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Opinion: Will a Group of 5 team make it to the College Football Playoff?

The Group of 5: the five conferences that help make up the NCAA athletic conferences consisting of the Mountain West, Mid-American Conference (MAC), American, Sun Belt and American Athletic Conference (AAC).

With the relatively new four team playoff formats for NCAA football and a University of Central Florida (UCF) team who hasn’t lost a game in two full seasons left out of the competition, a new question has come up within the college football community — will a Group of 5 team ever make the playoff?

The Power 5 are the five conferences seen to house the best teams in the NCAA — the South Eastern Conference (SEC), Atlantic Coast Conference (ACC), PAC-12, BIG 10 and BIG 12.