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Oregon Athletic Director Rob Mullens Named College Football Playoff Committee Chair

By Justin Phillips

PASADENA, CA - JANUARY 01: Fans are seen during the 2018 College Football Playoff Semifinal Game between the Georgia Bulldogs and Oklahoma Sooners at the Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern Mutual at the Rose Bowl on January 1, 2018 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images)
PASADENA, CA - JANUARY 01: Fans are seen during the 2018 College Football Playoff Semifinal Game between the Georgia Bulldogs and Oklahoma Sooners at the Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern Mutual at the Rose Bowl on January 1, 2018 in Pasadena, California. (Photo by Harry How/Getty Images) /
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Oregon Athletic Director Rob Mullens has been named the Chair of the College Football Playoff Selection Committee.

Mullens has been involved with the group since inception in 2014, the season that Oregon went to the National Championship. Then, he was a member of the 13-person selection committee. Rob Mullens has been Athletic Director at the University of Oregon since 2010. The Playoff Committee term is for two years.

He will become just the third Chair following Jeff Long and Kirby Hocutt. Long was the former Athletic Director at Arkansas. Mullens will also be the spokesman for the committee during the weekly release of the standings. Those numbers come out midway through the regular season up until the end of the season when the final numbers are set.

Members of the Committee work together as a team to get an overall picture of the season. Ten Committee members are ‘point persons’ for each individual Conference. Last season Mullens was responsible for following the Big Ten and Mountain West.

The College Football Playoff System has been criticized since it’s inception. Some say that four teams are not enough, others say there is not enough emphasis put on a certain detail. One team went undefeated this season, The University of Central Florida capped their Bowl Game with a perfect record despite finishing outside the Top 10 In the National Rankings.

Despite some of the criticism, the system is far better than the Bowl Championship Series and with a tweak or two could be better, but in College Football it is not possible to make everyone happy.

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Oregon Football finished the 2017 season at 7-6.