Welcome to the CatsIllustrated Stupid Underdog Pick Contest. Each week the odds are gathered from the Vegas Odds 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 be 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 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 3:
Friday, Sep. 16
Florida State 1½ LOUISVILLE
Air Force 15 WYOMING
Saturday, Sep. 17
Georgia 24 SOUTH CAROLINA
BAYLOR 31½ Texas State
MICHIGAN 47 Connecticut
Purdue 1 SYRACUSE
Cincinnati 20 MIAMI (OHIO)
Oklahoma 14 NEBRASKA
INDIANA 7 Western Kentucky
COASTAL CAROLINA 19 Buffalo
UCLA 14 South Alabama
IOWA STATE 21½ Ohio
VIRGINIA 10 Old Dominion
NOTRE DAME 12½ California
KANSAS STATE 16½ Tulane
UNLV 2½ North Texas
Penn State 3 AUBURN
Mississippi 14½ GEORGIA TECH
NORTHERN ILLINOIS 1½ Vanderbilt
MINNESOTA 27½ Colorado
OREGON 3½ BYU
WISCONSIN 38 New Mexico St
APP STATE 13 Troy
ALABAMA 50 UL Monroe
HOUSTON 10 Kansas
WASHINGTON STATE 16½ Colorado State
WAKE FOREST 16 Liberty
Marshall 18 BOWLING GREEN
Miss State 3 LOUISIANA ST
TENNESSEE 46½ Akron
OHIO STATE 30½ Toledo
MEMPHIS 13½ Arkansas St
GEORGIA ST 19½ Charlotte
FLORIDA 24½ South Florida
IOWA 21 Nevada
MARYLAND 2½ Southern Methodist
Pittsburgh 12 W MICHIGAN
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Underdog Winners - Week #2:
Marshall : 19.5 points
Washington State : 17.5 points
App State : 17.0 points
Kansas : 14.0 points
Duke : 8.5 points
Middle Tennessee : 8.5 points
South Alabama : 6.5 points
Louisville : 5.5 points
Kentucky : 5.0 points
LIBERTY : 4.5 points
Iowa State : 3.5 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #2:
Marshall: jameslee32, BurgLife
Duke: JBHolmesfan, stinger11723
Louisville: GrandePdre, RocknRollCats
Kentucky: WildcatStu1, SWVA WildcatFan, Larry00, BeardedKatFan, Short-Dawg-69, TRUEBLUEANDYC, GoBigBlue37, Greezy Kreek, TuckyFB, Blueisbest, jimmy cowboy, warrior-cat, pumpedupcats, Ken Cat
LIBERTY: On_track_4_8, jwcat30, maysvilleky, ukmonty2001, BlueInTheBoro, yes_takeaside
Iowa State: gamecockcat
Nobody picked: Washington State, App State, Kansas, Middle Tennessee, South Alabama
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #2:
19.5 : BurgLife
19.5 : jameslee32
18.5 : RocknRollCats
18.0 : Blueisbest
18.0 : TuckyFB
16.5 : gamecockcat
16.0 : JBHolmesfan
13.0 : Big_Blue_1018
13.0 : dvillecatfan
13.0 : gblue5744
13.0 : H-D cat
13.0 : jsyeag
13.0 : LeWiz
13.0 : Littlefeller
13.0 : sieken
13.0 : ThreeHogNight
12.0 : ukmonty2001
10.0 : jimmy cowboy
8.5 : stinger11723
8.0 : Old_Red
8.0 : southindycat
8.0 : warrior_SW
7.5 : DubyaT
7.5 : ILiveBlue-GoCats
7.5 : Serenity Now!!!
7.5 : VikingCat21
7.0 : BeardedKatFan
7.0 : WildcatStu1
5.5 : GrandePdre
5.0 : GoBigBlue37
5.0 : Greezy Kreek
5.0 : Ken Cat
5.0 : Larry00
5.0 : pumpedupcats
5.0 : Short-Dawg-69
5.0 : SWVA WildcatFan
5.0 : TRUEBLUEANDYC
5.0 : warrior-cat
4.5 : BlueInTheBoro
4.5 : jwcat30
4.5 : maysvilleky
4.5 : On_track_4_8
4.5 : yes_takeaside
2.0 : ArtLaibsGhost
2.0 : AsianPICat
2.0 : M4CAT
2.0 : MartinMartin
2.0 : number8please
Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #2:
2 : BeardedKatFan
2 : Blueisbest
2 : gamecockcat
2 : JBHolmesfan
2 : jimmy cowboy
2 : RocknRollCats
2 : TuckyFB
2 : ukmonty2001
2 : WildcatStu1
Underdog Winners:
Week 1: 6
Week 2: 11
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 8.5
Correct Underdog Picks:
Week 1: 30
Week 2: 27
Season Average for Correct Picks: 28.5
Total Picks Made:
Week 1: 86
Week 2: 90
Season Average for Total Picks: 88.0
Welcome New SUP Winners - Week #2:
jameslee32, BurgLife, stinger11723, GrandePdre, SWVA WildcatFan, Larry00, Short-Dawg-69, TRUEBLUEANDYC, GoBigBlue37, Greezy Kreek, warrior-cat, pumpedupcats, Ken Cat, On_track_4_8, jwcat30, maysvilleky, BlueInTheBoro, yes_takeaside
*** edited to take out the TEMPLE/Rutgers game where I grabbed the odds wrong.
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 be 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?
