2006-2007 NCAA Football Tournament

[detroitbasketball]

I didn't finish this last year....and I deeply regret it. This year I vow to finish this. Here's how my tournament will work:

• Played with NCAA Football 07 for Xbox 360. Since there's no spectator mode (damn you EA), I'll just control whichever team is on defense and ask Corso for every play. The CPU automatically controls the defense when you don't touch the controller, not so for offense, so that's the least input I can give without actually playing the game. I don't want anyone accusing me of rigging this
  
• 32 teams - the 11 conference champions will get automatic bids, and 21 other teams will get "at-large" bids. I base everything on a poll of all 119 teams I've got somewhere - I do not make this poll - and that's how I'll decide the at-large bids and seeding.
  
• Obviously each round is single elimination.
  
• Each game will be played a neutral site - these have already been decided. For example, the 1 vs. 8 game in the top left bracket will be the Poinsettia Bowl. The winner goes to the Holiday Bowl. Each bracket is named after the bowl game where the regional championship will be held - for example, that top left bracket will be named the Fiesta Bracket because the regional final is the Fiesta Bowl. This probably isn't clear - but that's your problem.
  
• The location of each team on the bracket is not determined by region - for example, I didn't try and put west teams in a west bracket or midwest teams in a midwest bracket. I slotted the teams in hopes of getting the best matchups, both first round and in later rounds.
  

So here is the updated bracket:

[wiskyisback]

what site did you get this bracket off of?

[Chief Bstn]

He made it.

[detroitbasketball]

It's a program.

[wiskyisback]

what would be the name of that program?

[Chief Bstn]

ASM-Needs-To-Leave-Pedia

[detroitbasketball]

"The Bracket Program ASM Cannot Download"

It's a trial version, although I've found a loophole in it.

[sep]

Interesting. UGA made it. We own Wisconsin in real life, hopefully it transfer into the game.

[detroitbasketball]

Georgia snuck in there this week thanks to their victory. They're firmly on the bubble. They're most likely safe unless the pollsters have a change of heart.

[ChisAto]

How come we have the hardest #8 team! Clemson.

[ryandman89]

This is pretty cool. Good to see A&M in there and maybe they can pull off some upsets.

[detroitbasketball]

chisato said:

How come we have the hardest #8 team! Clemson.

The way Clemson's been playing lately, I'd be grateful.

[ChisAto]

I'd take them over Middle Tennessee State. They are decent but clemson would win.

[detroitbasketball]

Remember, I can still switch it around.

Middle Tennessee is by far the worst team in the tournament, but you know.

[USN]

detroitbasketball said:

Middle Tennessee is by far the worst team in the tournament, but you know.

I myself was wondering how they got in

[sep]

detroitbasketball said:

32 teams - the 11 conference champions will get automatic bids

Im guessing

[detroitbasketball]

detroitbasketball said:

32 teams - the 11 conference champions will get automatic bids

Middle Tennessee won the Sun Belt Conference.

[USN]

too bad they can't be forced to give up their auto bid for another big conference school that was bowl eligible and didn't get in one

[detroitbasketball]

Meh, everyone else who didn't get in can have their silly nobody-cares bowl games.

I think it's fair....college football D-1 is about half the size of college basketball D-1, so the college football tournament is half the size of D-1.

[detroitbasketball]

Basically, this is to save this from falling off the first page...

Central Michigan is in after winning last night. I know nobody cares.