When the College Football Playoff rankings were revealed Tuesday, two AAC teams saw their logos appear on the screen. UCF fans are rather accustomed to tuning into this program, as the Knights were a fixture in the CFP rankings during back-to-back New Year’s Six appearances in 2017 and 2018. Tulane is very new to the process, garnering its first ever CFP ranking earlier this month.
But as the only ranked AAC teams, No. 17 Tulane and No. 22 UCF aren’t just competing for a ticket to the AAC Championship Game. They are also battling for one of the 12 coveted spots in a New Year’s Six bowl, which seems destined to go to the AAC champion this year for the sixth season in a row.