The Mountain West Conference has appointed Fresno State President Dr. Joseph I. Castro to represent the conference as a member of the College Football Playoff Board of Managers, according to a Fresno State news release.
The main priority of the board is to govern College Football Playoff business, property and affairs over all aspects of the company’s operations. In accordance with the aforementioned priorities, the board develops, reviews and approves annual budgets, policies and operating guidelines.
Castro will be representing, what many would consider, the top Mid-Major conference in all of college football while serving as the president of the conference’s defending football champion, Fresno State.
“I am pleased to represent the Mountain West Conference on the College Football Playoff Board of Managers,” Castro said in the release. “I look forward to working with the other university presidents on the board to ensure that the College Football Playoff functions effectively.”
Bill Hancock, executive director of the College Football Playoff, believes that Castro’s forward-thinking will be an asset to the board and is grateful for his addition.
“We are grateful to have President Castro join the group,” Hancock said. “He is an engaging leader and a forward-thinker, and he will be a great addition.”
Castro will be taking over the role left void by Dr. Tony Frank, the former president of the Colorado State University campus in Fort Collins, who now serves as chancellor for the Colorado State University system.
Castro is one of 11 university presidents on the board, chaired by Mark Keenum, president of Mississippi State, which represents 10 Football Bowl Subdivision conferences and independent, Notre Dame.
The College Football Playoff matches the top four national seeds at the end of the season in semifinal games that rotate annually among six bowl games ”” the Goodyear Cotton Bowl; PlayStation Fiesta Bowl; Chick-fil-A Peach Bowl; Capital One Orange Bowl; Allstate Sugar Bowl; and Rose Bowl Game presented by Northwestern Mutual.
This season’s playoff semifinals will be Dec. 28 at the Peach Bowl in Atlanta and the Fiesta Bowl in Glendale, Arizona. The College Football Playoff National Championship will be Jan. 13 at the Mercedes-Benz Superdome in New Orleans.