5:50 pm ET and Still have not picked a game wrong.
Who wants to go to VEGAS with me?
:mad: and the streak is over. :mad:
Cancel that trip to Vegas
Which game did you miss? I missed the USC game.
ditto. Everyone in out league picked Stanford except our resident Cal Bear fans (jsc1953). I am not sure if he is capable of picking Stanford in a close game.
I have no problem picking the Georgia Bullfrogs. 
I also missed the Oregon game, and if Ohio St gets upset (down 28-21 with about 6:00 minutes left), I’ll lose that one too.
I got the Oregon game right but missed the Notre Dame game.
and I also picked tOSU.
All three of my losses were low on the confidence meter. (11 points total)
I think I had more correct picks than anyone, but put a pile of confidence points on tOSU in my only loss.
Stupid Buckeyes.
:mad:
I’m in third, though tied for second, this week. Picks are available.
Your official Upset Special for the week is Arkansas picking up a road win @ Texas Tech.
It is ? Crap.
Everyone in the league whiffied on the Va Tech and Virginia games. Those are my only losses thus far.
Backed my way into first this week, via the drop your lowest week rule.
Picks are available, get 'em in.
Your Upset Special of the Week: Miss State with a road win @LSU. At night, no less. #HailState!
Looking forward to watching Alabama-Florida and State-LSU.
only 14 games? How did that happen?
Thats only 105 potential points.
On the bright side, it only took 2 minutes to make the picks.
Yeah, I thought that was weird, too. Means this week is going to become everyone’s drop week, even with a perfect score.
Yay. I “won” the week where every score gets dropped. :rolleyes:
Hmmm…byes are messing with the game dynamics more than I remember being the case in previous years. The first year we did this, I set pretty much all available options for picks, but some folks complained that there were too many picks to make every week. I’ve since scaled back to Top 25 (I think) and SEC, but I don’t remember having so many weeks with less than 20 games to pick.
Meh. It is what it is.
Your official Upset Special this week: Arkansas on the road over Texas A&M.
There is a lot of redundancy between the SEC and Top 25 teams.
FTR, I was one of the people complaining about too many games. Some weeks there were 35-40 games. It was taking about 15 minutes to complete the board and games like Buffalo vs Akron was a waste of electrons.
I have never set up a league, but I wish it was set up for set number of games each week. Like 25 games. Then each week in the week would be worth the same amount. I also think there is too much emphasis on the confidence picks. If there is a “pick’m” game, I automatically assign a confidence level of 1 or 2 to the game (and most others do as well).
And there really is no “pick’m” games this week in our league. All the games have a definitive favorite.
and IMO The confidence points should start higher (for example @6 pts) and go up from there. That puts a bigger premium on picking winners rather than minimizing the penalty of picking losers. Basically that gives a 5 point bonus for picking the winners.
Hypothetical.
Current game: Picking the wrong winner for confidence games 1,2,3 and 4 is better than picking the loser of the confidence 12 game.
In my hypothetical setup, picking the wrong winner for confidence 6, 7, 8, and 9 is much worse than picking the wrong winner of confidence game 17.
Unfortunately I don’t think yahoo can customize the pool like I would like to see it.
(Hope I didn’t offend any Buffalo and/or Akron fans!)
Three of us have 79-8 Won loss record.
that is pretty good picking.
It doesn’t take a genius to pick Michigan St over Wyoming. It’ll get harder, now that we’re getting into conference play.
So says the guy who is 77-10 :o
SEC has been playing conference games since opening day. 
TAMU vs USCe
OK, the gauntlet has been thrown down!
Weeks 1 through 3, there were 72 games. 65 of them were non-conference. In those 65, the favorites went 61-4.
(The OOC upsets: Virginia Tech over Ohio State; Arkansas over Texas Tech; Boston College over USC; ECU over Virginia Tech)