*** Official CatsIllustrated Stupid Underdog Pick Contest - Week 2 ***

[Old_Red]

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 2:

Friday, Sep. 6

SMU 11 Brigham Young
NORTHWESTERN 2½ Duke

Saturday, Sep. 7

Georgia Tech 3 SYRACUSE
Texas 7 MICHIGAN
OKLAHOMA STATE 7½ Arkansas
CINCINNATI 2½ Pittsburgh
Kansas State 9½ TULANE
PENN STATE 35 Bowling Green
RUTGERS 23½ Akron
MEMPHIS 18 Troy
FLORIDA ATLANTIC 3½ Army
IOWA 2½ Iowa State
AUBURN 13½ California
LOUISVILLE 28½ Jacksonville State
WASHINGTON 28 Eastern Michigan
NOTRE DAME 29½ Northern Illinois
KENTUCKY 10½ South Carolina
NAVY 13½ Temple
UTAH 14½ Baylor
MARYLAND 8½ Michigan State
TOLEDO 20 Massachusetts
NORTH CAROLINA 22½ Charlotte
TEXAS STATE 2½ UTSA
OLE MISS 41½ Middle Tennessee
VIRGINIA TECH 20½ Marshall
East Carolina 2½ OLD DOMINION
South Alabama 1½ OHIO
Central Michigan 6½ FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL
UCF 21½ Sam Houston State
AIR FORCE 6½ San Jose State
WAKE FOREST 2½ Virginia
UAB 12½ LOUISIANA-MONROE
Georgia Southern 1½ NEVADA
Louisiana-Lafayette 14½ KENNESAW STATE
Kansas 5½ ILLINOIS
ALABAMA 31½ South Florida
MISSOURI 34½ Buffalo
ARKANSAS STATE 7½ Tulsa
NEBRASKA 7½ Colorado
Tennessee 7½ NORTH CAROLINA STATE
OHIO STATE 38½ Western Michigan
OKLAHOMA 29½ Houston
CLEMSON 17½ Appalachian State
OREGON 19½ Boise State
Texas Tech 1 WASHINGTON STATE
Liberty 22 NEW MEXICO STATE
Oregon State 4 SAN DIEGO STATE
ARIZONA STATE 6½ Mississippi State
USC 28½ Utah State
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Underdog Winners - Week #1:

Boston College : 22.0 points
Nevada : 16.0 points
VANDERBILT : 13.5 points
Sam Houston State : 11.0 points
North Texas : 7.5 points
USC : 6.0 points
Coastal Carolina : 3.5 points
UNLV : 2.5 points
Notre Dame : 2.5 points
North Carolina : 2.5 points
Eastern Michigan : 1.5 points

Correct Underdog Picks - Week #1:

Nevada: TuckyFB

VANDERBILT: Chad Rock, cat tat2, warrior-cat, Catapult, bigbluemist, stinger11723, docholiday51

Sam Houston State: howercat, CrimsonCats, maysvilleky

USC: Larry00, number8please, secrules3, WalterTheHippo, kywildcatsfannumber1, gamecockcat

Notre Dame: *CatinIL*, Short-Dawg-69, Blueisbest, BC_Wader

North Carolina: ArtLaibsGhost



Nobody picked: Boston College, North Texas, Coastal Carolina, UNLV, Eastern Michigan



Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #1:

16.0 : TuckyFB
13.5 : bigbluemist
13.5 : cat tat2
13.5 : Catapult
13.5 : Chad Rock
13.5 : docholiday51
13.5 : stinger11723
13.5 : warrior-cat
11.0 : CrimsonCats
11.0 : howercat
11.0 : maysvilleky
6.0 : gamecockcat
6.0 : kywildcatsfannumber1
6.0 : Larry00
6.0 : number8please
6.0 : secrules3
6.0 : WalterTheHippo
2.5 : *CatinIL*
2.5 : ArtLaibsGhost
2.5 : BC_Wader
2.5 : Blueisbest
2.5 : Short-Dawg-69



Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #1:



Underdog Winners:

Week 1: 11

Season Average for Underdog Winners: 11.0


Correct Underdog Picks:

Week 1: 22

Season Average for Correct Picks: 22.0

Total Picks Made:

Week 1: 61

Season Average for Total Picks: 61.0


Welcome New SUP Winners - Week #1:

TuckyFB, Chad Rock, cat tat2, warrior-cat, Catapult, bigbluemist, stinger11723, docholiday51, howercat, CrimsonCats, maysvilleky, Larry00, number8please, secrules3, WalterTheHippo, kywildcatsfannumber1, gamecockcat, *CatinIL*, Short-Dawg-69, Blueisbest, BC_Wader, ArtLaibsGhost




@Deeeefense

 

[gamecockcat]

***Red,
***I picked Southern Cal as my SUP but it's not on the leaderboard. Have no fear, it's probably the only one I'll pick right all season, but still. My entry was one of the first 10 or so. I did spell out Southern Cal, not USC, so that may be the problem.

 

[Old_Red]

Red,
I picked Southern Cal as my SUP but it's not on the leaderboard. Have no fear, it's probably the only one I'll pick right all season, but still. My entry was one of the first 10 or so. I did spell out Southern Cal, not USC, so that may be the problem.

*** I found it. My code didn't pick up "Southern Cal" as being "USC". I didn't see that it didn't find your pick. MY code spits out a lot of warnings when it can't find a pick or someone makes a second pick, etc but I didn't see it when I manually looked through everything. People post a lot of things that aren't picks so by file gets a bit cluttered and my vision isn't as good as it used to be. It should be correct now. How you alerted me is the way you should do it. I try to make things right and fun. At the beginning of the year, there are a lot of things that are exceptions. One of my least favorite is the changing abbreviations for the teams. I had a ton of them this year, including "F" for "Furman" which my code would not accept no matter what I did. I finally went back in and changed the name to Furman. I'll probably have a few more of those things this week too.

So for those thinking of using "U" for Miami, I'll quote Biden, "Don't!" Might be single character names find a bug that I have.

 

[gamecockcat]

Thanks.

 

[Old_Red]

*** I found it. My code didn't pick up "Southern Ca;" as being "USC". I didn't see that it didn't find your pick. MY code spits out a lot of warnings when it can't find a pick or someone makes a second pick, etc but I didn't see it when I manually looked through everything. People post a lot of things that aren't picks so by file gets a bit cluttered and my vision isn't as good as it used to be. It should be correct now. How you alerted me is the way you should do it. I try to make things right and fun. At the beginning of the year, there are a lot of things that are exceptions. One of my least favorite is the changing abbreviations for the teams. I had a ton of them this year, including "F" for "Furman" which my code would not accept no matter what I did. I finally went back in and changed the name to Furman. I'll probably have a few more of those things this week too.

So for those thinking of using "U" for Miami, I'll quote Biden, "Don't!" Might be single character names find a bug that I have.

You probably need to delete your post or it will have you picking Southern Cal again this week. Or you could edit it and put '***' in front of it. my program ignores everything after "***".

 

[Nuke99m]

MICHIGAN

 

[TuckyFB]

Appalachian State

 

[docholiday51]

Miss St

 

[Caveman Catfan]

Brigham Young

 

[Roe07]

Tulane

 

[catsfanbgky]

Tulsa

 

[13space82]

Tulane

 

[rockycard]

Michigan

 

[satcheluk]

Arkansas

 

[Blueisbest]

Illinois

 

[Bluefield88]

Tulane