Welcome to the CatsIllustrated Stupid Underdog Pick Contest. Each week the odds are gathered from the Vegas Insider web page (usually on Monday) 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 must make your pick before any game has started or after the last game of the day has kicked off on the day you make your pick. Your pick will invalidated otherwise. I can't know 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 with the new Rivals format. If you want to change your pick before the first game has started, make a new post and indicate that you want to change your pick or simply delete your first pick before the first kickoff.
2) If you make your pick after the first game kicks off that day, it is invalidated. I might post that you can make picks a bit later in that day, 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 VegasInsider 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. 16
SUNY-Buffalo 17½ BALL STATE
SOUTH FLORIDA 23 Tulsa
Friday, Nov. 17
Middle Tennessee St 3½ WESTERN KENTUCKY
NEW MEXICO 2 UNLV
Saturday, Nov. 18
INDIANA 11 Rutgers
GEORGIA 21½ Kentucky
Cincinnati 3 EAST CAROLINA
Georgia Tech 6 DUKE
VIRGINIA TECH 16½ Pittsburgh
Central Florida 14 TEMPLE
WAKE FOREST 1 North Carolina State
LOUISVILLE 13½ Syracuse
NORTHWESTERN 7 Minnesota
WEST VIRGINIA 3½ Texas
Oklahoma 35 KANSAS
BOISE STATE 17½ Air Force
UTAH STATE 10½ Hawaii
OLD DOMINION 9 Rice
SOUTHERN MISS 17½ UNC Charlotte
BYU 3½ Massachusetts
Louisiana Tech 17 UTEP
South Alabama 6 GEORGIA SOUTHERN
Texas Christian 7½ TEXAS TECH
IOWA 8½ Purdue
OREGON 38 Arizona
OHIO STATE 38½ Illinois
FLORIDA 10½ UAB
Arizona State 6½ OREGON STATE
MEMPHIS 11½ Southern Methodist
MIAMI (FL) 19½ Virginia
Iowa State 9½ BAYLOR
Mississippi State 11½ ARKANSAS
Missouri 7½ VANDERBILT
WASHINGTON 17 Utah
AUBURN 35½ Louisiana-Monroe
OKLAHOMA STATE 17½ Kansas State
COLORADO STATE 32 San Jose State
PENN STATE 24½ Nebraska
LSU 15½ TENNESSEE
NOTRE DAME 18½ Navy
Houston 9½ TULANE
New Mexico State 4 LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE
NORTH TEXAS 3 Army
ARKANSAS STATE 26 Texas State
FLORIDA ATLANTIC 14½ Florida Intl
Marshall 1½ TEXAS-SAN ANTONIO
MISSISSIPPI 2 Texas AM
WISCONSIN 7½ Michigan
SOUTHERN CAL 15½ UCLA
STANFORD 17 California
SAN DIEGO STATE 15 Nevada
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Underdog Winners - Week #11:
SOUTH ALABAMA : 11.5 points
Old Dominion : 10.0 points
North Carolina : 10.0 points
UAB : 7.0 points
STANFORD : 7.0 points
BYU : 4.0 points
Kentucky : 3.0 points
Wyoming : 3.0 points
MIAMI (FL) : 3.0 points
AUBURN : 2.5 points
GEORGIA TECH : 2.5 points
Wake Forest : 2.0 points
ARMY : 1.5 points
West Virginia : 1.5 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #11:
UAB: ukmonty2001
STANFORD: blubud, CatCall, straykat, dvillecatfan, LeWiz
Kentucky: On_track_4_8, docholiday51, no_neutrality, 13space82, PRPcoach
MIAMI (FL): AsianPICat, Blueisbest
GEORGIA TECH: buckkiller
Nobody picked: SOUTH ALABAMA, Old Dominion, North Carolina, BYU, Wyoming, AUBURN, Wake Forest, ARMY, West Virginia
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #11:
56.5 : jsyeag
50.5 : BeeBeeIn
49.0 : dvillecatfan
46.0 : Gabewcat
46.0 : GrandePdre
45.0 : JBHolmesfan
43.5 : hamidousvertical
43.0 : CGblue
43.0 : ukcatsfan2
41.5 : CatCall
40.5 : *CatinIL*
39.5 : blubud
37.5 : ThePhoenix
37.0 : ILiveBlue-GoCats
36.5 : PRPcoach
36.0 : docholiday51
36.0 : RedLotBagMan
33.5 : Chad Rock
33.5 : stinger11723
33.0 : Serenity Now!!!
