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Air Force Lieutenant General Richard M. Clark will succeed Bill Hancock as the new executive director of the College Football Playoff as the organization prepares to expand the number of teams that will play in the year-end tournament. “I’m pleased to announce that Lieutenant General Clark has accepted our offer to run the CFP and […]
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The College Football Playoff and 2024 title game host Houston have announced a series of fan events leading to the January 8, 2024, championship game at NRG Stadium with activations starting three days before kickoff. The 2024 CFP activations begin January 5 with the opening of Playoff Fan Central at the George R. Brown Convention […]
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College Football Playoff Executive Director Bill Hancock will step down when his contract expires February 1, 2025, having led the organization through the recent expansion that will bring more teams than ever before into the postseason. Hancock has been with the CFP since 2012 and at the time of his hire was the only employee, […]
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In a summer that has seen dramatic changes on the college sports realignment landscape, the College Football Playoff will get into the expansion business as well with Friday’s announcement that the CFP field will triple to 12 from the traditional four teams — though a date for the expansion to come into effect is not […]
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The sites for the 2025 and 2026 College Football Playoff title games have been announced. The 2026 title game will take place at Hard Rock Stadium in Miami Gardens, Florida, the home of the Miami Dolphins. Miami also hosted the 2021 CFP National Championship, which Alabama won against Ohio State in front of a restricted […]
Continue ReadingLos Angeles, which will host the Super Bowl in February, has begun preparations for the 2023 College Football Playoff national championship game, which will also be held at Inglewood’s SoFi Stadium. SoFi Stadium and Los Angeles are on the clock following the national 2022 championship game won by Georgia over Alabama at Lucas Oil Stadium […]
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Byron Hatch has been named the College Football Playoff’s chief operating officer after spending six years as the assistant commissioner of championships for the Southeastern Conference. During Hatch’s time with the SEC he oversaw the SEC football championship game, men’s basketball tournament and softball tournament. In his role, Hatch will be responsible for managing the […]
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What if you held an Olympic Games and no one came? That’s not exactly the scenario in Tokyo, but it certainly feels that way. It’s not that people wouldn’t have come, of course. It’s that they weren’t allowed. Foreign spectators were banned months ago while Japanese residents learned weeks before the Games they wouldn’t be […]
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Brett Daniels, a veteran of two College Football Playoff host committees and who also has experience with the Final Four and Super Bowl events, will be the CFP’s new senior director of communications and branding. Daniels served as the chief operating officer for the 2018 CFP National Championship Game in Atlanta at Mercedes-Benz Stadium, won […]
Continue ReadingThe College Football Playoff has hired a new director of team operations and has promoted an existing staffer to a new role as director of public events. Danielle Bartelstein will be the director of team operations for the CFP. She joins the staff from Virginia Tech, where she was the senior director of football operations. […]
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The SEC Football Championship Game will be held in Atlanta’s Mercedes-Benz Stadium through at least 2031, an extension of the current contract that was set to expire in 2026.
Supporting the U.S. Olympic movement runs in the Belk family — the latest sign of which is in establishing the U.S. Performance Center in Charlotte as one of the biggest facilitators of Olympic dreams.
The Army Navy Country Club – Arlington in Virginia will host the 2024 Ping Junior Solheim Cup, @AJGAGolf has announced.
The @RoseBowlStadium has seen and hosted almost anything in the world of sports for a century. It was fitting then that last weekend it hosted the final game of the Pac-12 as we know it, a fitting sendoff for the conference so deeply linked to LA.
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