| IRVING, Texas – College Football Playoff (CFP) executive Director Bill Hancock was honored with Bowl Season’s Wrigth Waters Legacy Award during the organization’s annual meeting in El Paso, Texas. Created in 2016, the Legacy Award is presented by the association of bowl games to individuals who have made outstanding contributions to the bowl they served or to the industry in general. Waters is the former commissioner of the Sun Belt Conference who served on the CFP’s first management committee. He is also the former executive director of the Football Bowl Association, the precusor association to Bowl Season. “I am grateful to Bowl Season,” Hancock said. “To be honored by our peers with an award in connection with Wright Waters is just awesome. After all, nobody ever loved college football more than Wright does, and nobody ever stood up in support of our great game more than Wright.” Hancock, who will be retiring after this year’s College Football Playoff National Championship, began his career in college athletics in 1971 when he became assistant sports information director at the University of Oklahoma. He then spent four years as editor of the Hobart Democrat-Chief, before returning to college athletics for an 11-year run at the Big Eight Conference. He spent 16 years with the NCAA Division I Men’s Basketball Championship, 13 years as its director. In 2005, he was appointed administrator of the Bowl Championship Series (BCS). He became executive director in 2009 and was named to the same role for the CFP when it was created in 2012. -#CFBPlayoff- |
| About the College Football Playoff The College Football Playoff (CFP) is the event that crowns the national champion in college football. The CFP Selection Committee ranks the top 25 teams at the end of the season, and the 12 playoff participants consist of the five highest-ranked conference champions, plus the next seven highest-ranked teams. The four highest ranked conference champions will be seeded one through four and receive a first-round bye. The schools seeded five through eight will host those seeded nine through 12 in first-round games. The quarterfinals and semifinals rotate annually among six bowl games – the Goodyear Cotton Bowl Classic, Vrbo Fiesta Bowl, Capital One Orange Bowl, Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl, Rose Bowl Game presented by Prudential and the Allstate Sugar Bowl. This year’s quarterfinals will take place on Dec. 31, 2024 and January 1, 2025, while the semifinals will be January 9-10, 2025. The College Football Playoff National Championship will be Monday, January 20, 2025, at Mercedes-Benz Stadium in Atlanta. For additional information on the College Football Playoff, visit CollegeFootballPlayoff.com. |
