Group of Five conferences

In college football, the Group of Five are five athletic conferences whose members are part of NCAA Division I Football Bowl Subdivision (FBS). The five conferences are the American Athletic Conference (American or AAC), Conference USA (C-USA or CUSA), Mid-American Conference (MAC), Mountain West Conference (MW or MWC), and Sun Belt Conference (SBC).

This article is about a group of college football conferences. For the emerging economies group, see Group of Five. For other uses, see G5 (disambiguation).

These conferences are considered less prestigious and are generally perceived to have lower quality of play compared to the power five conferences though a number of group of five teams have upset power five teams in regular season and bowl games, and the Cincinnati Bearcats football team appeared in the 4-team college football playoff once when it was a member of the AAC.

Beginning in the 2024 season, at least one group of five conference champion is guaranteed entry to the College Football Playoff as the top six ranked conference champions automatically advance to the playoff.

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