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Yes please.
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Okay, stay up
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jcgamer107 posted...

Iowa obliterating Ohio State, then losing to Purdue was also very weird. The Big Ten was confusing overall.

More like the state of Iowa was very confusing. Take out either of those results you mentioned, and there would be a clear delineation between the "haves" and the "have-nots" in the Big Ten, in which the former were perfect against the latter (which one Iowa was would depend on which result you removed), and then you've got Iowa State technically finishing 7th in the Big 12 because other than the bottom three teams, their only conference wins were... the top two teams.
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Paratroopa1 posted...

Duke kinda beat the shit out of Northwestern but otherwise they're not that great? (Maybe Big Ten not all that great either? something to consider) I kinda have this game as a tossup so I'll just take the points.

This is so hilarious after the fact. Big Ten just absolutely killed it.
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Oh, and Georgia +4.
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I haven't even been tracking the progression. I think, based on the update jc gave on Page 2, that I might've actually won this time, but I did drop the ball in the final round so maybe not.
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Michigan -7.5
Auburn -10
LSU -3
Georgia -2.5
Clemson +3
North Dakota State

Don't know what to expect from the Outback Bowl but the Big Ten has been perfect so far.

I think Auburn will win the game, but I'm always afraid of double-digit lines unless it's clear that a team has been beating up on nobodies and doesn't really belong. Except, uh... the AAC has been kind of a disappointment this bowl season, especially up top. USF barely squeaked by and Memphis lost. SMU got crushed. Houston lost. Okay, yes, the 6-6 teams managed to roll (not that Navy's win was even remotely surprising), but there isn't really anything to tell me that UCF isn't going to get manhandled--especially given how narrowly they managed to keep their undefeated season rolling in each of their last two games despite how highly they scored. I just don't think they'll be able to stop an SEC offense.

LSU is just one of those teams that'll always be there. They're just quietly a ranked team again, like they always are. I miss Les Miles, though; he made things more interesting.

I feel like my heart picks for the semis are actually good ones. But these are heart picks. No way I take Alabama over Clemson, or Oklahoma over Georgia, and no way I don't stick with the one I was backing in the semis if I go 1-1. 2-0 or 0-2, that's a tough call for who I pick in the finals. (Well, not so much for the 0-2; follow the head and pick Alabama).

I don't have enough knowledge about the FCS, but going against North Dakota State is rarely a good plan.
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Round 6:

Outback Bowl: South Carolina +7.5 vs. Michigan
Peach Bowl: Central Florida +10 vs. Auburn
Citrus Bowl: LSU -3 vs. Notre Dame
Rose Bowl: Georgia -2.5 vs. Oklahoma
Orange Bowl: Clemson +3 vs. Alabama
FCS National Championship Game: North Dakota State (PK) vs. James Madison
FBS National Championship Game: TBD
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TsunamiXXVIII posted...

This first pick is a bit tough, because I do feel that Kentucky is underrated. But Northwestern might be underrated as well. I've got a very high confidence level on Northwestern straight up, but I've got a feeling that the only way they cover this spread is if it goes to triple overtime. Northwestern did make quite the habit of winning in overtime, after all.

I love how even though I got the pick itself wrong, my blurb was essentially spot on. Kentucky scored with less than a minute left and decided to go for two rather than risk overtime, and it failed so Northwestern won by 1.
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Yeah, I know.
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jcgamer107 posted...

i think im late on northwestern, travelling currently

Yeah, it looks like you were a little late. Rough break if they do come through, seeing as how it was Kentucky that was up 7-0 when the Belk Bowl finally ended and let the Music City Bowl onto ESPN.

Paratroopa1 posted...

I'm super fucking pissed that Wake Forest beat TA&M by 3 and pushed

Yeah, that's a rough break. Most of us went 4-2 or 5-1 anyway, and someone (I think kev) went 2-4 anyway. 3-3 with a push is the worst.
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Paratroopa1 posted...

Oh ESPN does list Penn State as -2. That seems more right

Stanford covering the +2.5 lol

I'm really getting my ass kicked ever since the first two sets of picks. Not going well for me

Pac-12 is 1-5 and totally sucks

Oh. Huh, yeah, I misread that when putting up the lines. Well, I'll still take Penn State -2.

