ST. LOUIS (KMOX) - The College Football Playoff has announced it members for the 2024 Selection Committee and it will include a name Missouri fans will recognize.
On Thursday, The College Football Playoff (CFP) Management Committee announced that former Missouri Tiger Head Coach Gary Pinkel was serve a part of the committee starting this spring. Pinkel will have a three-year term on the committee.
Pinkel spent 15 years coaching the Tigers coaching the team from 2001 to 2015. After a decade long tenure as the head coach of Toledo. Pinkel helped build for Mizzou Football program throughout a majority of the 21st Century, with the Tigers winning 118 games with the program.
During Pinkel tenure, the Tigers appeared in five Conference title games, including two consecutive SEC Championship games in 2013 and 2014. The Tigers went to appear in 10 bowl games during Pinkel time with the Tigers, winning six of them, including two Cotton Bowls victories.
Pinkel, who was inducted into the College Football Hall of Fame in 2022, and during his career, he amassed the most wins in both Toledo and Mizzou program history. Pinkel is only one of three coaches to hold the distinction at two Division I programs. At the time of his retirement, he stood 20th on the Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS) all-time wins list.
With the playoff expanding to 12 teams next year, odds are Pinkel won't have to experience another undefeated conference champion gets left out of the playoff situation like we saw with Florida State last year.
Pinkel's former program Mizzou will certainly look to be in contention for one of those 12 spots in the College Football Playoff in 2024. After a great 2023 season that was capped off with the Tigers beating Ohio State in the Cotton Bowl and finishing among the top 10 programs last end, expectations by Tigers fans will be high with fans expectation Eliah Drinkwitz's team to get a playoff spot.
Quarterback Brady Cook and wide receiver Luther Burden coming back to Columbia, along with a top-20 recruiting class in the country coming that includes five-star defensive lineman William Nwaneri out of Kansas City, Missouri.
Along that the team brought in some help through the transfer portal with among the new incomings former Clemson cornerback Toriano Pride, former Oklahoma offensive lineman Cayden Green and former Georgia Bulldog edge rusher Darris Smith.