# Oak's Bowl Pick'em 2012

**URL:** <https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oaks-bowl-pickem-2012/642822>\
**Category:** The Game Room\
**Created:** [December 3, 2012, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oaks-bowl-pickem-2012/642822 "2012-12-03T04:48:25Z")\
**Posts on this page:** 13\
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**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 4:48am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oaks-bowl-pickem-2012/642822/1 "2012-12-03T04:48:25Z")

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Once again, I’m doing a College Bowl Pick’em league. Picks are not available yet, but you can join the league. There is no limit on the number of players. Everyone is welcome. We’re using confidence point scoring.

Signup info:

Group ID# 11489  
password: cecil

Invitations have been sent to everyone that played last year.

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**Author:** ![flickster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/f/7bcc69/32.png) [@flickster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/flickster)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 5:27am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oaks-bowl-pickem-2012/642822/2 "2012-12-03T05:27:04Z")

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I’m in

Santa, bring the Vols a coach

🙂

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**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 5:41am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oaks-bowl-pickem-2012/642822/3 "2012-12-03T05:41:21Z")

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I guess I should have mentioned that the league is at Yahoo.

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**Author:** ![dalej42](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/d/67e7ee/32.png) [@dalej42](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/dalej42)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 10:05am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oaks-bowl-pickem-2012/642822/4 "2012-12-03T10:05:29Z")

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I don’t think I played last year, but I’m in for this year.

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**Author:** ![Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/j/9de053/32.png) [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Jackknifed_Juggernaut)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 11:03am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oaks-bowl-pickem-2012/642822/5 "2012-12-03T11:03:53Z")

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Me too. Is there a link?

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**Author:** ![Zeldar](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/z/b77776/32.png) [@Zeldar](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Zeldar)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 2:18pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oaks-bowl-pickem-2012/642822/6 "2012-12-03T14:18:43Z")

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Beasley’s in. Thanks again, Oak.

The pick’em makes an otherwise dull season fun. 🙂

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**Author:** ![Frosted\_Glass](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/frosted_glass/32/3926_2.png) [@Frosted\_Glass](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Frosted_Glass)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 4:17pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oaks-bowl-pickem-2012/642822/7 "2012-12-03T16:17:39Z")

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Thanks **Oak**! I’m in. GO RU!

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**Author:** ![Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://sea3.discourse-cdn.com/straightdope/user_avatar/boards.straightdope.com/fear_the_turtle/32/2926_2.png) [@Fear\_the\_Turtle](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Fear_the_Turtle)\
**Post date:** [December 3, 2012, 6:07pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oaks-bowl-pickem-2012/642822/8 "2012-12-03T18:07:34Z")

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It’s pretty much the only reason to watch about 3/4 of these Bowl Games.

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**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\
**Post date:** [December 4, 2012, 3:39am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oaks-bowl-pickem-2012/642822/9 "2012-12-04T03:39:06Z")

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Picks are now available.

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**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\
**Post date:** [December 11, 2012, 2:26am UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oaks-bowl-pickem-2012/642822/10 "2012-12-11T02:26:05Z")

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> [@Jackknifed\_Juggernaut](#):
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> Me too. Is there a link?

[Here you go](http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/bowl?tid=95607)

BumblingWreck is in.

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**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\
**Post date:** [December 15, 2012, 6:43pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oaks-bowl-pickem-2012/642822/11 "2012-12-15T18:43:36Z")

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Courtesy Bump,

One game has started, but still time to join the fun and pick the other games.

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**Author:** ![notfrommensa](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/n/f14d63/32.png) [@notfrommensa](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/notfrommensa)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 7:42pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oaks-bowl-pickem-2012/642822/12 "2012-12-23T19:42:08Z")

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Oak: do you realize that you can adjust confidence levels on the games? So far your games are right in order

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**Author:** ![Oakminster](https://avatars.discourse-cdn.com/v4/letter/o/77aa72/32.png) [@Oakminster](https://boards.straightdope.com/u/Oakminster)\
**Post date:** [December 23, 2012, 9:04pm UTC](https://boards.straightdope.com/t/oaks-bowl-pickem-2012/642822/13 "2012-12-23T21:04:59Z")

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Yeah, I know I could change them. I just thought I’d go with that this year.
