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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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Lady D avatar
SoWal Insider
#527
Most people's choice of picks sucked in these first 4 games except for SJ's and Scooterbug's. Everyone else was pathetic. Hoping to make up some ground tomorrow. This might be my first negative week.
cnestg8r avatar
Beach Fanatic
#528
For the total group, we average 41% correct with a average 9 pt spread. Maybe we should just flip coins.
Lady D avatar
SoWal Insider
#529
The point spreads meant absolutely nothing in the UCF game, they had a 15 pt. spread, and West Va. had a 13 1/2 pt spread and got totally destroyed by Syracuse. I'm banking on several games to turn things around for me tomorrow.
Beach Runner avatar
beats on hood
#530
Lady D, you are right about the point spreads.

Smiling JOe is 4 for 4. I am 0 for 4, as are familyof3, Buz, Shallowsnole, and 1ToshFan. :bang:

EDIT: As of 1:55 CDT, the following are winning 7 out of 11 games finished or in progress:
Red Dawg, FL Dawg, DD, Skunky, Pearls, STL Don, BeachSiO2, kurt, Everytime, and Smiling JOe.

EDIT: As of 2:35 CDT the following have 9 wins: Pearls, STL Don, Everytime (based on unfinished game scores).

EDIT: Leading for this week with 11 games completed as of 3:30 CDT is Lady D with 8 wins.

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Lady D avatar
SoWal Insider
#531
LSU is kicking butt over Auburn, big time.
Lady D avatar
SoWal Insider
#532
Lady D, you are right about the point spreads.

Smiling JOe is 4 for 4. I am 0 for 4, as are familyof3, Buz, Shallowsnole, and 1ToshFan. :bang:

EDIT: As of 1:55 CDT, the following are winning 7 out of 11 games finished or in progress:
Red Dawg, FL Dawg, DD, Skunky, Pearls, STL Don, BeachSiO2, kurt, Everytime, and Smiling JOe.

EDIT: As of 2:35 CDT the following have 9 wins: Pearls, STL Don, Everytime (based on unfinished game scores).

EDIT: Leading for this week with 11 games completed as of 3:30 CDT is Lady D with 8 wins.

I think Fulmer4Senate should be in the group of those winning 7 out of 11 as of 1:55 p.m. I think.
Beach Runner avatar
beats on hood
#533
Lady D is winning by 10 out of 13 right now.

I have Fulmer4Senate at 9 out of 13 right now. Is that right, Lady D?
Lady D avatar
SoWal Insider
#534
Lady D is winning by 10 out of 13 right now.

I have Fulmer4Senate at 9 out of 13 right now. Is that right, Lady D?

BR, that is correct, he is 9 of 13. Hope Penn State and SMU can win. At least one of them anyway. Would hate to miss the last two. C'mon SMU.

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Beach Runner avatar
beats on hood
#535
Lady D has 11 wins. Only So. Miss. vs SMU is not final. Lady D picked SMU. If So. Miss. wins, she will be in a big pack of 11 wins.

I will be in a pack of 9 wins. :bang:
Lady D avatar
SoWal Insider
#536
Lady D has 11 wins. Only So. Miss. vs SMU is not final. Lady D picked SMU. If So. Miss. wins, she will be in a big pack of 11 wins.

I will be in a pack of 9 wins. :bang:

Yeah, well, I don't think SMU is going to win this one. They usually have a good team. So it looks like a 10 out of 11 for me today. Way better than the 1-3 between Thursday and Friday. 9 is above 500, if I can stay above that week to week I'm good.

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Beach Runner avatar
beats on hood
#537
Congrats to Lady D, Skunky, FL Dawg, cnestg8r, PearlsB4U, STL Don, and kurt for 11 wins!

Red Dawg is by himself in first place. Total list of rankings will be posted later by cnestg8r. It's 12:46 AM on Monday for him, so he has a few more hours to sleep.

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cnestg8r avatar
Beach Fanatic
#538
Week 8 Results

Thanks to BR for covering the highlights!

Beach Runner avatar
beats on hood
#539
Thanks for the Excel spreadsheet. It is interesting to see how everyone did and to see the rankings. Next week can you add a column for the previous week's ranking for each player?
Lady D avatar
SoWal Insider
#540
Ready for week 9 now. I'm enjoying this, especially since I have had no losing weeks.
BeachSiO2 avatar
Beach Fanatic
#541
Congrats to Lady D, Skunky, FL Dawg, cnestg8r, PearlsB4U, STL Don, and kurt for 11 wins!

Red Dawg is by himself in first place. Total list of rankings will be posted later by cnestg8r. It's 12:46 AM on Monday for him, so he has a few more hours to sleep.