32.5 : ukmonty2001
32.0 : btodd0224
31.5 : number8please
30.5 : warrior-cat
28.5 : Blueisbest
28.5 : gblue5744
28.0 : bigbluemist
28.0 : Faithful Blue in the 812
27.5 : PokerCat67
26.5 : gamecockcat
26.5 : ram1955
26.0 : JSgorocks
26.0 : Roe07
26.0 : ThreeHogNight
25.0 : Caveman Catfan
24.0 : ImBory
23.5 : GoBigBlue37
23.0 : buckkiller
20.5 : howercat
20.0 : josh72484
20.0 : Nuke99m
18.0 : KyMaster
18.0 : SWVA WildcatFan
17.5 : pappy52
17.0 : Old_Red
16.5 : AsianPICat
16.5 : tdjohnsky
15.0 : LeWiz
15.0 : straykat
14.0 : KYWILDCATS14
13.5 : allenctynimrod
13.5 : DubyaT
13.5 : KentuckyBlue16
13.5 : maysvilleky
13.5 : warrior_SW
13.0 : Littlefeller
13.0 : On-On-UK
12.5 : On_track_4_8
12.5 : wildcatbd21
11.5 : Blue Strype
11.0 : Maxwell41
10.0 : Catapult
10.0 : Jeff Drummond
10.0 : MrHotDice
9.5 : assistbyhawkins
9.0 : no_neutrality
7.5 : Tskware
7.0 : Big_Blue_1018
6.5 : Grumpyolddawg
6.5 : Ken Cat
6.5 : LordEgg
6.0 : dswan17
6.0 : Greasy Creak Mafia
5.0 : august-west
3.0 : 13space82
2.5 : ColumbiaCayuts
2.5 : Deeeefense
2.5 : pumpedupcats
Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #11:
7 : jsyeag
6 : *CatinIL*
6 : blubud
6 : docholiday51
6 : GrandePdre
6 : JBHolmesfan
6 : number8please
5 : AsianPICat
5 : buckkiller
5 : CatCall
5 : CGblue
5 : dvillecatfan
5 : PRPcoach
4 : BeeBeeIn
4 : bigbluemist
4 : Blueisbest
4 : Gabewcat
4 : gblue5744
4 : hamidousvertical
4 : howercat
4 : ILiveBlue-GoCats
4 : Roe07
4 : ukcatsfan2
4 : ukmonty2001
4 : warrior-cat
3 : Blue Strype
3 : btodd0224
3 : Caveman Catfan
3 : gamecockcat
3 : GoBigBlue37
3 : JSgorocks
3 : KyMaster
3 : Littlefeller
3 : Nuke99m
3 : On_track_4_8
3 : pappy52
3 : PokerCat67
3 : ram1955
3 : RedLotBagMan
3 : Serenity Now!!!
3 : SWVA WildcatFan
3 : ThePhoenix
3 : ThreeHogNight
2 : allenctynimrod
2 : Catapult
2 : Chad Rock
2 : DubyaT
2 : Faithful Blue in the 812
2 : ImBory
2 : Jeff Drummond
2 : josh72484
2 : KentuckyBlue16
2 : KYWILDCATS14
2 : LeWiz
2 : maysvilleky
2 : MrHotDice
2 : no_neutrality
2 : On-On-UK
2 : stinger11723
2 : straykat
2 : warrior_SW
2 : wildcatbd21
Underdog Winners:
Week 1: 3
Week 2: 15
Week 3: 11
Week 4: 12
Week 5: 8
Week 6: 13
Week 7: 18
Week 8: 13
Week 9: 16
Week 10: 17
Week 11: 14
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 12.7
Correct Underdog Picks:
Week 1: 23
Week 2: 42
Week 3: 43
Week 4: 10
Week 5: 19
Week 6: 14
Week 7: 22
Week 8: 12
Week 9: 9
Week 10: 21
Week 11: 14
Season Average for Correct Picks: 20.8
Total Picks Made:
Week 1: 113
Week 2: 86
Week 3: 84
Week 4: 86
Week 5: 76
Week 6: 76
Week 7: 70
Week 8: 70
Week 9: 62
Week 10: 61
Week 11: 59
Season Average for Total Picks: 76.6
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 must make your pick before any game has started or after the last game of the day has kicked off on the day you make your pick. Your pick will invalidated otherwise. I can't know 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 with the new Rivals format. If you want to change your pick before the first game has started, make a new post and indicate that you want to change your pick or simply delete your first pick before the first kickoff.