And pray that it doesn't wind up like the Stanford-TCU game, since I wasn't the only one to pick "Penn State +2".
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Wow. Just saw a graphic on ESPN that this is the first time since 1987 that USC was an underdog in a bowl game. I knew that they were a team that would generally be favored if it looked close on paper, but that took me by surprise.
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SmartMuffin posted...

Not sure if anyone was watching and not sure if it spread at all past my section, but I was at the Texas Bowl and I got a pretty successful MVP chant going for the punter!

That's awesome.
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Level 5:

Wow, what a joke. I've got a lot of the underdogs straight-up here, some of them with an incredibly high confidence level.

Music City Bowl: Northwestern -7.5
Arizona Bowl: New Mexico State +4
Cotton Bowl: Ohio State -7.5
TaxSlayer Bowl: Mississippi State +6.5
Liberty Bowl: Iowa State +3.5
Fiesta Bowl: Penn State +2
Orange Bowl: Miami (FL) +6

This first pick is a bit tough, because I do feel that Kentucky is underrated. But Northwestern might be underrated as well. I've got a very high confidence level on Northwestern straight up, but I've got a feeling that the only way they cover this spread is if it goes to triple overtime. Northwestern did make quite the habit of winning in overtime, after all.

New Mexico State is kind of a heart pick rather than a head pick. This is the program's first bowl in over half a century. To put into perspective how unlikely that is in this day and age, with their appearance in this bowl, the longest active bowl drought is not even a single decade (Kansas last played in a bowl 9 years ago--but somehow I doubt they mind, because 9 years ago was also the last time that their men's basketball team was unranked at any point in the season and even then they were still ranked when the season ended.) I feel like their fans are going to come out in droves and it'll be a pseudo-home game, and they'll respond with an overperformance.

I'm really glad it's USC in this bowl game, because they're Yankees enough that I don't feel bad about having to root for Ohio State. And yes, I just used a professional sports team as an adjective.

I have all four of these underdogs straight-up. Iowa State, I don't have a terribly high confidence level on... but seriously? Is a close Egg Bowl loss enough to erase the fact that Alabama needed a 4th quarter comeback to beat the Bulldogs? The fact that they beat the snot out of LSU? Louisville's only win over a team that entered bowl season better than 6-6 was a 44-17 win over Kentucky...a team that MSU beat 45-7. And I get 6.5 points here?

While it doesn't seem as bizarre as the TaxSlayer Bowl, the Orange Bowl seems weird, too. Okay, yes, the loss to Pittsburgh was bad, but Miami had a damn good season. That dominant win over Notre Dame, that was something else. USC couldn't beat Notre Dame; Georgia barely pulled it off. Those are conference champions. Wisconsin? Uh, well, they did beat a conference champion. Florida Atlantic, to be precise. Not exactly the same level of competition that Miami had to face. Gimme dat Turnover Chain.
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Round 5:
Music City Bowl: Kentucky +7.5 vs. Northwestern
Arizona Bowl: Utah State -4 vs. New Mexico State
Cotton Bowl: USC +7.5 vs. Ohio State
TaxSlayer Bowl: Louisville -6.5 vs. Mississippi State
Liberty Bowl: Iowa State +3.5 vs. Memphis
Fiesta Bowl: Washington -2 vs. Penn State
Orange Bowl: Wisconsin -6 vs. Miami (FL)
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Level 7:

DET-GB, IND-HOU, DEN-KC all under.

Tiebreaker:
Level 5: Carolina -2.5
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Paratroopa1 posted...

Arrrgh I'm MAD that Wake Forest is favored here because I really expected them to be the underdog by 3 or 4 points, but I guess everyone is wise to this one. Wake Forest has been kind of my pet team all year and I really expect them to do some good things here.

I know, right? I almost wrote that one down incorrectly because you figure an ACC-SEC matchup with equal overall records, the SEC team will be favored 9 times out of 10, with the tenth being if Kentucky or Vanderbilt ended up having to face someone like Florida State or Miami. The Vegas lines are set as much by the court of public opinion as by the actual respective skill levels, and... it's Wake Forest. Even when they're good, the casual fan expects them not to be.

kevwaffles posted...

All underdogs "strategy". You put the quotes on the wrong part.

Fair enough.
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Wow. Didn't realize how much we all agreed on Round 3. I really only picked USM to cover because I couldn't bring myself to root for the Seminoles, but we were unanimous on Fresno State, unanimous on West Virginia, unanimous on USM... and kev's "all underdogs" strategy was the only one to pick UCLA or Purdue, while I was the only one to pick Duke.

