Ian Johnson (born September 25, 1985 in San Dimas, California) is a running back for the Boise State Broncos. He gained national recognition when he accumulated 240 rushing yards and five touchdowns in a game against Oregon State which was broadcast on ESPN. This game would prove very significant to the Broncos' hopes of "busting" the BCS; their 42-14 victory over Oregon State increased their credibility after the Beavers stunned then-#3 USC on October 28, 2006.

Jeff Sagarin is an American sports statistician well-known for his development of a methodology for ranking and rating sports teams in a variety of sports. His ratings have been a regular feature in the USA Today sports sections since 1985, have been used by the NCAA Tournament Selection Committee to help determine the participants in the NCAA Men's Division I Basketball Championship tournament since 1984, …

Kenneth Massey is an American sports statistician well-known for his development of a methodology for ranking and rating sports teams in a variety of sports. His ratings have been a part of the Bowl Championship Series since its inception.

Robert Edwin Davie, Jr. (born September 30, 1954 in Sewickley, Pennsylvania) is a college football analyst and former American college football coach. In 1977, Davie began his coaching career as a graduate assistant at the University of Pittsburgh and the University of Arizona from 1978-79. From 1980-82, he returned to Pittsburgh as linebackers coach and then moved to Tulane as defensive coordinator and assistant head coach from 1983-84.

John Vaughn (born June 15, 1984 in Brentwood, Tennessee) is an American football placekicker who played college football for Auburn University. In the 2006 season, Vaughn was named the SEC Special Teams Player of the Year and was a Lou Groza Award finalist. His 42-yard Cotton Bowl field goal was his twentieth made out of twenty-four attempts for a 83.3% on the season and made him just the second Auburn kicker ever to complete twenty or more field goals in a single season.

Chris Myers is a sports broadcaster who works for numerous media outlets and covers several different sports. In 1998, Myers joined Fox Sports Net where he was one of the original anchors of "The National Sports Report" and the weekly sports magazine program "Goin' Deep". In 2005, he debuted a new show on FSN, "The Chris Myers Interview".Prior to that Myers spent ten years at ESPN hosting sportscenter, …

Brad Banks (b. April 22, 1980 in Belle Glade, Florida) is an American gridiron football player, currently playing for the Montreal Alouettes of the Canadian Football League. Banks was the quarterback for the Iowa Hawkeyes football team in 2002. That season, he completed 170 of 294 passes (57.8%) for 2573 yards with 26 touchdowns and 5 interceptions, finishing first in quarterback rating in Division I-A; he ran 82 times for 435 yards and 5 touchdowns.

Mark Emmert has, since 2004, been the 30th president of the University of Washington, and is a former chancellor of Louisiana State University. Emmert, who is a University of Washington alumnus, grew up in Fife, Washington, one of two brothers. He attended Fife High School. He afterwards married his high school sweetheart, DeLaine Smith, at Fife Presbyterian Church, and they have two children, Stephen and Jennifer.

Larry Craig Morton (born February 5, 1943 in Flint, Michigan) was a quarterback in the National Football League for three teams: the Dallas Cowboys, the New York Giants and the Denver Broncos. Morton played college football at University of California, Berkeley. Morton is the only quarterback in NFL history to lead two different teams to the Super Bowl (Dallas in 1970 and Denver in 1977). He would later serve as head coach of the USFL's Denver Gold.

Gordon Riese is a former college baseball pitcher in the 1960s who was inducted into the Portland State University Hall of Fame in 1997. He has spent the last 28 years as a Pac-10 Conference football official. He was the line judge during the 1982 Stanford-California game when "The Play" helped California win, 25-20. Riese later worked as a referee in the Pac-10 and was the head of the officiating crew that worked the first Bowl Championship Series championship game, …

Michael Lawrence Slive (born July 26, 1940) is the current commissioner of the Southeastern Conference (SEC), an American college athletics association. As part of his role as the SEC Commissioner, he serves as the coordinator of the Bowl Championship Series for the 2006 and 2007 regular seasons. He is also a member of the NCAA Division I Men's Basketball Committee through September 2009 and will serve as the chairman of the committee for the 2008-2009 academic year.

James E. Delany (b. 1948) is the current commissioner of the of the Big Ten Conference, a role in which he has served since 1989. He is regarded among college athletics as being influential in the creation of the Bowl Championship Series and its maintenance.