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 7:
Tuesday, Oct. 9
Appalachian State 8½ ARKANSAS STATE
Thursday, Oct. 11
TEXAS CHRISTIAN 8½ Texas Tech
Georgia Southern 17 TEXAS STATE
Friday, Oct. 12
UTAH 13½ Arizona
SAN DIEGO STATE 10 Air Force
Saturday, Oct. 13
BOSTON COLLEGE 14 Louisville
Miami (FL) 6½ VIRGINIA
COASTAL CAROLINA 4½ Louisiana-Monroe
Purdue 10 ILLINOIS
GEORGIA TECH 1 Duke
MARYLAND 23½ Rutgers
Virginia Tech 6 NORTH CAROLINA
Western Kentucky 9½ UNC CHARLOTTE
Houston 16 EAST CAROLINA
SUNY-BUFFALO 11 Akron
MIAMI (OH) 12½ Kent State
UTAH STATE 24 UNLV
COLORADO STATE 1½ New Mexico
NOTRE DAME 21 Pittsburgh
SOUTHERN CAL 7 Colorado
Army 14 SAN JOSE STATE
Washington 3½ OREGON
NORTHERN ILLINOIS 4 Ohio
Louisiana Tech 13½ TEXAS-SAN ANTONIO
Western Michigan 14 BOWLING GREEN STATE
Mississippi 5½ ARKANSAS
MICHIGAN 7½ Wisconsin
OHIO STATE 29½ Minnesota
Temple 5 NAVY
West Virginia 6½ IOWA STATE
NORTH TEXAS 8½ Southern Miss
NORTHWESTERN 6½ Nebraska
Iowa 5 INDIANA
Central Florida 4½ MEMPHIS
AUBURN 17 Tennessee
TEXAS 16½ Baylor
ALABAMA 28 Missouri
Florida 7 VANDERBILT
Oklahoma State 7 KANSAS STATE
UAB 16 RICE
Georgia 7 LSU
LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE 10 New Mexico State
PENN STATE 13½ Michigan State
BYU 8 Hawaii
CALIFORNIA 7½ UCLA
FRESNO STATE 20½ Wyoming
Boise State 20 NEVADA
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Underdog Winners - Week #6:
San Diego State : 15.0 points
New Mexico : 12.5 points
Iowa State : 10.5 points
Northwestern : 10.5 points
UAB : 9.0 points
TEXAS : 7.5 points
Middle Tennessee St : 7.0 points
PITTSBURGH : 6.0 points
NEW MEXICO STATE : 4.0 points
MISSISSIPPI STATE : 3.5 points
AIR FORCE : 3.5 points
FLORIDA : 3.5 points
Miami (OH) : 3.5 points
Utah State : 2.5 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #6:
San Diego State: BeeBeeIn, dvillecatfan, LeWiz, jsyeag
New Mexico: docholiday51
Northwestern: WildcatDJ, Big_Blue_1018, btodd0224
TEXAS: Chad Rock, jf121264, Hang_Time_2, LordEggForgotHisPassword, Ken Cat, ILiveBlue-GoCats, PRPcoach
PITTSBURGH: bigbluemist, gamecockcat
NEW MEXICO STATE: number8please
MISSISSIPPI STATE: CGblue
AIR FORCE: On_track_4_8
FLORIDA: Mash 2.4
Nobody picked: Iowa State, UAB, Middle Tennessee St, Miami (OH), Utah State
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #6:
47.5 : LeWiz
45.0 : dvillecatfan
42.0 : Big_Blue_1018
41.0 : catben
39.0 : KyMaster
36.5 : GoB!gBlue
34.5 : GoBigBlue37
33.0 : OSOK
31.0 : dswan17
31.0 : Hang_Time_2
31.0 : WildcatDJ
29.0 : Ken Cat
28.0 : Caveman Catfan
27.5 : ILiveBlue-GoCats
27.0 : straykat
26.5 : GrandePdre
26.5 : pumpedupcats
26.0 : ThreeHogNight
24.5 : JBHolmesfan
24.5 : tdjohnsky
24.5 : WinkyBoy
24.0 : Chad Rock
24.0 : Old_Red
23.5 : On_track_4_8
23.0 : btodd0224
23.0 : pappy52
22.5 : docholiday51
22.5 : PokerCat67
21.0 : Bryguy
20.0 : BigBlueFan1963
20.0 : CGblue
20.0 : josh72484
20.0 : Littlefeller
19.5 : Mash 2.4
19.5 : SWVA WildcatFan
18.0 : BIGCAT4LIFE
17.0 : LordEggForgotHisPassword
16.5 : Maxwell41
16.5 : PRPcoach
16.5 : wildcatbd21
15.5 : 13space82
15.5 : jf121264
15.0 : BeeBeeIn
15.0 : jsyeag
15.0 : number8please
14.5 : blubud
13.0 : Nuke99m
13.0 : stinger11723
13.0 : warrior_SW
12.0 : bigbluemist
10.0 : *CatinIL*
10.0 : AR15CATWARRIOR
10.0 : Blueisbest
10.0 : Catapult
10.0 : Greasy Creak Mafia
