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NCAA Pick ems 2011

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Skunky
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Thanks to the generous volunteering of time by Beach Runner and cnestg8r and by popular demand, the picking contest is back in 2011! So far as I know the format will be the same as it has been in years past-I will look for guidelines to be announced by the aformentioned Gator fans soon. Hard to believe this will be year five! Wow! As a reminder, please, we all know half the fun of football is razzing the opponents regarding their shortcomings and expanding team rap sheets-but please try to keep that activity in the NCAA Battlezone thread and keep the picking thread mostly about picking, although discussion regarding picks and performance does add to the picking thread, in my opinion.

With that said, get ready and keep an eye on this thread for the game to hatch! I'm hoping for another great year of SOWAL football funn! GEAUX (insert your team name here)!:cool:



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.
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. Each correct pick earns one point.
6. The winner of the SoWal Pick'em will be the person who has the most points, not the highest percentage of correct picks.
7. 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.
8. 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.

Happy picking!:wave:

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Everytime avatar
Beach Fanatic
#477
Congratulations to Red Dawg for continued leadership!
Congratulations to scooterbug44 and Everytime for a 13 game week!
Congratulations to scooterbug44 and ameliaj for moving up 5 rank positions!

Thanks; I was surprised to see I did well this week on SoWal Pick 'Em after going 6 of 10 on ESPN's Pick 'Em.
Lady D avatar
SoWal Insider
#478
Ready for week 8. I have to and plan on doing better on week 8. There were several close endings to many games, several not in my favor, a few upsets. Bring on week 8.
30A Skunkape avatar
SkunkyAuthor
#479
BR, check your PM box and make sure cnest got the slate
Beach Runner avatar
beats on hood
#480
He got it. Kurt fixed the problem.
cnestg8r avatar
Beach Fanatic
#481
As my mentor Skunky said, "Not a real exciting schedule this week :( "

**THURSDAY
UCF @ UAB
UCLA @ Arizona
**FRIDAY
West Virginia @ Syracuse
Rutgers @ Louisville
**SATURDAY
North Carolina @ Clemson
Cincinnati @ South Florida
Illinois @ Purdue
Oklahoma St. @ Missouri
Kansas St. @ Kansas
Arkansas @ Mississippi
Wake Forest @ Duke
Boston College @ Virginia Tech
Auburn @ LSU
Penn St. @ Northwestern
SMU @ Southern Miss
Lady D avatar
SoWal Insider
#482
Thanks Cnest!
scooterbug44 avatar
SoWal Expert
#483
No Way! :shock:
I think that is a record - don't think I have ever broken out of the 20s before!
bamabeachbum avatar
Beach Fanatic
#484
**THURSDAY
UCF @ UAB
UCLA @ Arizona
**FRIDAY
West Virginia @ Syracuse
Rutgers @ Louisville
**SATURDAY
North Carolina @ Clemson
Cincinnati @ South Florida
Illinois
@ Purdue
Oklahoma St. @ Missouri
Kansas St. @ Kansas
Arkansas @ Mississippi
Wake Forest @ Duke
Boston College @ Virginia Tech
Auburn
@ LSU
Penn St. @ Northwestern
SMU @ Southern Miss
Lady D avatar
SoWal Insider
#485
**THURSDAY
UCF @ UAB
UCLA @ Arizona
**FRIDAY
West Virginia @ Syracuse
Rutgers @ Louisville
**SATURDAY
North Carolina @ Clemson
Cincinnati @ South Florida
Illinois
@ Purdue
Oklahoma St. @ Missouri
Kansas St. @ Kansas
Arkansas @ Mississippi
Wake Forest @ Duke
Boston College @ Virginia Tech
Auburn
@ LSU
Penn St. @ Northwestern
SMU @ Southern Miss

Vegas Insider shows Arizona favored by 4 despite their 1-5 record. Funny.
Beach Runner avatar
beats on hood
#486
Hey, UF was favored over Auburn despite the fact that the Gators don't have their act together.
Lady D avatar
SoWal Insider
#487
**THURSDAY
UCF @ UAB
UCLA @ Arizona

