Welcome to the CatsIllustrated Stupid Underdog Pick Contest. Each week the odds are gathered from the Oddstrader web page (usually on Sunday night) and posted in a thread on CatsIllustrated (which we will hopefully get pinned for convenience). This contest runs for the entire football season (the bowls are treated as one really long week).
There are several ways to win: there are weekly winners, the person with the highest cumulative point total after the season is over is the overall winner but we recognize the contestants that have the most correct picks also.
How do you get points? Select the underdog (second team listed in each game) and have that team pull the upset. The bigger the dog, the bigger the reward but the longer the odds.
Some rules that we need to keep things running smoothly:
1) You should make your pick before the first game of the week has kicked off. Your pick may be invalidated otherwise. I can't know with the new Rivals format that you didn't delete a pick that didn't win and then post a pick from a later game in hopes of getting a winner. You can change your pick before the first game of the week has started by editing your pick or deleting the old pick and making a new post. To change your pick after the first kick off of the week, leave the original post alone, make a new post and indicate that you want to change your pick in that new post. I'll verify that you can change it manually.
2) If you make your pick after the first game of the week kicks off, it may be invalidated. Make your pick before the first kickoff of the day or pick a game that is played on a later date. I might post that you can make picks a bit later in that day in the "Don't forget to..." thread, but don't count on it.
3) If you pick the favored team instead of the underdog, we all laugh at you. Ok, we don't but you can't expect to get points in SUP for that.
4) You can appeal an invalidation by posting in that week's thread, include what you think is wrong.
5) Don't edit your picks after the first game of the week has kicked off.
Understand that a perl script is scoring this, if you make the spelling of the teams intentionally obtuse or you are just really bad at spelling, your pick might be missed. If you want to tell us all about the underdogs you thought you might choose and then tell us about the one you finally did pick, you might be surprised which one the script finds.
So your post should look something like:
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Purdue
*** Everyone hates the Irish right?
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Don't put any other team name in your post with your SUP pick without putting an '***' in front of it. Everything after the '***' will be ignored. My program may find the wrong name if you don't. Once you post your pick, you can post in the thread any comment you like. Your first post is your pick (if I can find your pick).
Because the scoring is done by a script and not by hand, if you feel a mistake was made in scoring your SUP, post that on that Week's thread. We'll try to get it resolved quickly. The scripts are far from perfect and VegasOdds also changes the HTML for the odds page quite often so report any errors you see there as soon as you see them.
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Stupid Underdog Picks - Week 3:
Thursday, Sep. 14
MEMPHIS 16½ Navy
Friday, Sep. 15
MARYLAND 14½ Virginia
UTSA 11½ Army
AIR FORCE 10 Utah State
Saturday, Sep. 16
WISCONSIN 16½ Georgia Southern
Florida State 28½ BOSTON COLLEGE
Wake Forest 14 OLD DOMINION
Liberty 3½ BUFFALO
Louisville 9½ INDIANA
Iowa State 2½ OHIO
Penn State 14½ ILLINOIS
Kansas State 4½ MISSOURI
LSU 8½ MISSISSIPPI STATE
EASTERN MICHIGAN 10 Massachusetts
NOTRE DAME 33½ Central Michigan
RUTGERS 4½ Virginia Tech
CONNECTICUT 10½ Florida International
Alabama 31½ SOUTH FLORIDA
APPALACHIAN STATE 9½ East Carolina
NORTH CAROLINA 6½ Minnesota
DUKE 20 Northwestern
IOWA 27 Western Michigan
OREGON STATE 23 San Diego State
GEORGIA 28 South Carolina
Oklahoma 24½ TULSA
OHIO STATE 27½ Western Kentucky
TEXAS A&M 32 Louisiana-Monroe
Tulane 10½ SOUTHERN MISS
Washington 14 MICHIGAN STATE
Georgia State 7½ CHARLOTTE
OKLAHOMA STATE 9½ South Alabama
TOLEDO 8½ San Jose State
Tennessee 7 FLORIDA
CINCINNATI 17 Miami (OH)
LOUISIANA TECH 2½ North Texas
TROY 2 James Madison
NEBRASKA 13½ Northern Illinois
Vanderbilt 3½ UNLV
UAB 1½ Louisiana-Lafayette
MICHIGAN 40½ Bowling Green
OLE MISS 20½ Georgia Tech
WEST VIRGINIA 1½ Pittsburgh
KENTUCKY 25½ Akron
PURDUE 2½ Syracuse
ARKANSAS 11½ Brigham Young
New Mexico State 1 NEW MEXICO
CLEMSON 24½ Florida Atlantic
TEXAS 28½ Wyoming
OREGON 37½ Hawaii
TCU 6 HOUSTON
COLORADO 23½ Colorado State
Fresno State 2½ ARIZONA STATE
Kansas 26½ NEVADA
ARIZONA 17½ UTEP
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Underdog Winners - Week #2:
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL : 12.5 points
RICE : 9.0 points
Cincinnati : 8.0 points
Texas : 7.5 points
OLD DOMINION : 6.0 points
WASHINGTON STATE : 6.0 points
Ohio : 5.5 points
MIAMI (FL) : 4.0 points
Purdue : 3.0 points
NORTHWESTERN : 1.5 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #2:
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL: stinger11723, RedLotMudcat, RonRajon
Cincinnati: JSgorocks, Caveman Catfan, Burgcatfan, CGblue, Uk##1
Texas: pumpedupcats
OLD DOMINION: Cat4life_, jsyeag
WASHINGTON STATE: bluecoon1, Hang_Time_2, btodd0224, ThreeHogNight, WalterTheHippo
MIAMI (FL): gamecockcat
Nobody picked: RICE, Ohio, Purdue, NORTHWESTERN
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #2:
27.0 : Hang_Time_2
27.0 : WalterTheHippo
26.0 : RedLotMudcat
21.0 : catben
21.0 : secrules3
21.0 : Serenity Now!!!
