Board 8 > College Football Ladder Contest Week 11

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I got it up in time for MACtion this time! ...of course, in order to do so, I have to put it up before the CFP top 25 is even out. Not that it matters because there are definitely at least 5 games that will feature top 25 teams.

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 State (+15) @ Ohio State (O/U 55)
Georgia (-2.5) @ Auburn (O/U 47)
Alabama (-14) @ Mississippi State (O/U 51)
Notre Dame (-3) @ Miami (FL) (O/U 57.5)
TCU (+6.5) @ Oklahoma (O/U 62.5)
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Ohio State favored by 15 points over Michigan State? Good god, what?

American: Central Florida (38.5-point favorite)
ACC: Pitt
Big 12: Texas Tech
Big Ten: Northwestern
C-USA: Florida International
MAC: Central Michigan
MWC: Fresno State
Pac-12: USC (13.5-point favorite)
SEC: South Carolina
Sun Belt: Georgia State
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Also, carrying this over from the previous topic:

5tarscream posted...

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

Huh, 6 out of 10 the same, including the same choice of at-least-10-but-less-than-20. Not surprised; a lot of those really leapt out.

Paratroopa1 posted...

Ohio State favored by 15 points over Michigan State? Good god, what?

That's not even the most ridiculous line of the week imo.
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Yeah there are some absolutely insane lines.

I originally had UCF as my over 20 too but changed to NIU
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Level 7:

ACC: Pitt
American: Temple
Big 12: Texas Tech
Big Ten: Indiana
C-USA: FIU
MAC: NIU (-32)
MW: Nevada (-19)
Pac-12: Utah
SEC: South Carolina
Sun Belt: Georgia State

The line for being Pitt -9.5 is basically a freebie for this.

I'd have gone with Auburn because it's time for Georgia to choke, but South Carolina seems just as much a freebie as Pitt.

Probably still won't make it to Saturday!
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Level 4 (lines already teased)
Michigan St. (+21)
Georgia (+3.5)
TCU (+12.5)
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Well, yeah. Those MAC lines were insane; I don't know if you guys noticed, but I actually willingly took an underdog, because I just couldn't understand why, with a clean injury report, EMU was a road favorite over CMU. It didn't make sense at all, and sure enough, CMU won by 12.
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I actually did notice. I have Utah myself. I'm just trying my best to actually make it to a Saturday.
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I originally had CMU and changed to NIU last minute.
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Pitt are terrible
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This was supposed to be free.
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Well that's pretty much that.
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Level 5

Iowa (+5.5)

just gonna keep betting against wisconsin, why not

Well RIP all of us.
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Level 4: (lines already teased)
Iowa (+18) @ Wisconsin
Michigan State (+21) @ Ohio State
Northwestern (+2) vs Purdue

Thought about doing all marque games, but was too tempted by some of these Big Ten lines. I'm about 99.9% sure Iowa can't lose by that much, but the other two kind of feel like traps - Ohio St's going to be pissed off, and Northwestern seems due for a letdown. We'll see.
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21-0 Ohio St. 41:35 of game time to play. Uh-oh.
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wow i was so incredibly, spectacularly wrong
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kevwaffles posted...

it's time for Georgia to choke

You all were warned!
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Save!
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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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Bump

It will be up later today; I just need to get some sleep so I can better process what to do with this week's marquee. It's going to be unconventional, I'll tell you that.
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Actually, it appears no one advanced, so it'll be up momentarily.
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