With the latest College Football Playoff rankings coming ahead of Selection Sunday, conference championship weekend is the final opportunity to jockey for position. Five auto-bids go to the highest-ranked conference title winners, meaning underdogs UNLV and Clemson have opportunities outside of the top 15 to potentially punch respective tickets.

It’s the final chance to cash in on players that have helped define respective conferences all season.  For players like Rocco Becht, the sophomore quarterback

The CFP will not feature two of the five best teams in the country, and the single best team is the No. 8 seed. Still, in a year in which the main story has been the extreme clustering of the teams at the top -- this week's top eight teams are separated by just 3.