21.0 : Short-Dawg-69
21.0 : UKfirst
13.5 : AVCat
13.5 : blue cincy
13.5 : bluecoon1
13.5 : Cat4life_
13.5 : Chad Rock
13.5 : H-D cat
13.5 : LordEggForgotHisPassword
13.5 : TOMCATS1990
12.5 : gblue5744
12.5 : RonRajon
12.5 : stinger11723
10.0 : rivercatinfl
10.0 : Roe07
8.0 : Burgcatfan
8.0 : Caveman Catfan
8.0 : CGblue
8.0 : docholiday51
8.0 : JSgorocks
8.0 : Uk##1
7.5 : BlueInTheBoro
7.5 : jwcat30
7.5 : Littlefeller
7.5 : MAYHOO22
7.5 : Old_Red
7.5 : pumpedupcats
6.0 : btodd0224
6.0 : jsyeag
6.0 : ThreeHogNight
5.5 : BlueBallz
5.5 : PickSixKing
4.0 : gamecockcat
Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #2:
2 : bluecoon1
2 : Cat4life_
2 : Hang_Time_2
2 : RedLotMudcat
2 : WalterTheHippo
Underdog Winners:
Week 1: 10
Week 2: 10
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 10.0
Correct Underdog Picks:
Week 1: 27
Week 2: 17
Season Average for Correct Picks: 22.0
Total Picks Made:
Week 1: 93
Week 2: 81
Season Average for Total Picks: 87.0
Welcome New SUP Winners - Week #2:
stinger11723, RonRajon, JSgorocks, Caveman Catfan, Burgcatfan, CGblue, Uk##1, pumpedupcats, jsyeag, btodd0224, ThreeHogNight, gamecockcat
@Deeeefense
There are several ways to win: there are weekly winners, the person with the highest cumulative point total after the season is over is the overall winner but we recognize the contestants that have the most correct picks also.
How do you get points? Select the underdog (second team listed in each game) and have that team pull the upset. The bigger the dog, the bigger the reward but the longer the odds.
Some rules that we need to keep things running smoothly:
1) You should make your pick before the first game of the week has kicked off. Your pick may be invalidated otherwise. I can't know with the new Rivals format that you didn't delete a pick that didn't win and then post a pick from a later game in hopes of getting a winner. You can change your pick before the first game of the week has started by editing your pick or deleting the old pick and making a new post. To change your pick after the first kick off of the week, leave the original post alone, make a new post and indicate that you want to change your pick in that new post. I'll verify that you can change it manually.
2) If you make your pick after the first game of the week kicks off, it may be invalidated. Make your pick before the first kickoff of the day or pick a game that is played on a later date. I might post that you can make picks a bit later in that day in the "Don't forget to..." thread, but don't count on it.
3) If you pick the favored team instead of the underdog, we all laugh at you. Ok, we don't but you can't expect to get points in SUP for that.
4) You can appeal an invalidation by posting in that week's thread, include what you think is wrong.
5) Don't edit your picks after the first game of the week has kicked off.
Understand that a perl script is scoring this, if you make the spelling of the teams intentionally obtuse or you are just really bad at spelling, your pick might be missed. If you want to tell us all about the underdogs you thought you might choose and then tell us about the one you finally did pick, you might be surprised which one the script finds.
So your post should look something like:
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Purdue
*** Everyone hates the Irish right?
------------
Don't put any other team name in your post with your SUP pick without putting an '***' in front of it. Everything after the '***' will be ignored. My program may find the wrong name if you don't. Once you post your pick, you can post in the thread any comment you like. Your first post is your pick (if I can find your pick).
Because the scoring is done by a script and not by hand, if you feel a mistake was made in scoring your SUP, post that on that Week's thread. We'll try to get it resolved quickly. The scripts are far from perfect and VegasOdds also changes the HTML for the odds page quite often so report any errors you see there as soon as you see them.
