One story I missed from a couple weeks ago was CONCACAF changing the qualifying format for the 2022 World Cup due to the pandemic.
Instead of the hex, they'll do an octagonal final round with 14 matches being played between 8 teams. The "Octagonal" will take place between June 2021 and March 2022 with the top 3 teams automatically going through and the 4th place team going to the inter-confederation playoffs.
With the change in format, the top 5 teams (rather than top 6 which was how it was previously going to be done) in the July 2020 FIFA rankings automatically go through to the final round. The Top 5 teams are Mexico, the U.S., Costa Rica, Jamaica, and Honduras. The remaining teams in CONCACAF will be drawn into six groups of five in a seeded draw. The next six highest ranking teams in CONCACAF (El Salvador, Canada, Curacao, Panama, Haiti, and Trinidad & Tobago) are pre-seeded into Groups A-F. Each team plays every other team in their group once (two home matches, two away matches) with the matches taking place in October and November 2020.
At the end of the first round, the group winners of each of the groups will face each other in home-and-home with the match-ups already determined (Group A vs. Group F; Group B vs. E; Group C vs. Group D) with the matches taking place in March 2021. The three winners of these match-ups then move onto the Octagonal.