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2016-2017 SoWal College Football Pick'em

Lady D avatar
SoWal Insider
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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. Cnest8gr is taking back over the picking the games this year. 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. REVISED: Saturday picks are due before the scheduled game time (not kickoff time) of the first Saturday game which is usually 11 a.m. CST/CDT. If your picks are submitted late on Saturday, you will forfeit all games for which the scheduled time is prior to when you submit your picks. For Thursday/Friday night games the picks need to be posted before the scheduled game time (not kickoff time) of the first game which is usually 6 p.m. CST/CDT unless the game time is earlier, in which case they will need to be posted before the earlier start time. Just as on Saturday, you will forfeit all games for which the scheduled time is prior to when you submit your picks.

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steel1man avatar
Beach Fanatic
#277
SoWal 2016-17 NCAAF Pick'ems wk 12
First game Thursday. Best of luck! Sorry again there are so many points games.

Houston +13.5
Troy
Memphis
Miami
Boston College
LSU
Pittsburgh
Wyoming +9.5
Texas Tech
Notre Dame
Missouri +15.5
Arkansas
Vanderbilt +9.5
Colorado St
Air Force
Not a fan of point spreads..which change everytime!! closer to kickoff.
Pure Guessing....
cnestg8r avatar
Beach Fanatic
#278
Louisville
Troy
Memphis
NC St
Boston College
Florida +13.5
Pittsburgh
Wyoming +9.5
Texas Tech
Virginia Tech
Tennessee
Arkansas
Ole Miss
Colorado St
Air Force


I too prefer no points. However there are three options:
1. Pick interesting teams despite a 2-3 TD margin over its opponent. Everyone will pick the favorite and cancel the value of the game.
2. Pick only games with less than one TD margin but may not be of national interest or our regional interests.
3. Minimize the use of points to balance the earlier scenarios.

I would be happy to have anyone volunteer for the last two weeks picks. Next week is rivals week, and should be very easy. The next week is conference championships and should be transparent.
30A Skunkape avatar
Skunky
#279
Louisville @ Houston +13.5
Arkansas St +8.5 @ Troy
Memphis @ Cincinnati
Miami @ NC St
Connecticut @ Boston College
Florida +13.5 @ LSU
Duke +7.5 @ Pittsburgh
San Diego St @ Wyoming +9.5
Texas Tech @ Iowa St
Virginia Tech @ Notre Dame
Missouri +15.5 @ Tennessee
Arkansas @ Mississippi St
Ole Miss @ Vanderbilt +9.5
New Mexico @ Colorado St
Air Force @ San Jose St +10.5

The spreads are a must to keep it interesting.
Beach Runner avatar
beats on hood
#280
SoWal 2016-17 NCAAF Pick'ems wk 12
Best of luck, everyone!

Louisville @ Houston +13.5
Arkansas St +8.5 @ Troy
Memphis @ Cincinnati
Miami @ NC St
Connecticut @ Boston College
Florida +13.5 @ LSU
Duke +7.5 @ Pittsburgh
San Diego St @ Wyoming +9.5
Texas Tech @ Iowa St
Virginia Tech @ Notre Dame
Missouri +15.5 @ Tennessee
Arkansas @ Mississippi St
Ole Miss @ Vanderbilt +9.5
New Mexico @ Colorado St
Air Force @ San Jose St +10.5
carson avatar
Beach Fanatic
#281
Houston +13.5
Troy
Memphis
NC St
Boston College
Florida +13.5
Pittsburgh
Wyoming +9.5
Texas Tech
Virginia Tech
Tennessee
Arkansas
Ole Miss
Colorado St
Air Force
Lady D avatar
SoWal InsiderAuthor
#282
Houston +13.5
Troy
Memphis
NC St
Boston College
Florida +13.5
Pittsburgh
Wyoming +9.5
Texas Tech
Virginia Tech
Tennessee
Arkansas
Ole Miss
Colorado St
Air Force

Just message you. Two games tonight.
Beach Runner avatar
beats on hood
#283
I had me at 11-4 and Pearl at 12-3. Thanks again for the heads up on the LSU game.....Napa was good to us.....hiccup...
LOL. We were in St. Helena in Napa Valley in late August. Our first time. Got to taste ripe grapes right off the vine. Just loved touring the vineyards and learning about viticulture. Great hotel, great restaurants, great winery tours, great scenery, and great wine, of course. cnestg8r joined several winery clubs, and we get four shipments of wine per year from each one, wine that we couldn't find even in Atlanta for what it costs through the clubs. Glad you enjoyed it too.

EDIT: Our favorite tour was at Frog's Leap. The guide did the best job. The owner has a French Griffon named Abbie, and she thinks she owns the place. She follows tour groups through the vineyards, through the cellars, and visits with you during your sit-down tasting. Turn on the sound and go to Frog’s Leap Winery - Visit, click on Watch Video.

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Lady D avatar
SoWal InsiderAuthor
#284
Ouch, everyone is missing the Arkansas State/Troy game.
Beach Runner avatar
beats on hood
#285
Ouch, everyone is missing the Arkansas State/Troy game.
I lost both of the Thursday games. So did four other people. Only 1 person lost last night.
Beach Runner avatar
beats on hood
#286
Go Gators! SEC bound! :chomp:
Lady D avatar
SoWal InsiderAuthor
#287
I must have had a suicide pact with my week 12 picks this week. Not doing so well. Will probably finish in the negative again this week. Oh well. Who cares!
cnestg8r avatar
Beach Fanatic
#2881
SoWal 2016-17 NCAAF Pick'ems wk 12
Congratulations to carson for a 3 pick season lead! Congratulations to carson and kurt for the weekly lead!

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Beach Runner avatar
beats on hood
#289
Congrats to carson for staying in 1st place and to carson and kurt for being the top pickers of the week. It was a tough week to pick with all of the points games -- I seem to have trouble with those. But looking at the results, 6 of the teams with points won, and only 2 of the teams with points lost. So this week I think I'm going to lean towards the teams with points. Maybe.
cnestg8r avatar
Beach Fanatic
#290
SoWal 2016-17 NCAAF Pick'ems wk 13
Rivals Week
First game Thursday. Five on Friday. Should be easy...

LSU @ Texas A&M
Washington @ Washington St
TCU @ Texas
Nebraska @ Iowa
Baylor @ Texas Tech
Arizona St @ Arizona
Georgia Tech @ Georgia
Michigan @ Ohio St
Boston College @ Wake Forest
Auburn +17.5 @ Alabama
West Virginia @ Iowa St
Mississippi St @ Ole Miss
Oregon @ Oregon St
UCLA @ California
Tennessee @ Vanderbilt
Florida @ Florida St

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