Board 8 > College Football Ladder Contest Week 10-With double the marquee!

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Sorry, been kind of busy, and then I had connection problems at the start of class which is when I often end up doing this.

...wait, I've seriously already lost for the week? There's no more MAC games? Well, crap. It's a good thing that WMU lost anyway, because the rules state that once one of your teams kicks off, all of them are locked in, which means that technically 5tarscream submitted a pick with 9 auto-losses. I was going to just make him re-pick, but that's not an option.

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
TsunamiXXVIII

Level 6:

Level 5:
Paratroopa1

Level 4:
jcgamer107
KCF0107

Marquee games:
Penn State (-9) @ Michigan State (O/U 48)
Auburn (-15) @ Texas A&M (O/U 52)
South Carolina (+23.5) @ Georgia (O/U 45)
Clemson (-7.5) @ North Carolina State (O/U 51)
Iowa State (+2.5) @ West Virginia (O/U 60)
Stanford (+2.5) @ Washington State (O/U 55)
Oklahoma (+2.5) @ Oklahoma State (O/U 76)
LSU (+21) @ Alabama (O/U 48.5)
Virginia Tech (-2.5) @ Miami (FL) (O/U 50)
Arizona (+7.5) @ USC (O/U 73)

Told you there was double the marquee. Seven games between two CFP top 25 teams, two where a CFP top 25 team faces a team that's also receiving votes in both the AP poll and the Coaches' Poll, and two more where a CFP top 25 team faces a team receiving votes in the Coaches' Poll but not the AP poll. (Yes, that means I could've even added an 11th.)
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I can't believe I'm on Level 4, I'm so good.

Might go with all-marque games, since there's so many.
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So all 3 of us are already out?
I think at least kev should get a chance to pick the other 9. It isn't his fault. He said he wanted Toledo. did they win?
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Just checked the other topic. i'm dumb. Carry on
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The only issue with posting them in the old topic such as I did for this level is if the marquee lines and the lines we use differ such that it changes which is single digits or 20+ or what have you, but if we just accept the lines we use then all is well I guess.

I actually somehow missed that there were no Saturday MAC games when I looked. For some reason I thought there was one tonight and one Saturday, so phew I guess.

TsunamiXXVIII posted...

Well, crap. It's a good thing that WMU lost anyway, because the rules state that once one of your teams kicks off, all of them are locked in, which means that technically 5tarscream submitted a pick with 9 auto-losses. I was going to just make him re-pick, but that's not an option.

This actually did occur to me, but only when I went to make my picks. I wasn't sure what to say at that point and I was in a rush anyway.
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Level 7:
ACC: Clemson
American: Navy
Big 12: TCU
Big Ten: Penn State
C-USA: FAU
MAC: Toledo
MW: UNLV
Pac-12: Washington (-17.5)
SEC: Miss State (-31.5)
Sun Belt: Applachian State

Reposting in the new topic because there isn't a chance in hell I remember all of these in case that one purges before I've won/lost.
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Damn good chance I'm out anyway if Navy doesn't pick things up in the second half.
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Once again I don't even make it to Saturday.
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I've been stuck on Level 4 for what seems to be an eternity, so I'm going to stop spending so much time looking at spreads for all the games and just look at the marquee games

Level 4 (lines already teased)
Auburn @ Texas A&M (+21)
Iowa State (+8.5) @ West Virginia
Virginia Tech (+3.5) @ Miami
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TsunamiXXVIII posted...

(Yes, that means I could've even added an 11th.)

which I assume would have been Ohio St @ Iowa, and since Vegas is apparently giving OSU 18.5 at Kinnick, I'm definitely taking it.

Level 4 (lines already teased):
Iowa +24.5 vs Ohio St
Virginia Tech +3.5 @ Miami (FL)
Iowa State +8.5 @ West Virginia
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I see our fates will be very much entwined
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https://twitter.com/Lane_Kiffin/status/926647003265806336

So Lane Kiffin is intentionally blowing the spread and publicly bragging about it. Am I the only one who feels like this is a BIGGER deal than every other NCAA "scandal" over the past few years?
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SmartMuffin posted...

https://twitter.com/Lane_Kiffin/status/926647003265806336

So Lane Kiffin is intentionally blowing the spread and publicly bragging about it. Am I the only one who feels like this is a BIGGER deal than every other NCAA "scandal" over the past few years?

It's 2017, they already used the "it was just a joke" defense.
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As someone who thinks Lane Kiffin is a complete tool, I'll say it's pretty obvious this is probably a joke. He should face repercussions for it, though. It's a bad defense even if it's true.
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kevwaffles posted...

As someone who thinks Lane Kiffin is a complete tool, I'll say it's pretty obvious this is probably a joke. He should face repercussions for it, though. It's a bad defense even if it's true.

Exactly. That's not something you should joke about.
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I posted my pick in the wrong topic but it doesn't matter because it didn't pan out anyway

It's starting to look like I was right about the "betting against Iowa State" thing though

Are they seriously trying to make football completely unwatchable? Following the second targeting call on third and long (plus ejection) against an Oregon State DB, they popped up a statistic showing that in the Pac-12, they've already called twice as many targeting penalties as they did last year. This one was helmet to chest. You can't even hit people in the chest now? That's what you're going to do about concussions?

Fuck this nonsense. This game is dead.
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jc and I need for the Hokies to come through
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rip
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Stay alive
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Keep up
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ACC - Pitt
American - Tulane
Big 12 - Texas Tech
Big Ten - Northwestern
C-USA - Florida Intl
MAC - Northern Illinois -32
MW - Boise State
PAC-12 - USC 13.5
SEC - Georgia
Sun Belt - Georgia State
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