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Wow ... FSU losing hurt. I did not see that coming ... but I hadn't heard about their QB not being there until it was too late to do anything about it.

BigDave wrote:Wow ... FSU losing hurt. I did not see that coming ... but I hadn't heard about their QB not being there until it was too late to do anything about it.

I went 4/4 yesterday, but I am not going to repeat today. I had fsu and Clemson both. Clemson is not looking good so far.


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Bay_area_Hokie wrote:

BigDave wrote:Wow ... FSU losing hurt. I did not see that coming ... but I hadn't heard about their QB not being there until it was too late to do anything about it.

I went 4/4 yesterday, but I am not going to repeat today. I had fsu and Clemson both. Clemson is not looking good so far.


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Clemson looks great now!

TCU's QB just got booted for the Alamo Bowl against Oregon.

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Bay_area_Hokie wrote:

BigDave wrote:Wow ... FSU losing hurt. I did not see that coming ... but I hadn't heard about their QB not being there until it was too late to do anything about it.

I went 4/4 yesterday, but I am not going to repeat today. I had fsu and Clemson both. Clemson is not looking good so far.


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Clemson looks great now!

Yeah, they played a great game. I hope we can look like that in a couple years.


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Major Kong wrote:TCU's QB just got booted for the Alamo Bowl against Oregon.

Yep, and I did something I said I would not do again. I changed from TCU to Oregon. It was already a push. I'll probably regret it:(

Michigan St. has no business being on the same field as Alabama

awesome guy wrote:Michigan St. has no business being on the same field as Alabama

It got ugly quick. Bama's D is legit.

HokieJoe wrote:

awesome guy wrote:Michigan St. has no business being on the same field as Alabama

It got ugly quick. Bama's D is legit.

MSU has a JV O though, they got here by defense and it's being exposed. The Big10 is a joke!

Happy New Year, everyone!

Remember to submit your pick for the MNC game.

We've had a bit of a shakeup as BG Hokie has taken over sole possession of the #1 spot and Bay Area Hokie has moved into a tie for fourth. Bay Area Hokie and HokieFanDC have both narrowed their gap and are only 64 points out of first place - that's a two-game margin potentially.

== 1 BG Hokie Misses oakton BaardG 20 of 31 495 639
-1 2 BigDave David 21 of 31 484 669
== 3 AZHokie Tony 19 of 31 456 623
+1 4 Bay Area Hokie Picks Jimbo 21 of 31 431 657
== 4 HFDCs Merry Band of Picks Mark 22 of 31 431 691
== 6 VoiceOfWinning! - a VoR joint John 18 of 31 402 651
+3 7 ElbertoHokie Robert 18 of 31 373 630
== 8 Ruth Burns's Superb Pick Set Ruth Burns 20 of 31 372 617
== 9 Major Kong's Bomb Run Picks Hephaestus 20 of 31 342 682
-3 10 nolanvt Nolan 16 of 31 338 612
== 11 UpstateSCHokie's Pick Set UpstateSCHokie 17 of 31 335 622
== 12 No Necks Jason 19 of 31 306 630
== 13 Cuz Hokie CPA said so Hokie CPA 16 of 31 277 521
== 14 STATONTW6 Todd 18 of 31 273 577
== 15 tough guy's Optimal Pick Set tough guy 13 of 31 235 535

Geez, I went 2/7 last 2 days. Can't imagine why I'm holding on to 3rd place, but probably won't last long.
I did notice that the top 3 pretty much picked close. Biggest difference is in the confidence points for each team.

I am moving on up, to deluxe apartment in the sky......

There have been disappointingly many blowouts today ... it's just not as exciting.

On the other hand, our game is very exciting and we now have just 24 points separating 1st and 5th. One wrong pick could mean elimination. Do you stay with your original picks or do you second guess yourself?

I'm assuming Iowa isn't going to come back and win this thing ... our standings after the Stanford game are:

+1 1 BigDave 561
-1 2 BG Hokie 555
== 3 HokieFanDC 549
-1 4 AZHokie 541
+1 5 VoiceOfReason 537
-1 6 Bay Area Hokie 513
+1 7 Ruth Burns 482
+1 8 Major Kong 472
+2 9 UpstateSCHokie 438
== 10 ElbertoHokie 412
-4 11 NolanVT 407
== 12 IP Law Hokie 374
+1 13 STATONTW6 373
-1 14 Hokie CPA 312
== 15 Tough Guy 304

Good grief ... all blowouts on New Years. Hopefully tomorrow is better.

HokieFanDC has jumped all the way up to #2 after starting the day tied for fourth. He has the most possible points and so if he gets all of his remaining picks right, nobody else can catch up.

Six people are now eliminated and don't have enough possible points to catch up.

Here's how we end up the night ...

