While Warde Manuel has exited the College Football Playoff selection committee, another former Michigan administrator is jumping on board.
Jeff Long, a longtime former college athletic director and Wolverines athletic administrator in the 1990s, was added to the 13-member selection committee on Monday.
Long, who turns 66 this fall, will serve a one-year term for former sports reporter Steve Weiberg, who stepped down recently due to personal issues.
A CFP vet, Long previously served as the selection committee’s first chair in 2014 and 2015. His return will “provide and experienced voice in the room,” current executive director Rich Clark said in a statement.
Long last served as athletic director at the University of Kansas from 2018 to 2021, and before that the athletic director at Arkansas from 2008 to 2017. But Michigan served as his launching pad, working in the school’s athletic department from 1988 to 1998, reaching associate athletic director.
It was 1998 that Long got his first shot at being an athletic director, at Eastern Kentucky University. That last four years before he moved on to Oklahoma, where he served a two-year stint as senior associate AD, and eventually took the AD job at Pittsburgh in 2003.
A former quarterback at Ohio Wesleyan, Long would serve as a graduate assistant coach for the Michigan football team in 1987 under Bo Schembechler, who later hired him into the athletic department.
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