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 1:
Saturday, Aug. 26
NOTRE DAME 20½ Navy
UTEP 1 JS
NEW MEXICO STATE 8 Massachusetts
SAN DIEGO STATE 3½ Ohio
LOUISIANA TECH 10½ Florida International
Thursday, Aug. 31
UCF 35 Kent State
North Carolina State 14½ CONNECTICUT
MINNESOTA 7 Nebraska
UTAH 8 Florida
Friday, Sep. 1
MIAMI (FL) 18 Miami (OH)
MICHIGAN STATE 14½ Central Michigan
Louisville 7½ GEORGIA TECH
Stanford 7 HAWAII
Saturday, Sep. 2
MICHIGAN 35 East Carolina
LIBERTY 12½ Bowling Green
OKLAHOMA 33½ Arkansas State
PURDUE 5½ Fresno State
BOSTON COLLEGE 10 Northern Illinois
KENTUCKY 26½ Ball State
IOWA 23½ Utah State
TCU 21 Colorado
TENNESSEE 28½ Virginia
SMU 18½ Louisiana Tech
TEMPLE 10½ Akron
Ohio State 27½ INDIANA
WISCONSIN 27 Buffalo
WASHINGTON 15½ Boise State
WESTERN KENTUCKY 13½ South Florida
TEXAS 35½ Rice
California 7½ NORTH TEXAS
USC 38½ Nevada
BAYLOR 26½ Texas State
Washington State 11½ COLORADO STATE
TEXAS A&M 38½ New Mexico
HOUSTON 1½ UTSA
Army 7½ LOUISIANA-MONROE
North Carolina 2½ SOUTH CAROLINA
ILLINOIS 10 Toledo
Texas Tech 13½ WYOMING
ALABAMA 39½ Middle Tennessee
PENN STATE 20½ West Virginia
VIRGINIA TECH 14½ Old Dominion
TULANE 7½ South Alabama
BRIGHAM YOUNG 23 SH
UCLA 16½ Coastal Carolina
Sunday, Sep. 3
RUTGERS 7 Northwestern
Oregon State 16½ SAN JOSE STATE
LSU 2½ FLORIDA STATE
Monday, Sep. 4
Clemson 12½ DUKE
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Overall Stupid Underdog Picks Winners
2000: this is when Mtcatfan thinks the game started, but winner is not known
2001: did not keep record of who won
2002: did not keep record of who won
2003: SixToeJoe - most correct picks winners not tracked
2004: ThreeHogNight - most correct picks winners not tracked
2005: Hang_Time_2 with 53.5 points - 5 tied for most correct picks at 6, Hang_Time_2 was one of them
2006: JBnTN with 57 points- JBnTN had 8 correct picks which was most correct picks
2007: TaylorsvilleMike with 71.5 points - 5 tied for most correct picks at 7, TaylorsvilleMike was one of them
2008: bigbluemist with 67 points - bigbluemist & CatinSA tied for most correct picks at 9
2009: buckster1 with 95.5 points - buckster1 with 8 correct picks
2010: Hang_Time_2 won with 64 points and also won with 7 correct picks
2011: jrburt won with 70.5 points - Blue Strype had the most correct picks with 10
2012: Brother Cat with 61.5 - Brother Cat had the most correct picks with 8
2013: docholiday51 with 61.5 - adolph...ngover and number8please had the most correct picks with 8
2014: jrburt with 74 points - AsianPICat had the most correct picks with 10
2015: kyfan606 with 50.5 points - SWVA WildcatFan had the most correct picks with 7
2016: Maxwell41 with 73.5 points - maysvilleky and On_track_4_8 had 9 correct picks
2017: jsyeag with 61.5 points - *CatinIL* and jsyeag had 9 correct picks
2018: Big_Blue_1018 with 70.0 points - mash 2.4 had 10 correct picks
2019: maysvilleky with 64.5 points - maysvilleky and no_neutrality had 8 correct picks
2020: RocknRollCats with 79 points - AsianPICat had 10 correct picks
2021: CGblue with 79 points - AsianPICat had 11 correct picks
2022: Greezy Kreek and Nuke99m tie with 67 points - Larry00 had 8 correct picks
*** Edited - eliminated Massachsetts' second game. Hawaii's first game. and San Jose State's first game as an underdog, @docholiday51 make sure you are satisfied with the game I took out. I took out the Auburn game. These two weeks listed as one week will be the death of me.
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?