10.0 : Roe07
10.0 : ukmonty2001
10.0 : warrior-cat
7.5 : howercat
7.0 : AsianPICat
7.0 : ThePhoenix
6.5 : jimmy cowboy
6.5 : rockhound24
6.5 : VikingCat21
6.0 : gamecockcat
6.0 : The-Hack
2.5 : crosbycatfan3745
2.5 : Deeeefense
Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #6:
5 : SWVA WildcatFan
4 : Big_Blue_1018
4 : btodd0224
4 : dvillecatfan
4 : GrandePdre
4 : KyMaster
4 : LeWiz
4 : Mash 2.4
3 : AsianPICat
3 : Bryguy
3 : catben
3 : CGblue
3 : dswan17
3 : GoB!gBlue
3 : GoBigBlue37
3 : Hang_Time_2
3 : ILiveBlue-GoCats
3 : Ken Cat
3 : LordEggForgotHisPassword
3 : number8please
3 : On_track_4_8
3 : OSOK
3 : pappy52
3 : PRPcoach
3 : pumpedupcats
3 : ThreeHogNight
3 : WildcatDJ
2 : *CatinIL*
2 : 13space82
2 : BigBlueFan1963
2 : bigbluemist
2 : BIGCAT4LIFE
2 : Caveman Catfan
2 : Chad Rock
2 : docholiday51
2 : howercat
2 : JBHolmesfan
2 : jf121264
2 : josh72484
2 : Littlefeller
2 : Maxwell41
2 : Old_Red
2 : PokerCat67
2 : straykat
2 : tdjohnsky
2 : wildcatbd21
2 : WinkyBoy
Underdog Winners:
Week 1: 11
Week 2: 19
Week 3: 12
Week 4: 9
Week 5: 11
Week 6: 14
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 12.7
Correct Underdog Picks:
Week 1: 21
Week 2: 37
Week 3: 20
Week 4: 36
Week 5: 16
Week 6: 21
Season Average for Correct Picks: 25.2
Total Picks Made:
Week 1: 86
Week 2: 74
Week 3: 66
Week 4: 70
Week 5: 69
Week 6: 71
Season Average for Total Picks: 72.7
Welcome New SUP Winners - Week #6:
BeeBeeIn, jsyeag, gamecockcat
*** edited to take out the Toledo@EMU and South Florida@Tulsa games as the odds originally posted were way off. Sorry. I'm going to wait longer to gather the odds.
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 7:
Tuesday, Oct. 9
Appalachian State 8½ ARKANSAS STATE
Thursday, Oct. 11
TEXAS CHRISTIAN 8½ Texas Tech
Georgia Southern 17 TEXAS STATE
Friday, Oct. 12
UTAH 13½ Arizona
SAN DIEGO STATE 10 Air Force
Saturday, Oct. 13
BOSTON COLLEGE 14 Louisville
Miami (FL) 6½ VIRGINIA
COASTAL CAROLINA 4½ Louisiana-Monroe
Purdue 10 ILLINOIS
GEORGIA TECH 1 Duke
MARYLAND 23½ Rutgers
Virginia Tech 6 NORTH CAROLINA
Western Kentucky 9½ UNC CHARLOTTE
Houston 16 EAST CAROLINA
SUNY-BUFFALO 11 Akron
MIAMI (OH) 12½ Kent State
UTAH STATE 24 UNLV
COLORADO STATE 1½ New Mexico
NOTRE DAME 21 Pittsburgh
SOUTHERN CAL 7 Colorado
Army 14 SAN JOSE STATE
Washington 3½ OREGON
NORTHERN ILLINOIS 4 Ohio
Louisiana Tech 13½ TEXAS-SAN ANTONIO
Western Michigan 14 BOWLING GREEN STATE
Mississippi 5½ ARKANSAS
MICHIGAN 7½ Wisconsin
OHIO STATE 29½ Minnesota
Temple 5 NAVY
West Virginia 6½ IOWA STATE
NORTH TEXAS 8½ Southern Miss
NORTHWESTERN 6½ Nebraska
Iowa 5 INDIANA
Central Florida 4½ MEMPHIS
AUBURN 17 Tennessee
TEXAS 16½ Baylor
ALABAMA 28 Missouri
Florida 7 VANDERBILT
Oklahoma State 7 KANSAS STATE
UAB 16 RICE
Georgia 7 LSU
LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE 10 New Mexico State
PENN STATE 13½ Michigan State
BYU 8 Hawaii
CALIFORNIA 7½ UCLA
FRESNO STATE 20½ Wyoming
Boise State 20 NEVADA
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Underdog Winners - Week #6:
San Diego State : 15.0 points
New Mexico : 12.5 points
Iowa State : 10.5 points
Northwestern : 10.5 points
UAB : 9.0 points
TEXAS : 7.5 points
Middle Tennessee St : 7.0 points
PITTSBURGH : 6.0 points
NEW MEXICO STATE : 4.0 points
MISSISSIPPI STATE : 3.5 points
