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) 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.
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Stupid Underdog Picks - Week 6:
Thursday, Oct. 7
Houston 4½ TULANE
Coastal Carolina 17½ ARKANSAS STATE
Friday, Oct. 8
CINCINNATI 28 Temple
UNC Charlotte 3½ FLORIDA INTL
ARIZONA STATE 10½ Stanford
Saturday, Oct. 9
NORTH CAROLINA 16½ Florida State
Michigan State 5 RUTGERS
Connecticut 2 MASSACHUSETTS
Wake Forest 6½ SYRACUSE
CENTRAL FLORIDA 10 East Carolina
OHIO STATE 20 Maryland
BOWLING GREEN STATE 13 Akron
TOLEDO 12½ Northern Illinois
KENT STATE 5 SUNY-Buffalo
Georgia Tech 3 DUKE
WESTERN MICHIGAN 11 Ball State
LIBERTY 19½ Middle Tennessee St
LOUISVILLE 3 Virginia
AIR FORCE 4 Wyoming
BYU 4 Boise State
MARSHALL 19½ Old Dominion
SOUTHERN CAL 4 Utah
Oregon State 4 WASHINGTON STATE
TENNESSEE 10 South Carolina
Southern Methodist 14½ NAVY
Texas Christian 1½ TEXAS TECH
Georgia 14 AUBURN
KENTUCKY 3½ LSU
BAYLOR 3 West Virginia
MISSOURI 20 North Texas
South Alabama 1½ TEXAS STATE
UAB 6 Florida Atlantic
FLORIDA 39 Vanderbilt
TULSA 4½ Memphis
Georgia State 15 LOUISIANA-MONROE
Wisconsin 8½ ILLINOIS
Miami (OH) 1½ EASTERN MICHIGAN
Oklahoma 3½ TEXAS
Michigan 3½ NEBRASKA
TROY 4 Georgia Southern
Central Michigan 5 OHIO
Alabama 17½ TEXAS AM
MISSISSIPPI 5 Arkansas
SOUTHERN MISS 1 UTEP
WESTERN KENTUCKY 2½ Texas-San Antonio
IOWA 2½ Penn State
Notre Dame 2 VIRGINIA TECH
UCLA 16 ARIZONA
SAN DIEGO STATE 19 New Mexico
NEVADA 33½ New Mexico State
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Underdog Winners - Week #5:
NAVY : 15.0 points
TEMPLE : 12.0 points
HAWAII : 10.5 points
MIDDLE TENNESSEE ST : 10.0 points
Mississippi State : 9.0 points
KENTUCKY : 8.0 points
Washington State : 7.5 points
Texas Tech : 7.5 points
STANFORD : 7.0 points
Nevada : 6.0 points
BALL STATE : 6.0 points
Auburn : 4.0 points
Houston : 3.5 points
Tennessee : 3.5 points
Virginia : 3.5 points
Arizona State : 3.5 points
EAST CAROLINA : 3.0 points
OREGON STATE : 3.0 points
Minnesota : 2.0 points
Michigan : 1.0 points
Liberty : 1.0 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #5:
HAWAII: Cat4life_
MIDDLE TENNESSEE ST: Hang_Time_2
Mississippi State: jrburt, wildcatbd21, ThreeHogNight
KENTUCKY: Littlefeller, blubud, waste24, Greezy Kreek, TheBlueCat, TOMCATS1990, Short-Dawg-69, Chad Rock, Ken Cat, wildbloo, GoB!gBlue, TreyGoggles, southindycat, Blueisbest, straykat, Serenity Now!!!, warrior-cat, jbalasquide
STANFORD: SWVA WildcatFan, CatCall
Auburn: UKMKG
OREGON STATE: On_track_4_8
Michigan: AsianPICat
Nobody picked: NAVY, TEMPLE, Washington State, Texas Tech, Nevada, BALL STATE, Houston, Tennessee, Virginia, Arizona State, EAST CAROLINA, Minnesota, Liberty
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #5:
37.0 : jbalasquide
32.0 : Chum83
28.5 : GoB!gBlue
28.5 : ThreeHogNight
28.0 : straykat
27.5 : southindycat
27.0 : Chad Rock
26.5 : SWVA WildcatFan
26.0 : warrior_SW
25.5 : jsyeag
25.0 : TOMCATS1990
24.5 : Larry00
24.0 : GrandePdre
22.5 : bigbluemist
22.0 : blubud
21.5 : satcheluk
21.0 : TheBlueCat
21.0 : wildcatbd21
20.5 : jrburt
20.0 : *CatinIL*
20.0 : dvillecatfan
20.0 : warrior-cat
20.0 : wildbloo
19.0 : docholiday51
18.0 : Blueisbest
18.0 : Greezy Kreek
17.5 : CatInCanuckLand
17.5 : gamecockcat
17.5 : H-D cat
16.5 : catben
16.5 : Caveman Catfan
16.5 : Hang_Time_2
16.0 : On_track_4_8
15.5 : RocknRollCats
15.0 : AdairCat
15.0 : Nuke99m
14.5 : jimmy cowboy
14.5 : JSgorocks
14.5 : number8please
14.5 : Serenity Now!!!
