In the past two decades, as college football evolved from a regional sport into a national one, one has to admire conference commissioners for their propensity to explore the country in style.
In between shuffling in and out of various conference rooms to debate the future of this ever-growing endeavor, they’ve taken in the scenic mountain vistas of Park City, Utah, hunkered down at the historic Broadmoor in Colorado Springs, Colo., and reveled in thick humidity at several luxury resorts a stone’s throw from South Beach in Miami. This week, the traveling roadshow made its latest stop to discuss the future of the College Football Playoff in a fairly new locale near the Blue Ridge Mountains.
