Wild Card Round
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First Round
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Second Round
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Round of 16
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National Championship Quarterfinals
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National Championship Semi-Finals
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National Championship Game
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(1) Alabama
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Alabama Kentucky
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Kentucky Colorado State
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Kentucky Nebraska
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Air Force
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Air Force Nebraska
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Nebraska Pittsburgh
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Nebraska
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Pittsburgh
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Pittsburgh Navy
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Pittsburgh Ohio State
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Navy
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Pittsburgh NC State
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NC State
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NC State Michigan State
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Michigan State
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(4) Ball State
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Ball State Notre Dame
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Ohio State Texas
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Notre Dame Florida Atlantic
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Ball State Fresno State
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Wake Forest
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Wake Forest Fresno State
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Fresno State Ohio State
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Fresno State
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Rutgers
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Rutgers Ohio State
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Ohio State
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Ohio State Western Michigan
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Oklahoma State
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Oklahoma State Western Michigan
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Western Michigan
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(5) Texas
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Texas Arizona
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Ohio State LSU
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Arizona
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Texas Ole Miss
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Ole Miss
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Ole Miss Kansas
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Texas TCU
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Kansas
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Oregon State
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Oregon State Wisconsin
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Texas Florida
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Wisconsin
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Wisconsin TCU
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South Carolina
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South Carolina TCU
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TCU
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Florida
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Florida Hawaii
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Hawaii
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Florida Rice
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Rice
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Rice Florida State
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Florida Georgia
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Florida State
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Louisiana Tech
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Louisiana Tech Georgia
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Georgia
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Georgia Clemson
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Clemson
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Clemson Virginia Tech
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Virginia Tech
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Arkansas State Northern Illinois
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Arkansas State Boise State
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(3) Boise State
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Boise State BYU
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BYU
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BYU Central Michigan
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Boise State LSU
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Central Michigan
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LSU
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LSU Oregon
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LSU Penn State
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Oregon
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LSU Georgia Tech
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Nevada
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Nevada Georgia Tech
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Georgia Tech
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Bowling Green
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Bowling Green Oklahoma
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LSU Miami
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Oklahoma
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Oklahoma California
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South Florida
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South Florida California
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Oklahoma Penn State
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California
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Buffalo
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Buffalo Penn State
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Penn State
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Penn State North Carolina
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East Carolina
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East Carolina North Carolina
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North Carolina
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USC
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USC Minnesota
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Minnesota
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USC Iowa
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Northwestern
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Northwestern Iowa
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USC Texas Tech
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Iowa
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Texas Tech
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Texas Tech Maryland
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Texas Tech Miami
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Maryland
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Texas Tech Missouri
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Missouri
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Missouri West Virginia
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West Virginia
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Vanderbilt
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Vanderbilt Boston College
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Boston College
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Vanderbilt Cincinnati
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Tulsa
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Tulsa Cincinnati
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Vanderbilt Miami
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Cincinnati
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Miami
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Miami Connecticut
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Connecticut
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Miami Utah
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Troy Southern Mississippi
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Troy Utah
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(2) Utah
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