**FRIDAY
West Virginia @ Syracuse
Rutgers @ Louisville

**SATURDAY
North Carolina @ Clemson
Cincinnati @ South Florida
Illinois @ Purdue
Oklahoma St. @ Missouri
Kansas St. @ Kansas
Arkansas @ Mississippi
Wake Forest @ Duke
Boston College @ Virginia Tech

Auburn @ LSU
Penn St. @ Northwestern
SMU @ Southern Miss

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Lady D avatar
SoWal Insider
#488
Hey, UF was favored over Auburn despite the fact that the Gators don't have their act together.

I didn't know that, just figured Auburn would beat Florida.
Beach Lover
#489
**THURSDAY
UCF @ UAB
UCLA @ Arizona
**FRIDAY
West Virginia @ Syracuse
Rutgers @ Louisville
**SATURDAY
North Carolina @ Clemson
Cincinnati @ South Florida
Illinois @ Purdue
Oklahoma St. @ Missouri
Kansas St. @ Kansas
Arkansas @ Mississippi
Wake Forest @ Duke
Boston College @ Virginia Tech
Auburn @ LSU
Penn St. @ Northwestern
SMU @ Southern Miss

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Lady D avatar
SoWal Insider
#490
Only 3 people have posted their week 8 picks so far. I know everyone has until Thursday presumably before kickoff that night but just posting a reminder.
ameliaj avatar
Beach Fanatic
#491
**THURSDAY
UCF @ UAB
UCLA @ Arizona
**FRIDAY
West Virginia @ Syracuse
Rutgers @ Louisville
**SATURDAY
North Carolina @ Clemson
Cincinnati @ South Florida
Illinois @ Purdue
Oklahoma St. @ Missouri
Kansas St. @ KansasArkansas @ Mississippi
Wake Forest @ Duke
Boston College @ Virginia Tech
Auburn @ LSU
Penn St. @ Northwestern
SMU @ Southern Miss

Yay, it's only Wednesday. No APB out for me this week.:wave:
Lady D avatar
SoWal Insider
#492
**THURSDAY
UCF @ UAB
UCLA @ Arizona
**FRIDAY
West Virginia @ Syracuse
Rutgers @ Louisville
**SATURDAY
North Carolina @ Clemson
Cincinnati @ South Florida
Illinois @ Purdue
Oklahoma St. @ Missouri
Kansas St. @ KansasArkansas @ Mississippi
Wake Forest @ Duke
Boston College @ Virginia Tech
Auburn @ LSU
Penn St. @ Northwestern
SMU @ Southern Miss

Yay, it's only Wednesday. No APB out for me this week.:wave:

Ha ha. No Amelia, not APB out for you this week. I'm only contacting a few if it gets to be way up in the day of the first games and there are ones who have not posted or just put another reminder.
Kurt avatar
Admin
#493
UCF @ UAB
UCLA @ Arizona
**FRIDAY
West Virginia @ Syracuse
Rutgers @ Louisville
**SATURDAY
North Carolina @ Clemson
Cincinnati @ South Florida
Illinois @ Purdue
Oklahoma St. @ Missouri
Kansas St. @ Kansas
Arkansas @ Mississippi
Wake Forest @ Duke
Boston College @ Virginia Tech
Auburn @ LSU
Penn St. @ Northwestern
SMU @ Southern Miss
Beach Runner avatar
beats on hood
#494
**THURSDAY

