Welcome back! If you don’t know what is happening here, it is something ridiculous, and I really hope you enjoy it. If you missed Rounds 1-3 of the Sickos Committee College Football FA Cup, I have linked them for you here below.

In the first version of this, I asked you to suspend all disbelief immediately. I needed you to dismiss any notions that this would never happen and just go with me on this journey. This is a fantasy college football world, and I wanted you along for the ride. So make sure you check your notions of realness at the door.

Here was how we broke it down for the 764 teams in the College Football FA Cup. Each round draw will be a random draw until we set a hard bracket with the final 16 teams. So remember when you saw teams advance, and it appeared they would meet up in the next round?? Yeah, that will not happen. Everyone is thrown back into a pot until the Round of 16.

Here is the order of the Rounds below:

• Round 1 - 504 Teams Enter = 252 Teams Advance.

• Round 2 - 252 Winners From Round 1 + 4 New Entrants = 128 Teams Advance

• Round 3 - 128 Winners From Round 2 + 128 New Entrants = 128 Teams Advance

• Round 4 - 128 Winners from Round 3 + 128 New Entrants = 128 Teams Advance (WE ARE HERE, OH SO MUCH LEFT TO GO BUT NOW ALL TEAMS HAVE FINALLY ENTERED THE TOURNEY)

• Round 5 - 128 Winners from Round 4 = 64 Teams Advance

• Round 6 - 64 Winners from Round 5 = 32 Teams Advance

• Round 7 - 32 Winners from Round 6 = 16 Teams Advance

• 16 Team Bracket is Set for the Final Path to the College Football FA Cup

• Round 8 - 16 Winners from Round 7 = 8 Teams Advance to the Quarterfinals

• Round 9 - 8 Winners from Round 8 = 4 Teams Advance to the Semifinals

• Round 10 - 4 Winners from Round 9 = 2 Teams Advance to the Championship

• Round 11 - College Football FA Cup Final played at the Independence Bowl

Now, for Round 1, we did a completely random draw for the winners with our random score generator. We wanted some element of whimsy mixed with some chaos for Round 1. We really don’t know what teams would take this seriously. And this could technically apply for all rounds.

• Would they let the backups start?

• Try to rest all their star players for this tourney?

• Would they go with a heavily rotated squad, as they sometimes do in England?

In our minds, this College Football FA Cup is going on alongside the regular season. For Round 2, we slightly tweaked things using the SP+ and make the favorites ever so slightly favored in the random score generator. (Hopefully you didn’t notice it.) Meaning, we think the longer the tourney goes on, more and more teams will actually be taking it seriously.

However, a Round 3 team in FCS or FBS may prioritize their conference or winning their games to try to make the FCS Playoffs or a bowl game at 6-6. We really don’t know what a payout would be for advancing each round here because this is completely hypothetical where everything is made up and the scores don’t matter (yeah, right, y'all still kind of take this seriously). It is really a gigantic waste of my time, but it's the offseason, and I have to keep busy somehow, or I would likely go insane.

This is Round 4; we've got all the remaining top teams in Division I coming into this now. That means your defending national champions could likely be facing one of our remaining 11 Cinderella teams (ranked 500 or worse). The match-ups will be wild and could even pit two Top 25 FBS teams against each other in this round. We don’t know since EVERY TEAM IS IN A RANDOM DRAW AND THERE ARE NO SEEDS, just like the FA Cup. Also, would Ohio State roll out the 3rd stringers against New Mexico Highlands if they played?? That is a question for hypothetical Ryan Day. Let’s get to the randomly drawn brackets already!!

ROUND 4 - THE FINAL 128 NEW ENTRANTS, 256 teams battle and 128 teams survive!

The final time I have to do this many brackets. Whew, thank the lawd.

Also, remember the big schools could be playing away at the smaller schools, just like in the FA CUP!

Only TWO Cinderellas Remain – Teams Ranked 500 or Lower

• 757 Southern Virginia

• 649 Bowdoin

Cinderellas Remaining – Teams Ranked 300 or Lower

• 445 Brockport

• 417 Coe College

• 369 Grove City

• 329 Southern Oregon

• 319 Utah Tech

• 304 Murray State

Stay Tuned for

ROUND 5 OF

THE SICKOS COMMITTEE

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

FA CUP!!!