It's highly, highly unlikely that we're going to see two non-power conference champions in the College Football Playoff again.
Thanks to yet another rule change ahead of the third version of the 12-team playoff, the champions of the ACC, Big 12, Big Ten and SEC are now guaranteed a spot in the field. That means the scenario that unfolded last year, where American champion Tulane and Sun Belt champ James Madison both got in since they were ahead of ACC champion Duke in the final CFP rankings, won't happen again.
This year, the fifth conference champion guaranteed into the field will come from either the American, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West, Pac-12 or Sun Belt. The only way those conferences will send more than one team to the playoff is if a team from the Group of Six gets in as an at-large.
That seems nearly impossible.
It's why we're resigned to just one Group of Six team in the playoff this December. And we think that team will come from this group below.
#group #conference #american #champions
Thanks to yet another rule change ahead of the third version of the 12-team playoff, the champions of the ACC, Big 12, Big Ten and SEC are now guaranteed a spot in the field. That means the scenario that unfolded last year, where American champion Tulane and Sun Belt champ James Madison both got in since they were ahead of ACC champion Duke in the final CFP rankings, won't happen again.
This year, the fifth conference champion guaranteed into the field will come from either the American, Conference USA, MAC, Mountain West, Pac-12 or Sun Belt. The only way those conferences will send more than one team to the playoff is if a team from the Group of Six gets in as an at-large.
That seems nearly impossible.
It's why we're resigned to just one Group of Six team in the playoff this December. And we think that team will come from this group below.
#group #conference #american #champions
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