Board 8 > College Football Ladder Contest 2018: Week 4

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Oh, crap, I actually have to come up with a not-insane level 4 now...I don't want to go to the pleaser just yet, but...ah, screw it, here's a "funny" level. I'll replace it with something else later in the season if people are still stuck at or below it once the number of eligible teams to be picked dwindles too low. This early in the season, though, it actually seems like a fairly easy level.

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 4:
KCF0107

Level 3:
jcgamer107
kevwaffles
Paratroopa1
ShatteredElysium
5tarscream
TsunamiXXVIII
turbopuns2

Level 2:
Jakyl25

Level 1:
baubeta
Eddv
SmartMuffin

Marquee Games:

Georgia (-14) @ Missouri (O/U 64.5)
Texas A&M (+26) @ Alabama (O/U 61)
TCU (-3) @ Texas (O/U 47.5)
Mississippi State (-10) @ Kentucky (O/U 55.5)
Wisconsin (-3) @ Iowa (O/U 43.5)

Yeah, the "favorites must also cover spread" condition on Level 4 was an addition when I went for marquee games and saw how comically easy the level could be otherwise. Iowa State as an 18.5-point favorite over Akron (which counts for the level in both ways, no less) is probably the most extreme example, although Georgia-Missouri being a battle of unbeatens certainly qualifies as well.
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L3:
Georgia (-8)
Alabama (-20)
Mississippi St (-4)

What if we get to L4 and there are no winless or undefeated teams. Highly unlikely but still possible.
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It's somewhat possible if you get to or are still at L4 in the last few weeks.
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Level 3:

Washington State (+10.5)
Oregon State (+11.5)
Arizona State (+23.5)

Missouri
Texas A&M
Kentucky

Level 3

...Whoops. It seems I made an oversight on the marquee. Ah, well, it doesn't really mean anything.

Level 3:

North Carolina State +1 @ Marshall
Buffalo @ Rutgers +11.5
South Carolina +4 @ Vanderbilt

Okay, last week was ugly, but I refuse to believe that Rutgers is that bad.
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Level 4:
Notre Dame loses at Wake Forest

I thought about taking the winless NC Tar Heels over Pitt or winless Purdue over Boston College, but I am taking the bigger risk here and thinking the Demon Deacons will eek out a victory in a low-scoring game.
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Level 3:
Michigan (-12.5) vs Nebraska
San Diego St (-6) vs Eastern Michigan
Iowa St (-13.5) vs Akron
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Level 3

TCU (+3) @ Texas
Michigan State (+1.5) @ Indiana
Stanford (+3.5) @ Oregon
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Level 3

TCU (+3) @ Texas
Texas A&M (+32) @ Alabama
Notre Dame (-0.5) @ Wake Forest

Iowa St won by 13 are you fucking kidding me
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Missouri tried their best to blow it for me by turning it over in their own territory twice in final 5 minutes.

Wow way to screw me TCU

Edit: Oh for some reason I thought it was at the end of the 4th not 3rd

Well, I regret not taking the other choices. This isn't a good level to do random games, but maybe I will go back to that next week.
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I just now realized 5tarscream and I chose the same three games and made opposite picks in all of them.

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continue living
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jcgamer107 posted...

Iowa St won by 13 are you fucking kidding me

Eastern somehow forced overtime with San Diego St so this didn't matter
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Yeah I'll get this done soon. Sorry, been busy.
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