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 8:
Tuesday, Oct. 17
LIBERTY 14 Middle Tennessee
Western Kentucky 7 JACKSONVILLE STATE
SOUTH ALABAMA 17½ Southern Miss
Wednesday, Oct. 18
SAM HOUSTON STATE 5½ Florida International
New Mexico State 2 UTEP
Thursday, Oct. 19
James Madison 3½ MARSHALL
TULSA 2½ Rice
Friday, Oct. 20
SMU 17½ TEMPLE
Saturday, Oct. 21
OHIO STATE 5½ Penn State
GEORGIA TECH 5 Boston College
CINCINNATI 1½ Baylor
Rutgers 5 INDIANA
Air Force 10 NAVY
OHIO 15½ Western Michigan
OKLAHOMA 19 UCF
ARKANSAS 7 Mississippi State
Memphis 4½ UAB
EAST CAROLINA 8½ Charlotte
GEORGIA SOUTHERN 16½ Louisiana-Monroe
BOWLING GREEN 9 Akron
WAKE FOREST 1½ Pittsburgh
South Florida 3 CONNECTICUT
WEST VIRGINIA 3 Oklahoma State
Central Michigan 3 BALL STATE
Buffalo 7 KENT STATE
Wisconsin 3½ ILLINOIS
NORTHERN ILLINOIS 11½ Eastern Michigan
IOWA 5½ Minnesota
OREGON 20½ Washington State
ALABAMA 9½ Tennessee
NEBRASKA 13½ Northwestern
MISSOURI 6½ South Carolina
TULANE 20 North Texas
Texas 21½ HOUSTON
UTSA 2½ FLORIDA ATLANTIC
NEW MEXICO 2½ Hawaii
NORTH CAROLINA 24 Virginia
Appalachian State 6 OLD DOMINION
Texas Tech 3½ BRIGHAM YOUNG
UNLV 7 Colorado State
SAN JOSE STATE 5½ Utah State
Coastal Carolina 8½ ARKANSAS STATE
KANSAS STATE 7½ TCU
Ole Miss 5½ AUBURN
Michigan 23½ MICHIGAN STATE
FLORIDA STATE 14 Duke
LSU 30½ Army
Clemson 2½ MIAMI (FL)
USC 5½ Utah
LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE 2½ Georgia State
SAN DIEGO STATE 14 Nevada
UCLA 14½ STANFORD
WASHINGTON 28½ Arizona State
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Underdog Winners - Week #7:
Illinois : 14.5 points
Stanford : 11.5 points
Iowa : 9.5 points
Arizona : 9.5 points
PITTSBURGH : 7.5 points
COLORADO STATE : 7.0 points
NORTHERN ILLINOIS : 6.5 points
Bowling Green : 6.5 points
Coastal Carolina : 6.0 points
Iowa State : 4.0 points
OKLAHOMA STATE : 3.5 points
Missouri : 3.0 points
HOUSTON : 3.0 points
Florida : 2.5 points
Florida Atlantic : 2.5 points
Kansas State : 1.5 points
VIRGINIA TECH : 1.0 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #7:
Iowa: RocknRollCats, BeardedKatFan, WalterTheHippo
Arizona: gblue5744
PITTSBURGH: catben, Chad Rock, pappy52, jameslee32, ILiveBlue-GoCats, pumpedupcats, jimmy cowboy, Blueisbest, Ken Cat, maysvilleky, blubud, Nuke99m
COLORADO STATE: Cat4life_
NORTHERN ILLINOIS: BurgLife, RedLotMudcat, H-D cat
Iowa State: Serenity Now!!!, JSgorocks
OKLAHOMA STATE: M4CAT, Catapult, mgp913, GrandePdre, Bryguy, Big_Blue_1018, jwcat30
Missouri: rockycard
Florida: SWVA WildcatFan
Nobody picked: Illinois, Stanford, Bowling Green, Coastal Carolina, HOUSTON, Florida Atlantic, Kansas State, VIRGINIA TECH
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #7:
43.0 : RedLotMudcat
43.0 : WalterTheHippo
37.0 : secrules3
35.5 : catben
34.5 : gblue5744
31.5 : Hang_Time_2
28.0 : stinger11723
25.5 : Short-Dawg-69
25.0 : Serenity Now!!!
