CFP officials in contact with FBI over threats made after Florida State snub

The 12-team playoff format starts next season. (Jevone Moore/Getty Images)

HOUSTON — College Football Playoff officials have been in contact with the FBI over threats to its own employees and members of the CFP selection committee over Florida State being left out of the playoff, CFP executive director Bill Hancock said.

All CFP selection committee members received “profanity-laced emails and calls” and some received threats on their homes and families, Hancock told reporters Monday from the site of the national championship. Hancock says the CFP is “totally disappointed” at accusations and vitriol from politicians in the state of Florida over FSU’s snub, including conspiracy allegations that have stoked the fires.

“It’s ridiculous,” Hancock said. “Every NCAA sports committee receives criticism from the teams left out. I’ve been doing this for 35 years now. I’ve seen it and understand it, but this one … I haven’t seen anything like this one.”

Extra security was assigned to CFP selection members since the final rankings were released, Hancock said.

Hancock spoke to reporters in downtown Houston, where CFP leaders — both conference commissioners and their corresponding presidents — met for several hours at their annual gathering. They made progress on multiple topics.

College Football Playoff format

CFP officials delayed a vote to adopt what’s described as a 5+7 expansion playoff model at the behest of the Pac-12. But CFP chair Mark Keenum would be “shocked,” he said, if in the next two to three weeks leadership does not approve the move from 6+6 to 5+7 for 2024.

Pac-12 president Kirk Schulz from Washington State asked to delay the vote from the CFP Board of Managers, made up of a university president from each of the 10 FBS conferences and Notre Dame. The vote to change formats must…

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Publish date : 2024-01-08 20:10:29

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