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Are we doing a Bowl Game pickem this year?

I don't remember how we've done that in the past.   ???

If we do, and I hope we do, hscoach has to agree to getting an avatar if he doesn't finish in 1st place...  :-X

 :lol2: Good idea. Maybe we could vote on one for him and SC could hook him up with it.

Here are some avatar ideas:

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I vote for this one.  #+

How about I take a picture of my championship rings and put them on there?

Now if I can figure out how to put it on there.

Just have one of your high school kids do it for you...  :lol:

They could show me how.  About once a week I ask them how to do something on the computer.

Coach, do you know how to e-mail a picture?

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 :dunno:

Coach drops mic, walks off stage.

 :lol: To you and Chech.

I took a picture on my phone and sent them to myself.  I loaded it to my computer and can seem to get them from my pictures to my profile.

Coach, in your profile look for "Forum profile information". After you get there, look for "I will upload my own picture". Click on "choose file" and look for the file that your picture is in. Then click on the picture. Voila!

I tried that and this is the message I get:


Your attachment couldn't be saved. This might happen because it took too long to upload or the file is bigger than the server will allow.

Please consult your server administrator for more information.

SC, can you assist hscoach with his avatar?

It probably needs to be scaled down if it is a picture from a phone.  I will send him a pm.

And yes, we are doing a bowl pickem.  We put all the bowl games into one contest.  It is kind of like a final exam.

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That's a whole lot of picking. I think there are 34-36 bowls.


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Yep.

I just checked the previous contests and there have been 35 every year.  It might be a little different now with the playoff.

Goodie.  Maybe a huge pick-'em will bring back some of the posters.

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Great!  Gonna get a Bowl Pickem and HsCoach might get himself an avatar...  #+

MIGHT.  Professor 2 is trying to educate hscoach with an on-line course.

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I've got the head of the Art Dept. on it.  :lol2:

Thank God it's not Sociology!   :lol2:

The Final Exam. Now I like that, because out of all those games if I make a 500 showing I will be really proud. Thanks SC for all the hard work. RTR!

With that many games, anyone in the top 10 still has a shot at winning the overall contest.  There usually is someone who zooms to the top with a good showing in the last round.

Bama will be in those games.   8)

Heh, heh.

I plan to double down and win this thing.   :unsure:

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That's a terrible double down hand.  You have to split them.

But a hand like that might cause one to go all in.   ;D

Please!  Say it ain't so...

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38 games are posted. :o :o

Are they up now, SC? I only see week 15.


OK, now I see it.

Durn, did you get any sleep?


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Thanks, I got mine in. RTR!

Thanks SC!! #+ #+ #+ #+

I got my picks posted yesterday.  As long as no one hacks into my account and changes any of them I plan on winning this season's pickem by a long shot...  8)


Ok, it will take a long shot for me to win it... :'(

That's a lot of games to pick.   :stars:

Only thing to do is enter your best guess, then do a relook as the game gets closer.   :unsure:

I did a lot of work last week on the pick 'em code.  Most of it was to make things easier from an administrative side.  But one thing everyone will benefit from is that you don't have to enter a pick for ALL of the games now to save your work.  That should come in handy for the bowl round.  If you just want to get your picks in for some of the early games now you will be able to save it and then come back later and do some more.  As long as you get your pick in before the deadline for that specific game then it will accept it.  I tested everything quite a bit and it all seems to work, but if you come across any issues please let me know.  Especially if you notice a loophole that will allow someone to cheat.

Great job.   #+


I don't know about the loophole/cheating thing, since I won't be testing that part of the system.   :lol2:

I tried to break it on my test server but I didn't see any issues.

If anyone notices a loophole that will allow you to cheat please PM me so I can win this thing let SC know he needs to fix it.

Wow, that is a lot of picks! This should be fun and interesting. I did what cp said to do. I guessed and all and then reviewed my picks on the 1st 10 games. Nothing more than a blind shot in the dark! Thanks SC for all the time and effort! #+

Don't forget to enter your picks.  The games start tomorrow.  You don't have to enter picks for all 38 games at once if you don't want to.  If you enter picks for the first 10 games that will buy you some time until the day after Christmas.

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The pick'em sure makes these early bowl games interesting! #+

Yeah, and only TD and 2 seem to have the golden horseshoe!

