With conference championship games looming this weekend, only one piece of the College Football Playoff puzzle remains, and no games will have bigger impacts on Selection Day than the ACC, Big 12 and Mountain West Conference championship games.
The results of those games will determine the final ranking, who gets in and who gets left out, but don't expect major movement -- at least according to selection committee chair Warde Manuel.
Below is a look at what we learned from the committee's penultimate set of rankings -- plus a look at five more teams that have an outside chance of sneaking in after championship weekend and how the Group of 5 race stacks up.
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What we learned
Last two in | First five out
Group of 5