If we win out in the regular season, we won't need the CC to claim the auto-bid in order to make the playoffs. There's a lot of losing left to do among the other P4 conferences and we'll be inside the top 5 if we make it to 12-0.
If we do that, a loss in the CCG isn't going to knock us outside of the top 12. We're in. Huge change in seeding, but we'll be in.
If the loss comes before that, then we have to win the CCG as two losses would knock us out of the top 12.
1 mulligan. That's what we've earned.