UCF @ UAB

UCLA @ Arizona

**FRIDAY

West Virginia @ Syracuse

Rutgers @ Louisville

**SATURDAY

North Carolina @ Clemson

Cincinnati@ South Florida

Illinois @ Purdue

Oklahoma St. @ Missouri

Kansas St. @ Kansas

Arkansas @ Mississippi

Wake Forest @ Duke

Boston College @ Virginia Tech

Auburn @ LSU

Penn St. @ Northwestern

SMU @ Southern Miss
Red Dawg avatar
Beach Lover
#495
UCF @ UAB
UCLA @ Arizona
West Virginia @ Syracuse
Rutgers @ Louisville
North Carolina @ Clemson
Cincinnati @ South Florida
Illinois @ Purdue
Oklahoma St. @ Missouri
Kansas St. @ Kansas
Arkansas @ Mississippi
Wake Forest @ Duke
Boston College @ Virginia Tech
Auburn @ LSU
Penn St. @ Northwestern
SMU @ Southern Miss


ROLL TIDE!
scooterbug44 avatar
SoWal Expert
#496
UCF @ UAB
UCLA @ Arizona
West Virginia @ Syracuse
Rutgers @ Louisville
North Carolina @ Clemson
Cincinnati @ South Florida
Illinois@ Purdue
Oklahoma St. @ Missouri
Kansas St. @ Kansas
Arkansas
@ Mississippi
Wake Forest @ Duke
Boston College @ Virginia Tech
Auburn @LSU
Penn St. @ Northwestern
SMU @ Southern Miss
Miss Kitty avatar
Meow
#497
UAB
UCLA
WV
Louisville
Clemson
SFL
IL
OK St
KS St
Arkiehog
Duke
VT
LSU
Penn
SMU....Pony up!
Arkiehawg avatar
Beach Fanatic
#498
UCF @ UAB
UCLA @ Arizona
West Virginia @ Syracuse
Rutgers @ Louisville
North Carolina @ Clemson
Cincinnati @ South Florida
Illinois @ Purdue
Oklahoma St. @ Missouri
Kansas St. @ Kansas
Arkansas @ Mississippi Go Hogs!!!
Wake Forest @ Duke
Boston College @ Virginia Tech
Auburn @ LSU
Penn St. @ Northwestern
SMU @ Southern Miss
Arkiehawg avatar
Beach Fanatic
#499
Just starting to be reported and may include some additional LSU players. Should make the game more interesting against awwwbarn.... If multiple games, will have a bearing against Alabama.....

LSU sophomores Spencer Ware and Tyrann Mathieu will be suspended for Saturday's game against Auburn after reportedly failing a drug test, a source told The Daily Reveille on Wednesday.
The suspensions could turn into multiple-game suspensions as well.
Michael Bonnette, LSU's Associate Athletics Director and Sports Information Director, did not comment on the matter, but neither confirmed nor denied the reports, saying he will speak with LSU coach Les Miles this afternoon.
Ware is the Tigers' starting running back and has gained 512 yards as part of a dynamic LSU rushing attack.
Mathieu has garnered widespread Heisman hype after forcing six turnovers and scoring two touchdowns on defense and special teams this season.
ShallowsNole avatar
Beach Fanatic
#500
**THURSDAY
UCF @ UAB
UCLA @ Arizona

**FRIDAY
West Virginia @ Syracuse
Rutgers @ Louisville

**SATURDAY
North Carolina @ Clemson
Cincinnati @ South Florida
Illinois @ Purdue
Oklahoma St. @ Missouri
Kansas St. @ Kansas
Arkansas @ Mississippi
Wake Forest @ Duke
Boston College @ Virginia Tech
Auburn @ LSU
Penn St. @ Northwestern
SMU @ Southern Miss

And I realize that Maryland @ Florida State isn't exciting to most of the world, but to us, every game (even Duke!) has become a nail-biter.
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STL Don avatar
Beach Fanatic
#501
**THURSDAY
UCF @ UAB
UCLA @ Arizona
**FRIDAY
West Virginia @ Syracuse
Rutgers @ Louisville
**SATURDAY
North Carolina @ Clemson
Cincinnati @ South Florida
Illinois @ Purdue
Oklahoma St. @ Missouri
Kansas St. @ Kansas
Arkansas @ Mississippi
Wake Forest @ Duke
Boston College @ Virginia Tech
Auburn @ LSU
Penn St. @ Northwestern
SMU @ Southern Miss

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