------------
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 3:
Friday, Sep. 16
Florida State 1½ LOUISVILLE
Air Force 15 WYOMING
Saturday, Sep. 17
Georgia 24 SOUTH CAROLINA
BAYLOR 31½ Texas State
MICHIGAN 47 Connecticut
Purdue 1 SYRACUSE
Cincinnati 20 MIAMI (OHIO)
Oklahoma 14 NEBRASKA
INDIANA 7 Western Kentucky
COASTAL CAROLINA 19 Buffalo
UCLA 14 South Alabama
IOWA STATE 21½ Ohio
VIRGINIA 10 Old Dominion
NOTRE DAME 12½ California
KANSAS STATE 16½ Tulane
UNLV 2½ North Texas
Penn State 3 AUBURN
Mississippi 14½ GEORGIA TECH
NORTHERN ILLINOIS 1½ Vanderbilt
MINNESOTA 27½ Colorado
OREGON 3½ BYU
WISCONSIN 38 New Mexico St
APP STATE 13 Troy
ALABAMA 50 UL Monroe
HOUSTON 10 Kansas
WASHINGTON STATE 16½ Colorado State
WAKE FOREST 16 Liberty
Marshall 18 BOWLING GREEN
Miss State 3 LOUISIANA ST
TENNESSEE 46½ Akron
OHIO STATE 30½ Toledo
MEMPHIS 13½ Arkansas St
GEORGIA ST 19½ Charlotte
FLORIDA 24½ South Florida
IOWA 21 Nevada
MARYLAND 2½ Southern Methodist
Pittsburgh 12 W MICHIGAN
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Underdog Winners - Week #2:
Marshall : 19.5 points
Washington State : 17.5 points
App State : 17.0 points
Kansas : 14.0 points
Duke : 8.5 points
Middle Tennessee : 8.5 points
South Alabama : 6.5 points
Louisville : 5.5 points
Kentucky : 5.0 points
LIBERTY : 4.5 points
Iowa State : 3.5 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #2:
Marshall: jameslee32, BurgLife
Duke: JBHolmesfan, stinger11723
Louisville: GrandePdre, RocknRollCats
Kentucky: WildcatStu1, SWVA WildcatFan, Larry00, BeardedKatFan, Short-Dawg-69, TRUEBLUEANDYC, GoBigBlue37, Greezy Kreek, TuckyFB, Blueisbest, jimmy cowboy, warrior-cat, pumpedupcats, Ken Cat
LIBERTY: On_track_4_8, jwcat30, maysvilleky, ukmonty2001, BlueInTheBoro, yes_takeaside
Iowa State: gamecockcat
Nobody picked: Washington State, App State, Kansas, Middle Tennessee, South Alabama
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #2:
19.5 : BurgLife
19.5 : jameslee32
18.5 : RocknRollCats
18.0 : Blueisbest
18.0 : TuckyFB
16.5 : gamecockcat
16.0 : JBHolmesfan
13.0 : Big_Blue_1018
13.0 : dvillecatfan
13.0 : gblue5744
13.0 : H-D cat
13.0 : jsyeag
13.0 : LeWiz
13.0 : Littlefeller
13.0 : sieken
13.0 : ThreeHogNight
12.0 : ukmonty2001
10.0 : jimmy cowboy
8.5 : stinger11723
8.0 : Old_Red
8.0 : southindycat
8.0 : warrior_SW
7.5 : DubyaT
7.5 : ILiveBlue-GoCats
7.5 : Serenity Now!!!
7.5 : VikingCat21
7.0 : BeardedKatFan
7.0 : WildcatStu1
5.5 : GrandePdre
5.0 : GoBigBlue37
5.0 : Greezy Kreek
5.0 : Ken Cat
5.0 : Larry00
5.0 : pumpedupcats
5.0 : Short-Dawg-69
5.0 : SWVA WildcatFan
5.0 : TRUEBLUEANDYC
5.0 : warrior-cat
4.5 : BlueInTheBoro
4.5 : jwcat30
4.5 : maysvilleky
4.5 : On_track_4_8
4.5 : yes_takeaside
2.0 : ArtLaibsGhost
2.0 : AsianPICat
2.0 : M4CAT
2.0 : MartinMartin
2.0 : number8please
Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #2:
2 : BeardedKatFan
2 : Blueisbest
2 : gamecockcat
2 : JBHolmesfan
2 : jimmy cowboy
2 : RocknRollCats
2 : TuckyFB
2 : ukmonty2001
2 : WildcatStu1
Underdog Winners:
Week 1: 6
Week 2: 11
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 8.5
Correct Underdog Picks:
Week 1: 30
Week 2: 27
Season Average for Correct Picks: 28.5
Total Picks Made:
Week 1: 86
Week 2: 90
Season Average for Total Picks: 88.0
Welcome New SUP Winners - Week #2:
jameslee32, BurgLife, stinger11723, GrandePdre, SWVA WildcatFan, Larry00, Short-Dawg-69, TRUEBLUEANDYC, GoBigBlue37, Greezy Kreek, warrior-cat, pumpedupcats, Ken Cat, On_track_4_8, jwcat30, maysvilleky, BlueInTheBoro, yes_takeaside
*** edited to take out the TEMPLE/Rutgers game where I grabbed the odds wrong.
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