March Madness Style College Football Tournament

Every year college basketball creates a must-see tournament that 355 full member teams from all 32 conferences get to participate in. Schools compete throughout the season to be seeded in their conference tournament. The winners of those conference tournaments then become automatic bids for the NCAA Tournament. The remaining 36 slots are awarded to teams with the best season who did not win their conference tournament. This tournament provides all kinds of excitement, upsets, and more.

College Football has expanded their playoff to 12 teams, but what would it look like if it had 68 teams with every conference guaranteed a bid?

College Football only has 9 conferences (not including the 2 team Pac12) and 134 teams. To counter the lack of teams, I created 33 "conferences" made up of 4 teams (2 of the conferences have 5 teams) based on closest geographic neighbors (some decisions were easier than others).

These teams will compete round robin style to determine a champion. All but the lowest ranked champion will earn a campus home game to start the tournament. All of the 2nd place teams will earn at-large bids and go on the road in the first round. The two best FPI 3rd place teams will play in the play-in game against the worst Power 4 at large teams.

Below are the 33 Conferences. All games will played on a neutral bowl field in that region.

Northeast Based Groups:

Southeast Based Groups:

Great Lakes Based Groups:

Midwest Based Groups:

Southwest Based Groups:

West and Northwest Based Groups:

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