This weekend is conference championship weekend. Based on cumulative ranking the Atlantic Coast Conference championship game featuring Pitt, 15th in the CFP poll released an hour ago, and Wake Forest, 16th, is the lowest-ranked championship game among the Power 5 conferences, and lower-ranked than the American Athletic Conference championship, a non-power, "Group of Six", conference. Conference championship games ranked:
1. SEC. Surprise! #1 Georgia-#3 Alabama (cumulative ranking, 4).
2. Big XII. #9 Baylor-#5 Oklahoma State (14).
3. B1G. #2 Michigan-#13 Iowa (15).
4. American. #21 Houston-#4 Cincinnati (25)
5. PAC-12. #10 Oregon-#17 Utah (27)
6. ACC. #15 Pitt-#16 Wake (31).*
Now you can kinda sorta put an asterisk next to the ACC because Notre Dame, #6, is an ACC member in all sports but tackle football and still plays half of its football schedule against ACC teams. If you included the "Irish", presumably in place of Pitt based on geography, the conference's cumulative ranking would be twenty-two, fourth in the conference lineup.