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I was wondering what that discomfort, back there, was.  :lol2:

Congrats to the early leaders and an e-cred for each.  #+ #+

Did they remove it from SSmith?! :-X

Must have, and cut it into 2 pieces and smuggled it to td57 and 2Stater.
But to be honest, hats off to td57 and 2. I don't see how anyone  can predict the 1st 5 without a hole lotta luck #+

Congrats u 2.   :worship: :clap:

Must have gone back to their secret picking method. 

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2stater making a statement!     #+

Man ya'll are so far ahead of me i couldn't touch ya with a 20 FT pole. If I picked tomatoes like I do football games I would be a hungry man for tomatoes. lol, RTR!

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It's blowing my mind, even though the horseshoe is apparently in the opposite direction.

2 must be getting a bit more uncomfortable...  :lol2:

The Memphis/BYU game went into double OT.   :facepalm:

I better give the leader a little something for the good job. +1

Thanks, guys, but as we all know, it's just blind luck.

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Hmmm, you may convince some folks of that. :-\

Just remember how many 3-7 weeks I had.  :lol2:

Back when I used to shoot pool, they called folks like that hustlers. They would let you win three games and then get all your money.  :clap:

Only thing I can hustle is to the dinner table. Besides, it's early. Isn't there like 93 more bowl games?  :lol2:

Looks like 2 is going to miss on this Marshall game.   >:(

The first of many I will lose.  :deadhorse:

Prayers for Breddy.  She's 0-5 this morning.   :-*

Somehow I had a good day of picks yesterday.

As did I.  I was surprising 100% on my picks for yesterday.  Probably be the only day throughout the bowl season I'll do that though...  :'(

I left a restaurant with WKU leading 49-24 in the 4th quarter, thinking I had this one in hand.

 >:(

I quit watching when it was 49-14.

ANOTHER CHRISTMAS MIRACLE!   #+ #+ #+

Well I have lost so many that .500 is totally out of the question. I don't even know how I picked these things. I could be winning 52-0 in 4th Qtr and the other team would come back and score 53 pts in the 4th Qtr. RTR!

WKU giving up 34 unanswered is appalling. How can a team play that poorly.

That's my luck this bowl pickem.  Every close game, every improbable ending, is going against me.  So just look at my pick and do the opposite, if you have any doubt.

C. Mich. scored two TDs in the final few minutes.  Including getting the ball back with one second left on the clock, throwing a long pass with at least 6 pitches, and running it in for a TD.  Naturally C. Mich went for two points and the victory, guaranteeing either way that whoever picked WKU was a loser.   

It was a great ending, but didn't do me any good.   :stars:

Don't you guys and gals at the top worry you got the best man in here holding up the bottom of this totem pole. I won't let you fall. I thought I could miss every one of them but I have some green marks. lol, RTR!

Rice won easily.

How was I supposed to know that Fresno suspended half their team??   :dunno:


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La Tech beat Ill  :dance: , but UNC is getting hammered by Rutgers.  :(

Scratched and clawed my way back to total random guessing, 6-6. I just wanna stay close until we hit the games I might actually (think) I know something about.

I hope the SEC does well. I think I picked every one of the teams to win. :unsure:

Yep, and NC State almost blew their big lead.  But they held on to win by 7.

Looks like a crowd at 8-5 atop the standings this morning.

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I didn't look back through this entire thread to find an answer but... will the NC game be added to the pickem after the first round games are played? 

Probably won't make any difference, everyone will be picking Bama, and if not, then no one will care.   :lol2:

I was doing so totally bad that I have went and reversed every game I had left on the board. I absolutely believe I can do no worse than what I am doing. I have won 4 games out of 13. I guess is a little less than my .500 average. Wow! RTR!

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just put the opposite of my picks and wa la  , you're a winner  :lol2:

BTW ... I'm 0-2 and the Mayor of Bowl pickem' Suckville  :wave:

 #+, if your the Mayor then I have to be your #1 Assistant. RTR!

Or, my picks. I couldn't get a winning percentage with a crystal ball.  :-[

Finally, today we start picking teams we have picked previously this year, and I've actually watched these teams play.  Maybe I can start doing better -- at 5-8 I can't do much worse.   :-[

I thought about doing that and decided that the contest would work correctly if I did add a game to a round that was already in progress.  I can go either way.  Maybe I will make a poll and let the people decide.

I would like to take the time to thank 2Stater for congratulating me on doing well in the pick'em last week. Since then, I have gone 3-8. Are you playing mind games with me, sir?  :lol2: :lol2: :lol2: :lol2:

I am indeed, the kiss of death, CB. After starting out 6-0, I have since gone 4-8. I leave a stink on everything these days.  :facepalm:

Careful; Breddy may kick you!  She'd trade in a second.