14.5 : Short-Dawg-69
14.0 : Roe07
13.5 : Big_Blue_1018
13.5 : Ken Cat
13.5 : TreyGoggles
13.0 : pumpedupcats
12.5 : SpurrierWalkedOnBeer
12.0 : Catapult
12.0 : Tskware
11.0 : Littlefeller
10.5 : Cat4life_
10.0 : BigBadBlueDaddy
10.0 : pappy52
10.0 : rockycard
9.5 : billoliver40
9.0 : BigTyrone
8.5 : AsianPICat
8.0 : VikingCat21
8.0 : waste24
7.0 : CatCall
7.0 : TRUEBLUEANDYC
6.5 : BlueInTheBoro
6.5 : DubyaT
6.5 : Glenn's take
6.5 : josh72484
6.5 : LordEggForgotHisPassword
6.5 : sieken
6.5 : stinger11723
6.5 : TuckyFB
6.5 : Uk##1
5.5 : ashlandcatfan600
5.5 : CC_332
5.5 : Horhay961
5.5 : KYFanInAL
5.5 : OleBluCatz
5.5 : Owen68
5.5 : PRPcoach
4.5 : jameslee32
4.0 : UKMKG
3.0 : BC_Wader
3.0 : jwcat30
3.0 : oddis500
3.0 : Old_Red
3.0 : yes_takeaside
Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #5:
5 : AsianPICat
5 : jbalasquide
4 : Chad Rock
4 : GoB!gBlue
4 : jsyeag
4 : southindycat
4 : straykat
4 : SWVA WildcatFan
4 : warrior_SW
3 : *CatinIL*
3 : AdairCat
3 : bigbluemist
3 : blubud
3 : Blueisbest
3 : Caveman Catfan
3 : docholiday51
3 : gamecockcat
3 : jrburt
3 : Larry00
3 : number8please
3 : On_track_4_8
3 : TheBlueCat
3 : ThreeHogNight
3 : TOMCATS1990
3 : wildcatbd21
2 : Big_Blue_1018
2 : billoliver40
2 : catben
2 : Chum83
2 : dvillecatfan
2 : GrandePdre
2 : Greezy Kreek
2 : Hang_Time_2
2 : jimmy cowboy
2 : JSgorocks
2 : Ken Cat
2 : Littlefeller
2 : Nuke99m
2 : pumpedupcats
2 : RocknRollCats
2 : rockycard
2 : satcheluk
2 : Serenity Now!!!
2 : Short-Dawg-69
2 : TreyGoggles
2 : Tskware
2 : warrior-cat
2 : wildbloo
Underdog Winners:
Week 1: 13
Week 2: 10
Week 3: 14
Week 4: 13
Week 5: 21
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 14.2
Correct Underdog Picks:
Week 1: 37
Week 2: 34
Week 3: 33
Week 4: 36
Week 5: 28
Season Average for Correct Picks: 33.6
Total Picks Made:
Week 1: 90
Week 2: 92
Week 3: 83
Week 4: 76
Week 5: 86
Season Average for Total Picks: 85.4
Welcome New SUP Winners - Week #5:
Cat4life_, waste24, CatCall, UKMKG
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.
