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*** Official CatsIllustrated Stupid Underdog Picks Contest - Week 8 ***

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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 8:

Thursday, Oct. 17

Louisiana-Lafayette 6 ARKANSAS STATE
STANFORD 10 UCLA

Friday, Oct. 18

FLORIDA ATLANTIC 4½ Marshall
Pittsburgh 3½ SYRACUSE
Ohio State 28 NORTHWESTERN
FRESNO STATE 14½ UNLV

Saturday, Oct. 19

VIRGINIA 4 Duke
MIAMI (FL) 19½ Georgia Tech
Clemson 21½ LOUISVILLE
Army 5 GEORGIA STATE
SUNY-Buffalo 18½ AKRON
Indiana 5 MARYLAND
Houston 22½ CONNECTICUT
WAKE FOREST 2½ Florida State
GEORGIA SOUTHERN 6 Coastal Carolina
Central Michigan 9½ BOWLING GREEN STATE
CENTRAL FLORIDA 34 East Carolina
CINCINNATI 15½ Tulsa
North Carolina State 1 BOSTON COLLEGE
IOWA 17 Purdue
OHIO 8½ Kent State
Western Michigan 9½ EASTERN MICHIGAN
TEXAS 22½ Kansas
Wisconsin 30½ ILLINOIS
UTAH STATE 22 Nevada
Boise State 5½ BYU
WYOMING 18 New Mexico
UTAH 12½ Arizona State
Toledo 1½ BALL STATE
Northern Illinois 2½ MIAMI (OH)
CALIFORNIA 11½ Oregon State
Oregon 2½ WASHINGTON
SOUTHERN CAL 8½ Arizona
WASHINGTON STATE 12½ Colorado
Florida 7 SOUTH CAROLINA
GEORGIA 25 Kentucky
Texas Christian 2½ KANSAS STATE
LSU 18½ MISSISSIPPI STATE
ALABAMA 35½ Tennessee
Southern Miss 1½ LOUISIANA TECH
UAB 14½ Old Dominion
OKLAHOMA 33½ West Virginia
OKLAHOMA STATE 3 Baylor
Auburn 17½ ARKANSAS
Texas AM 5 MISSISSIPPI
MEMPHIS 4½ Tulane
North Carolina 3½ VIRGINIA TECH
Minnesota 29½ RUTGERS
Iowa State 6½ TEXAS TECH
NAVY 14 South Florida
APPALACHIAN STATE 16 Louisiana-Monroe
Missouri 21½ VANDERBILT
San Diego State 6½ SAN JOSE STATE
WESTERN KENTUCKY 10½ UNC Charlotte
NORTH TEXAS 10½ Middle Tennessee St
Rice 3 TEXAS-SAN ANTONIO
SOUTHERN METHODIST 7 Temple
FLORIDA INTL 20½ UTEP
PENN STATE 8 Michigan
Air Force 2 HAWAII
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Underdog Winners - Week #7:

South Carolina : 25.0 points
BOWLING GREEN STATE : 24.5 points
UNLV : 15.5 points
TENNESSEE : 6.5 points
Northern Illinois : 6.5 points
Georgia State : 6.5 points
Louisville : 6.5 points
WESTERN KENTUCKY : 5.5 points
PURDUE : 5.5 points
TEMPLE : 4.0 points
SOUTH FLORIDA : 4.0 points
Navy : 1.0 points

Correct Underdog Picks - Week #7:

TENNESSEE: KyMaster, bigbluemist, no_neutrality, Mash 2.4, On_track_4_8, MAYHOO22, wildcatbd21, maysvilleky, CGblue, Blueisbest, DubyaT

Louisville: Nuke99m, *CatinIL*, VikingCat21

PURDUE: pumpedupcats, Owen68

TEMPLE: Catapult, pappy52



Nobody picked: South Carolina, BOWLING GREEN STATE, UNLV, Northern Illinois, Georgia State, WESTERN KENTUCKY, SOUTH FLORIDA, Navy



Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #7:

35.5 : CGblue
27.5 : maysvilleky
27.5 : Mutt Cutts
23.0 : bigbluemist
21.5 : no_neutrality
21.5 : straykat
21.0 : wildcatbd21
20.5 : KyMaster
20.5 : Nuke99m
20.0 : AR15CATWARRIOR
18.5 : pumpedupcats
18.5 : WildcatDJ
18.0 : Catapult
17.5 : jrburt
16.0 : VikingCat21
15.5 : Greasy Creak Mafia
15.5 : ukmonty2001
14.5 : Blueisbest
14.0 : Chad Rock
14.0 : ILiveBlue-GoCats
14.0 : ThreeHogNight
13.0 : *CatinIL*
12.5 : Hang_Time_2
12.5 : Mash 2.4
11.5 : UK_ Alum_02
10.0 : On_track_4_8
10.0 : Tskware
9.0 : mgp913
8.5 : blubud
8.5 : Caveman Catfan
8.5 : docholiday51
8.5 : LordEggForgotHisPassword
8.0 : AsianPICat
8.0 : josh72484
8.0 : Ken Cat
8.0 : Littlefeller
8.0 : WinkyBoy
7.5 : btodd0224
7.5 : jsyeag
7.5 : TRUEBLUEANDYC
7.0 : PhattyJ4UK
7.0 : stinger11723
6.5 : DubyaT
6.5 : Gabewcat
6.5 : MAYHOO22
6.0 : gamecockcat
6.0 : GrandePdre
6.0 : Jeff Drummond
6.0 : JSgorocks
6.0 : number8please
6.0 : PokerCat67
6.0 : warrior-cat
5.5 : 3kidsandme
5.5 : Owen68
5.5 : ram1955
5.0 : Bryguy
4.5 : teetim
4.5 : TreyGoggles
4.0 : pappy52
3.5 : PRPcoach
3.5 : SWVA WildcatFan
3.0 : Old_Red



Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #7:

4 : CGblue
4 : maysvilleky
4 : Mutt Cutts
4 : no_neutrality
4 : pumpedupcats
3 : bigbluemist
3 : Catapult
3 : Mash 2.4
3 : Nuke99m
3 : straykat
3 : wildcatbd21
2 : *CatinIL*
2 : AR15CATWARRIOR
2 : AsianPICat
2 : Blueisbest
2 : Bryguy
2 : Chad Rock
2 : Greasy Creak Mafia
2 : Hang_Time_2
2 : ILiveBlue-GoCats
2 : jrburt
2 : jsyeag
2 : KyMaster
2 : Littlefeller
2 : mgp913
2 : On_track_4_8
2 : ThreeHogNight
2 : ukmonty2001
2 : UK_ Alum_02
2 : VikingCat21
2 : WildcatDJ


Underdog Winners:

Week 1: 8
Week 2: 9
Week 3: 13
Week 4: 10
Week 5: 8
Week 6: 14
Week 7: 12

Season Average for Underdog Winners: 10.6


Correct Underdog Picks:

Week 1: 23
Week 2: 27
Week 3: 16
Week 4: 4
Week 5: 4
Week 6: 17
Week 7: 18

Season Average for Correct Picks: 15.6

Total Picks Made:

Week 1: 81
Week 2: 86
Week 3: 90
Week 4: 77
Week 5: 73
Week 6: 61
Week 7: 63

Season Average for Total Picks: 75.9


Welcome New SUP Winners - Week #7:

MAYHOO22, DubyaT, Owen68, pappy52
 
Louisville

Im going big this week been on a skid taking a risk, Clemson is known to loose a game they shouldn't. They have done it like 4 out of last 5 years or some crap. Louisville gets Scottie Tottie's program changing win
 
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