The event has been held at the Moda Center and Veterans Memorial Coliseum in the Rose Quarter.

Each of the Power Five conferences of FBS football had two teams participating—the ACC (Duke and North Carolina), the Big 12 (Oklahoma and Texas), the Big Ten (Michigan State and Ohio State), the Pac-12 (Oregon and Stanford) and the SEC (Arkansas and Florida).

Teams from the same conference were placed in separate brackets to avoid non-league sanctioned matchups.

[3] The field included 10 of the previous 14 National Champions and three of the Final Four participants from the 2017 NCAA tournament (North Carolina, Gonzaga, and Oregon).

The two eight-team brackets ran simultaneously in the Moda Center and Veterans Memorial Coliseum with the crowning of two champions.

Furman, New Hampshire, Northeastern, and Utah State participated with the games held at the Nashville Municipal Auditorium.