24.5 : MAYHOO22
23.5 : TOMCATS1990
23.0 : BeardedKatFan
23.0 : RonRajon
22.0 : pumpedupcats
21.0 : Chad Rock
21.0 : UKfirst
20.5 : Cat4life_
20.5 : TuckyFB
20.0 : H-D cat
19.5 : bluecoon1
18.5 : Nuke99m
17.5 : Old_Red
16.5 : jwcat30
15.0 : CGblue
14.5 : Big_Blue_1018
14.5 : JSgorocks
14.5 : rivercatinfl
14.0 : Caveman Catfan
14.0 : GrandePdre
13.5 : AVCat
13.5 : blue cincy
13.5 : LordEggForgotHisPassword
13.0 : pappy52
13.0 : ThreeHogNight
12.5 : PickSixKing
12.0 : ILiveBlue-GoCats
12.0 : Littlefeller
11.5 : jameslee32
10.5 : kybloo92
10.5 : kywildcatsfannumber1
10.5 : LordEgg
10.5 : warrior-cat
10.5 : wildcatbd21
10.0 : Roe07
9.5 : RocknRollCats
9.0 : Bryguy
8.0 : Burgcatfan
8.0 : docholiday51
8.0 : Uk##1
7.5 : blubud
7.5 : BlueInTheBoro
7.5 : Blueisbest
7.5 : jimmy cowboy
7.5 : Ken Cat
7.5 : maysvilleky
6.5 : *CatinIL*
6.5 : ArtLaibsGhost
6.5 : BurgLife
6.5 : Larry00
6.0 : btodd0224
6.0 : cat tat2
6.0 : jsyeag
5.5 : BlueBallz
5.5 : howercat
5.5 : lazydave841
4.0 : gamecockcat
3.5 : Catapult
3.5 : M4CAT
3.5 : mgp913
3.0 : rockycard
2.5 : SWVA WildcatFan
1.5 : KyThunder55
Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #7:
4 : MAYHOO22
4 : RedLotMudcat
4 : WalterTheHippo
3 : BeardedKatFan
3 : Big_Blue_1018
3 : bluecoon1
3 : Cat4life_
3 : catben
3 : gblue5744
3 : Hang_Time_2
3 : JSgorocks
3 : jwcat30
3 : Nuke99m
3 : Old_Red
3 : pumpedupcats
3 : secrules3
2 : Bryguy
2 : Caveman Catfan
2 : CGblue
2 : Chad Rock
2 : GrandePdre
2 : H-D cat
2 : ILiveBlue-GoCats
2 : jameslee32
2 : Littlefeller
2 : pappy52
2 : PickSixKing
2 : rivercatinfl
2 : RonRajon
2 : Serenity Now!!!
2 : Short-Dawg-69
2 : stinger11723
2 : ThreeHogNight
2 : TOMCATS1990
2 : TuckyFB
Underdog Winners:
Week 1: 10
Week 2: 10
Week 3: 13
Week 4: 11
Week 5: 10
Week 6: 14
Week 7: 17
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 12.1
Correct Underdog Picks:
Week 1: 27
Week 2: 17
Week 3: 17
Week 4: 6
Week 5: 5
Week 6: 23
Week 7: 31
Season Average for Correct Picks: 18.0
Total Picks Made:
Week 1: 93
Week 2: 81
Week 3: 78
Week 4: 79
Week 5: 72
Week 6: 73
Week 7: 64
Season Average for Total Picks: 77.1
Welcome New SUP Winners - Week #7:
RocknRollCats, jimmy cowboy, Blueisbest, Ken Cat, maysvilleky, blubud, BurgLife, M4CAT, Catapult, mgp913, rockycard, SWVA WildcatFan
@Deeeefense
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:
------------
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.
