Former Southern Miss coach Jeff Bower will now have a hand in deciding who plays each season in the College Football Playoff.
Bower was one of four new names selected to the CFP selection committee on Thursday, along with former Michigan coach Lloyd Carr, former Central Michigan coach/AD Herb Deromedi and Oregon athletic director Rob Mullens.
Bower, 62, was the face of Southern Miss football for nearly two decades, and spent 29 total years in Hattiesburg as a quarterback, assistant coach and then head coach from 1990 to 2007. He had a career record of 119-83-1 and took Southern Miss to bowl games in each of his last six years as head coach and 10 of the last 11.