Which means that unless Arizona comes back to win this game, the only one to advance will be... me, thanks to that Duke pick and me getting the one game that had multiple people on both sides correct. The fully unanimous picks went 1-2, while the near-unanimous ones went 1-1 so far, 1-2 if Purdue keeps this up. Hm.
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Round 4:

Texas Bowl: Texas +2.5
Military Bowl: Navy -1
Camping World Bowl: Oklahoma State -4
Alamo Bowl: TCU -2.5
Holiday Bowl: Michigan State
Belk Bowl: Wake Forest -3
Sun Bowl: North Carolina State -6.5

The "common wisdom", and I'll admit I initially fell for this when making up my Bowl Mania selections and had a high degree of confidence on them, is that Mizzou is a scorching hot team, winning 6 straight after a 1-5 start. A closer look, however, reveals that their 6-0 second half featured absolutely no games against teams with winning records. Their schedule was frontloaded as hell. Give me Texas for this one; they may have their own issues but at least they didn't lose 35-3 on their home field to a team that's barely bowl-eligible.

Speaking of the hot and the not, both of these teams are decidedly "not", with one of them starting 5-0 and the other 5-1 and both winding up at 6-6. But I just recently had been trying to determine the new longest bowl droughts now that NMSU is in one and managed to mark Virginia as being second only to Kansas, causing me to double-take when I saw this matchup. Navy, at least, I remembered was in a bowl this year.

I don't have a terribly high degree of confidence on this matchup, but it's a small enough line that I'll go with the team I picked straight-up.

Washington State is another team that I had a fairly decent confidence level on in my initial Bowl Mania picks, and honestly, I don't know why. Did I perceive the Pac-12 as being a stronger league than the Big Ten? Wazzu lost to a non-bowl team in conference play, which isn't easy to do given the percentage of the league that's bowl-bound. MSU, they fell victim to Northwestern's weird OT mojo, but that's about their worst loss. I don't know, I guess Wazzu has the better wins. Maybe. They did beat USC, but MSU beat Penn State so that's almost a wash.

And with the Belk Bowl, the "who did you beat" vs. "who did you lose to" debate comes to a head. Texas A&M's only quality win is a 7-point home win over South Carolina, which is not exactly stellar, but the only thing remotely resembling a bad loss was that Week 1 collapse to UCLA. Wake, uh...let's call them "generous", as two of their losses were to ACC teams that only just squeaked into the bowl picture at 6-6, including one that was literally in the final week before conference championship games. They also lost to Georgia Tech, who only wound up 5-6, but let's be honest, they more likely than not would've been 5-7 if they'd gotten to play their lost game. However, the Deacons also upset Louisville and NC State...in fact, 5 of their 6 FBS wins came against bowl-eligible teams, compared to...technically only one of A&M's, though based on records it's 2 of 6 (Ole Miss was on a postseason ban). So I'd say Wake has the better resume.

NC State fell into a funk late in the year, following a legitimately good loss to Clemson (and a rough loss to a good team in Notre Dame the week before that) with a squeaker over BC and the aforementioned loss to Wake Forest. But ASU is just a mess.
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On another note (since the topic where the group was announced seems to have purged), I just did the math, and if Cokes hadn't created the Bowl Mania group with a different account than the one he actually made his picks on (which I assume means he can't remove the one without picks from the group since it's the Group Owner), our group would actually be on the leaderboard right now. Probably; all of the groups actually on the leaderboard have at least "20+" in their "members" column, so at 10 members, we might be too small. But taking out the 0 entry, our average is 146.90; the bottom of the leaderboard is 146.72.

Edit: Actually, I was looking at the other B8-related groups, and they don't have their original creators in the group. I'll message Cokes.
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"Someday I'll catch up, and then you'll all be surprised!"
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We're only one game into Round 3 but I usually try to put this up a couple days in advance and the games start coming quickly now.

