College Football Playoff

Doug Gillin is in his 12th year as athletics director at Appalachian State University, where he has overseen the rise of App State Athletics as a nationally recognized program at the highest level of college sports, highlighted by App State football's multiple conference championships and a top 25 final CFP ranking in 2019 since ascending to the FBS level.

Gillin was hired as the school's Director of Athletics in February 2015, during the early stages of App State's transition from the NCAA's Football Championship Subdivision (FCS) to the Sun Belt Conference at the FBS level. He was named one of four national Under Armour Athletics Directors of the Year in 2019-20 and served on the NCAA Division I Football Oversight Committee from 2020-23.

Gillin, who served on the NCAA Division I Football Oversight Committee from 2020-23, was previously the deputy director of athletics at Missouri from 2012-15. He also spent time early in his career on college campuses at Lehigh, New Mexico, and Syracuse, while holding senior leadership positions at ISP Sports/IMG College from 2002-12.

The Binghamton, N.Y., native was a four-year letterman in ice hockey at SUNY Cortland. He graduated from SUNY Cortland in 1991 with a B.S. in physical education and earned a master's degree in physical education from Ohio University.