Syracuse, N.Y. — He’s now the College Football Playoff Executive Director, but he did serve as the staff liaison for 16 NCAA Basketball Tournament selection committees. So Bill Hancock knows the difference between one kind of field goal and the other. This would suggest that the man has an informed point of view. And he shared part of it with me during a telephone conversation earlier this year. “There are more college football fans in this country than there are college basketball fans,” Hancock said. “So it could be interpreted that there are more outside eyeballs watching the football selection process than the basketball selection process.” Never mind that this can’t possibly be true in our precincts where Jim Boeheim has made basketball king and where his alma mater’s football team has won just 83 of its last 191 games and has employed four head coaches in the last 12 campaigns. Around here, the profile of Syracuse University’s first-round hoops foe — be it North Carolina A&T or Coppin State, Samford or Vermont, Stephen F. Austin or Montana — has mattered more than just about anything the ball with the pointed ends can provide. That’s just the way it’s been for a long, long time. Still, tonight amounts to a pretty big deal in College Football America because the CFP Selection Committee’s first rankings of the 2015 season will be unveiled at 7. And, yeah, those eyeballs to which Hancock alluded will be fixed on a mess of TV screens from sea to shining sea. …
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