Warde Manuel is being replaced as the head of the CFP Committee, so a B1G-leaning leader will be replaced by Baylor AD Mack Rhoades. Still kind of feels biased, you say?

However, there will be a little bit of a Bulldog connection on the Committee in 2025:

Per Dawgnation:

Damon Evans, a former Georgia athletic director (2004-10) and player (1988-91) who is now the athletic director at Maryland, will be among the five new members on the committee.

The CFP Management Committee, headed by executive director Rich Clark, made the announcement on Tuesday via press release.

The new members of the committee (with current affiliation) are:

• Damon Evans (AD, Maryland)

• Mark Dantonio (Retired, Michigan State, Cincinnati)

• Ivan Maisel (Media, Sports Illustrated, ESPN, Atlanta Journal-Constitution, Dallas Morning News)

• Chris Massaro (AD, Middle Tennessee State)

• Wesley Walls (Former Ole Miss tight end).

The new members will begin a three-year term beginning this spring and replace Manuel, Chet Gladchuk, Jim Grobe, Will Shields, Kelly Whiteside and Gary Pinkel.

Although they are correct in that there will be some SEC flavor in the Committee, it’s important to recall that Evans didn’t necessarily leave Athens in great standing. A young and promising athletic director on the rise, Evans left the program under less than optimal circumstances in 2010, stemming from a DUI arrest and some alleged hanky-panky with a woman who, um, was not his wife.

A Georgia coach told ESPN.com on Sunday that during a meeting with several Bulldogs coaches on Thursday, Evans said his relationship with the 28-year-old passenger in his car was “nothing more than friends.”

“He wasn’t forthcoming about his relationship with the woman,” the UGA coach said.

The Bulldogs coach said he probably wouldn’t have attended a Thursday news conference to show support for Evans if he had known the details of the arrest.

According to a police report released Friday, Evans repeatedly referred to his position at the school before being arrested.

“I am not trying to bribe you but I am the athletic director of the University of Georgia,” Evans said, according to the officer identified in the report as M. Cabe.

Arrested along with Evans was 28-year-old Courtney Fuhrmann, who was charged with disorderly conduct.

The officer also said that Evans asked to be taken to a motel instead of jail or to be let off with a warning. According to the report, Evans later said: “I am not trying to bribe you, but is there anything you can do without arresting me?”

In the report, the officer noted he found a “red pair of lady’s panties between [Evans’] legs.” When he asked Evans, a married father of two children, what he was doing with the underwear, Evans said: “She took them off and I held them because I was just trying to get her home,” according to the report.

Evans told the officer that Fuhrmann was nothing more than a friend, according to the report. But the officer said that Fuhrmann later told him that the two had been seeing each other for “only a week or so.”

“Just to let you know, it will be erased because he is the athletic director of UGA and he has that power,” Fuhrmann told the officer, according to the report.

She was charged with disorderly conduct after police said she repeatedly ignored warnings to stay inside the 2009 BMW while the trooper was conducting the field sobriety test and later acting “combative” in the back seat of the patrol car, according to the report.

“I apologize and don’t want to use my influence but she is trying to protect me,” the officer said Evans told him.

Fuhrmann told The Associated Press on Friday the charges against her are a “misunderstanding from what the media is portraying it as” but declined to speak further.

Evans apologized for the incident during a news conference in Athens on Thursday and said he “failed miserably.” He also apologized to his wife, Kerri, who attended the news conference.

“My behavior and my actions are not indicative of what we teach our student athletes,” he said. “My actions have put a black cloud over our storied program.”

Evans said Thursday he hoped to keep his job, which he has held since July 2004. He acknowledged he had placed Adams in a predicament.

“Certainly this is not an example of the kind of leadership that I expect our senior administrators to set,” Adams said in a statement.

In other words, I’m not sure what Evans’ perception is of the Georgia program, although it sounds like he owned it and didn’t exactly put the University in any position to support him.

On another note, if you look up the alleged mistress, her bio says she’s “all about PERFORMANCE”.

Let’s hope the new Committee is, too, particularly when it comes to wins and strength of schedule.