IRVING, Texas (AP) - The conference commissioners who put together the College Football Playoff will not be allowed to serve on the committee that selects the teams that will play in it.
The commissioners are still working on the structure of the selection committee for the new postseason system that starts in 2014. But they have eliminated themselves from consideration.
Big 12 commissioner Bob Bowlsby, who once served on the basketball selection committee, said Wednesday he thought commissioners recusing themselves was the right way to go.
"I really believe there are some people with a high level of expertise that would be helpful to the process, a high level of experience that would be helpful to the process," Bowlsby said at Big 12 meetings in the Dallas area. "But we felt like it was just going to be too disruptive and too subject to suspicion and therefore decided that we wouldn't be in the room."
Bowlsby said he submitted a list of 15 names that included current and former athletic directors, former league commissioners, former coaches and former media members.