Interesting situation might be developing with who the G5 selection is. Say that Jeanty wins the Heisman and Boise runs the table. They'll be a one loss champ with a Heisman winner. However, I 100% believe that they'll get passed over for a one-loss Army or Navy that wins the AAC, but the Army-Navy game isn't until a week after the playoff field is announced. You could have Army as a 1-loss AAC champ getting the spot ahead of Boise and the Heisman winner and then picking up a second loss a week later in DC.
The regularly scheduled Army-Navy game will end a few hours before the Heisman winner is announced on Dec. 14th, but it’s possible that Jeanty will be an odds-on favorite by then.
The Army/Navy game doesn’t count in the AAC standings because it’s after things are decided.
As you point out the AAC CCG is before that (Friday, 12/6), and the 12-team playoff will be selected on Sunday, Dec. 8th. If either Army or Navy is selected for the playoff, they’d be looking at their rivalry game on 12/14 and a playoff game at another team’s site on Sat. 12/21 (assuming they don’t rise to the top 8 among playoff teams, and that the committee wouldn’t stick them in the 1 game played on Friday, 12/20).
And if the academy team that got selected for the CFP lost on 12/14, there would be screams from Boise St., Liberty, and/or UNLV.
I think a Boise State team with 1 loss (3-points to Oregon) gets in ahead of a 1-loss military academy as of selection Sunday, but that an undefeated Army or Navy could get selected ahead of 1-loss Boise State and then lose on Dec. 14th.
If Army and Navy both qualify undefeated for the AAC CCG, I wonder if they would consider making the CCG their only meeting of the year in order for it to be a de facto play-in game for the CFP and eliminate the possibility of an academy getting selected and then losing before their CFP Game.
But I think there’s too much tradition and advance planning regarding that game for it to be supplanted by a meeting on Dec. 6th in the CCG.