IRVING, Texas – Ohio State athletic director Gene Smith has been added to the College Football Playoff selection committee.
Former Virginia Tech coach Frank Beamer and Robert Morris University President Chris Howard were also named to the 12-member panel.
The three new members will begin three-year terms next season. College Football Playoff Executive Director Bill Hancock also announced in a statement Tuesday that Texas Tech AD Kirby Hocutt will return next season as the committee chairman and his term will run through February 2018.
Smith, Beamer and Howard replace Wisconsin AD Barry Alvarez, former U.S. Secretary of State Condoleezza Rice and former Michigan coach Lloyd Carr. Alvarez and Rice completed three-year terms this past season. Carr resigned from the committee during last season, his first on the panel, because of health issues.