AIR FORCE : 3.5 points
FLORIDA : 3.5 points
Miami (OH) : 3.5 points
Utah State : 2.5 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #6:
San Diego State: BeeBeeIn, dvillecatfan, LeWiz, jsyeag
New Mexico: docholiday51
Northwestern: WildcatDJ, Big_Blue_1018, btodd0224
TEXAS: Chad Rock, jf121264, Hang_Time_2, LordEggForgotHisPassword, Ken Cat, ILiveBlue-GoCats, PRPcoach
PITTSBURGH: bigbluemist, gamecockcat
NEW MEXICO STATE: number8please
MISSISSIPPI STATE: CGblue
AIR FORCE: On_track_4_8
FLORIDA: Mash 2.4
Nobody picked: Iowa State, UAB, Middle Tennessee St, Miami (OH), Utah State
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #6:
47.5 : LeWiz
45.0 : dvillecatfan
42.0 : Big_Blue_1018
41.0 : catben
39.0 : KyMaster
36.5 : GoB!gBlue
34.5 : GoBigBlue37
33.0 : OSOK
31.0 : dswan17
31.0 : Hang_Time_2
31.0 : WildcatDJ
29.0 : Ken Cat
28.0 : Caveman Catfan
27.5 : ILiveBlue-GoCats
27.0 : straykat
26.5 : GrandePdre
26.5 : pumpedupcats
26.0 : ThreeHogNight
24.5 : JBHolmesfan
24.5 : tdjohnsky
24.5 : WinkyBoy
24.0 : Chad Rock
24.0 : Old_Red
23.5 : On_track_4_8
23.0 : btodd0224
23.0 : pappy52
22.5 : docholiday51
22.5 : PokerCat67
21.0 : Bryguy
20.0 : BigBlueFan1963
20.0 : CGblue
20.0 : josh72484
20.0 : Littlefeller
19.5 : Mash 2.4
19.5 : SWVA WildcatFan
18.0 : BIGCAT4LIFE
17.0 : LordEggForgotHisPassword
16.5 : Maxwell41
16.5 : PRPcoach
16.5 : wildcatbd21
15.5 : 13space82
15.5 : jf121264
15.0 : BeeBeeIn
15.0 : jsyeag
15.0 : number8please
14.5 : blubud
13.0 : Nuke99m
13.0 : stinger11723
13.0 : warrior_SW
12.0 : bigbluemist
10.0 : *CatinIL*
10.0 : AR15CATWARRIOR
10.0 : Blueisbest
10.0 : Catapult
10.0 : Greasy Creak Mafia
10.0 : Roe07
10.0 : ukmonty2001
10.0 : warrior-cat
7.5 : howercat
7.0 : AsianPICat
7.0 : ThePhoenix
6.5 : jimmy cowboy
6.5 : rockhound24
6.5 : VikingCat21
6.0 : gamecockcat
6.0 : The-Hack
2.5 : crosbycatfan3745
2.5 : Deeeefense
Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #6:
5 : SWVA WildcatFan
4 : Big_Blue_1018
4 : btodd0224
4 : dvillecatfan
4 : GrandePdre
4 : KyMaster
4 : LeWiz
4 : Mash 2.4
3 : AsianPICat
3 : Bryguy
3 : catben
3 : CGblue
3 : dswan17
3 : GoB!gBlue
3 : GoBigBlue37
3 : Hang_Time_2
3 : ILiveBlue-GoCats
3 : Ken Cat
3 : LordEggForgotHisPassword
3 : number8please
3 : On_track_4_8
3 : OSOK
3 : pappy52
3 : PRPcoach
3 : pumpedupcats
3 : ThreeHogNight
3 : WildcatDJ
2 : *CatinIL*
2 : 13space82
2 : BigBlueFan1963
2 : bigbluemist
2 : BIGCAT4LIFE
2 : Caveman Catfan
2 : Chad Rock
2 : docholiday51
2 : howercat
2 : JBHolmesfan
2 : jf121264
2 : josh72484
2 : Littlefeller
2 : Maxwell41
2 : Old_Red
2 : PokerCat67
2 : straykat
2 : tdjohnsky
2 : wildcatbd21
2 : WinkyBoy
Underdog Winners:
Week 1: 11
Week 2: 19
Week 3: 12
Week 4: 9
Week 5: 11
Week 6: 14
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 12.7
Correct Underdog Picks:
Week 1: 21
Week 2: 37
Week 3: 20
Week 4: 36
Week 5: 16
Week 6: 21
Season Average for Correct Picks: 25.2
Total Picks Made:
Week 1: 86
Week 2: 74
Week 3: 66
Week 4: 70
Week 5: 69
Week 6: 71
Season Average for Total Picks: 72.7
Welcome New SUP Winners - Week #6:
BeeBeeIn, jsyeag, gamecockcat
*** edited to take out the Toledo@EMU and South Florida@Tulsa games as the odds originally posted were way off. Sorry. I'm going to wait longer to gather the odds.
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