To elaborate on David’s point about the Group of 5\/6 and to repeat what I said last week: It matters.<\/p>\n
The long explanation: There are still a lot of scenarios in the American, but if I had to pick one, I’d expect South Florida, North Texas and Tulane to finish tied for first with one conference loss. Somebody gets left out of the conference championship. As I read the tiebreakers, it’s possible, if not highly likely, that CFP standings come into the picture; the committee’s top team is in the title game if it wins its regular-season finale. A G5\/6 team isn’t getting in the bracket unless it wins its conference, and it has to get in the title game first.<\/p>\n
The short explanation: Keep an eye on which G5\/6 team is included because it could have an actual, on-field impact on the conference title race in the American.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"To elaborate on David’s point about the Group of 5\/6 and to repeat what I said last week:…\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":278305,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[563],"tags":[64,63,596,85],"class_list":{"0":"post-278304","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-football","8":"tag-au","9":"tag-australia","10":"tag-football","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278304","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=278304"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/278304\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/278305"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=278304"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=278304"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/au\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=278304"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}