== 1 BigDave 587 (680 possible points)
+1 2 HokieFanDC 577 (691 possible points)
-1 3 BG Hokie 574 (639 possible points)
+1 4 VoiceOfReason 564 (651 possible points)
-1 5 AZHokie 544 (624 possible points)
== 6 Bay Area Hokie 536 (650 possible points)
== 7 Ruth Burns 504 (617 possible points)
+1 8 UpstateSCHokie 474 (632 possible points)
-1 9 Major Kong 472 (658 possible points)
== 10 Elberto 412
+1 11 IP Law Hokie 411
+1 12 STATONTW6 410
-2 13 NolanVT 407
== 14 Hokie CPA 312
== 15 Tough Guy 304

REMEMBER TO MAKE YOUR PICK FOR THE MNC!

BG Hokie, Voice of Reason, Ruth Burns, Elberto, IP Law Hokie, Nolan, and Tough Guy do not appear to have done so.

By the way, I had TCU in this game and lost my nerve this morning and switched it to Oregon. When it was 31-0, I was glad ... now ... not so much.

BigDave wrote:By the way, I had TCU in this game and lost my nerve this morning and switched it to Oregon. When it was 31-0, I was glad ... now ... not so much.

this turned into one heck of a game!

BigDave wrote:By the way, I had TCU in this game and lost my nerve this morning and switched it to Oregon. When it was 31-0, I was glad ... now ... not so much.

dang! What a great game though!

Here are our standings and it all comes down to the MNC. If BG Hokie gets his MNC pick right, he wins. If he doesn't, I win.

Please note that if the numbers after your name are indicated, it means you haven't made your MNC pick yet.

== 1 BigDave David 28 of 40 659 667
+1 2 BG Hokie Misses oakton BaardG 27 of 40 634 634
-1 3 HFDCs Merry Band of Picks Mark 29 of 40 631 644
+2 4 Bay Area Hokie Picks Jimbo 28 of 40 614 615
-1 5 VoiceOfWinning! - a VoR joint John 25 of 40 609 609
-1 6 AZHokie Tony 26 of 40 603 604
+1 7 Ruth Burns's Superb Pick Set Ruth Burns 27 of 40 573 573
== 8 UpstateSCHokie's Pick Set UpstateSCHokie 24 of 40 568 593
== 9 Major Kong's Bomb Run Picks Hephaestus 26 of 40 544 584
+3 10 nolanvt Nolan 22 of 40 531 531
== 11 No Necks Jason 25 of 40 525 525
== 12 STATONTW6 Todd 24 of 40 484 514
-3 13 ElbertoHokie Robert 20 of 40 439 439
== 14 Cuz Hokie CPA said so Hokie CPA 19 of 40 346 384
== 15 tough guy's Optimal Pick Set tough guy 16 of 40 341 341

I changed my tcu pick to the ducks after the tcu qb was arrested. Dang. I still wouldn't have won though as I wanted to put only one point on the NC game.


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TCU-Oregon who would have thought a center who keeps bouncing snaps back to QB would make a difference in a game

Bay_area_Hokie wrote:I changed my tcu pick to the ducks after the tcu qb was arrested. Dang. I still wouldn't have won though as I wanted to put only one point on the NC game.


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Truth. I didn't pay attention to my own advice and changed to Oregon. Only made a differenc of 2 places tho. Stupid center!!

Sadly, football season has come to an end.

Congratulations to the 2015-16 UWS Bowl Pick'em champion: BG Hokie!

If you didn't do as well as you had hoped, fear not, the NCAA tournament will be here soon enough.

Here are our final standings:

1 BG Hokie Misses oakton BaardG 28 of 41 675 675
2 BigDave David 28 of 41 659 659
3 HFDCs Merry Band of Picks Mark 29 of 41 631 631
4 Bay Area Hokie Picks Jimbo 28 of 41 614 614
5 VoiceOfWinning! - a VoR joint John 25 of 41 609 609
6 Ruth Burns's Superb Pick Set Ruth Burns 28 of 41 605 605
7 AZHokie Tony 26 of 41 603 603
8 UpstateSCHokie's Pick Set UpstateSCHokie 25 of 41 593 593
9 No Necks Jason 26 of 41 566 566
10 Major Kong's Bomb Run Picks Hephaestus 26 of 41 544 544
11 nolanvt Nolan 22 of 41 531 531
12 STATONTW6 Todd 25 of 41 514 514
13 ElbertoHokie Robert 20 of 41 439 439
14 tough guy's Optimal Pick Set tough guy 17 of 41 379 379
15 Cuz Hokie CPA said so Hokie CPA 19 of 41 346 346

BigDave wrote:Sadly, football season has come to an end.

Congratulations to the 2015-16 UWS Bowl Pick'em champion: BG Hokie!

You did pretty well yourself Dave. Thanks for hosting the tourney. It was fun regardless of how well I did (or didn't) do.