*** Test CatsIllustrated SUP Contest Week 1 ***

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Stupid Underdog Picks - Week 1:

Wednesday, Sep. 3

South Carolina 3 NORTH CAROLINA
CENTRAL FLORIDA 16½ Florida Intl
Oklahoma State 23 CENTRAL MICHIGAN
UTAH 5½ Michigan
Texas Christian 14½ MINNESOTA
Duke 9 TULANE
Ohio 8½ IDAHO
ARIZONA 31½ Texas-San Antonio
VANDERBILT 1 Western Kentucky

Thursday, Sep. 4

Colorado 7½ HAWAII
Baylor 35½ SOUTHERN METHODIST
GEORGIA STATE 6½ UNC Charlotte
Michigan State 18½ WESTERN MICHIGAN
ILLINOIS 14½ Kent State
BOISE STATE 11½ Washington

Friday, Sep. 5

Old Dominion 6 EASTERN MICHIGAN
FLORIDA 36½ New Mexico State
Penn State 7 TEMPLE
TULSA 7 Florida Atlantic
UCLA 17 Virginia
Stanford 12 NORTHWESTERN
AUBURN 11 Louisville
TEXAS AM 3 Arizona State
NEBRASKA 6 BYU
NORTH CAROLINA STATE 26 Troy
NORTHERN ILLINOIS 21 UNLV
OKLAHOMA 31 Akron
TENNESSEE 20½ Bowling Green State
GEORGIA 35 Louisiana-Monroe
KENTUCKY 16 Louisiana-Lafayette
ARKANSAS 33 UTEP
WEST VIRGINIA 20 Georgia Southern
NOTRE DAME 9½ Texas
FLORIDA STATE 30 Texas State
ALABAMA 10 Wisconsin
Mississippi State 23½ SOUTHERN MISS
SOUTHERN CAL 29 Arkansas State

Saturday, Sep. 6

MARSHALL 7½ Purdue

Sunday, Sep. 7

Ohio State 11 VIRGINIA TECH

 

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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) If you edit your pick after the first game listed has started, your pick is invalidated. I can't know that you didn't change your pick from one that didn't win to a later game in hopes of getting a winner. If you want to change your pick after the first game has started, make a new post and indicate that you want to change your pick. Doesn't work if you are switching from the game that has already started.

2) If you make your pick after your game was supposed to kick off, it is invalidated.

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.

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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