The craziest time of the year for college basketball fans is coming up: March Madness! The biggest thing to do is to fill out the famous March Madness bracket. There are a million dollars on the line if someone were to fill out the perfect bracket, so this is kind of a big deal.

There has never been a perfect bracket before, so who can say what the best way to fill it out is considering there is a 1 in 9,223,372,036,854,775,808 chance of getting everything right. Here are some ways to defy the odds and maybe be the first to create the perfect bracket. Just know whatever way you choose to pick just have fun with it and good luck.

1. Listen to the experts

After the selection show, where every matchup is laid out, you could flip to any sports channel and most likely find the analysts talking about every matchup and predicting the results. There is a good mix of taking the favorite and picking the underdog. Now, all of the experts won't agree on what underdogs are going to win, so the tricky part is picking which upsets the experts think are most likely to happen. This is what most people will resort to because the experts have been paying attention all year, and they are the experts for a reason.

2. Going with the favorite

There are 4 regions (North, South, East, West) that have 16 teams each. These teams are then ranked (1-16) by the selection committee based on their performance that season. The teams also have an overall ranking across the divisions of 1-68. The simplest way of filling out your bracket is just by picking the highest rated seed for every game that happens. This means that the number 1 overall seed in the entire tournament would win the national championship.

3. Flipping a coin

Every year there are underdogs that win that nobody saw winning, even the experts. So, if picking your bracket is all based on luck, then why not just pick every game with pure heads or tails luck? Assign one team to heads and another to tails and whichever lands face up, that team will win and advance. You could do this for every single game for the entire bracket, or if you're stuck with some games that you feel could go either way just flip a coin and go with it.

4. Based on the mascot

One popular and fun way to pick every game is looking at each team's mascot. There are a lot of ways to do this. One way is to look at each and see which would win in a fight. For example, would a badger beat a gopher (obviously)? So then you would choose the Badgers to advance over the Gophers and you continue this for the entire bracket. Another way would be to base it on size or on looks. Get fun with it.

5. Weather conditions

Choosing based on weather conditions can be divided. Maybe you're someone who prefers the heat, so you could go look at the weather at each school and whichever has warmer weather, choose that school to win. Or maybe you like it cold, so you can do the same as the heat and just have the opposite school win.

6. The team coach

One way to choose is to base it solely on the coaches. Whether you choose to base it off the coach with the funniest/weird names, like Mike Krzyzewski or Shaka Smart, or base it on the best looking coaches or the ugliest, it'll be fun to see which will take their team farther. There are many ways to base it off of the coaches, so be creative and see if it works.

7. Team's colors

Do you have a favorite color(s)? Well, if so, try basing your entire bracket on which team has your favorite color in their team colors. Look at the team's primary color first and then once it gets down to say teams having the same shade of blue, then choose based on the team's secondary colors.

8. Relation to you

This can be in multiple ways. Maybe you went to a school or are currently going to a school, so you pick them to go all the way. For every other game, you could pick based on how close the school is to you and have that school win. You could do that the entire time if you have a relation to a school in the tournament, or you could do the opposite and pick the school that is farther away from you.