In the wake of Florida State being left out of the College Football Playoff, extra security measures were put in place to protect members of the CFP selection committee as well as executive director Bill Hancock, who told reporters threats have ranged from vitriol on social media, to “profanity-laced” emails and phone calls, to direct threats on multiple committee members’ homes or offices, including his own.
“We’ve been in contact with the FBI. Some of it was really unfortunate,” Hancock said Monday. The extra security measures were put in place almost immediately after the field was announced Dec. 2.
Otherwise, the College Football Playoff governing bodies emerged from meetings on the day of the national championship game with little in the way of specifics on the few pressing business issues they discussed. (The governing structure consists of a CFP management committee—10 conference commissioners and Notre Dame’s athletics director—that recommends proposals to the Board of Managers, made up of 11 university presidents and chancellors from each conference as well as Notre Dame.)
