Ok college football fans, it's almost that time of year again. For those that have not already commented on the other thread that they are in you can do so here. All are welcome to play. This year Iris and I are corroborating together picking the games each week. Here are the rules for this years pick'em, these are the same as last year.
1. The games for each week's SoWal Pick'em will be posted on or before Monday evenings.
2. The deadline for making your pick for any game is 9 AM Central Time on date of that game. (See #10 below)
3. Anyone who misses the deadline (as defined in #2 above) will forfeit all games not picked for that date.
4. Any changes after a pick is made must appear in a new post, not in an edited prior post, and by 9 AM Central Time for the date of the game for which your pick is changed. Failure to do this will result in your change being invalid.
5. For some games that are of great interest, but in which one team has a lopsided advantage, points may be added to the underdog's score by the person choosing the slate of games each week.
6. Each correct pick earns one point.
7. The winner of the SoWal Pick'em will be the person who has the most points, not the highest percentage of correct picks.
8. Bonus questions may be included later in the season in case a tie-breaker is needed. The points from these questions will not be added to a picker's total points for the season.
9. Leaders for each week, for the regular season, and for the bowl games will be recognized. However, the winner of the SoWal Pick'em will be the person with the most wins for the season, including bowl games.
10. The 9 a.m. CST/CDT deadline for posting your picks of course is for when all games are only Saturday games. If there should be a game thrown into the picks on Thursday night as there has been at times the picks need to be posted by 6 p.m. CST/CDT that day unless the game is earlier then they will need to be posted before the earlier start time, otherwise, that point will not count for you if the game is already in progress.
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Beach Lover
Alabama!
Beach Lover
Oops I forgot to add I pick Alabama.
Beach Fanatic
AlaDamnbama. Only because I even like Clemson less
beats on hood
There is a three-way tie for bowl champ and a possible two-way tie for the overall champ. So we need a tie-breaker question. The tie-breaker question is, “What will be the length of the first successful field goal kicked in the game by either team?” There can only be one first successful field goal obviously – team doesn’t matter. The person who picks the closest wins. If two people pick the same number, there will just be a tie. A no answer will be zero by default.
DO NOT POST YOUR ANSWER IN THIS FORUM. Anyone involved in a potential tie (and everyone, if they’d like just for fun) should PM Lady D by 7 PM CST on Monday night. The reason the answers should be PM’d to her is that there is a possibility of someone being boxed in. Why? Because say if the first person posts 25 yards. Then s/he can be boxed in because the next person could pick 26 and get everything from 26 and above right, and someone else could pick 24 yards and get everything 24 or less right. If no one knows what anyone else has picked (except Lady D which she wouldn’t post until after 7 PM CST on Monday), then no one can be boxed in.
DO NOT POST YOUR ANSWER IN THIS FORUM. Anyone involved in a potential tie (and everyone, if they’d like just for fun) should PM Lady D by 7 PM CST on Monday night. The reason the answers should be PM’d to her is that there is a possibility of someone being boxed in. Why? Because say if the first person posts 25 yards. Then s/he can be boxed in because the next person could pick 26 and get everything from 26 and above right, and someone else could pick 24 yards and get everything 24 or less right. If no one knows what anyone else has picked (except Lady D which she wouldn’t post until after 7 PM CST on Monday), then no one can be boxed in.
beats on hood
AlaDamnbama. Only because I even like Clemson lessWe lived in Spartanburg for six years, one year after undergrad and five years after doctorates. Clemson was so popular then that we'd drive to the games hoping to buy tickets there. If we couldn't find any, we'd just tailgate and listen to the game over the loud speaker. BTW I was a professor at the University of South Carolina. We weren't rabid Gator fans until Spurrier arrived as coach. Go figure.
Beach Fanatic
Guess I will pick Alabama since I really think they will win but I will be cheering for Clemson.....go Clemson!
Beach Lover
Clemson - go Tigers!
And, thanks Lady D for all your hard work this season, greatly appreciated.
Happy 2016‼️‼️ Zuni
And, thanks Lady D for all your hard work this season, greatly appreciated.
Happy 2016‼️‼️ Zuni
Beach Fanatic
Alabama. RTR!
SoWal InsiderAuthor
Steel1man, your choice of Bama or Clemson needs to be posted within 30 minutes. Don't see yours.
SoWal InsiderAuthor
Tiebreaker answers for distance of first successful field goal made. Good luck.
