How come the hoops junkies get to have all the fun in March?
Yeah, we have spring football to keep us from going into complete withdrawal, but that's not the same as the real thing.
So we're going to take a page out of Washington State coach Mike Leach's playbook and create our own version of March Madness in football. Leach has suggested college football should reduce the number of regular-season games to 10 and use a 64-team field to decide the national championship.
We've heeded his call -- and using ESPN's preseason FPI rankings as a guide -- have seeded the teams 1-64 and will play out the 2017 postseason round by round, just like they do in hoops.