Board 8 > College Football Ladder Contest Week 12

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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, you may pick FCS teams to win against any Division I opponent, but in the case of FBS-FCS games, you must be taking the FCS team to win.

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

Level 6: Triple points pleaser. Pick either three over/unders and move the lines on each 5 points to your disadvantage. 3 out of 3 needed to pass.

Level 6:
jcgamer107
Paratroopa1
TsunamiXXVIII
turbopuns2

Level 5:
KCF0107
ShatteredElysium
5tarscream

Level 4:

Level 3:
kevwaffles

Level 2:
Jakyl25

Level 1:
baubeta
Eddv
SmartMuffin

Marquee Games:
Syracuse (+9) @ Notre Dame (O/U 61.5)
Duke (+28) @ Clemson (O/U 57.5)
UAB (+16.5) @ Texas A&M (O/U 46.5)
Cincinnati (+7.5) @ UCF (O/U 58.5)
Iowa State (+3) @ Texas (O/U 50.5)
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let's see how i will be wrong this week
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Level 5 (line already teased):
Boston College at Florida State (-5.5)
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Level 6:
Massachusetts @ Georgia UNDER 61.5
Ohio State @ Maryland OVER 63.5
Utah @ Colorado OVER 53

When I did my preliminary look over games that I might consider, Syracuse-Notre Dame was one I considered...as an under. Damn shame since the figure it got locked in at is so low that the pleased version of the over here isn't that much more demanding than a straight over would be if it wasn't a marquee game!

I've just got a feeling that Georgia isn't going to go all out. What would the point be? They're already locked into the conference title game and they're likely playoff-bound if they win the SEC and Sugar Bowl-bound if they lose to Alabama. No reason to run up the score at this point.
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Level 6
Texas A&M/UAB OVER 51.5
Notre Dame/Syracuse UNDER 61
West Virginia/OK St OVER 79.5

Narrowed it down to 11 O/Us I liked, randomly picked 3 out of that. The Notre Dame/Syracuse O/U is all the way up to 66 according to ESPN, so I was gonna use that.
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May as well continue the tradition of going against Notre Dame every week

Level 5
Syracuse +2

Not that we should be in this situation anyway but the referees absolutely fucked us in this game. On 3rd down with 3 mins left they called PI in the endzone on a blatantly uncatchable pass, like not even remotely close. So instead of being 3 points down with 3 mins and 3 timeouts left, we are now 7 down with 1:41 left and zero timeouts

Way to blow it, Maryland.
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I forgot to make picks

I'll take the over on duke/clemson, uab/texas a&m, and cincinnati/ucf. Those games haven't started yet right? I honestly couldn't care less

Maybe it's because I'm like 8 beers in but why do Indiana kick the XP there. At 16-15 you might as well go for 2 to put you up a field goal whereas the difference between 16-15 and 17-15 isn't really a lot

I think seeing Harbaugh chase points and fail may have played into it. I mean it was early, a lot of stuff can happen still, may as well take the free point when you don't know how the scores are going to fall into place down the stretch.
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ShatteredElysium posted...

Maybe it's because I'm like 8 beers in but why do Indiana kick the XP there. At 16-15 you might as well go for 2 to put you up a field goal whereas the difference between 16-15 and 17-15 isn't really a lot

Because imo you shouldn't go for 2 in college unless you can predict the number of remaining possessions in the game. Being up by 2 may be more notable than you think later

Scary game for Michigan but it worked out in the end hopefully Berkley Edwards is okay
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Indiana can fuck right off. Several late or dirty hits, took out Chase Winovich and Braylon Edwards' younger brother. It's like they knew they couldn't win so they were just trying to take out as many of our players for the Ohio St game as they could.

If Texas A&M/UAB goes over 51.5 i'll actually advance to Level 7 (not counting on it).
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jcgamer107 posted...

Indiana can fuck right off. Several late or dirty hits, took out Chase Winovich and Braylon Edwards' younger brother. It's like they knew they couldn't win so they were just trying to take out as many of our players for the Ohio St game as they could.

If Texas A&M/UAB goes over 51.5 i'll actually advance to Level 7 (not counting on it).

congrats, I honestly didn't think anyone would pull it off

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I cant remember what my pick was but I put it the old topic. Can you remember?
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Nope, sorry.

jcgamer107 posted...

Indiana can fuck right off. Several late or dirty hits, took out Chase Winovich and Braylon Edwards' younger brother. It's like they knew they couldn't win so they were just trying to take out as many of our players for the Ohio St game as they could.

If Texas A&M/UAB goes over 51.5 i'll actually advance to Level 7 (not counting on it).

I probably should've come up with a Level 7 in advance. It'll be good for, what, two weeks? Which means that yet again, the true depths of my depravity will go unrevealed.
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