2011 College Pick'Em Contest

[jaybird_1981]

The first game is tonight in this contest!

[andrewhoya]

If I win, I'd like t donate my prize to somebody else or for use for a future contest/giveaway.

[TrixStar]

Ugh totally forgot about this and missed the first 3 games. Oh well probably would have lost the TCU game anyway

[OnePimpTiger]

Am I the only who didn't realize we were picking against the spread? I thought Yahoo was completely screwed up when it said my picks of Mizzou and USC were wrong. Maybe it's just me, but it doesn't make it very clear it's against the spread (and this thread didn't help..."Each College Week, you pick the teams to win and the teams to lose. Simple as that.")

Ah well, I might have done worse if I actually knew the rules...who knows.

[andrewhoya]

Am I the only who didn't realize we were picking against the spread? I thought Yahoo was completely screwed up when it said my picks of Mizzou and USC were wrong. Maybe it's just me, but it doesn't make it very clear it's against the spread (and this thread didn't help..."Each College Week, you pick the teams to win and the teams to lose. Simple as that.")

Ah well, I might have done worse if I actually knew the rules...who knows.

I just assumed it was against the spread; if it were just picks, I don't think the spread would have been listed.

[driddle4]

Am I the only who didn't realize we were picking against the spread? I thought Yahoo was completely screwed up when it said my picks of Mizzou and USC were wrong. Maybe it's just me, but it doesn't make it very clear it's against the spread (and this thread didn't help..."Each College Week, you pick the teams to win and the teams to lose. Simple as that.")

Ah well, I might have done worse if I actually knew the rules...who knows.

Darn it..i thought it was pick a winner as well..really needs to be more clear...i didnt know we were against the spread..i was just wondering why it said that i missed ones that i picked to win and they won...oh well, guess i know now....

[jaybird_1981]

I kind of thought that when you went to pick and saw the spread that everyone would have realized it was ATS. College is far too easy to pick otherwise.

I could have worded it better in the initial post however.

[OnePimpTiger]

College is far too easy to pick otherwise.

Oh contrare...some of the early games are, but there are always upsets and always great games. I'm in a straight up pick 'em w/40 people (for money, ongoing for years, all strong college football fans) and not even a third of the people got more than 6 out of 10 right...I got 8 for the record.

Understandable I guess. I never use Yahoo and on ESPN when you're picking against the spread, it has it listed by the team that's the favorite, indicates in the headers that it's the spread, and tells you on the front page you're picking against the spread...they make it clear what the rules of the game are. The picks page on Yahoo doesn't even indicate those numbers are the spread...if you're not familiar with making picks and lines and all that, there's no way you would even know what that is. There's actually only one place on the entire picks page that says spread...it's at the very bottom in small letters and says "Bold = Winning Team (Spread)."

I know, enough ranting. And by the way jay, this isn't against you or the staff here at all...completely against Yahoo. Just another reason I prefer ESPN...I know, I'm in the minority. Oh well, I still didn't do too bad and now I know for the future...moving on!

[osufanman]

i didn't realize that either oh well it's for fun anyway i got 7 pts so far aleast i'm not last.

[hobbyfan]

Week 1 is in the books. 13-7 to start, after Maryland took care of Miami.

Over at ToonZone, the contest there was also using Yahoo!, but they're switching to ESPN this year. I may still join, even though I'm a week behind now.