Play OBNUG Bowl Pick 'Em, win fabulous prizes, give an angel its wings
by Nick Kroes on Dec 6, 2011 9:01 AM PST
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The regular season is over, folks. Now to the weeks upon weeks of crappy bowl games that lead to more crappy bowl games and culminates in a high profile match up that we've already seen and don't want to see again. You can tell how excited I am for this.
So in the interest of making the bowl games more interesting and to the delight of college football junkies and confidence points addicts everywhere, I am proud to announce the fourth annual OBNUG Bowl Pick 'Em contest. Just try not caring about the Taxslayer.com Bowl now.
Details of the bowl contest are after the jump as well as the final results from the regular season Pick 'Em contest. Best of luck to you all, but mostly to OBNUG's Kevan because he'll need it.
Final regular season Pick 'Em leaderboard
Pick 'Em standings
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| 1* | NYBroncosFan | 169 |
| 1 | Kellen's Sandwich Shop | 169 |
| 3 | Pun Involving Word Moore | 168 |
| 3 | NCAA Violations R Us | 168 |
| 5 | BroncoFever | 167 |
| 6 | broncotough | 166 |
| 6 | Pete Burns (Peet16) | 166 |
| 6 | OBNUG Intern | 166 |
| 9 | The Ghost of Doug Harper | 165 |
| 9 | @SmurfTurfAddict | 165 |
Updated 12/6 9:00 a.m., lowest score dropped
Complete standings Group 1a
Complete standings Group 1b
OBNUG reader NYBroncosFan took the top spot, besting Kellen's Sandwich Shop by the Yahoo tiebreaker. It was an incredible ascension bolstered mainly by NYB's 20 point week two weeks ago. He (or she) totally Tebowed the Pick Em contest. Congratulations!
Hugs and handshakes to OBNUG member IdahoOrv who won last week with a 10.
OBNUG Bowl Pick 'Em details
In the spirit of keeping tradition and in hopes of avoiding a hard cap on the number of entries similar to the cap we experienced in regular season Pick 'Em this season, the OBNUG bowl contest will be hosted on the skeevy servers of ESPN.com.
Join the OBNUG group at ESPN by clicking on that link and signing in.
If you have trouble, search for "OBNUG Bowl Pick 'Em" at the Find Group screen, or drive to Bristol, Connecticut, and have Stuart Scott walk you through it. Stick a bag of dog poo in Craig James's desk while you're there.
The OBNUG Bowl Pick Em group uses confidence points, which work like this: Assign a point value to each game based on on how confident you are that you have picked the winner correctly. For instance, I am uber-confident that Boise State will beat Arizona State; therefore, I give that game the maximum 35 confidence points. On the other end, I had no clue that UCLA and Illinois were eligible for bowl games, much less playing each other in one. I give this game one confidence point.
Fabulous prizes
For the Bowl Pick 'Em winner, you will earn a spot in the Widget of Champions, which lives on the front page of OBNUG for eternity. If that's not enough for you, there are real, actual prizes at stake as well. Prizes like ...
The deuce brand watch is the future in wrist-wear because in the future people are going to wear really cool things and look like rock star spacemen. This particular watch is Boise State-themed, which should help in the transition of all your things being either blue and/or orange.
But that's not all ...
Get the group to 100 people, and we will throw in a pair of Boise State earmuffs, perfect for cold, wintry winter (but not necessarily bowl games in Las Vegas). You will look great in them, says everyone.
But that's not all ...
Get the group to 150 people, and I will dig even deeper into the OBNUG prize closet to come up with some swag. Who knows what I'll find (because I haven't looked in there for awhile). Maybe some shirts, maybe some art, maybe a churro?
But that's not all ...
The OBNUG Bowl Pick 'Em group has always been an equal-opportunity prize giver. So not only will the winner of Pick 'Em get rewarded, but so will the loser. Finish last in the bowl picking, and I will try to give you a copy of the Disney movie Heavyweights, starring a young Ben Stiller. I have actually had people refuse my giving them this gift in the past. I cannot understand why.
Random notes
- Hilarious pick 'em names are encouraged. Double-points for puns involving player names.
- If the thought of having an ESPN page on your browser for even a second makes you cross-eyed mad, feel free to join Mikrino's Pick Em O Death on Yahoo. He has prizes.
- The first games begin on Saturday, December 17.
Good luck
Best of luck to everyone in the Pick 'Em contest. Feel free to share your entry name or your entry strategies in the comments.
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Let's put an end to the rumors...
He (or she) totally Tebowed the Pick Em contest.
That would be “he”…who do you think I am, boiseblues?
I am actually shocked that I won this…historically I am mediocre at best in Pick ’Em contests. I get a jersey, right? (Gimme gimme gimme!)
"Nobody likes it"
"I'm tired of even the BCS name"
"The whole thing needs to be changed."
-Coach Pete on the BCS.
Man! I got hammered last week!
I was sooo close. Oh well. What does 6th place win?