Round 4:

Texas Bowl: Missouri -2.5 vs. Texas
Military Bowl: Virginia +1 @ Navy
Camping World Bowl: Virginia Tech +4 vs. Oklahoma State
Alamo Bowl: Stanford +2.5 vs. TCU
Holiday Bowl: Michigan State (PK) vs. Washington State
Belk Bowl: Wake Forest -3 vs. Texas A&M
Sun Bowl: North Carolina State -6.5 vs. Arizona State

Wow, an actual pick'em.
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jcgamer107 posted...

btw level updates ok

Level 9:
TsunamiXXVIII
kevwaffles
Paratroopa1

Level 8:

Level 7:
5tarscream

Level 6:

Level 5:
KCF0107

Level 4:
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TsunamiXXVIII posted...

KCF0107 posted...

Well, I am 3-3 and need Akron to cover

Oh, I missed that. Very well then, seeing as how the line has a half-point, it seems that either KCF or 5tarscream will be joining kev, Para, and me for advancement.

...I don't see how this could have been correct. they both went 3-4 in round 1 by my count.

Ah, you're right. Must've misread his post when I came to that conclusion; it certainly did have its fair share of errors.
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MariaTaylor posted...

Hey so I'm working on a game right now. Full disclosure, it's more of a hobby project for me than anything else. I would put your name in the credits, but don't expect that we're going to make a million dollars.

Anyways there is a ton of dialogue and storyline writing that I'll need to do in order to meet the vision that I want for the game. But the more I thought about it, the more I feel like I'm interested in the design and programming aspect of things and the amount of writing I have in vision is almost tedious for me to do on top of everything else. Long story short I've been giving some consideration to working with a fellow writer or possibly multiple writers.

Here are some details.

1. The setting is fantasy and the game takes place in and around a city. It's an open world game similar to fallout or elder scrolls series games. The NPC interaction system I have in place however is more inspired by games like Rune Factory and Harvest Moon.

2. Based on the information above you can probably guess... Yeah, what I really want is for people to come up with ideas for a character and then write a TON of dialogue for that character. Basically there will be a different conversation you can have with a character each day when you talk to them. This means every character is an opportunity to tell a distinct story that slowly unfolds each time your character speaks to them.

3. You will have a lot of creative freedom. It's not going to be like 'This is a character I have in mind, this is the story I want to tell, now go and write all of the dialogue for me.' Think more about coming up with your own story and writing it all yourself, but then having someone else willing to do all of the coding for you so that you can see it in an actual game. I think there's actually a pretty large appeal to this but maybe I'm just projecting my own feelings onto others. In the past I've often come up with ideas or written things that I wanted to see made into a game or a comic but it's very difficult to find a programmer or artist willing to help you out with stuff. All that being said I certainly have plenty of my own ideas and so if you feel like the type of person who needs guidance I could simply 'assign' you to writing dialogue for character arcs that I already have planned out.

Anyway I wasn't even 100% sure if anyone here would be interested but I figured it was worth making a topic. I could just go to any random forum with more traffic, post an ad, and probably get plenty of responses. But with board 8 being a sort of community I think it'd be nice to ask around here first before I go anywhere else. There are a few board 8 users I'd definitely be interested in working with on this type of project, and, very likely, there's plenty out there that I don't know very well but we'd end up getting along great.

Oh, yes, definitely.
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greengravy294 posted...

Only hero I'd realistically even scratch +10 is probably Eirika and Marth. And Bow Lyn since the game keeps giving her to me (mostly kidding)

Yeah Bowlyn is my highest one, too.
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Level 7:

Minnesota/Green Bay, New England/Buffalo, Philadelphia/Oakland all OVER
Bonus: Alshon Jeffery

Tiebreaker:
Level 6: Nick Foles, Todd Gurley, Rob Gronkowski
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My Round 3 picks:

Fresno State +2.5
West Virginia +6.5
Duke -5
Kansas State -2.5
Southern Miss +16.5
Iowa -2.5
Arizona -3.5
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"Someday I'll catch up, and then you'll all be surprised!"
BKSheikah has the power. He is the one.

Round 3:

Hawai'i Bowl: Houston -2.5 vs. Fresno State
Heart of Dallas Bowl: Utah -6.5 vs. West Virginia
Quick Lane Bowl: Duke -5 vs. Northern Illinois
Cactus Bowl: Kansas State -2.5 vs. UCLA
Independence Bowl: Southern Miss +16.5 vs. Florida State
Pinstripe Bowl: Iowa -2.5 vs. Boston College
Foster Farms Bowl: Arizona -3.5 vs. Purdue

It's a good thing you don't have to know which level you're on to make your next pick, because the kickoff times for the Foster Farms and Texas Bowls are literally only half an hour apart. Anyone who goes 3-3 on the first six games of round 3 will definitely not know if they've passed it when Round 4 locks in.
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"Someday I'll catch up, and then you'll all be surprised!"
BKSheikah has the power. He is the one.

