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Washington Post
22-05-2025
- Business
- Washington Post
New Maryland athletic director Jim Smith is ready to focus on increasing revenue
COLLEGE PARK, Md. — Maryland's new athletic director certainly understands the job description in 2025. 'We're going to focus on revenue, because make no mistake about it, to compete with the caliber of schools, not just in the Big Ten but across the country, we must increase our revenues,' Jim Smith said while being formally introduced Thursday. 'We're going to be trying a few new things — I'm not going to tell anyone any of them today — taking new approaches, applying what I've learned from professional leagues.'
Yahoo
22-05-2025
- Sport
- Yahoo
College Football Playoff shifts to straight seeding model, no automatic byes for top league champs
The College Football Playoff will go to a more straightforward way of filling the bracket next season, placing teams strictly on where they are ranked instead of moving pieces around to reward conference champions. The 10 conference commissioners and Notre Dame's athletic director came to the unanimous agreement they needed Thursday to shift the model that drew complaints last season. The new format was widely expected after last season's jumbled bracket gave byes to Big 12 champion Arizona State and Mountain West champion Boise State, even though those teams were ranked ninth and 12th by the playoff selection committee.
