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Every Power 5 league’s conference championship games and winners are predicted.

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.

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As training camps get underway, the Super Bowl contenders and pretenders are ranked.

The work done throughout the offseason is finished.
The rosters are mostly determined.
So, who is the most prepared for training camp?
Welcome back to The Athletics NFL Power Rankings. For this edition, we gathered 31 of our NFL reporters and editors last week and asked them to rate each team’s odds of winning the Super Bowl based on their current roster and coaching staff.
That obviously provides room for interpretation, with a focus on what transpired in 2020 and this offseason, as well as projections for the future.The pithy commentary comes from me, Lindsay Jones, one of The Athletics’ national NFL correspondents.
If your team is too weak or if I was too harsh, you can express your displeasure in the comments section.
But what about the sequence?
Our employees had a say.1
Kansas City Chiefs 2020 regular-season/playoff record: 14-2, Super Bowl defeat to Buccaneers The last time we saw the Chiefs, Patrick Mahomes was on the run for his life, and his offense was unproductive in a level we hadn’t seen before in the Mahomes era.
To be sure, Kansas City had a poor Super Bowl day, but we shouldn’t let that overshadow how good the Chiefs can still be in 2021.
It all starts with Mahomes, but Kansas City still boasts one of the top skill-position groups in the league, anchored by tight end Travis Kelce and wide Tyreek Hill.

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The Athletic’s Staples: Conference realignment is a brutal business, which is why the Big Ten should consider plundering its old pal, the Pac-12 –

If you’re trying to figure out what the Power 5 leagues will be after this round of realignment, you’re already incorrect.If you’re trying to figure out how the deck will be shuffled during this round of realignment to position 16 teams in the four wealthiest conferences, you’re also wrong.
When the second group wins, the first group is frequently astonished. We’re about to find out where the new people fit into these groupings.
Last year, Big Ten commissioner Kevin Warren was hired to replace Jim Delany, who had transformed the conference into the richest in the country.
George Kliavkoff, the Pac-12 commissioner, joined the league last month from MGM Resorts, and his short sample size so far only confirms that he carried his sense of humor with him.Both commissioners now face new ground as Oklahoma and Texas prepare to make a sequence of maneuvers that should land them in the SEC.
The Super League might evolve from something we half-joked about when a number of professional soccer clubs sought to create one to a very real possibility if the SEC doesn’t want to stop at 16 members.Warren, as the leader of the only league that can still compete with the new SEC on the balance sheet, has a significant chance if he wishes.
Kliavkoff is the leader of the Power 5 conference, which is ranked No. 1 in the world.
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