In honor of March Madness, here's a 68-team college football bracket

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Today, lets make everything about us.

Were turning the NCAA Tournament into a football thing.

(I assume the following image is too small to read on your phone, so below it, Ive also screenshotted each region individually.) 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.

Advertisement To make this edition, I looked for a website with a well-designed bracket PDF.

That website happened to be my employers.

( Mens and womens printable brackets.) Then I ruined that design in Paintbrush.

As for seeding: (Also, were not considering FCS-FBS lines for Upset Watch, because Vegas would say I overrated FCS teams.

Vegas doesnt understand our alternate reality, in which FCS teams have been making the 68-team CFP for years and thus have recruited more FBS-level talent.) More bracket below, after this newsletter does its actual job and shares some actual football news.

A nine-figure shot at relevance for a football program that has never won a conference title.

Matt Baker on USF s $340 million stadium bet .

Early notes on the QB battles (or non-battles) at Michigan , Georgia and Ohio State .

Some universities are invoking a new threat to keep their players: Leave, and youll owe us money.

Stewart Mandel and Ralph Russo on NIL buyouts .

For real, why dont you two just merge already? Late last week, the Pac-12 and Mountain West approached legal resolution .

Every few years, somebody floats the idea of turning spring games into scrimmages with other teams.

Time might be right, and Colorado might be the team that could do it .

Also, here were the first four teams out of the bracket: Rutgers, Boston College, UCLA and Montana.

A team from my beloved Big Sky Conference falling short proves I oversaw an ethical process.

Before we go, three things to share with you before this weeks tipoffs of the actual NCAA tourneys, the ones with basketball: Love Until Saturday? Check out The Athletic s other newsletters .

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