Everyone Wants A Piece Of March Madness, Including College Football Fans

Now that Selection Sunday is over and fans of the Notre Dame Fighting Irish have put “buy drywall repair kit” on their “to-do list” for Monday, we can all start to look forward to The Big Dance, March Madness, or quite simply... the NCAA Tournament.

Printable Bracket

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Notre Dame Starts The Round of 64

The Irish got a bad seed, but the draw was actually quite good. Irish fans won’t have to wait long to watch this team play as Notre Dame is the first game scheduled in the Round of 64. We have start times, stations, and announcing crews for your pleasure.

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UNDefeated As A 5

I’m sure this info is in a lot of places, but since it’s something I didn’t know, I’ll link Tom Noie’s piece on Notre Dame’s Selection Sunday.

Notre Dame is a 5 for the first time since 2008 and fourth time in school history. The Irish are 3-0 as a 5 seed in NCAA openers. They went to the Sweet 16 as a 5 in 2003.

Yes, College Football Wants A Piece Of This Too

The calls for a college football playoff are old and varying in one degree or another. Some hate the 4 team format because they want an 8 team playoff- or even a 16 team playoff. People that want a 32 team playoff aren’t people, they are lizard people sent here to destroy our way of life in the most covert of ways. They are also responsible for the Kardashians and Bravo. It all makes sense now- doesn’t it?

In that spirit, Bleacher Report put together a 16 team format to remake the 2016 season. To make a long story short, the final result was the same. Clemson wins and nothing really changes other than the amount of money between hands.

A couple of things to think about here:

• There is no way of knowing how other games played would affect the games already played. Translation: Would Clemson still beat Alabama if they had to play a couple of games first? Maybe.
• The seeding wasn’t done by ranking alone. It included adjustments for all sorts of things like match-ups and geography.

All in all, I can’t think of any reason to expand the 4 team format other than it makes more money. We get it, March Madness is NUTS and there is so much action both on the court and within banking accounts to make college football jealous. However... a cash grab is all it would be. Football ain’t basketball, and the FBS ain’t the FCS. We pretty much know what we have with the top 5 schools. Number five will just have to do better next year.

Lastly, the regular season that we all love and worship above any regular season played anywhere would be cheapened and watered down for a bid. Don’t screw with that.