5 teams that’d pull upsets if College Football had March Madness
If college football had decided its national champion by a March-Madness style tournament here five teams that would have been dangerous in 2021.
One thing March Madness has that college football simply doesn’t have are the upsets. The buzzer-beaters are great but the Cinderella stories are what we love.
The 12-seeds that make the Sweet 16 and so on. We don’t get that in college football. Of course, football doesn’t lend itself to as many upsets — the College Football Playoff is proof of that — but we won’t have a 64-team tournament either.
We see plenty of upsets happening during the college football season. Of course, many of those happen on the road such as Alabama losing to Texas A&M or even Ohio State to Michigan. Does that happen if the Wolverines were in Columbus?
It’s hard to say but that’s something that makes college football great. However, the madness of the regular season has never really translated to the postseason. Bowl games don’t really matter outside of the playoff and there are only four teams that make it.
Yet, if we lived in a magical world that included a 64-team college football playoff, here are five teams with the potential to wreak havoc as a lower seed and pull an upset or upsets in a March Madness-style format.
Texas A&M
Based on its resume last season, Texas A&M would have probably been seeded in the 8-9 range and that would make them a dangerous team in a 64-team college football playoff.
This would be especially true if college football’s March Madness was played on neutral fields. The FCS playoffs are hosted by schools outside of the national championship, so who knows how the format would work but the Aggies would be like that 8-9 seed with lots of unrealized potential.
Texas A&M had to play last season without its starting quarterback but still managed to beat Alabama at home and if the Aggies could beat Alabama, you’d have to give them a puncher’s chance if they matched up against Michigan or Cincinnati in the Round of 32.
Jimbo Fisher is one of the best coaches in college football too and all of the Aggies’ talent would make them an unfavorable matchup, particularly if they faced a non-SEC opponent.