elcome 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.
------------Stupid Underdog Picks - Week 14:
Thursday, Dec. 3
Louisiana Tech 2½ NORTH TEXAS
Air Force 10½ UTAH STATE
Friday, Dec. 4
APPALACHIAN STATE 2½ Louisiana-Lafayette
Boise State 27 UNLV
Saturday, Dec. 5
NORTH CAROLINA STATE 7½ Georgia Tech
GEORGIA 33½ Vanderbilt
Clemson 22 VIRGINIA TECH
VIRGINIA 6½ Boston College
KENTUCKY 12 South Carolina
COASTAL CAROLINA 7 Liberty
MICHIGAN 5 Maryland
Ohio State 24 MICHIGAN STATE
PURDUE 2 Nebraska
Penn State 10 RUTGERS
GEORGIA SOUTHERN 2½ Florida Atlantic
AKRON 2½ Bowling Green State
CENTRAL MICHIGAN 1 Ball State
Kent State 3½ MIAMI (OH)
SUNY-Buffalo 11½ OHIO
WESTERN MICHIGAN 14 Eastern Michigan
UNC CHARLOTTE 8 Florida Intl
MARSHALL 23½ Rice
Florida 17½ TENNESSEE
UTAH 10 Oregon State
Colorado 6½ ARIZONA
ARIZONA STATE 4 UCLA
NOTRE DAME 33½ Syracuse
WASHINGTON 11 Stanford
NEVADA 7 Fresno State
Oregon 9 CALIFORNIA
Oklahoma State 2 TEXAS CHRISTIAN
IOWA STATE 7 West Virginia
WISCONSIN 14½ Indiana
TEXAS TECH 27½ Kansas
Toledo 9 NORTHERN ILLINOIS
OKLAHOMA 23 Baylor
Texas AM 7 AUBURN
Texas 10 KANSAS STATE
Iowa 13½ ILLINOIS
SAN JOSE STATE 6 Hawaii
Wyoming 16½ NEW MEXICO
SAN DIEGO STATE 8 Colorado State
TULANE 1½ Memphis
Tulsa 12 NAVY
Troy 5 SOUTH ALABAMA
ARKANSAS STATE 21 Louisiana-Monroe
MISSOURI 3 Arkansas
Houston 1 SOUTHERN METHODIST
Alabama 29 LSU
Miami (FL) 15½ DUKE
NORTH CAROLINA 50 Western Carolina
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Underdog Winners - Week #13:
OREGON STATE : 14.0 points
Colorado : 13.5 points
MICHIGAN STATE : 13.0 points
Rutgers : 12.0 points
EAST CAROLINA : 11.5 points
Ball State : 9.5 points
HAWAII : 7.0 points
South Alabama : 6.5 points
UTAH STATE : 5.5 points
GEORGIA STATE : 2.0 points
Iowa State : 2.0 points
Penn State : 2.0 points
Stanford : 1.5 points
BOSTON COLLEGE : 1.0 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #13:
OREGON STATE: Cat4life_
Colorado: SWVA WildcatFan, TOMCATS1990
MICHIGAN STATE: LeWiz
Rutgers: Corbin_Creeper
South Alabama: *CatinIL*, jwcat30
GEORGIA STATE: On_track_4_8
BOSTON COLLEGE: pappy52, AsianPICat
Nobody picked: EAST CAROLINA, Ball State, HAWAII, UTAH STATE, Iowa State, Penn State, Stanford
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #13:
63.5 : RocknRollCats
63.0 : Cat4life_
46.0 : LeWiz
40.5 : CGblue
37.5 : Nuke99m
37.0 : Corbin_Creeper
37.0 : WildcatDJ
35.5 : jwcat30
35.5 : SWVA WildcatFan
33.5 : On_track_4_8
32.0 : no_neutrality
30.0 : dvillecatfan
30.0 : pappy52
29.5 : AsianPICat
29.5 : Roe07
28.5 : Blueaz
28.5 : TRUEBLUEANDYC
26.0 : jrburt
25.5 : ashlandcatfan600
25.5 : Mash 2.4
23.5 : Ken Cat
23.5 : Maxwell41
22.0 : *CatinIL*
19.0 : jsyeag
19.0 : maysvilleky
19.0 : wildcatbd21
18.5 : blubud
18.0 : Gabewcat
16.0 : MAYHOO22
16.0 : TOMCATS1990
13.0 : crosbycatfan3745
12.5 : spartacat
11.5 : Blueisbest
10.5 : btodd0224
