The outcome of the college football conference championships could decide who makes the playoffs in 2021.
The College Football Playoff is preceded by conference championship games.
They are frequently jockeying for position for at least a New Year’s Six Bowl, propelling one club into the picture and another out.
It’s sometimes the deciding game in a school’s quest to reach the “final four” and fight for a National Championship.
The SEC Championship Game draws a lot of attention because of how highly ranked the teams in this clash are, and it almost always features Alabama, LSU, Florida, or Georgia, with a dash of Auburn thrown in for good measure.
Because to their regular-season supremacy, Ohio State and Oklahoma, among others, have been frequent conference title game participants.
Yet, with lots of hopefuls across the Power 5 conferences, the 2021 season is about to create a fresh road towards the conference title game picture.
In four months, who will you meet?
Clemson vs. Wake Forest in the ACC
UNC Winner: Clemson Clemson has been in every ACC title game since 2015, with Florida State’s victory against Georgia Tech being the most recent meeting that did not involve Dabo Swinney’s team.
This is solely a matter of conference dominance.
Few have stood a chance against Deshaun Watson, Trevor Lawrence, and the rest of the brilliance that has passed through this South Carolina school.
In Lamar Jackson’s heyday, there were a few hot games between Clemson and Louisville, but the rest of the conference has tanked throughout his reign, led by the Seminoles’ sinking ship.
The Tigers are expected to return to the conference championship game in 2021.
Even with the talent they lost in the most recent NFL Draft, no one in a lackluster ACC Atlantic stands in their way.
There’s a new quarterback and several young skill position players, but they are just the next generation of NFL talent for Swinney, much like Alabama.
North Carolina and Miami are the two teams in the Coastal Division that can win their division.
The former has lost a lot of quality, but the latter has a newcomer in DEriq King, who is recovering from an ACL tear.
A healthy quarterback helps the Hurricanes’ chances, but UNC has Sam Howell, a possible Heisman candidate and a high first-round choice in next year’s draft.
The Tar Heels will be fine if his offensive line holds up.
Also, their first six or seven games may all be victories.
Still, this is Clemson’s conference championship game to lose.
They are miles ahead of Mack Brown’s outstanding group.
While their schedule is poor, a defeat could have an influence on the Tigers’ College Football Playoff standings, so they’ll need to be perfect from start to finish.
It is feasible.