2) If you make your pick after the first game kicks off that day, it is invalidated. I might post that you can make picks a bit later in that day, 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:
------------
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 VegasInsider also changes the HTML for the odds page quite often so report any errors you see there as soon as you see them.
------------
Stupid Underdog Picks - Week 12:
Thursday, Nov. 16
SUNY-Buffalo 17½ BALL STATE
SOUTH FLORIDA 23 Tulsa
Friday, Nov. 17
Middle Tennessee St 3½ WESTERN KENTUCKY
NEW MEXICO 2 UNLV
Saturday, Nov. 18
INDIANA 11 Rutgers
GEORGIA 21½ Kentucky
Cincinnati 3 EAST CAROLINA
Georgia Tech 6 DUKE
VIRGINIA TECH 16½ Pittsburgh
Central Florida 14 TEMPLE
WAKE FOREST 1 North Carolina State
LOUISVILLE 13½ Syracuse
NORTHWESTERN 7 Minnesota
WEST VIRGINIA 3½ Texas
Oklahoma 35 KANSAS
BOISE STATE 17½ Air Force
UTAH STATE 10½ Hawaii
OLD DOMINION 9 Rice
SOUTHERN MISS 17½ UNC Charlotte
BYU 3½ Massachusetts
Louisiana Tech 17 UTEP
South Alabama 6 GEORGIA SOUTHERN
Texas Christian 7½ TEXAS TECH
IOWA 8½ Purdue
OREGON 38 Arizona
OHIO STATE 38½ Illinois
FLORIDA 10½ UAB
Arizona State 6½ OREGON STATE
MEMPHIS 11½ Southern Methodist
MIAMI (FL) 19½ Virginia
Iowa State 9½ BAYLOR
Mississippi State 11½ ARKANSAS
Missouri 7½ VANDERBILT
WASHINGTON 17 Utah
AUBURN 35½ Louisiana-Monroe
OKLAHOMA STATE 17½ Kansas State
COLORADO STATE 32 San Jose State
PENN STATE 24½ Nebraska
LSU 15½ TENNESSEE
NOTRE DAME 18½ Navy
Houston 9½ TULANE
New Mexico State 4 LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE
NORTH TEXAS 3 Army
ARKANSAS STATE 26 Texas State
FLORIDA ATLANTIC 14½ Florida Intl
Marshall 1½ TEXAS-SAN ANTONIO
MISSISSIPPI 2 Texas AM
WISCONSIN 7½ Michigan
SOUTHERN CAL 15½ UCLA
STANFORD 17 California
SAN DIEGO STATE 15 Nevada
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Underdog Winners - Week #11:
SOUTH ALABAMA : 11.5 points
Old Dominion : 10.0 points
North Carolina : 10.0 points
UAB : 7.0 points
STANFORD : 7.0 points
BYU : 4.0 points
Kentucky : 3.0 points
Wyoming : 3.0 points
MIAMI (FL) : 3.0 points
AUBURN : 2.5 points
GEORGIA TECH : 2.5 points
Wake Forest : 2.0 points
ARMY : 1.5 points
West Virginia : 1.5 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #11:
UAB: ukmonty2001
STANFORD: blubud, CatCall, straykat, dvillecatfan, LeWiz
Kentucky: On_track_4_8, docholiday51, no_neutrality, 13space82, PRPcoach
MIAMI (FL): AsianPICat, Blueisbest
GEORGIA TECH: buckkiller
Nobody picked: SOUTH ALABAMA, Old Dominion, North Carolina, BYU, Wyoming, AUBURN, Wake Forest, ARMY, West Virginia
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #11:
56.5 : jsyeag
50.5 : BeeBeeIn
49.0 : dvillecatfan
46.0 : Gabewcat
46.0 : GrandePdre
45.0 : JBHolmesfan
43.5 : hamidousvertical
43.0 : CGblue
43.0 : ukcatsfan2
41.5 : CatCall
40.5 : *CatinIL*
39.5 : blubud
37.5 : ThePhoenix
37.0 : ILiveBlue-GoCats
36.5 : PRPcoach
36.0 : docholiday51
36.0 : RedLotBagMan
33.5 : Chad Rock
33.5 : stinger11723
33.0 : Serenity Now!!!
