College Football Tournament Of College Football Things

What makes college football, college football? Welcome to the Tournament of College Football Things. You decide what makes it what it is.

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What makes college football, college football? Welcome to the Tournament of College Football Things. You decide what makes the sport what it is.


What makes college football the sport it is?

When you think college football, what matters? What’s great about it? What makes the game special?

They can be great games, historic teams, legendary coaches and players, the atmosphere – however you want to define this uniquely American sport.

We’ve created a Tournament of College Football Things, and we’re going to let you vote and decide what goes forward and what or who gets knocked out.

In general, we try to keep this as positive and fun as possible – yes, there are a slew of massive scandals that could be on here – so there’s just one NCAA sanction thing that makes the tournament, partially because it seems quaint by comparison to other controversies.

Go on Twitter to @ColFootballNews and vote throughout the entire process. The First Four voting is up now, and then the rest of the tournament will get started on Monday afternoon.

First Four Out

– Redshirting, 1945 Army, 2-point conversions, Steve Spurrier

College Football Tournament of College Football Things

PLAY-IN THINGS

11 Boise State’s Blue Turf vs. 11 Toomer’s Corner

Line: Toomer’s Corner -21.5
Final Score: COMING
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12 Washington Tailgate Flotilla vs. 12 Tennessee Vol Navy

Line: Tennessee Vol Navy -25.5
Final Score: COMING
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16 2018 Cheez-It Bowl vs. SMU Death Penalty

Line: SMU Death Penalty -16
Final Score: COMING
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16 #MACtion vs. #Pac12AfterDark

Line: #MACtion -4.5
Final Score: COMING
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COLLEGE FOOTBALL TOURNAMENT of COLLEGE FOOTBALL THINGS: POP WARNER REGION

1 Heisman Trophy vs. 16 Homecoming

Line: Heisman -45.5
Final Score: COMING
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8 Death Valley: Clemson vs. 9 Death Valley: LSU

Line: Death Valley: LSU -2.5
Final Score: COMING
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5 Tim Tebow vs. 12 Washington Tailgate Flotilla/Tennessee Vol Navy

Line: COMING
Final Score: COMING
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4 Cheerleaders vs. 13 USC vs. UCLA

Line: Cheerleaders -29.5
Final Score: COMING
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6 Woody vs. Bo vs. 11 Boise State’s Blue Turf/Toomer’s Corner

Line: COMING
Final Score: COMING
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3 Rose Bowl vs. 14 Oklahoma 47 Game Winning Streak

Line: Rose Bowl -31
Final Score: COMING
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7 All Things Notre Dame vs. 10 Mascots

Line: All Things Notre Dame -21.5
Final Score: COMING
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2 Polls vs. 15 Option/Wishbone Offenses

Line: Polls -37.5
Final Score: COMING
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NEXT: EDDIE ROBINSON REGION

2020 NCAA Basketball Tournament Bracket. What Might Have Happened?

What if the 2020 NCAA Basketball Tournament went off like normal? What the bracket might have been, and what would’ve happened in each game?

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What if the 2020 NCAA Basketball Tournament went off like normal? What the bracket might have been, and what would’ve happened in each game?


Let’s just pretend this whole global nightmare thing didn’t happen, and let’s just assume that the 2020 NCAA Basketball Tournament went off as normal.

Everyone is healthy, there are crowds, there are bands, everyone is playing – including Duke and Kansas – and there’s all the fun of what’s normally this most glorious time on the sports calendar.

We’re going to play this out over the next several days from the First Four right up to the national championship with our own brackets, seedings, and game outcomes.

Let’s have some fun.

We try to figure out what the best overall matchups might be, throw in games that would make geographic sense, NET Rankings, and – sorry for being boring – we go chalk on who the conference tournament champions might have been.

And then it’s Game On.

Just so there’s absolutely no confusion – of course the real NCAA Tournament is cancelled – these are all our seedings, matchups, lines, brackets and projections. Nothing about this comes from the NCAA selection committee. 