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Stupid Underdog Picks - Week 6:
Thursday, Oct. 7
Houston 4½ TULANE
Coastal Carolina 17½ ARKANSAS STATE
Friday, Oct. 8
CINCINNATI 28 Temple
UNC Charlotte 3½ FLORIDA INTL
ARIZONA STATE 10½ Stanford
Saturday, Oct. 9
NORTH CAROLINA 16½ Florida State
Michigan State 5 RUTGERS
Connecticut 2 MASSACHUSETTS
Wake Forest 6½ SYRACUSE
CENTRAL FLORIDA 10 East Carolina
OHIO STATE 20 Maryland
BOWLING GREEN STATE 13 Akron
TOLEDO 12½ Northern Illinois
KENT STATE 5 SUNY-Buffalo
Georgia Tech 3 DUKE
WESTERN MICHIGAN 11 Ball State
LIBERTY 19½ Middle Tennessee St
LOUISVILLE 3 Virginia
AIR FORCE 4 Wyoming
BYU 4 Boise State
MARSHALL 19½ Old Dominion
SOUTHERN CAL 4 Utah
Oregon State 4 WASHINGTON STATE
TENNESSEE 10 South Carolina
Southern Methodist 14½ NAVY
Texas Christian 1½ TEXAS TECH
Georgia 14 AUBURN
KENTUCKY 3½ LSU
BAYLOR 3 West Virginia
MISSOURI 20 North Texas
South Alabama 1½ TEXAS STATE
UAB 6 Florida Atlantic
FLORIDA 39 Vanderbilt
TULSA 4½ Memphis
Georgia State 15 LOUISIANA-MONROE
Wisconsin 8½ ILLINOIS
Miami (OH) 1½ EASTERN MICHIGAN
Oklahoma 3½ TEXAS
Michigan 3½ NEBRASKA
TROY 4 Georgia Southern
Central Michigan 5 OHIO
Alabama 17½ TEXAS AM
MISSISSIPPI 5 Arkansas
SOUTHERN MISS 1 UTEP
WESTERN KENTUCKY 2½ Texas-San Antonio
IOWA 2½ Penn State
Notre Dame 2 VIRGINIA TECH
UCLA 16 ARIZONA
SAN DIEGO STATE 19 New Mexico
NEVADA 33½ New Mexico State
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Underdog Winners - Week #5:
NAVY : 15.0 points
TEMPLE : 12.0 points
HAWAII : 10.5 points
MIDDLE TENNESSEE ST : 10.0 points
Mississippi State : 9.0 points
KENTUCKY : 8.0 points
Washington State : 7.5 points
Texas Tech : 7.5 points
STANFORD : 7.0 points
Nevada : 6.0 points
BALL STATE : 6.0 points
Auburn : 4.0 points
Houston : 3.5 points
Tennessee : 3.5 points
Virginia : 3.5 points
Arizona State : 3.5 points
EAST CAROLINA : 3.0 points
OREGON STATE : 3.0 points
Minnesota : 2.0 points
Michigan : 1.0 points
Liberty : 1.0 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #5:
HAWAII: Cat4life_
MIDDLE TENNESSEE ST: Hang_Time_2
Mississippi State: jrburt, wildcatbd21, ThreeHogNight
KENTUCKY: Littlefeller, blubud, waste24, Greezy Kreek, TheBlueCat, TOMCATS1990, Short-Dawg-69, Chad Rock, Ken Cat, wildbloo, GoB!gBlue, TreyGoggles, southindycat, Blueisbest, straykat, Serenity Now!!!, warrior-cat, jbalasquide
STANFORD: SWVA WildcatFan, CatCall
Auburn: UKMKG
OREGON STATE: On_track_4_8
Michigan: AsianPICat
Nobody picked: NAVY, TEMPLE, Washington State, Texas Tech, Nevada, BALL STATE, Houston, Tennessee, Virginia, Arizona State, EAST CAROLINA, Minnesota, Liberty
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #5:
37.0 : jbalasquide
32.0 : Chum83
28.5 : GoB!gBlue
28.5 : ThreeHogNight
28.0 : straykat
27.5 : southindycat
27.0 : Chad Rock
26.5 : SWVA WildcatFan
26.0 : warrior_SW
25.5 : jsyeag
25.0 : TOMCATS1990
24.5 : Larry00
24.0 : GrandePdre
22.5 : bigbluemist
22.0 : blubud
21.5 : satcheluk
21.0 : TheBlueCat
21.0 : wildcatbd21
20.5 : jrburt
20.0 : *CatinIL*
20.0 : dvillecatfan
20.0 : warrior-cat
20.0 : wildbloo
19.0 : docholiday51
18.0 : Blueisbest
18.0 : Greezy Kreek
17.5 : CatInCanuckLand
17.5 : gamecockcat
17.5 : H-D cat
16.5 : catben
16.5 : Caveman Catfan
16.5 : Hang_Time_2
16.0 : On_track_4_8
15.5 : RocknRollCats
15.0 : AdairCat
15.0 : Nuke99m
14.5 : jimmy cowboy
14.5 : JSgorocks
14.5 : number8please
14.5 : Serenity Now!!!