Round 2:

Frisco Bowl: SMU -5
Gasparilla Bowl: Florida International +7
Bahamas Bowl: UAB +8
Potato Bowl: Wyoming -3
Birmingham Bowl: South Florida -2.5
Armed Forces Bowl: San Diego State -6.5
Dollar General Bowl: Toledo -8
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"Someday I'll catch up, and then you'll all be surprised!"
BKSheikah has the power. He is the one.

KCF0107 posted...

Well, I am 3-3 and need Akron to cover

Oh, I missed that. Very well then, seeing as how the line has a half-point, it seems that either KCF or 5tarscream will be joining kev, Para, and me for advancement.
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"Someday I'll catch up, and then you'll all be surprised!"
BKSheikah has the power. He is the one.

Round 2:

Frisco Bowl: Louisiana Tech +5 vs. SMU
Gasparilla Bowl: Temple -7 vs. Florida International
Bahamas Bowl: UAB +8 vs. Ohio
Potato Bowl Central Michigan +3 vs. Wyoming
Birmingham Bowl: Texas Tech +2.5 vs. South Florida
Armed Forces Bowl: Army +6.5 vs. San Diego State
Dollar General Bowl: Appalachian State +8 vs. Toledo

These are just the lines; I want to sleep on it a bit before picking. Or maybe just sleep.
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"Someday I'll catch up, and then you'll all be surprised!"
BKSheikah has the power. He is the one.

Well, I've got Akron anyway, but once you've advanced, it's not always the most beneficial to get your remaining picks right if getting them wrong would keep other players from advancing. And the only set of picks that's 3-3 right now would need an FAU cover to advance.

Though overall record in your picks is the tiebreaker, so it works both ways.
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"Someday I'll catch up, and then you'll all be surprised!"
BKSheikah has the power. He is the one.

Nice. Already got both my WR and my RB score.

Oh, whoops forgot the bonus in my initial pick.

Bonus: 7
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"Someday I'll catch up, and then you'll all be surprised!"
BKSheikah has the power. He is the one.

Yeah, this is a different one.

Well, at least I'm allowed to add my entry even though the season has started. I know some of ESPN.com's contests don't allow new entrants to groups once entries lock in.
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"Someday I'll catch up, and then you'll all be surprised!"
BKSheikah has the power. He is the one.

How am I on Level 6 already when I've forgotten to participate seemingly more often than not?

QB: Brady
RB: Ingram
WR: Jeffery

Apparently, even with a backup QB, the Eagles vs. the Giants is one of the best options out there on the passing end. I was hoping to just use them for rushing, but their running game is surprisingly pathetic for the top team in the NFL in overall scoring.
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"Someday I'll catch up, and then you'll all be surprised!"
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5tarscream posted...

Celebration Bowl: North Carolina A&T -9.5
New Orleans Bowl: North Texas +6
Cure Bowl: Georgia State +6.5
Las Vegas Bowl: Boise State +7
New Mexico Bowl: Colorado State +5.5
Camellia Bowl: Middle Arkansas State -3.5
Boca Raton Bowl: Florida Atlantic -22.5

Middle Arkansas State?

...Well, it's listed as -3.5, so I'll assume that's Arkansas State.
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"Someday I'll catch up, and then you'll all be surprised!"
BKSheikah has the power. He is the one.

Hmm... these are not easy picks to make.

Celebration Bowl: Grambling State +9.5
New Orleans Bowl: Troy -6
Cure Bowl: Western Kentucky -6.5
Las Vegas Bowl: Boise State +7
New Mexico Bowl: Colorado State -5.5
Camellia Bowl: Middle Tennessee State +3.5
Boca Raton Bowl: Akron +22.5
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"Someday I'll catch up, and then you'll all be surprised!"
BKSheikah has the power. He is the one.

Oh not this again. Well, I know that kev directly copied my picks, and I believe it was jcgamer who got just about everything wrong, and Para missed the level entirely... Ah, right, and I knew that someone would end up on Level 8 regardless of which way the final game went, so that means 5tar must've been the one in opposition to the rest of us.