------------
Stupid Underdog Picks - Week 8:
Tuesday, Oct. 17
LIBERTY 14 Middle Tennessee
Western Kentucky 7 JACKSONVILLE STATE
SOUTH ALABAMA 17½ Southern Miss
Wednesday, Oct. 18
SAM HOUSTON STATE 5½ Florida International
New Mexico State 2 UTEP
Thursday, Oct. 19
James Madison 3½ MARSHALL
TULSA 2½ Rice
Friday, Oct. 20
SMU 17½ TEMPLE
Saturday, Oct. 21
OHIO STATE 5½ Penn State
GEORGIA TECH 5 Boston College
CINCINNATI 1½ Baylor
Rutgers 5 INDIANA
Air Force 10 NAVY
OHIO 15½ Western Michigan
OKLAHOMA 19 UCF
ARKANSAS 7 Mississippi State
Memphis 4½ UAB
EAST CAROLINA 8½ Charlotte
GEORGIA SOUTHERN 16½ Louisiana-Monroe
BOWLING GREEN 9 Akron
WAKE FOREST 1½ Pittsburgh
South Florida 3 CONNECTICUT
WEST VIRGINIA 3 Oklahoma State
Central Michigan 3 BALL STATE
Buffalo 7 KENT STATE
Wisconsin 3½ ILLINOIS
NORTHERN ILLINOIS 11½ Eastern Michigan
IOWA 5½ Minnesota
OREGON 20½ Washington State
ALABAMA 9½ Tennessee
NEBRASKA 13½ Northwestern
MISSOURI 6½ South Carolina
TULANE 20 North Texas
Texas 21½ HOUSTON
UTSA 2½ FLORIDA ATLANTIC
NEW MEXICO 2½ Hawaii
NORTH CAROLINA 24 Virginia
Appalachian State 6 OLD DOMINION
Texas Tech 3½ BRIGHAM YOUNG
UNLV 7 Colorado State
SAN JOSE STATE 5½ Utah State
Coastal Carolina 8½ ARKANSAS STATE
KANSAS STATE 7½ TCU
Ole Miss 5½ AUBURN
Michigan 23½ MICHIGAN STATE
FLORIDA STATE 14 Duke
LSU 30½ Army
Clemson 2½ MIAMI (FL)
USC 5½ Utah
LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE 2½ Georgia State
SAN DIEGO STATE 14 Nevada
UCLA 14½ STANFORD
WASHINGTON 28½ Arizona State
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Underdog Winners - Week #7:
Illinois : 14.5 points
Stanford : 11.5 points
Iowa : 9.5 points
Arizona : 9.5 points
PITTSBURGH : 7.5 points
COLORADO STATE : 7.0 points
NORTHERN ILLINOIS : 6.5 points
Bowling Green : 6.5 points
Coastal Carolina : 6.0 points
Iowa State : 4.0 points
OKLAHOMA STATE : 3.5 points
Missouri : 3.0 points
HOUSTON : 3.0 points
Florida : 2.5 points
Florida Atlantic : 2.5 points
Kansas State : 1.5 points
VIRGINIA TECH : 1.0 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #7:
Iowa: RocknRollCats, BeardedKatFan, WalterTheHippo
Arizona: gblue5744
PITTSBURGH: catben, Chad Rock, pappy52, jameslee32, ILiveBlue-GoCats, pumpedupcats, jimmy cowboy, Blueisbest, Ken Cat, maysvilleky, blubud, Nuke99m
COLORADO STATE: Cat4life_
NORTHERN ILLINOIS: BurgLife, RedLotMudcat, H-D cat
Iowa State: Serenity Now!!!, JSgorocks
OKLAHOMA STATE: M4CAT, Catapult, mgp913, GrandePdre, Bryguy, Big_Blue_1018, jwcat30
Missouri: rockycard
Florida: SWVA WildcatFan
Nobody picked: Illinois, Stanford, Bowling Green, Coastal Carolina, HOUSTON, Florida Atlantic, Kansas State, VIRGINIA TECH
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #7:
43.0 : RedLotMudcat
43.0 : WalterTheHippo
37.0 : secrules3
35.5 : catben
34.5 : gblue5744
31.5 : Hang_Time_2
28.0 : stinger11723
25.5 : Short-Dawg-69
25.0 : Serenity Now!!!
