Welcome to the Final CatsIllustrated Stupid Underdog Pick Contest. Each week the odds were gathered from the Vegas Insider web page (usually on Monday) and posted in a thread on CatsIllustrated. This contest ran for the entire football season (the bowls were treated as one really long week). To see the final results, look for a post from me at the bottom of this thread. It will contain the results.
There were several ways to win: there were weekly winners, the person with the highest cumulative point total after the season is over is the overall winner but we recognize the contestants that have the most correct picks also.
How do you get points? Select the underdog (second team listed in each game) and have that team pull the upset. The bigger the dog, the bigger the reward but the longer the odds.
Some rules that we need to keep things running smoothly:
1) You must make your pick before the kickoff of your game. Your pick will invalidated otherwise. Don't delete your picks. I can't know that you didn't delete a pick that didn't win and then post a pick from a later game in hopes of getting a winner with the new Rivals format. If you want to change your pick before the game has started, make a new post and indicate that you want to change your pick. I'll be monitoring the picks as the bowl season goes on.
2) If you make your pick after it kicks off, it is invalidated.
3) If you pick the favored team instead of the underdog, we all laugh at you. Ok, we don't but you can't expect to get points in SUP for that.
4) You can appeal an invalidation by posting in that week's thread, include what you think is wrong.
Understand that a perl script is scoring this, if you make the spelling of the teams intentionally obtuse or you are just really bad at spelling, your pick might be missed. If you want to tell us all about the underdogs you thought you might choose and then tell us about the one you finally did pick, you might be surprised which one the script finds.
So your post should look something like:
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Purdue
Everyone hates the Irish right?
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Don't put any other team name in your post with your SUP pick without putting an '***' in front of it. Everything after the '***' will be ignored. My program may find the wrong name if you don't. Once you post your pick, you can post in the thread any comment you like. Your first post is your pick (if I can find your pick).
Because the scoring is done by a script and not by hand, if you feel a mistake was made in scoring your SUP, post that on that Week's thread. We'll try to get it resolved quickly. The scripts are far from perfect and VegasInsider also changes the HTML for the odds page quite often so report any errors you see there as soon as you see them.
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Stupid Underdog Picks - Week 15:
Saturday, Dec. 19
Arizona 10 NEW MEXICO
UTAH 2½ BYU
APPALACHIAN STATE 8 Ohio
San Jose State 3 GEORGIA STATE
LOUISIANA TECH 2 Arkansas State
Monday, Dec. 21
Western Kentucky 3 SOUTH FLORIDA
Tuesday, Dec. 22
UTAH STATE 6½ Akron
TEMPLE 1½ Toledo
Wednesday, Dec. 23
Boise State 8 NORTHERN ILLINOIS
BOWLING GREEN STATE 7 Georgia Southern
Thursday, Dec. 24
WESTERN MICHIGAN 3 Middle Tennessee St
Cincinnati 1½ SAN DIEGO STATE
Saturday, Dec. 26
MARSHALL 4½ Connecticut
WASHINGTON STATE 2½ Miami (FL)
WASHINGTON 8½ Southern Miss
Indiana 2 DUKE
VIRGINIA TECH 13½ Tulsa
UCLA 6½ Nebraska
Monday, Dec. 28
NAVY 4 Pittsburgh
MINNESOTA 5½ Central Michigan
Tuesday, Dec. 29
CALIFORNIA 7 Air Force
Baylor 3 NORTH CAROLINA
COLORADO STATE 3 Nevada
LSU 7 Texas Tech
Wednesday, Dec. 30
AUBURN 2½ Memphis
MISSISSIPPI STATE 5½ North Carolina State
TEXAS AM 2½ Louisville
SOUTHERN CAL 3 Wisconsin
Thursday, Dec. 31
FLORIDA STATE 7 Houston
ALABAMA 9½ Michigan State
Oklahoma 3½ CLEMSON
Friday, Jan. 1
Tennessee 8½ NORTHWESTERN
MICHIGAN 4 Florida
OHIO STATE 6½ Notre Dame
STANFORD 6½ Iowa
Mississippi 7 OKLAHOMA STATE
Saturday, Jan. 2
GEORGIA 6½ Penn State
ARKANSAS 11½ Kansas State
ARIZONA STATE 1 West Virginia
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Underdog Winners - Week #14:
Georgia State : 21.0 points
Texas : 21.0 points
KANSAS STATE : 6.5 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #14:
Texas: KyMaster, catben
KANSAS STATE: Serenity Now!!!, SWVA WildcatFan
Nobody picked: Georgia State
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #14:
50.5 : kyfan606
46.0 : Blue Strype
43.5 : catben
43.0 : KyMaster
42.0 : Gabewcat
41.5 : SWVA WildcatFan
40.0 : THE_OAK
33.5 : warrior-cat
33.0 : LordEgg
32.0 : Hang_Time_2
31.5 : PokerCat67
29.5 : 13space82
28.5 : JBHolmesfan
28.5 : ukwazoo
27.0 : gamecockcat
27.0 : PRPcoach
27.0 : ram1955
26.5 : docholiday51
26.5 : Greasy Creak Mafia
26.5 : Larry00
26.5 : ukcatsfan2
26.0 : Serenity Now!!!
