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) If you edit your pick after the first game listed has started, your pick is invalidated. I can't know that you didn't change your pick from one that didn't win to a later game in hopes of getting a winner. If you want to change your pick after the first game has started, make a new post and indicate that you want to change your pick. Doesn't work if you are switching from the game that has already started.
2) If you make your pick after your game was supposed to kick off, it is invalidated.
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.
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 3:
Thursday, Sep. 17
Clemson 6 LOUISVILLE
Friday, Sep. 18
Florida State 8½ BOSTON COLLEGE
ARIZONA STATE 28 New Mexico
Saturday, Sep. 19
Wake Forest 5½ ARMY
Temple 10½ MASSACHUSETTS
MICHIGAN 34 UNLV
Ball State 6 EASTERN MICHIGAN
MIDDLE TENNESSEE ST 19½ UNC Charlotte
MINNESOTA 23½ Kent State
WISCONSIN 35 Troy
NORTH CAROLINA 10 Illinois
OHIO STATE 34½ Northern Illinois
North Carolina State 18 OLD DOMINION
OKLAHOMA 30½ Tulsa
SYRACUSE 7 Central Michigan
DUKE 3 Northwestern
TEXAS AM 34 Nevada
OREGON 45½ Georgia State
Rice 7½ NORTH TEXAS
KANSAS STATE 9½ Louisiana Tech
GEORGIA 17½ South Carolina
NAVY 3½ East Carolina
LSU 7½ Auburn
ALABAMA 6½ Mississippi
Virginia Tech 6 PURDUE
OKLAHOMA STATE 24 Texas-San Antonio
MIAMI (FL) 3½ Nebraska
Georgia Tech 2½ NOTRE DAME
WASHINGTON 6 Utah State
TEXAS STATE 3 Southern Miss
Cincinnati 19 MIAMI (OH)
TOLEDO 7½ Iowa State
ARKANSAS 11½ Texas Tech
Memphis 3 BOWLING GREEN STATE
Colorado 4 COLORADO STATE
MARYLAND 7 South Florida
MISSOURI 21½ Connecticut
Florida 3 KENTUCKY
INDIANA 1 Western Kentucky
California 6½ TEXAS
OREGON STATE 7½ San Jose State
TEXAS CHRISTIAN 37 Southern Methodist
UTEP 2½ NEW MEXICO STATE
PENN STATE 10 Rutgers
SAN DIEGO STATE 17½ South Alabama
SOUTHERN CAL 10 Stanford
IOWA 5½ Pittsburgh
MICHIGAN STATE 26½ Air Force
UCLA 16 BYU
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Underdog Winners - Week #2:
Toledo : 21.5 points
Eastern Michigan : 13.5 points
Houston : 12.5 points
Kentucky : 7.5 points
Bowling Green State : 7.5 points
Temple : 6.5 points
Georgia State : 6.5 points
GEORGIA SOUTHERN : 4.5 points
Tulsa : 4.0 points
OHIO : 3.5 points
BYU : 2.5 points
Washington State : 2.0 points
WESTERN KENTUCKY : 1.0 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #2:
Houston: jimmy cowboy, Larry00, WildOnKnoxville, BLUINLOU, Greasy Creak Mafia
Kentucky: kyfan606, BigBlueFan1963, ukcatsfan2, TotesMcGotes, Blueisbest, warrior-cat, Deeeefense, OSOK, KyMaster, specialkd24, docholiday51, zac_limanni, maysvilleky, GoBigBlue37, UK_num_1, Faithful Blue in the 812, Serenity Now!!!, PokerCat67, Gabewcat, pappy52
Temple: ram1955, calicat21, warrior_SW, bigblue7609
Georgia State: BigBadBlueDaddy
GEORGIA SOUTHERN: bigbluemist, gamecockcat, SWVA WildcatFan, DubyaT
OHIO: Brother Cat, Littlefeller
BYU: Hang_Time_2
Nobody picked: Toledo, Eastern Michigan, Bowling Green State, Tulsa, Washington State, WESTERN KENTUCKY
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #2:
19.5 : BigBlueFan1963
19.5 : Serenity Now!!!