Bob Wells- 29 yards
Carson- 37 yards
Cnest- 35 yards
Iris- 29 yards
Bob Wells- 29 yards
Carson- 37 yards
Cnest- 35 yards
Iris- 29 yards
Edited
beats on hood
First field goal by Clemson. 37 yards.
Admin
Great game - great win for Bama - congrats Tiders.
beats on hood
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Here are the final results of the pick'ems this season. I won the regular season, carson is the bowl champion (he won the three-way tie by picking 37 yards as the length of the first field goal), and Iris is overall champ for the entire season. Congratulations to all.
I know that steel1man never got his party last year because we had major damage right after last year's championship game due to a frozen pipe that I had to supervise the repair of, and then I broke my back and had surgery from which I didn't recover until August. This year I can't plan a party because I am going to LA for our daughter's birthday, then I'll have back surgery to remove the pins and rod. If someone would like to organize a little get-together, that would be great.
I'm not saying I want time to fly at my age, but cnestg8r and I will enjoy another season of pick'ems. I will do the stats, and hopefully Lady D will do the rest. She did a great job this season. Thanks, 30A Skunkape, for starting this SoWal tradition.
I know that steel1man never got his party last year because we had major damage right after last year's championship game due to a frozen pipe that I had to supervise the repair of, and then I broke my back and had surgery from which I didn't recover until August. This year I can't plan a party because I am going to LA for our daughter's birthday, then I'll have back surgery to remove the pins and rod. If someone would like to organize a little get-together, that would be great.
I'm not saying I want time to fly at my age, but cnestg8r and I will enjoy another season of pick'ems. I will do the stats, and hopefully Lady D will do the rest. She did a great job this season. Thanks, 30A Skunkape, for starting this SoWal tradition.
SoWal InsiderAuthor
Here are the final results of the pick'ems this season. I won the regular season, carson is the bowl champion (he won the three-way tie by picking 37 yards as the length of the first field goal), and Iris is overall champ for the entire season. Congratulations to all.
I know that steel1man never got his party last year because we had major damage right after last year's championship game due to a frozen pipe that I had to supervise the repair of, and then I broke my back and had surgery from which I didn't recover until August. This year I can't plan a party because I am going to LA for our daughter's birthday, then I'll have back surgery to remove the pins and rod. If someone would like to organize a little get-together, that would be great.
I'm not saying I want time to fly at my age, but cnestg8r and I will enjoy another season of pick'ems. I will do the stats, and hopefully Lady D will do the rest. She did a great job this season. Thanks, 30A Skunkape, for starting this SoWal tradition.
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I'm not wanting time to fly at my age either since I just turned 56 but I will again attempt to do the weekly picks. Hopefully with a season under my belt I will be more knowledgeable in doing so next season.
Admin
Right in the middle of the pack!
Thanks Lady D and BR and CN!
Thanks Lady D and BR and CN!
Skunky
Thanks for another fun year to all who made the contest GEAUX!!! See you next year!
Beach Fanatic
Steel1man, your choice of Bama or Clemson needs to be posted within 30 minutes. Don't see yours.Posted Alabama three days ago...just got your last request....not complaining BUT..this new format at least for me sucks......several times this year I had to pick whole schedule at last moment,hence first to almost last.....did you hear?clemon lost Dabo Dabo Doo
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Posted Alabama three days ago...just got your last request....not complaining BUT..this new format at least for me sucks......several times this year I had to pick whole schedule at last moment,hence first to almost last.....did you hear?clemon lost Dabo Dabo Doo
I thought you did. But I looked back and couldn't find it.
beats on hood
I'm not wanting time to fly at my age either since I just turned 56 but I will again attempt to do the weekly picks. Hopefully with a season under my belt I will be more knowledgeable in doing so next season.Great!
SoWal InsiderAuthor
Great!
Ha ha. Maybe I need to get a years head start and go on and pick them for the 14 weeks of 2016 -2017 and put them away and just pull them out when it's time. I'm sure I can find them online somewhere.
Beach Lover
Lady D,
Thanks for all your hard work. You did a great job. I appreciate it very much. Enjoyed the season and can't wait for next year.
ROLL TIDE!
Thanks for all your hard work. You did a great job. I appreciate it very much. Enjoyed the season and can't wait for next year.
ROLL TIDE!
SoWal InsiderAuthor
Lady D,
Thanks for all your hard work. You did a great job. I appreciate it very much. Enjoyed the season and can't wait for next year.
ROLL TIDE!
Thanks Red Dawg I. I did the best I could. At least we got to play. Hope we can lure more than 16 next season.
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