26.0 : stinger11723
25.5 : bigbluemist
25.5 : maysvilleky
24.5 : *CatinIL*
23.5 : jsyeag
22.0 : AsianPICat
22.0 : On_track_4_8
22.0 : OSOK
21.5 : straykat
20.0 : Bryguy
19.5 : BigBlueFan1963
19.0 : jimmy cowboy
17.5 : DubyaT
17.0 : Deeeefense
16.5 : crosbycatfan3745
16.0 : BlueBallz
16.0 : dvillecatfan
14.5 : BigBadBlueDaddy
14.5 : RocknRollCats
14.0 : calicat21
14.0 : GoBigBlue37
14.0 : specialkd24
14.0 : warrior_SW
13.0 : Faithful Blue in the 812
12.5 : BLUINLOU
12.5 : WildOnKnoxville
11.0 : Maxwell41
11.0 : pappy52
9.5 : Free_Salato_Blue
8.0 : OldBlueNuts
7.5 : Blueisbest
7.5 : BoulderCat
7.5 : GoB!gBlue
7.5 : RS73CAT
7.5 : TotesMcGotes
7.5 : UKMKG
7.5 : UK_num_1
7.5 : zac_limanni
7.0 : no_neutrality
6.5 : bigblue7609
6.5 : JBnTN
6.5 : rockhound24
6.0 : jte123
6.0 : Littlefeller
5.5 : jrburt
5.5 : Nuke99m
5.0 : Chad Rock
3.5 : Brother Cat
3.5 : Catapult
1.0 : ashlandcatfan600
1.0 : IamnotRalph
1.0 : TTU/UK fan
Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #14:
6 : maysvilleky
6 : SWVA WildcatFan
5 : AsianPICat
5 : Blue Strype
5 : Gabewcat
5 : Hang_Time_2
5 : kyfan606
5 : KyMaster
5 : ram1955
5 : THE_OAK
4 : bigbluemist
4 : docholiday51
4 : gamecockcat
4 : JBHolmesfan
4 : LordEgg
4 : On_track_4_8
4 : warrior-cat
3 : *CatinIL*
3 : 13space82
3 : Bryguy
3 : catben
3 : DubyaT
3 : Larry00
3 : OSOK
3 : PokerCat67
3 : PRPcoach
3 : RocknRollCats
3 : Serenity Now!!!
