Board 8 > College Football Ladder Contest - Bowl Season Week 3

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Figured I'd get the topic up a little earlier so people have time to make their picks. Standings will be posted here as soon as Week 2 is over.

Dec 30th - Dec 31st - 9 games
Jan 2nd- 6 games
Jan 3rd - Jan 9th - 6 games

Week 3 will consist of the games played between 12/30 and 12/31. You will pick every game ATS. I will provide the spreads as of RIGHT NOW. If the spread moves, too bad, you pick based on what I provide. You get more than 50% correct, you earn a point. You don't, you don't! Simple enough, right?

Armed Forces Bowl: Tulsa -1 vs BYU
Pinstripe Bowl: Rutgers vs Iowa State (pick'em)
Music City Bowl: Mississippi State -7 vs Wake Forest
Insight Bowl: Oklahoma -13.5 vs Iowa
Meineke Car Care Bowl: Texas A&M -10 vs Northwestern
Sun Bowl: Georgia Tech -2.5 vs Utah
Fight Hunger Bowl: Illinois -3 vs UCLA
Liberty Bowl: Vanderbilt -2 vs Cincinnati
Chick-Fil-A Bowl: Auburn -3 vs Virginia

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BYU (+3)
Iowa State
Wake Forest (+7)
Iowa (+13.5)
Northwestern (+10)
Utah (+2.5)
UCLA (+3)
Cincinnati (+2)
Virginia (+3)

Holy crap. I took almost every favorite last week, and now I'm taking every single underdog.

I actually have Wake Forest, Iowa, Utah, UCLA, Cincy, and Virginia winning their games outright in Bowl Mania. I don't have Northwestern winning, but that spread is too high.

That BYU spread was a typo. Should be +1, obviously.

Armed Forces Bowl: Tulsa -1 vs BYU (Goddammit, BYU was a 1.5-point favorite just a few days ago!)
Pinstripe Bowl: Rutgers vs Iowa State (pick'em)
Music City Bowl: Wake Forest +7 vs Mississippi State (holy s***, this one's scary...kinda glad it moved to +7; I had seen it at 6.5)
Insight Bowl: Iowa +13.5 vs Oklahoma (this one too; I liked it a bit better at 14 points even)
Meineke Car Care Bowl: Northwestern +10 vs Texas A&M (And this one; Texas A&M should definitely be the better team, but Northwestern's always good for an exciting bowl game.)
Sun Bowl: Georgia Tech -2.5 vs Utah
Fight Hunger Bowl: UCLA +3 vs Illinois
Liberty Bowl: Vanderbilt -2 vs Cincinnati
Peach Bowl: Virginia +3 vs Auburn

This may be the best group of spreads yet. Rutgers-ISU and Vandy-Cincy are both extremely low on my confidence picks in Bowl Mania, and even some of of my high-confidence picks have spreads so wide that I ended up going against them. Only ones I feel truly confident about are Georgia Tech (actually my second-highest confidence among the nine here, behind only Oklahoma over Iowa) and Virginia (higher confidence than UCLA--in both cases, I'm picking the underdog to win outright as well.)

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Tulsa (-1)
Iowa State
Mississippi State (-7)

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BYU (+1)
Iowa St.
Wake Forest (+7)
Oklahoma (-13.5)
Northwestern (+10)
Georgia Tech (-2.5)
Illinois (-3)
Cincinnati (+2)
Virginia (+3)

Cincinnati, if I am not mistaken, is the only Big East team that I have, or will have, chosen to win their bowl game

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My picks:

Tulsa -1
Iowa State
Mississippi State -7
Iowa +13.5
Texas A&M -10
Georgia Tech -2.5
UCLA +3
Vanderbilt -2
Virginia +3

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New Standings:

College Football Ladder Contest

8 points
TsunamiXXVIII
sonten1
Paratroopa1
Camden

7 points


6 Points
BrettEagles

5 points
KCF0107
Masterplum
Regaro-Ukiera
SmartMuffin

4 Points
Jakyl

3 Points
GaryOak151
RappinHobo

2 Points
KommunistKoala
MajinZidane
Achromatic
Wiggumfan267
MSS

1 Point
Viviff
BBallman7

KCF was the only person to not get a point. Camden went 7/7!

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and FYI - I do have plans for what I think is a pretty awesome tiebreaker at the end...

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Iowa (+15.5)

Not sure if the Sooners will be looking for a massacre or if they have completely given up on themselves. When in doubt take the points.

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and that should be +13.5 my bad

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Northwestern
Georgia Tech
Illinois
Vanderbilt
Auburn

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From: Camden | Posted: 12/29/2011 10:18:15 PM | #024
I'll be busy tomorrow through at least the first three games, so...

BYU, Iowa State, Mississippi State and Oklahoma regardless of what the spread is.

Assuming this counts again. Also...

Camden went 7/7!

6/7, I missed on Notre Dame.

Armed Forces Bowl: Tulsa -1 vs BYU
Pinstripe Bowl: Rutgers vs Iowa State (pick'em)
Music City Bowl: Mississippi State -7 vs Wake Forest
Insight Bowl: Oklahoma -13.5 vs Iowa
Meineke Car Care Bowl: Texas A&M -10 vs Northwestern
Sun Bowl: Georgia Tech -2.5 vs Utah
Fight Hunger Bowl: Illinois -3 vs UCLA
Liberty Bowl: Vanderbilt -2 vs Cincinnati
Chick-Fil-A Bowl: Auburn -3 vs Virginia

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Looking at everyone at Level 8, this is a rough week for sonten. 0-6, 3-3 for everyone else?

I need Virginia to cover to get a point this week. Damnit Northwestern, you had to lose by exactly 11 points. Seriously.

Virginia covers, you advance, Auburn covers and I advance. Someone is going to get their 9th point.

Edit: Or a push, I thought the spread was -3.5.

Awesome, I was considering panicking and changing this pick but not now. I want to see someone on level 9 all alone.

Looks like I'm in severe trouble here. Virginia needs to score a couple of unanswered TDs to give me a shot.

Wow I screwed that one up royally. Turns out I actually did have Cincy in Bowl Mania.

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