{"id":245185,"date":"2026-03-31T15:22:09","date_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:22:09","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/245185\/"},"modified":"2026-03-31T15:22:09","modified_gmt":"2026-03-31T15:22:09","slug":"former-fresno-state-coach-jeff-tedford-joining-college-football-playoff-selection-committee","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/245185\/","title":{"rendered":"Former Fresno State coach Jeff Tedford joining College Football Playoff selection committee"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img decoding=\"async\" alt=\"KFSN logo\" class=\"awXxV NDJZt sJeUN IJwXl CfkUa EknAv NwgWd \" data-testid=\"prism-image\" draggable=\"false\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/origin-kfsn.png\"\/><\/p>\n<p>Tuesday, March 31, 2026 2:49PM<\/p>\n<p><img decoding=\"async\" src=\"data:image\/svg;base64,iVBORw0KGgoAAAANSUhEUgAAABAAAAAJCAQAAACRI2S5AAAAEElEQVR42mNkIAAYRxWAAQAG9gAKqv6+AwAAAABJRU5ErkJggg==\" alt=\"Jeff Tedford joining College Football Playoff selection committee\"\/><\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao MvWXB TjIXL aGjvy ebVHC \">FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Former Fresno State football coach Jeff Tedford is joining the College Football Playoff selection committee starting this Spring.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Tedford will help decide which teams reach the 12-team playoff during his three-year term.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">He was recently added to Fresno State&#8217;s ring of honor. In his two head coaching stints in five years, he racked up 45 wins, four bowl wins, two Mountain West titles and two finishes in the AP Top 25.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC TjIXL aGjvy \">Tedford is also Cal&#8217;s all-time winningest coach.<\/p>\n<p class=\"EkqkG IGXmU nlgHS yuUao lqtkC eTIW sUzSN \">He now joins a 13-person committee that is responsible for ranking the top 25 teams in the playoff and assigning the top 12 teams to the playoff bracket.<\/p>\n<p>Copyright \u00a9 2026 KFSN-TV. All Rights Reserved.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Tuesday, March 31, 2026 2:49PM FRESNO, Calif. (KFSN) &#8212; Former Fresno State football coach Jeff Tedford is joining&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":245186,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[31],"tags":[109748,34272,112,114,113,7130,109747,109746,294],"class_list":{"0":"post-245185","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-fresno","8":"tag-109748","9":"tag-college-football-playoff","10":"tag-fresno","11":"tag-fresno-headlines","12":"tag-fresno-news","13":"tag-jeff-tedford","14":"tag-new-addition","15":"tag-selection-committee","16":"tag-timely"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245185","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=245185"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/245185\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/245186"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=245185"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=245185"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us-ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=245185"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}