Who Controls the BCS?
These are the people who control the BCS:
BCS Executive Director: Bill Hancock
Presidential Oversight Committee
- David Frohnmayer – President, University of Oregon
- Rev. John Jenkins – President, University of Notre Dame
- Robert Khayat – Chancellor, University of Mississippi
- Mark A. Nordenberg – President, University of Pittsburgh
- John G. Peters – President, Northern Illinois University
- Harvey Perlman – Chancellor, University of Nebraska-Lincoln
- Graham Spanier – President, The Pennsylvania State University
- Charles W. Steger – President, Virginia Tech University
Conference Commissioners and Notre Dame Athletics Director
- John Swofford (ACC)
- Britton Banowsky (C-USA)
- Dan Beebe (Big 12)
- Karl Benson (WAC)
- Rick Chryst (MAC)
- Jim Delany (Big Ten)
- Larry Scott (Pac-10)
- Mike Slive (SEC)
- Craig Thompson (MWC)
- John Marinatto (Big East)
- Wright Waters (Sun Belt)
- Jack Swarbrick (Notre Dame)
- Gene Bleymaier (Boise State – WAC)
- Joe Castiglione (Oklahoma – Big 12)
- Gene DeFilippo (Boston College – ACC)
- Jeremy Foley (Florida – SEC)
- Richard Giannini (Southern Miss – C-USA)
- Ronald Guenther (Illinois – Big Ten)
- Tom Holmoe (Brigham Young – MWC)
- Tom Jurich (Louisville – Big East)
- Dean Lee (Arkansas State – Sun Belt)
- Jim Livengood (Arizona – Pac 10)
- Mike O’Brien (Toledo – MAC)
The BCS is managed by the commissioners of the 11 NCAA Division I-A conferences, the director of athletics at the University of Notre Dame, and representatives of the bowl organizations. The conferences are Atlantic Coast, Big East, Big Ten, Big 12, Conference USA, Mid-American, Mountain West, Sun Belt, Pacific 10, Southeastern and Western Athletic.
The conference commissioners and the Notre Dame athletics director make decisions regarding all BCS issues, in consultation with an athletics directors advisory group and subject to the approval of a presidential oversight committee whose members represent all 119 Division 1-A programs.