10.5 : Owen68
10.5 : ThreeHogNight
10.5 : warrior_SW
9.5 : Hang_Time_2
8.0 : JSgorocks
7.5 : Littlefeller
7.5 : ukmonty2001
7.0 : bigbluemist
7.0 : BigTyrone
7.0 : Old_Red
7.0 : pumpedupcats
6.5 : howercat
6.0 : GoBigBlue712
5.5 : number8please
5.5 : TreyGoggles
2.5 : ILiveBlue-GoCats
Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #13:
7 : AsianPICat
7 : On_track_4_8
6 : RocknRollCats
6 : SWVA WildcatFan
5 : Cat4life_
5 : CGblue
5 : jwcat30
5 : LeWiz
5 : WildcatDJ
4 : ashlandcatfan600
4 : Blueaz
4 : jsyeag
4 : Ken Cat
4 : Mash 2.4
4 : no_neutrality
4 : pappy52
3 : *CatinIL*
3 : blubud
3 : dvillecatfan
3 : jrburt
3 : Maxwell41
3 : MAYHOO22
3 : maysvilleky
3 : Nuke99m
3 : Old_Red
3 : Roe07
3 : TRUEBLUEANDYC
2 : Blueisbest
2 : Corbin_Creeper
2 : crosbycatfan3745
2 : JSgorocks
2 : number8please
2 : Owen68
2 : ThreeHogNight
2 : TOMCATS1990
2 : wildcatbd21
Underdog Winners:
Week 2: 4
Week 3: 6
Week 4: 4
Week 5: 10
Week 6: 9
Week 7: 7
Week 8: 13
Week 9: 10
Week 10: 10
Week 11: 6
Week 12: 11
Week 13: 14
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 8.0
Correct Underdog Picks:
Week 2: 18
Week 3: 16
Week 4: 5
Week 5: 20
Week 6: 17
Week 7: 18
Week 8: 10
Week 9: 5
Week 10: 12
Week 11: 6
Week 12: 7
Week 13: 10
Season Average for Correct Picks: 11.1
Total Picks Made:
Week 2: 40
Week 3: 40
Week 4: 58
Week 5: 51
Week 6: 46
Week 7: 47
Week 8: 45
Week 9: 43
Week 10: 38
Week 11: 43
Week 12: 39
Week 13: 34
Season Average for Total Picks: 43.7
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 14:
Thursday, Dec. 3
Louisiana Tech 2½ NORTH TEXAS
Air Force 10½ UTAH STATE
Friday, Dec. 4
APPALACHIAN STATE 2½ Louisiana-Lafayette
Boise State 27 UNLV
Saturday, Dec. 5
NORTH CAROLINA STATE 7½ Georgia Tech
GEORGIA 33½ Vanderbilt
Clemson 22 VIRGINIA TECH
VIRGINIA 6½ Boston College
KENTUCKY 12 South Carolina
COASTAL CAROLINA 7 Liberty
MICHIGAN 5 Maryland
Ohio State 24 MICHIGAN STATE
PURDUE 2 Nebraska
Penn State 10 RUTGERS
GEORGIA SOUTHERN 2½ Florida Atlantic
AKRON 2½ Bowling Green State
CENTRAL MICHIGAN 1 Ball State
Kent State 3½ MIAMI (OH)
SUNY-Buffalo 11½ OHIO
WESTERN MICHIGAN 14 Eastern Michigan
UNC CHARLOTTE 8 Florida Intl
MARSHALL 23½ Rice
Florida 17½ TENNESSEE
UTAH 10 Oregon State
Colorado 6½ ARIZONA
ARIZONA STATE 4 UCLA
NOTRE DAME 33½ Syracuse
WASHINGTON 11 Stanford
NEVADA 7 Fresno State
Oregon 9 CALIFORNIA
Oklahoma State 2 TEXAS CHRISTIAN
IOWA STATE 7 West Virginia
WISCONSIN 14½ Indiana
TEXAS TECH 27½ Kansas
Toledo 9 NORTHERN ILLINOIS
OKLAHOMA 23 Baylor
Texas AM 7 AUBURN
Texas 10 KANSAS STATE
Iowa 13½ ILLINOIS
SAN JOSE STATE 6 Hawaii
Wyoming 16½ NEW MEXICO
SAN DIEGO STATE 8 Colorado State
TULANE 1½ Memphis
Tulsa 12 NAVY
Troy 5 SOUTH ALABAMA
ARKANSAS STATE 21 Louisiana-Monroe
MISSOURI 3 Arkansas
Houston 1 SOUTHERN METHODIST
Alabama 29 LSU
Miami (FL) 15½ DUKE
NORTH CAROLINA 50 Western Carolina