------------
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 1:
Saturday, Aug. 26
NOTRE DAME 20½ Navy
UTEP 1 JS
NEW MEXICO STATE 8 Massachusetts
SAN DIEGO STATE 3½ Ohio
LOUISIANA TECH 10½ Florida International
Thursday, Aug. 31
UCF 35 Kent State
North Carolina State 14½ CONNECTICUT
MINNESOTA 7 Nebraska
UTAH 8 Florida
Friday, Sep. 1
MIAMI (FL) 18 Miami (OH)
MICHIGAN STATE 14½ Central Michigan
Louisville 7½ GEORGIA TECH
Stanford 7 HAWAII
Saturday, Sep. 2
MICHIGAN 35 East Carolina
LIBERTY 12½ Bowling Green
OKLAHOMA 33½ Arkansas State
PURDUE 5½ Fresno State
BOSTON COLLEGE 10 Northern Illinois
KENTUCKY 26½ Ball State
IOWA 23½ Utah State
TCU 21 Colorado
TENNESSEE 28½ Virginia
SMU 18½ Louisiana Tech
TEMPLE 10½ Akron
Ohio State 27½ INDIANA
WISCONSIN 27 Buffalo
WASHINGTON 15½ Boise State
WESTERN KENTUCKY 13½ South Florida
TEXAS 35½ Rice
California 7½ NORTH TEXAS
USC 38½ Nevada
BAYLOR 26½ Texas State
Washington State 11½ COLORADO STATE
TEXAS A&M 38½ New Mexico
HOUSTON 1½ UTSA
Army 7½ LOUISIANA-MONROE
North Carolina 2½ SOUTH CAROLINA
ILLINOIS 10 Toledo
Texas Tech 13½ WYOMING
ALABAMA 39½ Middle Tennessee
PENN STATE 20½ West Virginia
VIRGINIA TECH 14½ Old Dominion
TULANE 7½ South Alabama
BRIGHAM YOUNG 23 SH
UCLA 16½ Coastal Carolina
Sunday, Sep. 3
RUTGERS 7 Northwestern
Oregon State 16½ SAN JOSE STATE
LSU 2½ FLORIDA STATE
Monday, Sep. 4
Clemson 12½ DUKE
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Overall Stupid Underdog Picks Winners
2000: this is when Mtcatfan thinks the game started, but winner is not known
2001: did not keep record of who won
2002: did not keep record of who won
2003: SixToeJoe - most correct picks winners not tracked
2004: ThreeHogNight - most correct picks winners not tracked
2005: Hang_Time_2 with 53.5 points - 5 tied for most correct picks at 6, Hang_Time_2 was one of them
2006: JBnTN with 57 points- JBnTN had 8 correct picks which was most correct picks
2007: TaylorsvilleMike with 71.5 points - 5 tied for most correct picks at 7, TaylorsvilleMike was one of them
2008: bigbluemist with 67 points - bigbluemist & CatinSA tied for most correct picks at 9
2009: buckster1 with 95.5 points - buckster1 with 8 correct picks
2010: Hang_Time_2 won with 64 points and also won with 7 correct picks
2011: jrburt won with 70.5 points - Blue Strype had the most correct picks with 10
2012: Brother Cat with 61.5 - Brother Cat had the most correct picks with 8
2013: docholiday51 with 61.5 - adolph...ngover and number8please had the most correct picks with 8
2014: jrburt with 74 points - AsianPICat had the most correct picks with 10
2015: kyfan606 with 50.5 points - SWVA WildcatFan had the most correct picks with 7
2016: Maxwell41 with 73.5 points - maysvilleky and On_track_4_8 had 9 correct picks
2017: jsyeag with 61.5 points - *CatinIL* and jsyeag had 9 correct picks
2018: Big_Blue_1018 with 70.0 points - mash 2.4 had 10 correct picks
2019: maysvilleky with 64.5 points - maysvilleky and no_neutrality had 8 correct picks
2020: RocknRollCats with 79 points - AsianPICat had 10 correct picks
2021: CGblue with 79 points - AsianPICat had 11 correct picks
2022: Greezy Kreek and Nuke99m tie with 67 points - Larry00 had 8 correct picks
*** Edited - eliminated Massachsetts' second game. Hawaii's first game. and San Jose State's first game as an underdog, @docholiday51 make sure you are satisfied with the game I took out. I took out the Auburn game. These two weeks listed as one week will be the death of me.
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