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 12:

Thursday, Nov. 14

East Carolina 13½ TULSA

Friday, Nov. 15

COLORADO STATE 10½ Wyoming
North Texas 1½ UTSA
WASHINGTON 4 UCLA
ARIZONA 2½ Houston

Saturday, Nov. 16

Texas 15 ARKANSAS
Liberty 13 MASSACHUSETTS
WESTERN KENTUCKY 13½ Louisiana Tech
Tulane 6 NAVY
Clemson 9½ PITTSBURGH
Ohio State 30½ NORTHWESTERN
COLORADO 10½ Utah
AUBURN 24½ Louisiana-Monroe
MARSHALL 9½ Coastal Carolina
TEMPLE 2½ Florida Atlantic
JACKSONVILLE STATE 14 Florida International
ILLINOIS 3½ Michigan State
Sam Houston State 13½ KENNESAW STATE
CALIFORNIA 7½ Syracuse
Hawaii 2½ UTAH STATE
South Florida 3 CHARLOTTE
Penn State 28 PURDUE
Louisville 18½ STANFORD
SMU 16½ Boston College
NOTRE DAME 22½ Virginia
Oregon State 4½ AIR FORCE
LSU 4½ FLORIDA
GEORGIA SOUTHERN 8 Troy
James Madison 4 OLD DOMINION
USC 9½ Nebraska
SOUTH CAROLINA 13½ Missouri
GEORGIA STATE 2 Arkansas State
MARYLAND 4½ Rutgers
LOUISIANA 8½ South Alabama
TEXAS STATE 27½ Southern Miss
KANSAS STATE 8½ Arizona State
Boise State 13½ SAN JOSE STATE
GEORGIA 9½ Tennessee
Oregon 13½ WISCONSIN
TEXAS A&M 40½ New Mexico State
NORTH CAROLINA 11½ Wake Forest
IOWA STATE 8½ Cincinnati
MEMPHIS 15½ UAB
Washington State 13 NEW MEXICO
BRIGHAM YOUNG 3½ Kansas
UNLV 20 San Diego State
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Underdog Winners - Week #11:

GEORGIA TECH : 11.0 points
AIR FORCE : 10.5 points
Virginia : 7.5 points
UCLA : 6.5 points
RUTGERS : 6.5 points
West Virginia : 4.5 points
San Jose State : 4.0 points
New Mexico : 3.5 points
Duke : 3.5 points
KANSAS : 3.0 points
OLE MISS : 2.5 points

Correct Underdog Picks - Week #11:

AIR FORCE: Roe07

UCLA: BurgLife

RUTGERS: gamecockcat, cat tat2, CGblue, BC_Wader, Blueisbest

West Virginia: maysvilleky

OLE MISS: docholiday51



Nobody picked: GEORGIA TECH, Virginia, San Jose State, New Mexico, Duke, KANSAS



Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #11:

56.0 : docholiday51
54.0 : BC_Wader
48.5 : stinger11723
48.0 : Blueisbest
44.5 : bigbluemist
44.0 : Chad Rock
44.0 : howercat
38.5 : BeardedKatFan
38.0 : maysvilleky
36.5 : Roe07
36.5 : warrior-cat
35.5 : TheBlueCat
35.0 : cat tat2
34.0 : gamecockcat
33.5 : CrimsonCats
33.5 : Larry00
32.0 : number8please
31.5 : jrburt
29.5 : BurgLife
29.0 : Hang_Time_2
28.5 : Caveman Catfan
28.0 : kywildcatsfannumber1
27.0 : RedLotMudcat
25.0 : rockycard
25.0 : secrules3
24.5 : M4CAT
23.0 : pumpedupcats
22.0 : blubo
20.5 : WalterTheHippo
20.0 : ArtLaibsGhost
19.5 : *CatinIL*
19.0 : catben
19.0 : Old_Red
17.5 : Burgcatfan
17.5 : GrandePdre
17.5 : jimmy cowboy
16.0 : TuckyFB
16.0 : YardCat
15.0 : CGblue
15.0 : MAYHOO22
14.5 : TOMCATS1990
14.0 : kybloo92
13.5 : Catapult
13.5 : jwcat30
13.5 : pappy52
13.5 : RocknRollCats
13.0 : Bryguy
12.5 : blubud
12.0 : Short-Dawg-69
10.0 : Corbin_Creeper
8.0 : ILiveBlue-GoCats
8.0 : Ken Cat
7.0 : billoliver40
6.5 : bluecoon1
6.5 : tdjohnsky
5.5 : Creed Bratton
3.0 : JSgorocks
3.0 : Nuke99m



Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #11:

7 : Blueisbest
6 : BC_Wader
6 : docholiday51
6 : gamecockcat
6 : howercat
5 : ArtLaibsGhost
5 : BeardedKatFan
5 : bigbluemist
5 : Caveman Catfan
5 : maysvilleky
5 : number8please
5 : TheBlueCat
4 : BurgLife
4 : cat tat2
4 : Chad Rock
4 : CrimsonCats
4 : jrburt
4 : kywildcatsfannumber1
4 : Larry00
4 : Old_Red
4 : Roe07
4 : stinger11723
3 : *CatinIL*
3 : Bryguy
3 : Hang_Time_2
3 : MAYHOO22
3 : secrules3
3 : Short-Dawg-69
3 : warrior-cat
2 : blubo
2 : blubud
2 : catben
2 : CGblue
2 : GrandePdre
2 : ILiveBlue-GoCats
2 : jwcat30
2 : Ken Cat
2 : kybloo92
2 : M4CAT
2 : pappy52
2 : pumpedupcats
2 : RedLotMudcat
2 : rockycard
2 : TOMCATS1990
2 : WalterTheHippo
2 : YardCat


Underdog Winners:

Week 1: 11
Week 2: 17
Week 3: 7
Week 4: 15
Week 5: 14
Week 6: 12
Week 7: 15
Week 8: 15
Week 9: 10
Week 10: 16
Week 11: 11

Season Average for Underdog Winners: 13.0


Correct Underdog Picks:

Week 1: 22
Week 2: 17
Week 3: 5
Week 4: 21
Week 5: 22
Week 6: 17
Week 7: 10
Week 8: 18
Week 9: 9
Week 10: 23
Week 11: 9

Season Average for Correct Picks: 15.7

Total Picks Made:

Week 1: 61
Week 2: 59
Week 3: 56
Week 4: 55
Week 5: 54
Week 6: 50
Week 7: 51
Week 8: 54
Week 9: 51
Week 10: 46
Week 11: 42

Season Average for Total Picks: 52.6

@Deeeefense

Didn't watch the game (family in town). Were the sacks him holding the ball too long or OL just flat out sucked or combo? Hard to stay healthy in the NFL if you're getting hit that often. Same as UK's offense, have to get rid of the ball quicker which generally means you have to be pretty good on pre-snap reads and where the ball needs to go before the play even starts.