Canzano: Mike Riley has the ball in his hands again
Former college coach is part of the CFP selection committee.
I saw Mike Riley on Tuesday morning. He appeared in a hype video released by the College Football Playoff. It featured the members of the selection committee hanging their baseball caps on a rack as they filed into the deliberation room in Dallas.
I saw Mike.
I thought of Dee.
Riley’s wife died in the summer of 2024 at the age of 70. She’d been in and out of a series of memory-care facilities. Life was tough in the final few years. But Mike told me in the last year or two that he’d pick Dee up in the car once a week and go for a drive in the country.