24.5 : MAYHOO22
23.5 : TOMCATS1990
23.0 : BeardedKatFan
23.0 : RonRajon
22.0 : pumpedupcats
21.0 : Chad Rock
21.0 : UKfirst
20.5 : Cat4life_
20.5 : TuckyFB
20.0 : H-D cat
19.5 : bluecoon1
18.5 : Nuke99m
17.5 : Old_Red
16.5 : jwcat30
15.0 : CGblue
14.5 : Big_Blue_1018
14.5 : JSgorocks
14.5 : rivercatinfl
14.0 : Caveman Catfan
14.0 : GrandePdre
13.5 : AVCat
13.5 : blue cincy
13.5 : LordEggForgotHisPassword
13.0 : pappy52
13.0 : ThreeHogNight
12.5 : PickSixKing
12.0 : ILiveBlue-GoCats
12.0 : Littlefeller
11.5 : jameslee32
10.5 : kybloo92
10.5 : kywildcatsfannumber1
10.5 : LordEgg
10.5 : warrior-cat
10.5 : wildcatbd21
10.0 : Roe07
9.5 : RocknRollCats
9.0 : Bryguy
8.0 : Burgcatfan
8.0 : docholiday51
8.0 : Uk##1
7.5 : blubud
7.5 : BlueInTheBoro
7.5 : Blueisbest
7.5 : jimmy cowboy
7.5 : Ken Cat
7.5 : maysvilleky
6.5 : *CatinIL*
6.5 : ArtLaibsGhost
6.5 : BurgLife
6.5 : Larry00
6.0 : btodd0224
6.0 : cat tat2
6.0 : jsyeag
5.5 : BlueBallz
5.5 : howercat
5.5 : lazydave841
4.0 : gamecockcat
3.5 : Catapult
3.5 : M4CAT
3.5 : mgp913
3.0 : rockycard
2.5 : SWVA WildcatFan
1.5 : KyThunder55
Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #7:
4 : MAYHOO22
4 : RedLotMudcat
4 : WalterTheHippo
3 : BeardedKatFan
3 : Big_Blue_1018
3 : bluecoon1
3 : Cat4life_
3 : catben
3 : gblue5744
3 : Hang_Time_2
3 : JSgorocks
3 : jwcat30
3 : Nuke99m
3 : Old_Red
3 : pumpedupcats
3 : secrules3
2 : Bryguy
2 : Caveman Catfan
2 : CGblue
2 : Chad Rock
2 : GrandePdre
2 : H-D cat
2 : ILiveBlue-GoCats
2 : jameslee32
2 : Littlefeller
2 : pappy52
2 : PickSixKing
2 : rivercatinfl
2 : RonRajon
2 : Serenity Now!!!
2 : Short-Dawg-69
2 : stinger11723
2 : ThreeHogNight
2 : TOMCATS1990
2 : TuckyFB
Underdog Winners:
Week 1: 10
Week 2: 10
Week 3: 13
Week 4: 11
Week 5: 10
Week 6: 14
Week 7: 17
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 12.1
Correct Underdog Picks:
Week 1: 27
Week 2: 17
Week 3: 17
Week 4: 6
Week 5: 5
Week 6: 23
Week 7: 31
Season Average for Correct Picks: 18.0
Total Picks Made:
Week 1: 93
Week 2: 81
Week 3: 78
Week 4: 79
Week 5: 72
Week 6: 73
Week 7: 64
Season Average for Total Picks: 77.1
Welcome New SUP Winners - Week #7:
RocknRollCats, jimmy cowboy, Blueisbest, Ken Cat, maysvilleky, blubud, BurgLife, M4CAT, Catapult, mgp913, rockycard, SWVA WildcatFan
@Deeeefense