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Stupid Underdog Picks - Week 3:
Thursday, Sep. 14
MEMPHIS 16½ Navy
Friday, Sep. 15
MARYLAND 14½ Virginia
UTSA 11½ Army
AIR FORCE 10 Utah State
Saturday, Sep. 16
WISCONSIN 16½ Georgia Southern
Florida State 28½ BOSTON COLLEGE
Wake Forest 14 OLD DOMINION
Liberty 3½ BUFFALO
Louisville 9½ INDIANA
Iowa State 2½ OHIO
Penn State 14½ ILLINOIS
Kansas State 4½ MISSOURI
LSU 8½ MISSISSIPPI STATE
EASTERN MICHIGAN 10 Massachusetts
NOTRE DAME 33½ Central Michigan
RUTGERS 4½ Virginia Tech
CONNECTICUT 10½ Florida International
Alabama 31½ SOUTH FLORIDA
APPALACHIAN STATE 9½ East Carolina
NORTH CAROLINA 6½ Minnesota
DUKE 20 Northwestern
IOWA 27 Western Michigan
OREGON STATE 23 San Diego State
GEORGIA 28 South Carolina
Oklahoma 24½ TULSA
OHIO STATE 27½ Western Kentucky
TEXAS A&M 32 Louisiana-Monroe
Tulane 10½ SOUTHERN MISS
Washington 14 MICHIGAN STATE
Georgia State 7½ CHARLOTTE
OKLAHOMA STATE 9½ South Alabama
TOLEDO 8½ San Jose State
Tennessee 7 FLORIDA
CINCINNATI 17 Miami (OH)
LOUISIANA TECH 2½ North Texas
TROY 2 James Madison
NEBRASKA 13½ Northern Illinois
Vanderbilt 3½ UNLV
UAB 1½ Louisiana-Lafayette
MICHIGAN 40½ Bowling Green
OLE MISS 20½ Georgia Tech
WEST VIRGINIA 1½ Pittsburgh
KENTUCKY 25½ Akron
PURDUE 2½ Syracuse
ARKANSAS 11½ Brigham Young
New Mexico State 1 NEW MEXICO
CLEMSON 24½ Florida Atlantic
TEXAS 28½ Wyoming
OREGON 37½ Hawaii
TCU 6 HOUSTON
COLORADO 23½ Colorado State
Fresno State 2½ ARIZONA STATE
Kansas 26½ NEVADA
ARIZONA 17½ UTEP
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Underdog Winners - Week #2:
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL : 12.5 points
RICE : 9.0 points
Cincinnati : 8.0 points
Texas : 7.5 points
OLD DOMINION : 6.0 points
WASHINGTON STATE : 6.0 points
Ohio : 5.5 points
MIAMI (FL) : 4.0 points
Purdue : 3.0 points
NORTHWESTERN : 1.5 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #2:
FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL: stinger11723, RedLotMudcat, RonRajon
Cincinnati: JSgorocks, Caveman Catfan, Burgcatfan, CGblue, Uk##1
Texas: pumpedupcats
OLD DOMINION: Cat4life_, jsyeag
WASHINGTON STATE: bluecoon1, Hang_Time_2, btodd0224, ThreeHogNight, WalterTheHippo
MIAMI (FL): gamecockcat
Nobody picked: RICE, Ohio, Purdue, NORTHWESTERN
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #2:
27.0 : Hang_Time_2
27.0 : WalterTheHippo
26.0 : RedLotMudcat
21.0 : catben
21.0 : secrules3
21.0 : Serenity Now!!!
21.0 : Short-Dawg-69
21.0 : UKfirst
13.5 : AVCat
13.5 : blue cincy
13.5 : bluecoon1
13.5 : Cat4life_
13.5 : Chad Rock
13.5 : H-D cat
13.5 : LordEggForgotHisPassword
13.5 : TOMCATS1990
12.5 : gblue5744
12.5 : RonRajon
12.5 : stinger11723
10.0 : rivercatinfl
10.0 : Roe07
8.0 : Burgcatfan
8.0 : Caveman Catfan
8.0 : CGblue
8.0 : docholiday51
8.0 : JSgorocks
8.0 : Uk##1
7.5 : BlueInTheBoro
7.5 : jwcat30
7.5 : Littlefeller
7.5 : MAYHOO22
7.5 : Old_Red
7.5 : pumpedupcats
6.0 : btodd0224
6.0 : jsyeag
6.0 : ThreeHogNight
5.5 : BlueBallz
5.5 : PickSixKing
4.0 : gamecockcat
Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #2:
2 : bluecoon1
2 : Cat4life_
2 : Hang_Time_2
2 : RedLotMudcat
2 : WalterTheHippo
Underdog Winners:
Week 1: 10
Week 2: 10
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 10.0
Correct Underdog Picks:
Week 1: 27
Week 2: 17
Season Average for Correct Picks: 22.0
Total Picks Made:
Week 1: 93
Week 2: 81
Season Average for Total Picks: 87.0
Welcome New SUP Winners - Week #2:
stinger11723, RonRajon, JSgorocks, Caveman Catfan, Burgcatfan, CGblue, Uk##1, pumpedupcats, jsyeag, btodd0224, ThreeHogNight, gamecockcat
@Deeeefense
