pastime in rebuilding some model of the Pac-12. The expanded CFP contract — that includes a fashion with six convention champions and 6 at-large bids — is going throughout the 2025-26 season and will simplest be amended by way of a unanimous vote from the Board of Managers. Notably, Washington State president Kirk Schultz sits on the board. If Oregon State and Washington State make a decision to proceed the Pac-12, the CFP would have to make a decision whether or not to upload considered one of their athletic administrators — Scott Barnes and Pat Chun, respectively — to the playoff committee as a consultant. Hancock will retire from his tasks as govt director after the 2023-24 season. The hope is to have a successor named sooner or later q4 to practice a part of the CFP procedure. With the turnover, it is unclear who will in the end make those selections concerning the long-term make-up of the choice committee.  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