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By Meghan Rominger | @MeghanRominger Sports Capital Journalism Program INDIANAPOLIS — The first cold-weather location to host a College Football Playoff National Championship added another major sporting event to a collection that has dramatically transformed the image of this city in the last half century. A traditional morning-after news conference designed to pass the hosting …

By Zach Powell | @ZiggidyZach_ Sports Capital Journalism Program INDIANAPOLIS – Three days of discussions among members of the College Football Playoff management committee concluded on Monday without any consensus on how an expansion of the four-team field could be executed. More than six months after a 12-team field was proposed, ten conference commissioners plus …

We gathered at a hotel just outside of Dallas to get an inside look at how the College Football Playoff committee selects its top 25 each week, seeds each team and slots the four-team playoff and New Year’s Six Bowls. We sat in the same meeting room the committee uses each fall, complete with individual …

Robby General | @rgeneraljr Editor’s note: Sports Capital Journalism Program student Robby General, writing for Newsday, discusses why the College Football Playoff administration doesn’t have any plans to expand the Playoff past four teams due to its current contract with ESPN.  Read full story here.

Editor’s note: Sports Capital Journalism Program graduate assistant Robby General served as chair of a College Football Playoff Mock Selection Exercise for student journalists. As the committee finalizes its decisions for the semifinal games, General reflects on his experience in the same room. As the 13 of us sat back, staring at the final rankings …

By Jon Sauber | @JonSauber Sports Capital Journalism Program ATLANTA – Taking in the weekend of a College Football Playoff National Championship can be an intense experience. Consuming it to try to improve it? That’s exactly what Susan Baughman was here to do. Baughman is the Senior Vice President of Strategy and Operations for Indiana …

By Jon Sauber | @JonSauber Sports Capital Journalism Program ATLANTA — Thanks to a title game featuring two Southeastern Conference teams, Alabama and Georgia, speculation about an expansion beyond a four-team field has dominated discussion about the College Football Playoff. That speculation was put to rest on Friday by Bill Hancock, its director. “[The current …

By Michael Whitlow | @couldbelikemike Sports Capital Journalism Program TAMPA, Fla. — Controversy dominated the discussion prior to the third edition of the College Football Playoff. Despite not winning a conference championship – or even qualifying for the Big Ten championship game — Ohio State was one of the four representatives selected to play for …

By Frank Gogola | @FrankGogola Sports Capital Journalism Program SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. — Former Florida State linebacker Derrick Brooks remembered being called into head coach Bobby Bowden’s office during his freshman season. He dreaded it because he knew players were only called into the coach’s office when something bad happened. Brooks had just earned his first …

By Zach Wagner | @zachwagner22 Sports Capital Journalism Program SCOTTSDALE, Ariz. – College Football Playoff executive director Bill Hancock said that the schedule at the end of the next two seasons will go on as planned as organizers analyze the decline in television ratings for the recent semifinal games played on New Year’s Eve. “I don’t …