16.5 : crosbycatfan3745
15.0 : Gabewcat
14.5 : Hang_Time_2
14.0 : calicat21
13.5 : OSOK
12.5 : BLUINLOU
12.5 : Greasy Creak Mafia
12.5 : jimmy cowboy
12.5 : Larry00
12.5 : WildOnKnoxville
12.0 : gamecockcat
12.0 : straykat
10.5 : SWVA WildcatFan
8.5 : KyMaster
7.5 : Blueisbest
7.5 : BoulderCat
7.5 : Deeeefense
7.5 : docholiday51
7.5 : Faithful Blue in the 812
7.5 : GoB!gBlue
7.5 : GoBigBlue37
7.5 : kyfan606
7.5 : maysvilleky
7.5 : pappy52
7.5 : PokerCat67
7.5 : ram1955
7.5 : RS73CAT
7.5 : specialkd24
7.5 : stinger11723
7.5 : TotesMcGotes
7.5 : ukcatsfan2
7.5 : UKMKG
7.5 : UK_num_1
7.5 : warrior-cat
7.5 : zac_limanni
7.0 : no_neutrality
6.5 : BigBadBlueDaddy
6.5 : bigblue7609
6.5 : warrior_SW
6.0 : jte123
6.0 : THE_OAK
4.5 : bigbluemist
4.5 : DubyaT
3.5 : Brother Cat
3.5 : Littlefeller
1.0 : ashlandcatfan600
1.0 : IamnotRalph
1.0 : RocknRollCats
1.0 : TTU/UK fan
Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #2:
2 : BigBlueFan1963
2 : calicat21
2 : Gabewcat
2 : gamecockcat
2 : Hang_Time_2
2 : KyMaster
2 : OSOK
2 : ram1955
2 : Serenity Now!!!
2 : SWVA WildcatFan
Underdog Winners:
Week 1: 7
Week 2: 13
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 10.0
Correct Underdog Picks:
Week 1: 24
Week 2: 37
Season Average for Correct Picks: 30.5
Total Picks Made:
Week 1: 96
Week 2: 75
Season Average for Total Picks: 85.5
Welcome New SUP Winners - Week #2:
jimmy cowboy, Larry00, WildOnKnoxville, BLUINLOU, Greasy Creak Mafia, kyfan606, ukcatsfan2, TotesMcGotes, Blueisbest, warrior-cat, Deeeefense, specialkd24, docholiday51, zac_limanni, maysvilleky, GoBigBlue37, UK_num_1, Faithful Blue in the 812, PokerCat67, pappy52, warrior_SW, bigblue7609, BigBadBlueDaddy, bigbluemist, DubyaT, Brother Cat, Littlefeller
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) If you edit your pick after the first game listed has started, your pick is invalidated. I can't know that you didn't change your pick from one that didn't win to a later game in hopes of getting a winner. If you want to change your pick after the first game has started, make a new post and indicate that you want to change your pick. Doesn't work if you are switching from the game that has already started.
2) If you make your pick after your game was supposed to kick off, it is invalidated.
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.
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 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 3:
Thursday, Sep. 17
Clemson 6 LOUISVILLE
Friday, Sep. 18
Florida State 8½ BOSTON COLLEGE
ARIZONA STATE 28 New Mexico
Saturday, Sep. 19
Wake Forest 5½ ARMY
Temple 10½ MASSACHUSETTS
MICHIGAN 34 UNLV
Ball State 6 EASTERN MICHIGAN
MIDDLE TENNESSEE ST 19½ UNC Charlotte
MINNESOTA 23½ Kent State
WISCONSIN 35 Troy
NORTH CAROLINA 10 Illinois
OHIO STATE 34½ Northern Illinois
North Carolina State 18 OLD DOMINION
OKLAHOMA 30½ Tulsa
SYRACUSE 7 Central Michigan
DUKE 3 Northwestern
TEXAS AM 34 Nevada
OREGON 45½ Georgia State
Rice 7½ NORTH TEXAS
KANSAS STATE 9½ Louisiana Tech
GEORGIA 17½ South Carolina
NAVY 3½ East Carolina
LSU 7½ Auburn
ALABAMA 6½ Mississippi
Virginia Tech 6 PURDUE
OKLAHOMA STATE 24 Texas-San Antonio
MIAMI (FL) 3½ Nebraska
Georgia Tech 2½ NOTRE DAME
WASHINGTON 6 Utah State
TEXAS STATE 3 Southern Miss
Cincinnati 19 MIAMI (OH)
TOLEDO 7½ Iowa State
ARKANSAS 11½ Texas Tech
