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Post-Week 12 AAC power rankings: Where does SMU sit going into final game of the season?

All that's left is to settle the East with Friday's "War on I-4" between Central Florida and South Florida.

USF has won six of the eight meetings in the rivalry, but the stakes have never been greater. The winner advances to play Memphis in the American Athletic Conference championship game and a likely spot in a New Year's Six bowl.

Can Tulane reach bowl eligibility for the first time since 2013? And for the first time since Week 6, there's a new team at the bottom of the rankings.

Here's how the AAC stacks up this week, as voted upon by our league-wide panel of beat reporters.