32.5 : ukmonty2001
32.0 : btodd0224
31.5 : number8please
30.5 : warrior-cat
28.5 : Blueisbest
28.5 : gblue5744
28.0 : bigbluemist
28.0 : Faithful Blue in the 812
27.5 : PokerCat67
26.5 : gamecockcat
26.5 : ram1955
26.0 : JSgorocks
26.0 : Roe07
26.0 : ThreeHogNight
25.0 : Caveman Catfan
24.0 : ImBory
23.5 : GoBigBlue37
23.0 : buckkiller
20.5 : howercat
20.0 : josh72484
20.0 : Nuke99m
18.0 : KyMaster
18.0 : SWVA WildcatFan
17.5 : pappy52
17.0 : Old_Red
16.5 : AsianPICat
16.5 : tdjohnsky
15.0 : LeWiz
15.0 : straykat
14.0 : KYWILDCATS14
13.5 : allenctynimrod
13.5 : DubyaT
13.5 : KentuckyBlue16
13.5 : maysvilleky
13.5 : warrior_SW
13.0 : Littlefeller
13.0 : On-On-UK
12.5 : On_track_4_8
12.5 : wildcatbd21
11.5 : Blue Strype
11.0 : Maxwell41
10.0 : Catapult
10.0 : Jeff Drummond
10.0 : MrHotDice
9.5 : assistbyhawkins
9.0 : no_neutrality
7.5 : Tskware
7.0 : Big_Blue_1018
6.5 : Grumpyolddawg
6.5 : Ken Cat
6.5 : LordEgg
6.0 : dswan17
6.0 : Greasy Creak Mafia
5.0 : august-west
3.0 : 13space82
2.5 : ColumbiaCayuts
2.5 : Deeeefense
2.5 : pumpedupcats
Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #11:
7 : jsyeag
6 : *CatinIL*
6 : blubud
6 : docholiday51
6 : GrandePdre
6 : JBHolmesfan
6 : number8please
5 : AsianPICat
5 : buckkiller
5 : CatCall
5 : CGblue
5 : dvillecatfan
5 : PRPcoach
4 : BeeBeeIn
4 : bigbluemist
4 : Blueisbest
4 : Gabewcat
4 : gblue5744
4 : hamidousvertical
4 : howercat
4 : ILiveBlue-GoCats
4 : Roe07
4 : ukcatsfan2
4 : ukmonty2001
4 : warrior-cat
3 : Blue Strype
3 : btodd0224
3 : Caveman Catfan
3 : gamecockcat
3 : GoBigBlue37
3 : JSgorocks
3 : KyMaster
3 : Littlefeller
3 : Nuke99m
3 : On_track_4_8
3 : pappy52
3 : PokerCat67
3 : ram1955
3 : RedLotBagMan
3 : Serenity Now!!!
3 : SWVA WildcatFan
3 : ThePhoenix
3 : ThreeHogNight
2 : allenctynimrod
2 : Catapult
2 : Chad Rock
2 : DubyaT
2 : Faithful Blue in the 812
2 : ImBory
2 : Jeff Drummond
2 : josh72484
2 : KentuckyBlue16
2 : KYWILDCATS14
2 : LeWiz
2 : maysvilleky
2 : MrHotDice
2 : no_neutrality
2 : On-On-UK
2 : stinger11723
2 : straykat
2 : warrior_SW
2 : wildcatbd21
Underdog Winners:
Week 1: 3
Week 2: 15
Week 3: 11
Week 4: 12
Week 5: 8
Week 6: 13
Week 7: 18
Week 8: 13
Week 9: 16
Week 10: 17
Week 11: 14
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 12.7
Correct Underdog Picks:
Week 1: 23
Week 2: 42
Week 3: 43
Week 4: 10
Week 5: 19
Week 6: 14
Week 7: 22
Week 8: 12
Week 9: 9
Week 10: 21
Week 11: 14
Season Average for Correct Picks: 20.8
Total Picks Made:
Week 1: 113
Week 2: 86
Week 3: 84
Week 4: 86
Week 5: 76
Week 6: 76
Week 7: 70
Week 8: 70
Week 9: 62
Week 10: 61
Week 11: 59
Season Average for Total Picks: 76.6