3 : stinger11723
3 : straykat
3 : ukcatsfan2
3 : ukwazoo
2 : BigBadBlueDaddy
2 : BigBlueFan1963
2 : calicat21
2 : Deeeefense
2 : dvillecatfan
2 : Faithful Blue in the 812
2 : GoBigBlue37
2 : Greasy Creak Mafia
2 : jimmy cowboy
2 : jsyeag
2 : Littlefeller
2 : pappy52
2 : specialkd24
2 : warrior_SW
Underdog Winners:
Week 1: 7
Week 2: 13
Week 3: 7
Week 4: 8
Week 5: 14
Week 6: 9
Week 7: 13
Week 8: 11
Week 9: 8
Week 10: 13
Week 11: 14
Week 12: 11
Week 13: 11
Week 14: 3
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 10.1
Correct Underdog Picks:
Week 1: 24
Week 2: 37
Week 3: 10
Week 4: 20
Week 5: 24
Week 6: 6
Week 7: 17
Week 8: 4
Week 9: 7
Week 10: 6
Week 11: 6
Week 12: 12
Week 13: 4
Week 14: 4
Season Average for Correct Picks: 12.9
Total Picks Made:
Week 1: 96
Week 2: 75
Week 3: 76
Week 4: 70
Week 5: 63
Week 6: 62
Week 7: 60
Week 8: 59
Week 9: 47
Week 10: 44
Week 11: 45
Week 12: 35
Week 13: 41
Week 14: 24
Season Average for Total Picks: 56.9
Overall Stupid Underdog Picks Winners
2000: this is when Mtcatfan thinks the game started, but winner is not known
2001: did not keep record of who won
2002: did not keep record of who won
2003: SixToeJoe - most correct picks winners not tracked
2004: ThreeHogNight - most correct picks winners not tracked
2005: Hang_Time_2 with 53.5 points - 5 tied for most correct picks at 6, Hang_Time_2 was one of them
2006: JBnTN with 57 points- JBnTN had 8 correct picks which was most correct picks
2007: TaylorsvilleMike with 71.5 points - 5 tied for most correct picks at 7, TaylorsvilleMike was one of them
2008: bigbluemist with 67 points - bigbluemist & CatinSA tied for most correct picks at 9
2009: buckster1 with 95.5 points - buckster1 with 8 correct picks
2010: Hang_Time_2 won with 64 points and also won with 7 correct picks
2011: jrburt won with 70.5 points - Blue Strype had the most correct picks with 10.
2012: Brother Cat with 61.5 - Brother Cat had the most correct picks with 8.
2013: docholiday51 with 61.5 - adolph...ngover and number8please had the most correct picks with 8.
2014: jrburt with 74 points - AsianPICat had the most correct picks with 10.
There were several ways to win: there were weekly winners, the person with the highest cumulative point total after the season is over is the overall winner but we recognize the contestants that have the most correct picks also.
How do you get points? Select the underdog (second team listed in each game) and have that team pull the upset. The bigger the dog, the bigger the reward but the longer the odds.
Some rules that we need to keep things running smoothly:
1) You must make your pick before the kickoff of your game. Your pick will invalidated otherwise. Don't delete your picks. I can't know that you didn't delete a pick that didn't win and then post a pick from a later game in hopes of getting a winner with the new Rivals format. If you want to change your pick before the game has started, make a new post and indicate that you want to change your pick. I'll be monitoring the picks as the bowl season goes on.
2) If you make your pick after it kicks off, it is invalidated.
3) If you pick the favored team instead of the underdog, we all laugh at you. Ok, we don't but you can't expect to get points in SUP for that.
4) You can appeal an invalidation by posting in that week's thread, include what you think is wrong.
Understand that a perl script is scoring this, if you make the spelling of the teams intentionally obtuse or you are just really bad at spelling, your pick might be missed. If you want to tell us all about the underdogs you thought you might choose and then tell us about the one you finally did pick, you might be surprised which one the script finds.
So your post should look something like:
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Purdue
Everyone hates the Irish right?
----------------------------------------
Don't put any other team name in your post with your SUP pick without putting an '***' in front of it. Everything after the '***' will be ignored. My program may find the wrong name if you don't. Once you post your pick, you can post in the thread any comment you like. Your first post is your pick (if I can find your pick).
Because the scoring is done by a script and not by hand, if you feel a mistake was made in scoring your SUP, post that on that Week's thread. We'll try to get it resolved quickly. The scripts are far from perfect and VegasInsider also changes the HTML for the odds page quite often so report any errors you see there as soon as you see them.