I know. I feel bad for her. She probably made her picks while the grandson was pitching a fit.  :lol2:

Look at ole SC sneaking up to the top with Leewillie.  #+

One game above .500 right now. Probably good enough to get the HC job at the barn.  :lol2:

I am so low I would have to jump up to kiss a snake's belly. RTR!

Let's leave Phat Phil out of this thread, aight?   :-X

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 #+ now that was a good one.  :lol:

E-Cred for the pleasingly gratuitous Fat Phil crack. There is never a bad time for a Fat Phil crack.

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DITTO!! That is an image I will never be able to get out of my head.  :yuck: :yuck:

Unless you're standing behind him.  :yuck:

I wish to sincerely apologize for unintentionally evoking mental images of Fat Phil's butt crack.

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Careful ATU. You're very close to becoming the butt of all our jokes.

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Thank you.  :worship:

Meanwhile, Boise is off and running over Arizona: 7-0.

You're right. Let's get back to the business of seeing how the SEC is domina.......

Evidently someone forgot to tell Ole Miss that the game was today.  :wall:

Boy I can not wait till next year. See if I can get better picks. I am so ashamed I took up space for somebody else to have played. I keep thinking I am in the SEC WEST. lol, RTR!

I just added the national championship game.  You can enter a pick if you want, or you can just leave it off and it will count as a tie on your score.

This has been a crazy bowl season.  Houston proved that again today.  Down 34-6 in the Fourth Quarter, Houston managed 2 onsides kicks, fourth down conversions, and a two point conversion to defeat Pittsburg 35-34. 

Another one bites the dust. 

Well I am picking Oregon to win it all. So, if you want to get the NCG right I would suggest you pick against me. Not being mean just being straight. Good luck. RTR!

I bet I could go back and start over and next time I could pick all the losers and instead 75% of them. lol, RTR!

I'm now among those with more incorrect than correct.

How is it that only 4 of 27 picked more right than wrong??  We suck at this!

 :lol2:

Yeah, I don't think Nostradamus is shaking in his shoes over any of us. :lol2:

I think we're more like Nostradumba$$.  :lol2:

Perhaps we were deluded by the press into believing the SEC West was dominant, when it was really a down year, and that explains the success of the Mississippi schools...

The SEC West was beat up from having to play each other. I think this was a factor, too.

Congrats to rtr for sealing the victory in the Bowl Pickem and the overall.

I have figured out that if I don't pick the next game at all I am guaranteed 2nd place, and there is nothing I can do to get to 1st place since rtr has me by 11 yards on the tiebreaker.  However, if I do pick it and get it right, I could climb a spot higher in the overall contest and at least secure my spot in the top 10.

What to do, what to do?  :think:

Flip a coin.  That seems to work for everything else in picks!   :lol2:

Maybe for you guys. Every time I tried to flip a coin, I lost it. An omen for what was to come.  :lol2: :lol2:

I still can't believe that most of the CRS crowd (74%) finished below 50% in picks.  That's very odd!  You'd hope that a coin toss would be ~50%.   :dunno:

:-[

Thanks.  It was fun.

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Good to know.

How do you pick a team in the NC game. I have both teams listed but I don't have an option of picking either of them.

I'm giving you e-creds for the next 2 days.   :worship: :worship: :worship:

You need to click one of the links below the list, Enter My Picks or Edit My Picks.

Looks to me that if you don't pick you could lose 4 spots in the overall, from 7th to 11th.

So it depends on what's more important to you.

Thanks CP, that earned you an e-cred. :clap:

Boy I just be glad when next year gits here. So I might can get some more picks. RTR!

Bowl Round has been finalized and the following winners have been awarded e-creds:

roll tide roll +52
SUPERCOACH +50
Leewillie +48
bama87 +46
td57 +44
BAMADCHAMPSHIPS +42
Chechem +40
2Stater +38
Catch Prothro +36
N.AL-Tider +34
cbbama99 +32
bama57 +30
KoKoPuf +28
jtide +26
Merk +24
pmull +22
Bamaphile +20
PARMAN59 +20
bamaphil +20
ricky023 +20
Bandit +20
Jamos +20
Marshal Dillon +20
Sqwig +20
ALTideUp +20
BamaBred +20
XBAMA +20

Click here to view the full results for Bowl Round (http://www.crimsonredsports.com/index.php?action=pickem;sa=showwinners;contest=4;round=16)