{"id":225803,"date":"2025-10-20T01:35:10","date_gmt":"2025-10-20T01:35:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/225803\/"},"modified":"2025-10-20T01:35:10","modified_gmt":"2025-10-20T01:35:10","slug":"latest-round-of-8-playoff-picture-cutline-after-talladega","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/225803\/","title":{"rendered":"Latest Round of 8 Playoff Picture, Cutline after Talladega"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Sunday afternoon\u2019s race at Talladega Superspeedway marked the second of three races in the Round of 8, with just three spots remaining for the Championship 4 at Phoenix. Fittingly for a playoff race at Talladega, there was chaos in the YellaWood 500 that add some shakeup to the NASCAR playoff standings after today.<\/p>\n<p>As Sunday\u2019s race draws to a close, let\u2019s dive right into the latest NASCAR playoff standings after Talladega. Because of the results from today\u2019s race, there are two spots left up for grabs in the Championship 4 heading into next weekend\u2019s race at Martinsville.<\/p>\n<p>Related: <a href=\"http:\/\/sportnaut.com\/nascar\/nascar-results-today-talladega-cup-series-nascar-stage-results-yellawood-500\" rel=\"noreferrer noopener nofollow\" target=\"_blank\" aria-label=\"(opens in a new tab)\">NASCAR Results Today for Talladega, Stage Results and Points for YellaWood 500<\/a><\/p>\n<p>NASCAR Playoffs Standings after Today: Round of 8<\/p>\n<p>Pos.DriverAbove\/Below Cutline1Denny HamlinCLINCHED (WIN)2Chase BriscoeCLINCHED (WIN)3Christopher Bell+374Kyle Larson+365 \u2013 CUTLINEWilliam Byron-366Joey Logano-387Joey Logano-478Chase Elliott-62<br \/>\n\t\t<img alt=\"avatar\" src=\"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-content\/uploads\/2025\/10\/IMG_5578.jpeg\"  class=\"avatar avatar-70 photo\" height=\"70\" width=\"70\" loading=\"lazy\" fetchpriority=\"low\" decoding=\"async\"\/><\/p>\n<p>\t\tMatt  Johnson  is  Senior  Editor  of  NFL  and  College  Football  for  Sportsnaut.  His  work,  including  weekly  NFL  and  college  &#8230; More about <a class=\"more-bio\" href=\"https:\/\/sportsnaut.com\/author\/wisconsinboymakesgoodincali\" rel=\"nofollow noopener\" target=\"_blank\">Matt Johnson<\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Sunday afternoon\u2019s race at Talladega Superspeedway marked the second of three races in the Round of 8, with&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":225804,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[446],"tags":[49,48,634,82],"class_list":{"0":"post-225803","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-nascar","8":"tag-ca","9":"tag-canada","10":"tag-nascar","11":"tag-sports"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225803","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=225803"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/225803\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/225804"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=225803"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=225803"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/ca\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=225803"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}