Let’s check in on all 32 teams, and then some.

Hello, fan of American football. The World Cup is happening. Here’s a quick way to get caught up on the whole thing and/or know how to make fun of each team.

Australia

Talented. Weird weather. Weird animals. Weird food. Legendary tailgating fans. Has its own continent all to itself, at least spiritually. LSU.

Croatia

West Virginia! It’s a rowdy breakoff republic that’s usually underrated, due to its small size and sparse population.

France

Georgia, with its tons of talent, long decades without titles, and inexplicable struggle to be consistently elite.

Iceland

UCF, the team willing itself into the national picture. Also, Epcot now has an Iceland-ish exhibit, thanks to Queen Elsa.

Denmark

One star player surrounded by a lot of basic competence? Stanford, any year since Andrew Luck showed up.

Mexico

Fired up! Always top 20, but never No. 1! Probably a little too passionate! How about Oklahoma State?

Iran

They have a respected coach who’s turned a lot of bad teams into decent teams, but hasn’t gone beyond that. Iran is wherever Skip Holtz is at the moment. Iran is Louisiana Tech.

Peru

Well, your best player is frequently suspended, so you’re Florida State, Oklahoma, or an SEC team.

Uruguay

A dirty team with some big wins a long time ago, all based in a (really beautiful!) area you probably wouldn’t visit otherwise: BYU.

Saudi Arabia

Liberty.

Sweden

A little cultish, and dearly missing its best player ever? Texas A&M.

Senegal

A fun mid-major with actual star players, much like, say, Ed Oliver at Houston.

Serbia

Big, strong athletes you’ll probably regret facing, even if you beat them? Utah.

Japan

Talent on its way out, with little to show for it: NC State’s 2017 NFL Draft crop.

Morocco

Really tough little defense, but more known for oddball moments. Appalachian State? Troy?

Egypt

A mediocre team with one player really worth caring about, all surrounded by desert. Welcome to Arizona.

Argentina

Pretty great and super talented, but its fans are perpetually offended by not being the sole topic of every discussion about the sport: Ohio State.

South Korea

A currently solid team without a ton of historic success, but with some new tricks up its sleeve: Purdue.

Switzerland
and Tunisia

Boring teams. One of you is Iowa, and the other is South Carolina. Decide it amongst yourselves.

Portugal

So what have you really gained from having the best player? Portugal, you are the Louisville Cardinals.

Nigeria

Arizona State! Fast and fun, but with really baffling leadership.

Panama

Vontaze Burfict. Not Arizona State entire, just Vontaze Burfict.

Italy (not participating)

You make cars, you have really old titles, your games are in no particular hurry, and you’re pretty weird. You’re Michigan.

Costa Rica

A relatively tiny country has made five World Cups now, all of them recent, including a top-10 finish and takedowns of a couple big names. This sounds like Boise State.

Belgium

Staggering underachievement despite plenty of talent. UCLA!

Spain

You like playing in bowls, shady accounting, animals with large horns, and huge piles of money, but have just one title in recent memory? Texas!

Netherlands (not participating)

A history of offensive innovation, blue-and-orange unis, and success, though not quite as much as one would expect: Florida.

Poland

Memphis? We can’t remember why we settled on Memphis as Poland. Just enjoy the poetry of “Memphis is Poland.”

Colombia

Sexy in yellow, but without any titles: the Oregon Ducks, who likewise came pretty close in 2014.

England

Maybe the easiest pick on the board. Old money + not all that great since the middle of the previous century + a landmark figure in the history of the sport + sprawling fanbase + huge letdowns that are letdowns despite everyone seeing them coming + always on NBC = Notre Dame.

Brazil

Glamorous talent, tons of style, spectacular defeats, a list of championships in various decades, a really old home stadium, and perpetually a contender? That’s USC.

Russia, the host

You’re bad, boring, and only in this thing because of your location. Russia, you are Rutgers.

United States (not participating)

Nobody ever knows who’s in charge of it, but we’ve spent the last couple decades talking ourselves into it breaking through anyway, so: Tennessee.

Germany

Bama.