Board 8 > College Football Ladder Contest Week 12-Calm before the storm

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This marquee seems awfully lacking...note that the rejects were literally FIU-FAU (which would've made it before FIU went in the tank these past couple of weeks, giving the Owls a legit 2-game lead) and Middle Tennessee-Western Kentucky (the only match in the FBS where both teams are going for their 6th win). And no, those two being rejected doesn't mean that C-USA is off the map, either.

Of course, we've already got 7 nearly-assured matches for next week, plus any 5-6 vs. 5-6 matches that develop.

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:
Michigan (+7.5) @ Wisconsin (O/U 40)
SMU (+12.5) @ Memphis (O/U 75.5)
Kentucky (+21.5) @ Georgia (O/U 50.5)
Navy (+17.5) @ Notre Dame (O/U 60.5)
Army (+3) @ North Texas (O/U 58)

Army on the marquee outside of Week 15? What is this world coming to!
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Level 7:

ACC: GT
American: Houston
Big 12: ISU
Big Ten: Wisconsin
C-USA: Old Dominion
MAC: NIU
MW: Boise State (-17.5)
Pac-12: Arizona State
SEC: Auburn (-37)
Sun Belt: South Alabama
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5tarscream posted...

ACC: North Carolina State
American: Houston
Big 12: Iowa State
Big Ten: Ohio State (41)
C-USA: Old Dominion
MAC: Miami Ohio
MW: Boise State (17.5)
Pac-12: Arizona State
SEC: Missouri
Sun Belt: South Alabama

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ACC: Miami (-19)
American: Houston
Big 12: TCU
Big Ten: Iowa
C-USA: Old Dominion
MAC: Northern Illinois
MWC: Colorado State (-32.5)
Pac-12: Arizona State
SEC: Missouri
Sun Belt: South Alabama

I was going to go with Boise State as well, but when evaluating which of my potential single- digit favorites picks I was least confident in, it came up ACC, which really had no good choices for a super-fave.

But, yeah, MWC has no good single-digit favorites.
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Man. Fuck the MAC
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NC State @ Wake and TCU @ Texas Tech probably both would have been better marquee choices, btw.
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Will do this tomorrow
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Stay alive
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Level 4
Minnesota (+13) at Northwestern
LSU at Tennessee (+21.5)
UCLA (+22) at USC

Lines already teased
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Honestly I wouldn't touch Tennessee right now on any line. No telling how bad they can get.
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Level 4 (lines already teased):
Wisconsin (-1) vs Michigan
TCU (even) at Texas Tech
Iowa (-1) vs Purdue

will be thrilled if I'm wrong about Wisconsin but I don't see it happening
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Level 5

Cal (+7)

Not really what I think will happen, just what I hope will happen. Couldn't be bothered to make any other pick than this.

Big Ten let jc and I down.
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How do you beat Ohio State by 31 then lose to Purdue. Who are you Iowa.
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They're Pitt from the last few years.
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The last few years? 2007 was a full decade ago!
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What is the rule for this level if there are no single digit picks? I'm guessing you have to take a double digit underdog?
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ACC - NCST (-16.5)
American - CIN
Big 12 - TCU (-25.5)
Big Ten - PUR
C-USA - FIU (+2)
MAC - OHIO
MWC - UNLV (+2.5)
PAC-12 - UCLA
SEC - ALA
Sun Belt - ULL
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Yes, though if there are 3+ conferences with no single digit picks, you can pick some underdogs on the spread.

It's not the case in any conference this week. They all have at least one pick.
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