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Today, let’s make everything about us. We’re turning the NCAA Tournament into a football thing. (I assume the following image is too small to read on your phone, so below it, I’ve also screenshotted each region individually.)
Football Madness: Here is way too much football
A decade or so ago, in the time of the BCS and early CFP, using March as the occasion for putting together a comically huge college football bracket felt like a fantastical exercise. Obviously, a big bracket would never happen!
But now? With decision-makers discussing potential expansion to 16 even before the 12-teamer happened? Kinda feels like this large bracket is merely ahead of the S-curve.
To make this edition, I looked for a website with a well-designed bracket PDF. That website happened to be my employer’s. (Men’s and women’s printable brackets.) Then I ruined that design in Paintbrush.
As for seeding:
- I included automatic bids for all Division I conference champs, just like basketball, even though the Big Ten and SEC would lobby for 34 auto-bids each. Absolutely, 5-7 Oregon State is here, a reward for going 1-0 in conference.
- Then, a…