14.5 : Short-Dawg-69
14.0 : Roe07
13.5 : Big_Blue_1018
13.5 : Ken Cat
13.5 : TreyGoggles
13.0 : pumpedupcats
12.5 : SpurrierWalkedOnBeer
12.0 : Catapult
12.0 : Tskware
11.0 : Littlefeller
10.5 : Cat4life_
10.0 : BigBadBlueDaddy
10.0 : pappy52
10.0 : rockycard
9.5 : billoliver40
9.0 : BigTyrone
8.5 : AsianPICat
8.0 : VikingCat21
8.0 : waste24
7.0 : CatCall
7.0 : TRUEBLUEANDYC
6.5 : BlueInTheBoro
6.5 : DubyaT
6.5 : Glenn's take
6.5 : josh72484
6.5 : LordEggForgotHisPassword
6.5 : sieken
6.5 : stinger11723
6.5 : TuckyFB
6.5 : Uk##1
5.5 : ashlandcatfan600
5.5 : CC_332
5.5 : Horhay961
5.5 : KYFanInAL
5.5 : OleBluCatz
5.5 : Owen68
5.5 : PRPcoach
4.5 : jameslee32
4.0 : UKMKG
3.0 : BC_Wader
3.0 : jwcat30
3.0 : oddis500
3.0 : Old_Red
3.0 : yes_takeaside
Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #5:
5 : AsianPICat
5 : jbalasquide
4 : Chad Rock
4 : GoB!gBlue
4 : jsyeag
4 : southindycat
4 : straykat
4 : SWVA WildcatFan
4 : warrior_SW
3 : *CatinIL*
3 : AdairCat
3 : bigbluemist
3 : blubud
3 : Blueisbest
3 : Caveman Catfan
3 : docholiday51
3 : gamecockcat
3 : jrburt
3 : Larry00
3 : number8please
3 : On_track_4_8
3 : TheBlueCat
3 : ThreeHogNight
3 : TOMCATS1990
3 : wildcatbd21
2 : Big_Blue_1018
2 : billoliver40
2 : catben
2 : Chum83
2 : dvillecatfan
2 : GrandePdre
2 : Greezy Kreek
2 : Hang_Time_2
2 : jimmy cowboy
2 : JSgorocks
2 : Ken Cat
2 : Littlefeller
2 : Nuke99m
2 : pumpedupcats
2 : RocknRollCats
2 : rockycard
2 : satcheluk
2 : Serenity Now!!!
2 : Short-Dawg-69
2 : TreyGoggles
2 : Tskware
2 : warrior-cat
2 : wildbloo
Underdog Winners:
Week 1: 13
Week 2: 10
Week 3: 14
Week 4: 13
Week 5: 21
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 14.2
Correct Underdog Picks:
Week 1: 37
Week 2: 34
Week 3: 33
Week 4: 36
Week 5: 28
Season Average for Correct Picks: 33.6
Total Picks Made:
Week 1: 90
Week 2: 92
Week 3: 83
Week 4: 76
Week 5: 86
Season Average for Total Picks: 85.4
Welcome New SUP Winners - Week #5:
Cat4life_, waste24, CatCall, UKMKG