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Stupid Underdog Picks - Week 15:
Saturday, Dec. 19
Arizona 10 NEW MEXICO
UTAH 2½ BYU
APPALACHIAN STATE 8 Ohio
San Jose State 3 GEORGIA STATE
LOUISIANA TECH 2 Arkansas State
Monday, Dec. 21
Western Kentucky 3 SOUTH FLORIDA
Tuesday, Dec. 22
UTAH STATE 6½ Akron
TEMPLE 1½ Toledo
Wednesday, Dec. 23
Boise State 8 NORTHERN ILLINOIS
BOWLING GREEN STATE 7 Georgia Southern
Thursday, Dec. 24
WESTERN MICHIGAN 3 Middle Tennessee St
Cincinnati 1½ SAN DIEGO STATE
Saturday, Dec. 26
MARSHALL 4½ Connecticut
WASHINGTON STATE 2½ Miami (FL)
WASHINGTON 8½ Southern Miss
Indiana 2 DUKE
VIRGINIA TECH 13½ Tulsa
UCLA 6½ Nebraska
Monday, Dec. 28
NAVY 4 Pittsburgh
MINNESOTA 5½ Central Michigan
Tuesday, Dec. 29
CALIFORNIA 7 Air Force
Baylor 3 NORTH CAROLINA
COLORADO STATE 3 Nevada
LSU 7 Texas Tech
Wednesday, Dec. 30
AUBURN 2½ Memphis
MISSISSIPPI STATE 5½ North Carolina State
TEXAS AM 2½ Louisville
SOUTHERN CAL 3 Wisconsin
Thursday, Dec. 31
FLORIDA STATE 7 Houston
ALABAMA 9½ Michigan State
Oklahoma 3½ CLEMSON
Friday, Jan. 1
Tennessee 8½ NORTHWESTERN
MICHIGAN 4 Florida
OHIO STATE 6½ Notre Dame
STANFORD 6½ Iowa
Mississippi 7 OKLAHOMA STATE
Saturday, Jan. 2
GEORGIA 6½ Penn State
ARKANSAS 11½ Kansas State
ARIZONA STATE 1 West Virginia
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Underdog Winners - Week #14:
Georgia State : 21.0 points
Texas : 21.0 points
KANSAS STATE : 6.5 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #14:
Texas: KyMaster, catben
KANSAS STATE: Serenity Now!!!, SWVA WildcatFan
Nobody picked: Georgia State
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #14:
50.5 : kyfan606
46.0 : Blue Strype
43.5 : catben
43.0 : KyMaster
42.0 : Gabewcat
41.5 : SWVA WildcatFan
40.0 : THE_OAK
33.5 : warrior-cat
33.0 : LordEgg
32.0 : Hang_Time_2
31.5 : PokerCat67
29.5 : 13space82
28.5 : JBHolmesfan
28.5 : ukwazoo
27.0 : gamecockcat
27.0 : PRPcoach
27.0 : ram1955
26.5 : docholiday51
26.5 : Greasy Creak Mafia
26.5 : Larry00
26.5 : ukcatsfan2
26.0 : Serenity Now!!!
