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 Round 1 & 2 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 (WE ARE HERE, OH SO MUCH LEFT TO GO BUT NOW WE GOT SOME FBS AND FCS FLAVOR IN HERE)

• Round 4 - 128 Winners from Round 3 + 128 New Entrants = 128 Teams Advance

• 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.

• 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. No football makes the Commish go crazy, but thankfully the CFL is ongoing to ease my mind a little bit. Go Riders. 

For Round 3, the tweaks may be a little more noticeable, as a team ranked in the 700s likely wouldn’t stand a chance against a Division I team, but a team ranked in the 400s still may have an outside chance. Ok, enough talking, it’s time for some bracket action.

ROUND 3 - 128 new entrants, 256 teams battle and 128 teams survive!

At least I only have to do this many brackets for this and the next round.

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

Cinderellas Remaining – Teams Ranked 500 or Lower

• 757 Southern Virginia

• 736 Concordia-Chicago (TOOK DOWN PURDUE)

• 726 Central Methodist (Mo.)

• 651 Martin Luther

• 649 Bowdoin

• 614 Plymouth State

• 586 Dakota State (S.D.)

• 538 Shippensburg

• 530 New Mexico Highlands

• 525 St. Olaf (Alma Mater of the Sickos Cartoonist)

• 507 Olivet Nazarene (Ill.)

Round 4 - 128 Winners From Round 3 + THE FINAL 128 New Entrants = 128 Teams Advance

128 teams are entering Round 4 - Welcome the new entrants below, as this is the rest of FBS and FCS here.

Remember these rankings are from Bill C and not us!! You can yell at him because he’s used to it.  

• 1 Ohio State

• 2 Ole Miss

• 3 Oregon

• 4 Alabama

• 5 Penn State

• 6 Georgia

• 7 Texas

• 8 Notre Dame

• 9 Tennessee

• 10 Miami-FL

• 11 Indiana

• 12 SMU

• 13 Texas A&M

• 14 South Carolina

• 15 LSU

• 16 Iowa

• 17 BYU

• 18 Kansas State

• 19 Missouri

• 20 Florida

• 21 Louisville

• 22 Clemson

• 23 USC

• 24 Arkansas

• 25 TCU

• 26 Michigan

• 27 Minnesota

• 28 Iowa State

• 29 Boise State

• 30 Virginia Tech

• 31 Illinois

• 32 Memphis

• 33 Oklahoma

• 34 Auburn

• 35 Arizona State

• 36 UNLV

• 37 Army

• 38 Baylor

• 39 Colorado

• 40 Utah

• 41 James Madison

• 42 Rutgers

• 43 Tulane

• 44 Duke

• 45 Kentucky

• 46 Syracuse

• 47 Nebraska

• 48 Texas State

• 49 North Carolina

• 50 Kansas

• 51 Pittsburgh

• 52 Vanderbilt

• 53 UL-Lafayette

• 54 Texas Tech

• 55 California

• 56 NC State

• 57 Navy

• 58 Washington

• 59 Marshall

• 60 Wisconsin

• 61 South Alabama

• 62 UCF

• 63 Ohio

• 64 UTSA

• 65 West Virginia

• 66 Georgia Tech

• 67 Connecticut

• 68 Washington State

• 69 Miami-OH

• 70 Boston College

• 71 Montana State

• 72 South Dakota State

• 73 Liberty

• 74 Cincinnati

• 75 Jacksonville State

• 76 East Carolina

• 77 UCLA

• 78 North Dakota State

• 79 Georgia Southern

• 80 Bowling Green

• 81 Western Kentucky

• 82 USF

• 83 Toledo

• 84 Oklahoma State

• 85 Arizona

• 86 Florida State

• 87 Northern Illinois

• 88 Fresno State

• 89 Maryland

• 90 Buffalo

• 91 Mississippi State

• 92 North Texas

• 93 Michigan State

• 94 Virginia

• 95 San Jose State

• 96 Wake Forest

• 97 Colorado State

• 98 South Dakota

• 99 Old Dominion

• 100 Troy

• 101 Oregon State

• 102 Sam Houston

• 103 Coastal Carolina

• 104 Appalachian State

• 105 Northwestern

• 106 Houston

• 107 Stanford

• 108 Arkansas State

• 109 Western Michigan

• 110 Utah State

• 111 Hawaii

• 112 Delaware

• 113 UAB

• 114 Rice

• 115 Louisiana Tech

• 116 Air Force

• 117 Florida International

• 118 UC Davis

• 119 Florida Atlantic

• 120 Harvard

• 121 Jackson State

• 122 Eastern Michigan

• 123 Wyoming

• 124 Mercer

• 125 Incarnate Word

• 126 UT Martin

• 127 New Mexico

• 128 Nevada

SEE YOU NEXT TIME FOR ROUND 4 OF

THE SICKOS COMMITTEE’S

COLLEGE FOOTBALL

FA CUP

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