Regardless of what happens in the final two weeks of the United Football League’s regular season, the Birmingham Stallions will open the postseason at home.

On Wednesday, the UFL announced the USFL Conference Championship Game will be played at 2 p.m. June 8 at Protective Stadium in Birmingham. ABC will televise the game.

The Stallions and the Michigan Panthers already have locked up their spots in the USFL Conference Championship Game. Birmingham has an 8-0 record, and the Panthers are 6-2. The other two teams in the United Football League’s USFL Conference – the Houston Roughnecks and Memphis Showboats – have 1-7 records.

The UFL has assigned the game to Birmingham even though Michigan has an opportunity catch the Stallions in the standings. For that to happen, Birmingham would have to lose its remaining two regular-season games against the San Antonio Brahmas and Panthers while Michigan defeated the Roughnecks and the Stallions.

Birmingham defeated the Panthers 20-13 on April 7 in the second week of the season.

That game at Ford Field in Detroit had an announced attendance of 7,475. For its five home games this season, Michigan’s average attendance was 8,136. At 10,957 through four games, Birmingham’s attendance this season has been 35 percent more than the Panthers’.

The winner of the USFL Conference Championship Game will play the winner of the XFL Conference Championship Game in the UFL Championship Game at 4 p.m. June 16 at the Dome at America’s Center in St. Louis.

The XFL Conference Championship Game will match the Brahmas and the St. Louis Battlehawks at 6 p.m. June 9. The location of the game has not been announced.

Tickets for the USFL Conference Championship Game will go on sale on Thursday.

The Stallions play the Brahmas at 2 p.m. Saturday at the Alamodome in San Antonio. ABC will televise the game. Birmingham closes its regular-season schedule in what’s turned out to be the opening game of twinbill against Michigan at 11 a.m. June 1 at Protective Stadium. ESPN will televise the game.

Mark Inabinett is a sports reporter for Alabama Media Group. Follow him on Twitter at @AMarkG1.