Rules:

There will be 6 groups of 7 games each. For each group of 7, you will pick all games against the spread. If you have more wins than losses (i.e if two of the games push, you only need to go 3-2 on the other five, but if one pushes, you need to go 4-2 on the other 6), you move up a level. All picks are locked in when the first game of a group kicks off, with the exception of the National Championship Game since I'm fairly certain that at least one of the semifinals will be in the same group and as such that pick cannot be completely made right away. Late picks will be accepted but with an auto-loss for any game that has already started when the pick is made.

Level 8:
kevwaffles
TsunamiXXVIII

Level 7:
5tarscream
Paratroopa1

Level 6:

Level 5:
KCF0107

Level 4:
jcgamer107

Round 1:
Celebration Bowl: North Carolina A&T -9.5 vs. Grambling State
New Orleans Bowl: North Texas +6 vs. Troy
Cure Bowl: Georgia State +6.5 vs. Western Kentucky
Las Vegas Bowl: Oregon -7 vs. Boise State
New Mexico Bowl: Marshall +5.5 vs. Colorado State
Camellia Bowl: Middle Tennessee State +3.5 vs. Arkansas State
Boca Raton Bowl: Akron +22.5 @ Florida Atlantic

No, that's not a mistake. FAU gets to play a bowl game on their home field.
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"Someday I'll catch up, and then you'll all be surprised!"
BKSheikah has the power. He is the one.

Level 7:
James Madison -14
Army +3
North Dakota State -20
New Hampshire +20
Sam Houston State +1.5
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"Someday I'll catch up, and then you'll all be surprised!"
BKSheikah has the power. He is the one.

Yeah I took way too long.

Rules
- State which level you're on when you make your pick. Usually it should be obvious, but say it anyway.
- Deadline for making a pick is the start of the earliest game that you're picking. This means that if you are on a level that involves picking multiple teams, ALL of your teams are locked as soon as one of your teams has kicked off. If you don't have a pick in by the start of the early games, you can just pick later games, but if you can't make an eligible pick out of the games that haven't started yet, you can't advance that week.
- Conferences featured in games may be imposed at certain levels, but unless otherwise stated, any game(s) featuring two FBS teams are eligible.
- I'll list some marquee games each week, but you're not restricted to these. If you pick other games, make sure that your lines can be verified.

Level 1: Pick one game against the spread.

Level Everything Else: Pick all of the games against the spread; 3 out of 5 moves up a level.

Level 7:
5tarscream
kevwaffles
Paratroopa1
TsunamiXXVIII

Level 6:

Level 5:

Level 4:
jcgamer107
KCF0107

Games:

Weber State +14 @ James Madison
Army +3 vs. Navy
Wofford +20 @ North Dakota State
New Hampshire +20 @ South Dakota State
Kennesaw State -1.5 @ Sam Houston State
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"Someday I'll catch up, and then you'll all be surprised!"
BKSheikah has the power. He is the one.

I promise, this will be the day.
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BKSheikah has the power. He is the one.

Bumpo
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"Someday I'll catch up, and then you'll all be surprised!"
BKSheikah has the power. He is the one.

Damnit, Toledo! I wanted to just pick FSU and stay far away from the ACC Championship Game. Which I probably could've done if I'd jumped out and had this ready by Monday afternoon (yes, there is a backup available for C-USA).

American: UCF
ACC: Miami (FL)
Big Ten: Wisconsin
Big 12: Oklahoma
C-USA: FAU (-11.5)
MAC: Toledo (-21.5)
MWC: Boise State
Pac-12: USC
SEC: Auburn
Sun Belt: New Mexico State
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"Someday I'll catch up, and then you'll all be surprised!"
BKSheikah has the power. He is the one.

Whoops, let it purge. Luckily I still sort of had it saved.

Someone actually moved up a level! I can't remember the last time that happened. I made level 7 way too hard.

Rules
- State which level you're on when you make your pick. Usually it should be obvious, but say it anyway.
- Deadline for making a pick is the start of the earliest game that you're picking. This means that if you are on a level that involves picking multiple teams, ALL of your teams are locked as soon as one of your teams has kicked off. If you don't have a pick in by the start of the early games, you can just pick later games, but if you can't make an eligible pick out of the games that haven't started yet, you can't advance that week.
- Conferences featured in games may be imposed at certain levels, but unless otherwise stated, any game(s) featuring two FBS teams are eligible.
- I'll list some marquee games each week, but you're not restricted to these. If you pick other games, make sure that your lines can be verified.

