Double T Nation Bowl Pick'em!
by mojavereject on Dec 15, 2008 12:35 AM CST
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PrintIt's that time of year again, and I don't know about you, but for me nothing screams Christmas cheer louder than picking the winners of a series of money-driven exhibition games between college football teams of a certain quality. With that in mind, I have duly copied a great idea from our internet buddy hooper over at Rocky Top Talk, and created a little unofficial bowl pool for Double T Nation fans to provide a little distraction during this holiday season of peace and joy. Joining is easy and takes less than five minutes:
1) Head on over to http://www.funofficepools.com and set up an account. It would help if you were to use the same nickname you use here.
2) Join my pool, entitled "Unofficial Double T Nation Bowl Pick'em".
3) Make your picks at your leisure. Picks for bowl games before midnight, December 26 are due prior to each game's kickoff. The rest of your bowl picks will be due by the midnight, Boxing Day deadline.
4) This isn't a straight up-or-down pool, members will be picking against the spread- this may end up making some of the garbage bowls a bit of a wash, but ought to provide some interesting results on big match-ups. In the event of a tie-breaker, the member who comes closest to successfully picking the MNC game score wins.
4) As commish, I vow to keep all pool members abreast of relevant information, including pick deadlines, standings, epic fails, etc. Spending the holidays behaving myself at the residence of my lovely fiancee's very Baptist grandparents more or less guarantees that time I would normally spend having fun can be redirected toward administrative efforts.
5) Your first assignment: The EagleBank Bowl, featuring Navy and Wake Forest, which kicks off at 11 AM Eastern on Saturday, December 20th. Good luck with that.
Feedback and questions are, of course, welcome.
This is a FanPost and does not necessarily reflect the views of Double-T Nation's writers or editors. It does reflect the views of this particular fan though, which is as important as the views of Double-T Nation's writers or editors.
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Everyone should joing because I just joined.
That means you’re guaranteed not to finish last.
Go Raiders . . .
Double-T Nation
Super
We’re up to 13 members, and you have until the games start on Saturday to get in on this. Thanks to Seth for blessing off on this. Good luck to everyone.
Signed Up
And ready to go. I kind of stopped watching all of the cfb shows and all that out there (I know, bad on me) so I just went with my gut on every pick… Let’s hope that works out for me.
The bowl games start tomorrow
so it’s still not too late to join up- the picks due for tomorrow are as follows:
EagleBank Bowl: Navy/Wake Forest
New Mexico Bowl: Fresno St/Colorado St
St Petersburg Bowl: USF/Memphis
Las Vegas Bowl: BYU/Arizona
Something to think about: there might end up being more people in this pool than there will be in the stands for the New Mexico Bowl.
Wow
I just checked everyone’s record so far and it’s safe to say the majority of us (including myself) suck at picking football (atleast so far).
Just a reminder
there appears to be some confusion in some quarters RE: picks being against the spread, so to clarify- picks are against the spread, so don’t be surprised when your W-L column reflects this when your teams win by 1 point. Picks are now locked, so if you’re like me and fell asleep with Miami and West Virginia selected, you are currently sweating bullets. Good luck to all as we begin the bowl games that don’t suck.
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