Weekly Upset Picks Contest - 2006

[BB73]

This will be a simple contest to participate in. Each week I will list all of the underdogs in the Div 1-A games that I see a point-spread for at the beginning of the week. Each person may pick 1 and only 1 team each week; just post your pick in this thread.

You must pick your team before Saturday noon Eastern time, or before the kickoff of your game, whichever is earlier. So if you want to pick the Thursday night game, do it in time; but if you forget and don't pick until Friday, just pick one of the Saturday games. It isn't mandatory to make a pick every week, but if you don't you obviously can't earn any points that week.

If your team wins, you are awarded the amount of points that they were assigned in the spread; if they lose you get 0 points. So it's riskier to pick Little-Sisters-of-the-poor +47 when they play Texas Tech, but you get a ton of points if they win, as opposed to getting only a couple of points when you pick a close game.

Once I post the point spreads inside this thread, they are locked for purposes of this contest. Only the spreads listed in this thread will be used to award points.

The entire season-long contest will exist in this one thread. Each week I will post the points for that week and the season-to-date totals. Whoever has the most points after the Conference Championship games in early December will be declared the winner. AkronBuckeye won last year.

Edit - FINAL STANDINGS - after week 14:

Player..........................Total.........Wk-14........Week 14 upset winner

briegg.........................64................14..... ........UCLA/usc
jlb1705.........................62................ .8.............oregon st./HAWAII
jwinslow........................51
JmwGoBucks..................48
Saw31..........................42.5
MolGenBuckeye...............39.5
Dryden..........................39.5
Buck1973.......................39
daddyphatsacs................37.5............14... ..........UCLA/usc
Hubbard.........................36.5
Zurp..............................36.5
iambrutus.......................36.5
Bestbuck36....................36
Wingate1217..................36
scooter1369...................35.5
Bucks07.........................33
Piney.............................32
BuckTwenty....................31.5
Bucky Katt......................30.5
SarasotaBuck..................29.5
HineyBuck.......................29
Crayfish..........................28
holybuckeye33.................28
sandgk...........................25.5
chille37...........................24.5

FCollinsBuckeye................22.5
Lou270slant.....................22
coastalbuck.....................20.5
Mothra............................20.5
shelby.............................19.5
Darkhorse79.....................19.5
jenkinswoody....................19.5
bkochmc..........................18
BuckNutty........................17
SparkyOSU.......................16
OSUsushichic....................15.............2.5 ...........wake forest/ga. tech
ytownbuckeye...................15
buckeyeboy......................14.5
BB73...............................14
osugrad21........................14
Thump.............................14
BuckPshrink.......................13.5
Brutus654.........................12.5
BrutusMaximus...................12
BuckeyeNation27................12
ytownbuckeye...................11
WoodyWorshiper................10.5
AkronBuckeye...................10.5
FKAGoBucks877.................10
Mr. Clutch.........................9
SATXBuck.........................8.5
sears3820.........................7.5
BuckeyeMike80..................6.5
Bucktastic.........................6
GoBucks89........................5
Jagdaddy..........................3.5
osubuckeyealum.................2.5...........2.5.. .....wake forest/ga. tech
MililaniBuckeye...................2.5
G-Force............................2.5
OsuMVP7..........................2.5
txbuckeye1983..................2.5
StadiumDorm.....................1.5


Other upsets this week which nobody selected:

S.D.ST./colo st..................3.5
la-monroe/LA-LAF...............3.5


Week 01 games can be found on page 01, post 0002 for historical reference.
Week 02 games can be found on page 08, post 0111 for historical reference.
Week 03 games can be found on page 13, post 0187 for historical reference.
Week 04 games can be found on page 18, post 0263 for historical reference.
Week 05 games can be found on page 23, post 0332 for historical reference.
Week 06 games can be found on page 27, post 0403 for historical reference.
Week 07 games can be found on page 31, post 0461 for historical reference.
Week 08 games can be found on page 35, post 0525 for historical reference.
Week 09 games can be found on page 39, post 0578 for historical reference.
Week 10 games can be found on page 43, post 0634 for historical reference.
Week 11 games can be found on page 46, post 0689 for historical reference.
Week 12 games can be found on page 50, post 0744 for historical reference.
Week 13 games can be found on page 53, post 0789 for historical reference.
Week 14 games can be found on page 56, post 0829 for historical reference.

[BB73]

This copy of Week 1 picks will remain in the thread. Post #1 will get the new picks and currrent standings updated each week.

Week 1 - HOME TEAM IN CAPS

Thursday 8/31 games
Boston College.......13 1/2.....CENTRAL MICHIGAN
BALL STATE............4 1/2.....Eastern Michigan
BUFFALO................6...........Temple
Northwestern..........4...........MIAMI OHIO
Minnesota..............16..........KENT
IOWA STATE...........7 1/2.....Toledo
S. Carolina..............6 1/2.....MISSISSIPPI ST
SAN DIEGO ST.........1 1/2.....utep
MID TENN ST.........10 1/2.....Fla Int'l

Friday 9/1 games
FRESNO ST............11 1/2.....Nevada

Saturday 9/2 games
MICHIGAN..............25 1/2.....Vanderbilt
OHIO STATE...........18..........N. Illinois
PENN STATE...........16 1/2.....Akron
MICHIGAN ST..........29 1/2.....Idaho
Wisconsin...............9 1/2......BOWLING GREEN (at Cleveland)
W. VIRGINIA...........21 1/2.....Marshall
OREGON................11 1/2.....Stanford
N. CAROLINA...........5 1/2......Rutgers
NEBRASKA..............20 1/2.....La. Tech
WASHINGTON.........18 1/2.....San Jose St.
ALABAMA...............17..........Hawaii
WYOMING..............12 1/2.....Utah St.
TENNESSEE.............2...........Cal
NAVY....................11 1/2.....E. Carolina
INDIANA..................4..........W. Michigan
FLORIDA.................20.........Southern Miss.
WAKE FOREST.........15.........Syracuse
TEXAS TECH...........26 1/2....smu
OKLAHOMA.............21..........uab
PITT......................3 1/2......Virginia
AUBURN................14 1/2......Wash St.
Notre Dame.............7 1/2......GEORGIA TECH
usc........................8...........ARKANSAS
Houston.................14..........RICE
ARIZONA.................6 1/2.....byu
CLEMSON..............33 1/2......Fla. Atlantic
Army......................5 1.2.....ARKANSAS ST.
TEXAS..................41...........N. Texas St.
LSU......................30 1/2.....La. Lafayette

Sunday 9/3 games
OLE MISS...............3...........Memphis
tcu.......................7............BAYLOR
LOUISVILLE...........22 1/2......Kentucky

Monday 9/4 game
MIAMI FLA..............3 1/2......Florida St.

[osugrad21]

Virginia

[BuckeyeNation27]

Cal

Would it be easier for you if each person copied the previous posters picks and just added their own?

BB73 edit - no, but thanks for the idea

[ScarletInMyVeins]

I'm gonna take Nevada over Fresno St.

[chille37]

BOWLING GREEN