World Cup of College Football - 1996
 

Inspired by Collegesportsfan's dynasty I decided to do something semi similar. I picked the 1996 season because, well no real reason other than I already had the teams picked out. I will be using Second and Ten Football to sim the games and going with a world cup format. There will be 32 teams to start and each team will play the other team in their group once. The games are being played on a neutral field like the World Cup is for the most part. The top two teams in each group will then advance to the 16 team tournament. I used the end of season rankings for 1996 and used the tp 8 teams to start each group. Then I added the additional 24 teams by using a random number generator.

I am hoping to track the top single game performances in a few categories, tournament records for rushing, passing, receiving yards etc. So let's move on to the groups.

Group A and B
 

Group A

#1 Florida - 12-1
#17 Kansas State - 9-3
#16 Washington - 9-3
East Carolina - 8-3

Group B

#4 Arizona State - 11-1
#15 Northwestern - 9-3
San Diego State - 8-3
#18 Iowa 9-3

Group C and D
 

Group C

#3 Florida State - 11-1
#21 Syracuse - 9-3
#10 North Carolina - 10-2
#19 Notre Dame - 9-3



Group D

#7 Penn State - 11-2
#13 Va Tech - 10-2
#12 LSU - 10-2
#11 Alabama - 10-3

And here is the group of death, sheesh

Group E and F
 

Group E

#2 Ohio State - 11-1
#9 Tennessee - 10-2
#25 Army - 10-2
#20 Michigan - 8-4

Group F

#8 Colorado - 10-2
#14 Miami - 9-3
#24 Auburn - 8-4
Virginia - 7-5

Group G and H
 

Group G

#8 BYU - 14-1
#22 Wyoming - 10-2
Stanford - 7-5
West Virginia - 8-4

Group H

#6 Nebraska - 11-2
Wisconsin - 8-5
#23 Texas - 8-5
Southern Mississippi - 8-3


Hopefully I will be able to get some games played tomorrow and post at least the first two weeks results.

Looking forward to seeing how this plays out. Go Kansas State!