Board 8 > College Football Ladder Contest 2018: Week 6

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A good few marquee games fell into that "either way you're fine" range for the teaser level. Others, not so much so.

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

Level 3: Three-team teaser. Tease the lines six points in your favor, two wins and a push or three wins needed to pass.

Level 4: First! Pick a winless team to get their first win or an undefeated team to suffer their first loss. If you are predicting a favorite to win, they must also cover the spread (a push is sufficient). You may also select "none" if you think that every game between two winless or two undefeated teams will result in the favorite winning but failing to cover the spread and that no other teams will get their first win or suffer their first loss. Also, for this level, only the team that you are predicting will lose must be from the FBS.

Level 5: Pleaser. Pick one team and move the line 7 points to your disadvantage.

Level 5:
turbopuns2

Level 4:
jcgamer107
KCF0107
ShatteredElysium

Level 3:
kevwaffles
Paratroopa1
5tarscream
TsunamiXXVIII

Level 2:
Jakyl25

Level 1:
baubeta
Eddv
SmartMuffin

Marquee Games:
Texas (+7) vs. Oklahoma (O/U 51.5) (Dallas, TX)
Maryland (+17.5) @ Michigan (O/U 47.5)
LSU (-2) @ Florida (O/U 43.5)
Kentucky (+5.5) @ Texas A&M (O/U 50.5)
Notre Dame (-6.5) @ Virginia Tech (O/U 56.5)

Those who officially vote for rankings apparently ignore bad losses in favor of promoting good wins. Yes, Maryland honestly received more votes in both polls than anyone else who was playing a ranked opponent. (Not that I'd have been much more open to Mississippi State, a 3-2 team with no bad losses but also no good wins, or Boston College, which has a loss almost as silly as Maryland's, though they also beat the team that beat Maryland.)
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Kentucky (-2.5) @ Texas A&M

tag, need to put more thought into this
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Level 4
San Jose State gets their first win on the season by beating Colorado State
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Michigan
LSU
Notre Dame
L3
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Level 4
Colorado to lose their first game against Arizona State

Level 3:

Nebraska (+23.5)
Texas (+13.5)
South Carolina (+7.5)

Too many points for a Wisconsin team that lost to a bad BYU team.

Texas is gonna make it a game at Oklahoma. I really wish I could have gotten one more point on that spread, but alas. That's a lot of points to get for a rivalry game that is always wild with a Texas team that is actually competent.

South Carolina just had a really convenient spread, couldn't not take it.

I also considered Notre Dame winning a pick-em and Stanford (+2) but eh, those are upsets that could happen.

L3:

Syracuse (+2.5) @ Pitt
NC State (Pk) vs BC
Michigan State (-4) vs Northwestern
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Level 3:

Ole Miss -16.5
Cal +3.5
Cincinnati -1
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dang it i was close to picking Oklahoma to lose their first game but I wussed out

I'll go with Kentucky to lose their first game against Texas A&M for Level 4.
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Great, now we get to hear everyone talk about if Texas is back all season.
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Wtf is going on with the camera-work or lack thereof in the Missouri-SC game?
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"Texas is back" is no longer a meme
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nice, I passed level 3

wisconsin did cover their spread but the teaser gave me nebraska just barely

jcgamer107 posted...

"Texas is back" is no longer a meme

Give it a few weeks
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Texas A&M won by 6 in overtime
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wow I got real lucky with A&M/Kentucky
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Yeah I'm never getting past L3 this year.
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