The 2020 NCAA Basketball Tournament bracket might have been (trying to get it as close to the pin as possible) …

First Four Out

-Wichita State, Texas, Northern Iowa, NC State

2020 NCAA Basketball Tournament First Four. What Might Have Happened?

11 Xavier vs. 11 Stanford

Game Site: Dayton, OH
Line: Xavier -3.5, o/u: 133
Game Analysis, What Would’ve Happened COMING
Final Score: COMING

12 UCLA vs. 12 Liberty

Game Site: Dayton, OH
Line: UCLA -5.5 o/u: 128.5
Game Analysis, What Would’ve Happened COMING
Final Score: COMING

16 Robert Morris vs. Prairie View A&M

Game Site: Dayton, OH
Line: Robert Morris -7.5, o/u: 138
Game Analysis, What Would’ve Happened COMING
Final Score: COMING

16 NC Central vs. Siena

Game Site: Dayton, OH
Line: Siena -8.5, o/u: 141
Game Analysis, What Would’ve Happened COMING
Final Score: COMING

2020 NCAA Basketball Tournament First Round. What Might Have Happened?

2020 NCAA TOURNAMENT EAST REGION

1 Dayton vs. 16 North Dakota State

Game Site: Cleveland, Ohio
Line: Dayton -18.5, o/u: 157
Game Analysis, What Would’ve Happened COMING
Final Score: COMING

8 Florida vs. 9 Arizona State

Game Site: Cleveland, Ohio
Line: Florida -3.5, o/u: 144.5
Game Analysis, What Would’ve Happened COMING
Final Score: COMING

5 Auburn vs. 12 UCLA/Liberty

Game Site: Greensboro, NC
Line: COMING, o/u: COMING
Game Analysis, What Would’ve Happened COMING
Final Score: COMING

4 Louisville vs. 13 New Mexico State

Game Site: Greensboro, NC
Line: Louisville -5.5, o/u: 137
Game Analysis, What Would’ve Happened COMING
Final Score: COMING

6 Illinois vs. 11 Xavier/Stanford

Game Site: Greensboro, NC
Line: COMING, o/u: COMING
Game Analysis, What Would’ve Happened COMING
Final Score: COMING

3 Duke vs. 14 North Texas

Game Site: Greensboro, NC
Line: Duke -21, o/u: 138.5
Game Analysis, What Would’ve Happened COMING
Final Score: COMING

7 Iowa vs. 10 ETSU

Game Site: St. Louis, MO
Line: Iowa -3, o/u: 140.5
Game Analysis, What Would’ve Happened COMING
Final Score: COMING

2 Creighton vs. 15 Eastern Washington

Game Site: St. Louis, MO
Line: Creighton -13, o/u: 146
Game Analysis, What Would’ve Happened COMING
Final Score: COMING

NEXT: 2020 NCAA TOURNAMENT MIDWEST REGION

Notre Dame – Latest on Bubble Watch

Win all four and the case gets stronger with a win that could potentially knock Florida State out of ACC contention for the regular season championship.

Notre Dame basketball picked up a much-needed win over Miami on Sunday, moving them to 17-10 overall on the season and perhaps more importantly, 8-8 in ACC play.  With four games to go before the ACC Tournament it’d appear that a minimum of three wins are needed to even have a chance at an NCAA Tournament berth.

There are those that spend seemingly 52 weeks a year breaking down potential brackets with who is in and who is getting whatever seed.  Let’s go to them to check on the latest on Notre Dame’s very faint bubble hopes:

USA TODAY –
Notre Dame considered, just not taken too seriously.  The good news is that the Fighting Irish find themselves in the “considered” list here and not on the “on life support” list.  However, a total of 11 teams are listed before Notre Dame finds it’s way on the list.  Best way to describe things here are like in “Dumb and Dumber” and the whole “So you’re saying there’s a chance!” line.

Joe Lunardi – ESPN
The bad news here is Notre Dame does not get listed in either the “first four out” or “next four out”.  The good news?  We’ll let you know when we find it.

John Gasaway – ESPN
Gasaway goes conference by conference and lists who is safely in the dance and which teams have work to do.  The good news is that Notre Dame doesn’t appear to have any work to do in his eyes.  However the Fighting Irish basketball team isn’t listed in the “safely in” category, either.

My thoughts: 

You absolutely can’t lose any game other than the Florida State contest in the remaining four regular season games.  A win over Florida State would also go a long way but another bad loss against the likes of Boston College, Wake Forest or Virginia Tech would be disasterous.

Win all four and the case gets stronger with a win that could potentially knock Florida State out of ACC contention for the regular season championship.

If Notre Dame loses to Florida State but plays them close again, all hope probably isn’t lost but a strong showing in the ACC Tournament could at least aid Notre Dame’s hopes.

In short – just win.  A lot.  Doesn’t matter if its close or in blowout fashion, just win otherwise the hopes are going to be gone aside from the extremely unlikely chances that Notre Dame could win the ACC Tournament.