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 4:
Thursday, Sep. 21
COASTAL CAROLINA 7 Georgia State
Friday, Sep. 22
Wisconsin 6½ PURDUE
North Carolina State 9 VIRGINIA
Boise State 7 SAN DIEGO STATE
Air Force 3 SAN JOSE STATE
Saturday, Sep. 23
SYRACUSE 14 Army
MARSHALL 8 Virginia Tech
Florida State 1 CLEMSON
MICHIGAN 25 Rutgers
Oklahoma 13½ CINCINNATI
Kentucky 13½ VANDERBILT
TCU 6½ SMU
NORTHERN ILLINOIS 4 Tulsa
TROY 3 Western Kentucky
TEXAS A&M 7 Auburn
TOLEDO 21 Western Michigan
Georgia Southern 6½ BALL STATE
Miami (FL) 24½ TEMPLE
Texas Tech 4½ WEST VIRGINIA
MASSACHUSETTS 2½ New Mexico
LOUISVILLE 14 Boston College
Duke 21 CONNECTICUT
KANSAS 9½ Brigham Young
ILLINOIS 13 Florida Atlantic
UTAH 5 UCLA
OREGON 20½ Colorado
Ohio 8½ BOWLING GREEN
Maryland 6 MICHIGAN STATE
NEBRASKA 20½ Louisiana Tech
ALABAMA 6½ Ole Miss
TENNESSEE 20½ UTSA
Rice 1½ SOUTH FLORIDA
IOWA STATE 2½ Oklahoma State
SOUTH ALABAMA 15½ Central Michigan
JACKSONVILLE STATE 6 Eastern Michigan
WAKE FOREST 6½ Georgia Tech
Liberty 10½ FLORIDA INTERNATIONAL
Southern Miss 5½ ARKANSAS STATE
Arizona 9½ STANFORD
Oregon State 2 WASHINGTON STATE
TEXAS STATE 17 Nevada
LSU 18 Arkansas
FLORIDA 28 Charlotte
WYOMING 2½ Appalachian State
MIDDLE TENNESSEE 3 Colorado State
HOUSTON 13 Sam Houston State
GEORGIA 41½ UAB
SOUTH CAROLINA 5½ Mississippi State
INDIANA 17½ Akron
Minnesota 12½ NORTHWESTERN
MISSOURI 7 Memphis
Texas 14 BAYLOR
LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE 10 Buffalo
Ohio State 3 NOTRE DAME
PENN STATE 14 Iowa
North Carolina 6½ PITTSBURGH
James Madison 5½ UTAH STATE
KANSAS STATE 7½ UCF
UNLV 2½ UTEP
USC 32½ ARIZONA STATE
WASHINGTON 22½ California
FRESNO STATE 27½ Kent State
Sunday, Sep. 24
HAWAII 3 New Mexico State
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Underdog Winners - Week #3:
Miami (OH) : 17.0 points
Army : 11.5 points
Brigham Young : 11.5 points
Florida International : 10.5 points
South Alabama : 9.5 points
FLORIDA : 7.0 points
MISSOURI : 4.5 points
UNLV : 3.5 points
Syracuse : 2.5 points
OHIO : 2.5 points
North Texas : 2.5 points
James Madison : 2.0 points
Louisiana-Lafayette : 1.5 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #3:
Florida International: TuckyFB, kybloo92, RonRajon, wildcatbd21
FLORIDA: catben, ThreeHogNight, CGblue, PickSixKing, pumpedupcats, BeardedKatFan
MISSOURI: Big_Blue_1018, ILiveBlue-GoCats, MAYHOO22, Nuke99m, Hang_Time_2
UNLV: Old_Red
Syracuse: JSgorocks
Nobody picked: Miami (OH), Army, Brigham Young, South Alabama, OHIO, North Texas, James Madison, Louisiana-Lafayette
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #3:
31.5 : Hang_Time_2
28.0 : catben
27.0 : WalterTheHippo
26.0 : RedLotMudcat
23.0 : RonRajon
21.0 : secrules3
21.0 : Serenity Now!!!
21.0 : Short-Dawg-69
21.0 : UKfirst
15.0 : CGblue
14.5 : pumpedupcats
13.5 : AVCat
13.5 : blue cincy
13.5 : bluecoon1
13.5 : Cat4life_
13.5 : Chad Rock
13.5 : H-D cat
13.5 : LordEggForgotHisPassword
13.5 : TOMCATS1990
13.0 : ThreeHogNight
12.5 : gblue5744
12.5 : PickSixKing
12.5 : stinger11723
12.0 : MAYHOO22
11.0 : Old_Red
10.5 : JSgorocks
10.5 : kybloo92
10.5 : TuckyFB
10.5 : wildcatbd21
10.0 : rivercatinfl
10.0 : Roe07
8.0 : Burgcatfan
8.0 : Caveman Catfan
8.0 : docholiday51
8.0 : Uk##1
7.5 : BlueInTheBoro
7.5 : jwcat30
7.5 : Littlefeller
7.0 : BeardedKatFan
6.0 : btodd0224
6.0 : jsyeag
5.5 : BlueBallz
4.5 : Big_Blue_1018
4.5 : ILiveBlue-GoCats
4.5 : Nuke99m
4.0 : gamecockcat
Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #3:
3 : Hang_Time_2
2 : bluecoon1
2 : Cat4life_
2 : catben
2 : CGblue
2 : JSgorocks
2 : MAYHOO22
2 : Old_Red
2 : PickSixKing
2 : pumpedupcats
2 : RedLotMudcat
2 : RonRajon
2 : ThreeHogNight
2 : WalterTheHippo
Underdog Winners:
Week 1: 10
Week 2: 10
Week 3: 13
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 11.0
Correct Underdog Picks:
Week 1: 27
Week 2: 17
Week 3: 17
Season Average for Correct Picks: 20.3
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