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Underdog Winners - Week #13:
OREGON STATE : 14.0 points
Colorado : 13.5 points
MICHIGAN STATE : 13.0 points
Rutgers : 12.0 points
EAST CAROLINA : 11.5 points
Ball State : 9.5 points
HAWAII : 7.0 points
South Alabama : 6.5 points
UTAH STATE : 5.5 points
GEORGIA STATE : 2.0 points
Iowa State : 2.0 points
Penn State : 2.0 points
Stanford : 1.5 points
BOSTON COLLEGE : 1.0 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #13:
OREGON STATE: Cat4life_
Colorado: SWVA WildcatFan, TOMCATS1990
MICHIGAN STATE: LeWiz
Rutgers: Corbin_Creeper
South Alabama: *CatinIL*, jwcat30
GEORGIA STATE: On_track_4_8
BOSTON COLLEGE: pappy52, AsianPICat
Nobody picked: EAST CAROLINA, Ball State, HAWAII, UTAH STATE, Iowa State, Penn State, Stanford
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #13:
63.5 : RocknRollCats
63.0 : Cat4life_
46.0 : LeWiz
40.5 : CGblue
37.5 : Nuke99m
37.0 : Corbin_Creeper
37.0 : WildcatDJ
35.5 : jwcat30
35.5 : SWVA WildcatFan
33.5 : On_track_4_8
32.0 : no_neutrality
30.0 : dvillecatfan
30.0 : pappy52
29.5 : AsianPICat
29.5 : Roe07
28.5 : Blueaz
28.5 : TRUEBLUEANDYC
26.0 : jrburt
25.5 : ashlandcatfan600
25.5 : Mash 2.4
23.5 : Ken Cat
23.5 : Maxwell41
22.0 : *CatinIL*
19.0 : jsyeag
19.0 : maysvilleky
19.0 : wildcatbd21
18.5 : blubud
18.0 : Gabewcat
16.0 : MAYHOO22
16.0 : TOMCATS1990
13.0 : crosbycatfan3745
12.5 : spartacat
11.5 : Blueisbest
10.5 : btodd0224
10.5 : Owen68
10.5 : ThreeHogNight
10.5 : warrior_SW
9.5 : Hang_Time_2
8.0 : JSgorocks
7.5 : Littlefeller
7.5 : ukmonty2001
7.0 : bigbluemist
7.0 : BigTyrone
7.0 : Old_Red
7.0 : pumpedupcats
6.5 : howercat
6.0 : GoBigBlue712
5.5 : number8please
5.5 : TreyGoggles
2.5 : ILiveBlue-GoCats
Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #13:
7 : AsianPICat
7 : On_track_4_8
6 : RocknRollCats
6 : SWVA WildcatFan
5 : Cat4life_
5 : CGblue
5 : jwcat30
5 : LeWiz
5 : WildcatDJ
4 : ashlandcatfan600
4 : Blueaz
4 : jsyeag
4 : Ken Cat
4 : Mash 2.4
4 : no_neutrality
4 : pappy52
3 : *CatinIL*
3 : blubud
3 : dvillecatfan
3 : jrburt
3 : Maxwell41
3 : MAYHOO22
3 : maysvilleky
3 : Nuke99m
3 : Old_Red
3 : Roe07
3 : TRUEBLUEANDYC
2 : Blueisbest
2 : Corbin_Creeper
2 : crosbycatfan3745
2 : JSgorocks
2 : number8please
2 : Owen68
2 : ThreeHogNight
2 : TOMCATS1990
2 : wildcatbd21
Underdog Winners:
Week 2: 4
Week 3: 6
Week 4: 4
Week 5: 10
Week 6: 9
Week 7: 7
Week 8: 13
Week 9: 10
Week 10: 10
Week 11: 6
Week 12: 11
Week 13: 14
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 8.0
Correct Underdog Picks:
Week 2: 18
Week 3: 16
Week 4: 5
Week 5: 20
Week 6: 17
Week 7: 18
Week 8: 10
Week 9: 5
Week 10: 12
Week 11: 6
Week 12: 7
Week 13: 10
Season Average for Correct Picks: 11.1
Total Picks Made:
Week 2: 40
Week 3: 40
Week 4: 58
Week 5: 51
Week 6: 46
Week 7: 47
Week 8: 45
Week 9: 43
Week 10: 38
Week 11: 43
Week 12: 39
Week 13: 34
Season Average for Total Picks: 43.7