Memphis 3 BOWLING GREEN STATE
Colorado 4 COLORADO STATE
MARYLAND 7 South Florida
MISSOURI 21½ Connecticut
Florida 3 KENTUCKY
INDIANA 1 Western Kentucky
California 6½ TEXAS
OREGON STATE 7½ San Jose State
TEXAS CHRISTIAN 37 Southern Methodist
UTEP 2½ NEW MEXICO STATE
PENN STATE 10 Rutgers
SAN DIEGO STATE 17½ South Alabama
SOUTHERN CAL 10 Stanford
IOWA 5½ Pittsburgh
MICHIGAN STATE 26½ Air Force
UCLA 16 BYU
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Underdog Winners - Week #2:
Toledo : 21.5 points
Eastern Michigan : 13.5 points
Houston : 12.5 points
Kentucky : 7.5 points
Bowling Green State : 7.5 points
Temple : 6.5 points
Georgia State : 6.5 points
GEORGIA SOUTHERN : 4.5 points
Tulsa : 4.0 points
OHIO : 3.5 points
BYU : 2.5 points
Washington State : 2.0 points
WESTERN KENTUCKY : 1.0 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #2:
Houston: jimmy cowboy, Larry00, WildOnKnoxville, BLUINLOU, Greasy Creak Mafia
Kentucky: kyfan606, BigBlueFan1963, ukcatsfan2, TotesMcGotes, Blueisbest, warrior-cat, Deeeefense, OSOK, KyMaster, specialkd24, docholiday51, zac_limanni, maysvilleky, GoBigBlue37, UK_num_1, Faithful Blue in the 812, Serenity Now!!!, PokerCat67, Gabewcat, pappy52
Temple: ram1955, calicat21, warrior_SW, bigblue7609
Georgia State: BigBadBlueDaddy
GEORGIA SOUTHERN: bigbluemist, gamecockcat, SWVA WildcatFan, DubyaT
OHIO: Brother Cat, Littlefeller
BYU: Hang_Time_2
Nobody picked: Toledo, Eastern Michigan, Bowling Green State, Tulsa, Washington State, WESTERN KENTUCKY
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #2:
19.5 : BigBlueFan1963
19.5 : Serenity Now!!!
16.5 : crosbycatfan3745
15.0 : Gabewcat
14.5 : Hang_Time_2
14.0 : calicat21
13.5 : OSOK
12.5 : BLUINLOU
12.5 : Greasy Creak Mafia
12.5 : jimmy cowboy
12.5 : Larry00
12.5 : WildOnKnoxville
12.0 : gamecockcat
12.0 : straykat
10.5 : SWVA WildcatFan
8.5 : KyMaster
7.5 : Blueisbest
7.5 : BoulderCat
7.5 : Deeeefense
7.5 : docholiday51
7.5 : Faithful Blue in the 812
7.5 : GoB!gBlue
7.5 : GoBigBlue37
7.5 : kyfan606
7.5 : maysvilleky
7.5 : pappy52
7.5 : PokerCat67
7.5 : ram1955
7.5 : RS73CAT
7.5 : specialkd24
7.5 : stinger11723
7.5 : TotesMcGotes
7.5 : ukcatsfan2
7.5 : UKMKG
7.5 : UK_num_1
7.5 : warrior-cat
7.5 : zac_limanni
7.0 : no_neutrality
6.5 : BigBadBlueDaddy
6.5 : bigblue7609
6.5 : warrior_SW
6.0 : jte123
6.0 : THE_OAK
4.5 : bigbluemist
4.5 : DubyaT
3.5 : Brother Cat
3.5 : Littlefeller
1.0 : ashlandcatfan600
1.0 : IamnotRalph
1.0 : RocknRollCats
1.0 : TTU/UK fan
Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #2:
2 : BigBlueFan1963
2 : calicat21
2 : Gabewcat
2 : gamecockcat
2 : Hang_Time_2
2 : KyMaster
2 : OSOK
2 : ram1955
2 : Serenity Now!!!
2 : SWVA WildcatFan
Underdog Winners:
Week 1: 7
Week 2: 13
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 10.0
Correct Underdog Picks:
Week 1: 24
Week 2: 37
Season Average for Correct Picks: 30.5
Total Picks Made:
Week 1: 96
Week 2: 75
Season Average for Total Picks: 85.5
Welcome New SUP Winners - Week #2:
jimmy cowboy, Larry00, WildOnKnoxville, BLUINLOU, Greasy Creak Mafia, kyfan606, ukcatsfan2, TotesMcGotes, Blueisbest, warrior-cat, Deeeefense, specialkd24, docholiday51, zac_limanni, maysvilleky, GoBigBlue37, UK_num_1, Faithful Blue in the 812, PokerCat67, pappy52, warrior_SW, bigblue7609, BigBadBlueDaddy, bigbluemist, DubyaT, Brother Cat, Littlefeller