Level 1: Pick one game against the spread.

Level 2: Down goes Goliath. Pick a ranked team to lose. You cannot pick an underdog of more than 7 points.

Level 3: Pick three over/unders; 2 out of three passes.

Level 4: Three-team teaser. Tease the lines six points in your favor, two wins and a push or three wins needed to pass.

Level 5: Pleaser. Pick one game and move the line 7 points to your detriment.

Level 6: Something fishy in Vegas. Pick one game, please both sides of the spread by 15 points and both sides of the O/U line by 25 points, creating two sets of mutually-exclusive but not all-inclusive picks. If any of these picks is a winner, you pass.

Level 7: Pick one straight-up winner from each of the ten FBS conferences. You may select no more than two double-digit favorites and no more than one of these can be a favorite of at least 20 points.

Level 7:
5tarscream
kevwaffles
Paratroopa1
TsunamiXXVIII

Level 6:

Level 5:

Level 4:
jcgamer107
KCF0107

Marquee games:
Stanford (+4) vs. USC (O/U 58.5)
Memphis (+7) @ Central Florida (O/U 82)
Miami (+9.5) vs. Clemson (O/U 46.5)
Georgia (+2.5) vs. Auburn (O/U 48)
Ohio State (-6.5) vs. Wisconsin (O/U 52)
TCU (+7) vs. Oklahoma (O/U 63.5)
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"Someday I'll catch up, and then you'll all be surprised!"
BKSheikah has the power. He is the one.

kevwaffles posted...

Taken just now

Yeah, I saw you mention ESPN. I'm allowing it, and taking advantage of it.
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"Someday I'll catch up, and then you'll all be surprised!"
BKSheikah has the power. He is the one.

You've got a point, though. I use the "VI Consensus" on VegasInsider, which shows the most common line across all sports books, whereas ESPN uses one specific book. But the rules don't specify that, and thus your line is verifiable.

Also, curiously enough, it seems like the "consensus" on NMSU really should be either 9.5 or 9 flat. I'm going back to them.

AAC: Cincinnati
ACC: Virginia Tech
Big 12: Texas
Big Ten: Penn State (-22)
C-USA: North Texas (-11)
MAC: Ohio
MWC: Boise State
Pac-12: UCLA
SEC: LSU
Sun Belt: New Mexico State
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"Someday I'll catch up, and then you'll all be surprised!"
BKSheikah has the power. He is the one.

Wait, crap, my new pick isn't valid, because NMSU rose all the way to double digits since I made my picks.

AAC: Cincinnati
ACC: Virginia Tech
Big 12: Texas
Big Ten: Purdue
C-USA: UAB (-20.5)
MAC: Ohio
MWC: Boise State
Pac-12: UCLA
SEC: LSU (-10)
Sun Belt: Louisiana-Lafayette
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"Someday I'll catch up, and then you'll all be surprised!"
BKSheikah has the power. He is the one.

I'm still seeing LSU listed as -10 and having been as such since last night. Trust me, I wish I'd been able to catch them when they dropped to 9.5 for a couple of hours last night.
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"Someday I'll catch up, and then you'll all be surprised!"
BKSheikah has the power. He is the one.

AAC: Cincinnati
ACC: Virginia Tech
Big 12: Texas
Big Ten: Purdue
C-USA: UAB (-20.5)
MAC: Ohio
MWC: Boise State
Pac-12: UCLA
SEC: LSU (-10)
Sun Belt: New Mexico State
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"Someday I'll catch up, and then you'll all be surprised!"
BKSheikah has the power. He is the one.

My head says to take advantage of the fact that Alabama is actually a single-digit favorite for once...but my heart says that Auburn's going to win.

AAC: Cincinnati
ACC: Virginia Tech
Big 12: TCU (-24.5)
Big Ten: Purdue
C-USA: Marshall
MAC: Ohio
MWC: Boise State
Pac-12: UCLA
SEC: LSU (-10.5)
Sun Belt: New Mexico State
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"Someday I'll catch up, and then you'll all be surprised!"
BKSheikah has the power. He is the one.