116 Team MEGA Tournament

[wiscowilz]

When you vote please let me know why?


I chose some of the oldest and most iconic bowls for the round of 8, 4 and championship

Round of 8 Bowl Games"
Bracket 1/8: Sun Bowl
Bracket 2/7: Cotton Bowl
Bracket 3/6: Gator Bowl
Bracket 4/5: Fiesta Bowl

Final 4 Bowl Games:
1/8/4/5: Orange Bowl
2/7/3/6: Sugar Bowl

Finals:
ROSE BOWL


If the Round of 16 is bowl games I will decide later which 8 games will host.

I will probably choose games that are not sponsor named (i.e. Capital One Bowl)

[wiscowilz]

With work starting back up Monday (I'm a teacher and coach) I decided to spend all day today finishing my regular season on my REAL dynasty. Will try and simulate the next bracket before bed and one more tomorrow around getting some work done.

[king_brandon_23]

Haven't seen this thread until now, I've always thought this would be really cool like march madness in basketball. The only difference is while reading I almost picked 100% of the matchups correct unlike my actual march madness bracket

Although it looks like our badgers are gonna be screwed against Alabama.

[wiscowilz]

Big Ten and SEC lose first team (SEC due to two teams facing each other), CUSA continues to struggle, Independent's pick up first win, 2 upsets and a couple of first half scares highlight bracket 2:

#66 Navy def. #63 Syracuse 30-24 in OT
---Syracuse tied the game :11 into the 4th quarter and neither team could do anything else in regulation.
---Cuse had the ball first and threw an INT that was almost returned for a TD.
000Navy scored to win.

#31 USC def. #98 Minnesota 41-27
---USC up 21-3 after one quarter
---Final 3 quarters played even
---Big Tens first loss

#34 Virginia Tech def. #95 Marshall 46-14

#15 Texas def. #114 FIU 47-21
---FIU was up 14-7 and 21-14 before being outscored 33-0 in the second half

#50 Tennessee def. #70 San Jose State 37-14
---SJ scored 1st then Tenn scored 17 unanswered and 20 straight after SJ St 2nd TD

#18 Boise State def. #111 Southern Miss
---Boise scored first 28 of second half after going into half with a 21-21 tie

In a rare conference 1st round matchup and even more rare rivalry game...
#82 Kentucky def. #47 Mississippi State 31-24
---Kentucky took a 24-17 lead in the 4th and scored again very quick after regaining the ball after a Miss St fumble on their next possession.
---Miss St. moved within a TD but threw an INT with :22 left in the game
---SECs first loss (but to another conference team)

[wiscowilz]

Quote: Originally Posted by king_brandon_23

Haven't seen this thread until now, I've always thought this would be really cool like march madness in basketball. The only difference is while reading I almost picked 100% of the matchups correct unlike my actual march madness bracket Although it looks like our badgers are gonna be screwed against Alabama.

Yeah talk about a crappy draw...was hoping to avoid one of the top teams until the final 8, but you never know what is going to happen...there have been several upsets.

[wiscowilz]

UPDATED 2nd round matches:

Teams who pulled off first round upsets (based on seed/ranking)

Bracket 1:
#64 SD State @ #1 Alabama
#97 Toledo @ #33 Wisconsin
#49 Iowa @ #16 Oklahoma State
#48 Texas Tech @ #17 TCU (Big 12 Matchup)

Bracket 8:
#72 Ohio @ #8 South Carolina
#40 Utah @ #25 Vanderbilt
#56 Fresno State @ #9 Clemson
#88 SMU @ #24 NIU

Bracket 4:
#61 Virginia @ #4 Texas A&M
#36 Michigan State @ #29 Washington
#52 Pitt @ #13 Oklahoma
#84 Colorado @ #20 UCLA (PAC 12 Matchup)

Bracket 5: (3 games include total of 4 SEC teams)
#69 Purdue @ #5 Georgia
#92 Troy @ #28 Northwestern
#53 Missouri @ @12 LSU (SEC Matchup)
#44 Arkansas @ #21 Kansas State

Bracket 2:
#66 Navy @ #2 Ohio State
#34 Va Tech @ #31 USC
#50 Tennessee @ #15 Texas
#82 Kentucky @ #18 Boise

[e61893]

Where's bracket 3??? Thanks for your work.

[wiscowilz]

Quote: Originally Posted by e61893

Where's bracket 3??? Thanks for your work.

Havent done it yet.

When you set it up Bracket 1, 8, 4, 5 end up together and 2, 7, 3, 6 end up together because when you get to the final 8 it will be

1 v. 8
4 v. 5

2 v. 7
3 v. 6

And then the winners of those brackets face off.

So I started with the the top half of the 8 brackets and just started the lower half.

Bracket 3 will be next then 7 then 6.