Red Dawg is a lady with a Terrible affliction. She is a Bama fan, but I still claim her as a friend.
DD avatar
SoWal Expert
#542
Red Dawg is a lady with a Terrible affliction. She is a Bama fan, but I still claim her as a friend.

hmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmmm...................................
Beach Runner avatar
beats on hood
#543
Red Dawg is a lady with a Terrible affliction. She is a Bama fan, but I still claim her as a friend.
OOPS! Sorry, Red Dawg.
Red Dawg avatar
Beach Lover
#544
No Worries, have been called much worse.


ROLL TIDE!
cnestg8r avatar
Beach Fanatic
#545
Week 9

All Saturday games...


Michigan St. @ Nebraska
Syracuse @ Louisville
Illinois @ Penn St.
Missouri @ Texas A&M
Arkansas @ Vanderbilt
Florida @ Georgia
SMU @ Tulsa
Wake Forest @ North Carolina
Oregon St. @ Utah
California @ UCLA
Mississippi @ Auburn
South Carolina @ Tennessee
Clemson @ Georgia Tech
Wisconsin @ Ohio St.
Arizona @ Washington
ShallowsNole avatar
Beach Fanatic
#546
Michigan St. @ Nebraska
Syracuse @ Louisville
Illinois @ Penn St.
Missouri @ Texas A&M
Arkansas @ Vanderbilt
Florida @ Georgia
SMU @ Tulsa
Wake Forest @ North Carolina
Oregon St. @ Utah
California @ UCLA
Mississippi @ Auburn
South Carolina @ Tennessee
Clemson @ Georgia Tech
Wisconsin @ Ohio St.
Arizona @ Washington

Being as I guessed on more than half, got a feeling I'm gonna sink like a rock. Fortunately I won't have far to go...
Lady D avatar
SoWal Insider
#547
Michigan St. @ Nebraska
Syracuse @ Louisville
Illinois @ Penn St.
Missouri @ Texas A&M
Arkansas @ Vanderbilt
Florida @ Georgia
SMU @ Tulsa
Wake Forest @ North Carolina
Oregon St. @ Utah
California @ UCLA
Mississippi @ Auburn
South Carolina @ Tennessee
Clemson @ Georgia Tech
Wisconsin @ Ohio St.
Arizona @ Washington

Being as I guessed on more than half, got a feeling I'm gonna sink like a rock. Fortunately I won't have far to go...

You forgot the Arkansas/Vandy game.
Red Dawg avatar
Beach Lover
#548
Michigan St. @ Nebraska
Syracuse @ Louisville
Illinois @ Penn St.
Missouri @ Texas A&M
Arkansas @ Vanderbilt
Florida @ Georgia
SMU @ Tulsa
Wake Forest @ North Carolina
Oregon St. @ Utah
California @ UCLA
Mississippi @ Auburn
South Carolina @ Tennessee
Clemson @ Georgia Tech
Wisconsin @ Ohio St.
Arizona @ Washington

ROLL TIDE!
bamabeachbum avatar
Beach Fanatic
#549
Michigan St. @ Nebraska
Syracuse @ Louisville
Illinois @ Penn St.
Missouri @ Texas A&M
Arkansas @ Vanderbilt
Florida @ Georgia
SMU @ Tulsa
Wake Forest @ North Carolina
Oregon St. @ Utah
California @ UCLA
Mississippi @ Auburn
South Carolina @ Tennessee
Clemson @ Georgia Tech
Wisconsin @ Ohio St.
Arizona @ Washington
BeachSiO2 avatar
Beach Fanatic
#550
Michigan St. @ Nebraska
Syracuse @ Louisville
Illinois @ Penn St.
Missouri @ Texas A&M
Arkansas @ Vanderbilt
Florida @ Georgia
SMU @ Tulsa
Wake Forest @ North Carolina
Oregon St. @ Utah
California @ UCLA
Mississippi @ Auburn
South Carolina @ Tennessee
Clemson @ Georgia Tech
Wisconsin @ Ohio St.
Arizona @ Washington
Lady D avatar
SoWal Insider
#551
Week 9
All Saturday games...


Michigan St. @ Nebraska
Syracuse @ Louisville
Illinois @ Penn St.
Missouri @ Texas A&M
Arkansas @ Vanderbilt
Florida @ Georgia
SMU @ Tulsa
Wake Forest @ North Carolina
Oregon St. @ Utah
California @ UCLA
Mississippi @ Auburn
South Carolina @ Tennessee :( (One I'd be glad to miss)
Clemson @ Georgia Tech
Wisconsin @ Ohio St.
Arizona @ Washington

Might decide on changing a pick or two before Saturday morning!

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