Former Ole Miss All-American Wesley Walls Member of College Football Playoff Selection Committee

College Football Playoff (CFP) Management Committee has appointed the athletics director of Baylor University, Mack Rhades, chairman of the selection committee for the 2025 football season, which was announced by Rich Clark, Executive Director of the CFP. The CFP also added five new members to the committee – Including former Ole Miss All American Tight End Wesley Walls.

Rhoades replaces last year's chairman, Ward Manuel, the athletics director of the University of Michigan.

Mark Dantonio, former head coach at the University of Cincinnati and the Michigan State University, are the walls as the latest members of the selection committee; Damon Evans, athletics director at the University of Maryland; Ivan Maisel, former athlete of the constitution of Atlanta, Sports Illustrated, The Dallas Morning News, Newsday, ESPN and On3; and Chris Massaro, athletics director at Middle Tennessee State University.

The new members start three -year term from this spring.

Rich Clark, Managing Director of CFP

The Wesley Walls file

As rebels know, Walls was an all-Americaneng end as a senior at Ole Miss in 1988 after ending his first three seasons in Oxford as a linebacker and defensive. For his outstanding game for the rebels, he was included in College Football Hall of Fame and the Mississippi Sports Hall of Fame 2016 in 2014.

Walls' rookie season was selected by the San Francisco 49ers in the second round of the NFL design of 1989 and ended with a Super Bowl XXIV win over the Denver Broncos. He spent the 1994-95 seasons at the New Orleans Saints before he came to Carolina Panthers in 1996. In seven seasons in Carolina, Walls became all-time leader of the franchise company in Touchdown for a close end. Walls spent the 2003 season with the Green Bay Packers and ended his 15-season career with 450 receptions, 5,291 yards and 54 touchdowns. In 2019, the Carolina Panther's walls performed the team's honor hall.

After the survey, Walls was involved in business companies and non-profit work in the Charlotte community and in his home state Mississippi, whereby he consolidated his legacy both on and outside the field. As an academic all-American, walls acquired a Bachelor of Engineering at the University of Mississippi.

A look at the CFP

The CFP selection committee is responsible for the ranking of 25 teams in the playoffs and the assignment of the top -12 participants of the Playoff clip. The committee meets personally, starting late in the football season and produces a ranking of the 25 best teams every week that lead to his last selections. The other Returning Selection Committee Members are Chris AULT (LongTime Head Coach and Athletics Director, University of Nevada), Randall McDaniel (Former All-American Offensive Lineman, Arizona State University), Mike Riley (Former Head Coach, Oreegon State University and the University Nebraska), David Sayler (Athletics Director, Miami University, Ohio), Carla Williams (Athletics Director, University of Virginia; and Hunter Yurachek (athletics director of the University of Arkansas).

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