The College Football Playoff announced Monday that Texas Tech athletic director Kirby Hocutt has been appointed to its selection committee.

Hocutt replaces Oliver Luck, who stepped down as West Virginia athletic director in order to become the NCAA's executive vice president of regulatory affairs.

"I am excited and honored to join the College Football Playoff Selection Committee," Hocutt said in a CFP release. "I look forward to working with such a distinguished group of individuals in what has instantly become one of our nation's most successful sporting events. I sincerely appreciate the confidence that Commissioner Bowlsby and the CFP management committee have placed in me with this appointment."

Hocutt, a former linebacker at Kansas State, has been AD at Texas Tech since 2011 and served in the same position at Miami for three years before coming to Lubbock. His also is the chairman of the NCAA Division I Football Recruiting Subcommittee and serves as the Big 12 representative on the NCAA Division I Leadership Council.

"We are delighted to welcome Kirby to the selection committee," CFP executive director Bill Hancock said. "He will fit right in, because he is a thoughtful, hard-working person of the highest integrity."