D MAGAZINE takes a look at College Football Playoff Exec Dir Bill Hancock's final year in the role under the headline, "Bill Hancock’s Final Drive: Inside the CFP Executive Director’s Eventful Farewell." Hancock is "on the five-yard line of his illustrious career," and come the end of the 2023–2024 college football season, Hancock will step down from his post. Hancock says there are "so many questions swirling about college football," and "ultimately, those questions will have to be resolved in the generations ahead." Those questions "begin with the neverending matter of conference realignment" and the fact that the Pac-12, a 108-year-old conference dissolved, in the matter of weeks. There are also "questions about media contracts and which network will broadcast the College Football Playoff come 2026," when its current deal with ESPN and ABC expires. Finally, there are "questions about the future of NIL, amateurism, and the transfer portal." Hancock, in his final months at the helm, is left to deal with "the most perplexing situations in his career."
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