Despite moving to #12 in this week’s College Football Playoff rankings, Miami is still very much on the outside looking in for an at-large bid to the playoff.

If Miami fails to win the ACC, the Hurricanes need to get to No. 10 in the final rankings to garner the "last team in" designation and there's currently three teams ahead of them for that -- realistically five if you consider the No. 11 and No. 12 seeds as placeholders for the ACC and Group of Six champions.

No. 13 Miami (9-2, 5-2 ACC) at No. 24 Pittsburgh (8-3, 6-1), Saturday, noon ET (ABC)

Miami once again is looking like it will need help beyond winning its final game against Pittsburgh if it wants to make the playoff field.

The Miami Hurricanes moved up one spot in this week's College Football Playoff rankings, but here's why they may be frozen out of the tournament.

Virginia, SMU, Pittsburgh, Miami or Duke could be playing for a spot in the College Football Playoff in two weeks with a victory in the ACC Championship Game. Okay, maybe not the five-loss Blue Devils, but there's still a chance the league's doomsday scenario commences and an unranked team wins the conference.

Pittsburgh’s stunning 42–28 upset over No. 16 Georgia Tech on Saturday didn’t just shake up the ACC standings, it pushed the conference closer to a nightmare College Football Playoff scenario in which the league could be left without a representative entirely.