26.0 : stinger11723
25.5 : bigbluemist
25.5 : maysvilleky
24.5 : *CatinIL*
23.5 : jsyeag
22.0 : AsianPICat
22.0 : On_track_4_8
22.0 : OSOK
21.5 : straykat
20.0 : Bryguy
19.5 : BigBlueFan1963
19.0 : jimmy cowboy
17.5 : DubyaT
17.0 : Deeeefense
16.5 : crosbycatfan3745
16.0 : BlueBallz
16.0 : dvillecatfan
14.5 : BigBadBlueDaddy
14.5 : RocknRollCats
14.0 : calicat21
14.0 : GoBigBlue37
14.0 : specialkd24
14.0 : warrior_SW
13.0 : Faithful Blue in the 812
12.5 : BLUINLOU
12.5 : WildOnKnoxville
11.0 : Maxwell41
11.0 : pappy52
9.5 : Free_Salato_Blue
8.0 : OldBlueNuts
7.5 : Blueisbest
7.5 : BoulderCat
7.5 : GoB!gBlue
7.5 : RS73CAT
7.5 : TotesMcGotes
7.5 : UKMKG
7.5 : UK_num_1
7.5 : zac_limanni
7.0 : no_neutrality
6.5 : bigblue7609
6.5 : JBnTN
6.5 : rockhound24
6.0 : jte123
6.0 : Littlefeller
5.5 : jrburt
5.5 : Nuke99m
5.0 : Chad Rock
3.5 : Brother Cat
3.5 : Catapult
1.0 : ashlandcatfan600
1.0 : IamnotRalph
1.0 : TTU/UK fan
Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #14:
6 : maysvilleky
6 : SWVA WildcatFan
5 : AsianPICat
5 : Blue Strype
5 : Gabewcat
5 : Hang_Time_2
5 : kyfan606
5 : KyMaster
5 : ram1955
5 : THE_OAK
4 : bigbluemist
4 : docholiday51
4 : gamecockcat
4 : JBHolmesfan
4 : LordEgg
4 : On_track_4_8
4 : warrior-cat
3 : *CatinIL*
3 : 13space82
3 : Bryguy
3 : catben
3 : DubyaT
3 : Larry00
3 : OSOK
3 : PokerCat67
3 : PRPcoach
3 : RocknRollCats
3 : Serenity Now!!!
3 : stinger11723
3 : straykat
3 : ukcatsfan2
3 : ukwazoo
2 : BigBadBlueDaddy
2 : BigBlueFan1963
2 : calicat21
2 : Deeeefense
2 : dvillecatfan
2 : Faithful Blue in the 812
2 : GoBigBlue37
2 : Greasy Creak Mafia
2 : jimmy cowboy
2 : jsyeag
2 : Littlefeller
2 : pappy52
2 : specialkd24
2 : warrior_SW
Underdog Winners:
Week 1: 7
Week 2: 13
Week 3: 7
Week 4: 8
Week 5: 14
Week 6: 9
Week 7: 13
Week 8: 11
Week 9: 8
Week 10: 13
Week 11: 14
Week 12: 11
Week 13: 11
Week 14: 3
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 10.1
Correct Underdog Picks:
Week 1: 24
Week 2: 37
Week 3: 10
Week 4: 20
Week 5: 24
Week 6: 6
Week 7: 17
Week 8: 4
Week 9: 7
Week 10: 6
Week 11: 6
Week 12: 12
Week 13: 4
Week 14: 4
Season Average for Correct Picks: 12.9
Total Picks Made:
Week 1: 96
Week 2: 75
Week 3: 76
Week 4: 70
Week 5: 63
Week 6: 62
Week 7: 60
Week 8: 59
Week 9: 47
Week 10: 44
Week 11: 45
Week 12: 35
Week 13: 41
Week 14: 24
Season Average for Total Picks: 56.9
Overall Stupid Underdog Picks Winners
2000: this is when Mtcatfan thinks the game started, but winner is not known
2001: did not keep record of who won
2002: did not keep record of who won
2003: SixToeJoe - most correct picks winners not tracked
2004: ThreeHogNight - most correct picks winners not tracked
2005: Hang_Time_2 with 53.5 points - 5 tied for most correct picks at 6, Hang_Time_2 was one of them
2006: JBnTN with 57 points- JBnTN had 8 correct picks which was most correct picks
2007: TaylorsvilleMike with 71.5 points - 5 tied for most correct picks at 7, TaylorsvilleMike was one of them
2008: bigbluemist with 67 points - bigbluemist & CatinSA tied for most correct picks at 9
2009: buckster1 with 95.5 points - buckster1 with 8 correct picks
2010: Hang_Time_2 won with 64 points and also won with 7 correct picks
2011: jrburt won with 70.5 points - Blue Strype had the most correct picks with 10.
2012: Brother Cat with 61.5 - Brother Cat had the most correct picks with 8.
2013: docholiday51 with 61.5 - adolph...ngover and number8please had the most correct picks with 8.
2014: jrburt with 74 points - AsianPICat had the most correct picks with 10.
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