Bill Hancock has been around college athletics for over fifty years, impacting college basketball and football for generations. Bill Hancock, the father of the College Football Playoff, forever changed college football as we know it with the vision he had for the College Football Playoff. Sure, the Playoff would have happened with or without Bill Hancock at the helm, but it was the leadership of Bill Hancock that turned it into as big of a deal as it is today. Bill Hancock, as his time working in college athletics, comes to an end, wants his legacy to have a lasting impact on those he served.

In a conversation on The Mitch Davis Show Podcast, Bill Hancock shared his excitement about the product that has turned into the College Football Playoff. For a simple man at heart, Bill Hancock would have never imagined fifty years ago when he started working in the sports media field. Bill Hanock realizes his impact on college athletics but is humble enough not to take the credit alone.

Bill Hancock spent years as the Executive Director of the Men’s Final Four, turning that event into a larger-than-life event, before taking over in the same role at the College Football Playoff. Bill Hancock has sat at the table and directed with dignity for an exciting future of the College Football Playoff.

In that same conversation on The Mitch Davis Show Podcast, when asked about his favorite memories, Hancock beamed with a shining light as he relived over fifty years of good times. Mentions of Vince Young, Princeton beating UCLA in the NCAA Tournament, and the likeness of Vince Dooley and Kirby Smart. Every National Champion is different, as mentioned by Hancock on The Mitch Davis Show, but the feeling of pure euphoria for each National Championship winning team never gets old.

As a new era of the College Football Playoffs arrives, Bill Hancock will forever be the grandfather of the modern Playoff era. Hancock has spent an entire career providing fans and student-athletes with an unworldly experience.