Yippee Ki-ya... MR FALCON!
I'm calling EAST COAST BIAS!!
This “contest” was totally rigged so an East Coast “have” could triumph over an Idaho “have not”. I am going to shout out from Tablerock the highest mountaintops what a sham this mythical jersey contest (MJC) really is.
Tiebreaker, schmeibreaker!
#FREETHEJERSEY!
Sincerely,
Kellen’s Sandwich Shop
Kickers...whatya gonna do.
by Boise State of Mind on Dec 6, 2011 9:45 AM PST reply actions 2 recs
I swear this wasn't rigged
My picks were based on scientific analysis by six computer programs, taking into account each team’s overall record, their opponents’ records, and overall SoS. In addition, I relied on the knowledge of football coaches, or, barring their availability, low level interns working in their programs. I also got some help from various members of the press, ex-players, and various people with strong or marginal connections to football. I took these components, molded them together, and voila! There were my picks.
Oh, and I also made some choices based on how many hotel rooms I thought a team could fill.
"Nobody likes it"
"I'm tired of even the BCS name"
"The whole thing needs to be changed."
-Coach Pete on the BCS.
by NYBroncosFan on Dec 6, 2011 1:09 PM PST up reply actions 1 recs
Sounds legit to me.
I always go full retard
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by sczmbz on Dec 6, 2011 1:14 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
i'm so pissed.
i’m NCAA Violations R Us and this is the best i’ve ever done. to lose by a point (and possible tie breaker) is such a kick in the shorts. now i know how the BSU players feel. Too soon?
anyway, hopefully i do better at the bowl pick ’em.
BUT WAIT. The detailed benefits are not just your average dollars-under-the-table, or some lameass "we let some players sleep at an apartment on the floor with a coach's help" allegations. No, you get the hell out of here, Boise.
--EDSBS
Twitter: @damienbsu
Good news. Of all 35 bowl games Boise is the biggest Vegas favorite to win
Is that really good news? It just sounds like an excuse for the haters to dismiss Another victory over an AQ conference member.
meh. i'd say blame the BCS for the matchup.
they had the opportunity to pit BSU against any number of “quality” teams and yet they didn’t.
so BW them.
BUT WAIT. The detailed benefits are not just your average dollars-under-the-table, or some lameass "we let some players sleep at an apartment on the floor with a coach's help" allegations. No, you get the hell out of here, Boise.
--EDSBS
Twitter: @damienbsu
Beware
I think the same thing happened vs East Carolina. Largest predicted margin and I believe 99.9% of the entire pick’em universe picked Boise State to win. I sure hope they don’t have a sleeper like Chris Johnson on their team.
well.
we also didn’t have as good of a team that year. but i totally 100% get what you’re saying. if there is an “enthusiasm gap” between the teams, that could lead to an issue.
BUT WAIT. The detailed benefits are not just your average dollars-under-the-table, or some lameass "we let some players sleep at an apartment on the floor with a coach's help" allegations. No, you get the hell out of here, Boise.
--EDSBS
Twitter: @damienbsu
From what I've seen we are actually the 2nd largest spread...
Oklahoma is a 14.5 point favorite over Iowa while we are 13.5 over ASU.
Hopefully we play better than the last time we played in Vegas (UNLV). Regardless of the point spread, I think it could be a tough matchup for BSU. We were 15 point favorites over TCU earlier in the season.
And don’t forget this ASU team beat the current #5 AP team by 21 earlier this season.
by ce'sped azul on Dec 6, 2011 10:45 AM PST up reply actions
100% serious
like world hunger.
I always go full retard
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by sczmbz on Dec 6, 2011 12:16 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
just checking
because it seems more like a jab at the victims, but maybe I’m just reading it wrong. I’m also just wondering if, when you win it all, we really want that name sitting on the Wall of Heroes for all eternity. Probably just my problem. I’ll get over it.
If I win it all
I will gladly change it to something less ‘offensive.’
I always go full retard
ಠ_ಠ
by sczmbz on Dec 6, 2011 1:35 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
Anybody wanna cheat?
I got the answers right here… hacked into all the bowl committees’ computer systems and got the scripts for each and every game.
Spoiler alert: For the Bama/LSU game, they wanted to still praise both teams for having great defense but decided people want to see touchdowns. So they gave each team a touchdown. Alabama scores one in the first half and LSU scores one in the second. Final score: 13-10 LSU. What a thriller! Now we don’t have to watch the game (as if any of us were going to anyway).
"Yeah, well, you know, that's just, like, your opinion, man." -The Dude
"If you're always worried that something could blow up on you, you're not going to push the envelope and not going to try new things. Some of the stuff does blow up on us, but the tradeoff is the problems we're creating for defenses when it works." -Chris Petersen
by BroncoInDuckLand on Dec 6, 2011 5:32 PM PST reply actions
Nice try, NSA
I always go full retard
ಠ_ಠ
by sczmbz on Dec 6, 2011 7:43 PM PST via mobile up reply actions
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