Welcome to the CatsIllustrated Stupid Underdog Pick Contest. Each week the odds are gathered from the Vegas Insider web page (usually on Monday) and posted in a thread on CatsIllustrated (which we will hopefully get pinned for convenience). This contest runs for the entire football season (the bowls are treated as one really long week).
There are several ways to win: there are 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 first game listed has started. Your pick will invalidated otherwise. 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 first game has started, make a new post and indicate that you want to change your pick or simply delete your first pick before the first kickoff.
2) If you make your pick after the first game 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 12:
Friday, Nov. 20
Cincinnati 3 SOUTH FLORIDA
BOISE STATE 12½ Air Force
Saturday, Nov. 21
PITTSBURGH 3 Louisville
AKRON 4 SUNY-Buffalo
GEORGIA 14 Georgia Southern
Rutgers 4½ ARMY
KENTUCKY 24 UNC Charlotte
MARYLAND 2½ Indiana
MASSACHUSETTS 10 Miami (OH)
West Virginia 28 KANSAS
CLEMSON 30½ Wake Forest
Western Kentucky 16 FLORIDA INTL
MISSISSIPPI 4½ LSU
MIDDLE TENNESSEE ST 23 North Texas
MINNESOTA 5½ Illinois
Memphis 2 TEMPLE
VIRGINIA 2½ Duke
North Carolina 6½ VIRGINIA TECH
WISCONSIN 11 Northwestern
ARKANSAS 3½ Mississippi State
BYU 26 Fresno State
Navy 12 TULSA
MIAMI (FL) 1 Georgia Tech
Tennessee 9 MISSOURI
OKLAHOMA STATE 1 Baylor
OHIO STATE 13 Michigan State
Michigan 5½ PENN STATE
SOUTHERN MISS 20 Old Dominion
KANSAS STATE 6 Iowa State
UTAH STATE 14 Nevada
STANFORD 12 California
SOUTHERN METHODIST 3 Tulane
LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE 13 New Mexico State
Colorado State 1½ NEW MEXICO
Washington 16 OREGON STATE
TEXAS-SAN ANTONIO 3½ Rice
UTAH 3 UCLA
Texas AM 7 VANDERBILT
WASHINGTON STATE 15 Colorado
FLORIDA 31 Florida Atlantic
AUBURN 31½ Idaho
Notre Dame 17 BOSTON COLLEGE
OREGON 4 Southern Cal
Louisiana Tech 23 UTEP
IOWA 19½ Purdue
San Diego State 13 UNLV
San Jose State 10 HAWAII
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Underdog Winners - Week #11:
New Mexico : 30.0 points
Washington State : 9.5 points
Oregon : 9.5 points
Arkansas : 8.0 points
ARIZONA : 6.0 points
MISSOURI : 5.0 points
Fresno State : 4.5 points
Pittsburgh : 3.5 points
SOUTH FLORIDA : 3.0 points
Tulane : 3.0 points
Georgia State : 3.0 points
Oklahoma : 3.0 points
Georgia : 1.0 points
AIR FORCE : 1.0 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #11:
Washington State: stinger11723, gamecockcat
Oregon: kyfan606, Blue Strype, JBHolmesfan
Oklahoma: straykat
Nobody picked: New Mexico, Arkansas, ARIZONA, MISSOURI, Fresno State, Pittsburgh, SOUTH FLORIDA, Tulane, Georgia State, Georgia, AIR FORCE
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #11:
40.0 : THE_OAK
37.5 : kyfan606
35.0 : Blue Strype
33.5 : warrior-cat
32.0 : Hang_Time_2
31.5 : PokerCat67
29.5 : 13space82
29.5 : Gabewcat
28.5 : ukwazoo
27.0 : gamecockcat
27.0 : ram1955
26.5 : docholiday51
26.5 : Greasy Creak Mafia
26.5 : Larry00
25.5 : bigbluemist
24.5 : *CatinIL*
22.0 : KyMaster
22.0 : OSOK
22.0 : SWVA WildcatFan
21.5 : straykat
20.0 : Bryguy
20.0 : LordEgg
20.0 : maysvilleky
20.0 : On_track_4_8
19.5 : BigBlueFan1963
19.5 : Serenity Now!!!
19.0 : AsianPICat
19.0 : jimmy cowboy
17.5 : DubyaT
17.5 : JBHolmesfan
17.0 : Deeeefense
17.0 : stinger11723
16.5 : crosbycatfan3745
16.0 : BlueBallz
16.0 : dvillecatfan
14.5 : BigBadBlueDaddy
14.5 : RocknRollCats
14.0 : calicat21
14.0 : GoBigBlue37
14.0 : jsyeag
14.0 : PRPcoach
14.0 : specialkd24
14.0 : ukcatsfan2
14.0 : warrior_SW
13.0 : Faithful Blue in the 812
12.5 : BLUINLOU
12.5 : WildOnKnoxville
11.0 : pappy52
9.5 : catben
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 #11:
5 : Hang_Time_2
5 : ram1955
5 : THE_OAK
4 : AsianPICat
4 : bigbluemist
4 : Blue Strype
4 : docholiday51
4 : Gabewcat
4 : gamecockcat
4 : kyfan606
4 : KyMaster
4 : maysvilleky
4 : SWVA WildcatFan
4 : warrior-cat
3 : *CatinIL*
3 : 13space82
3 : Bryguy
3 : DubyaT
3 : JBHolmesfan
3 : Larry00
3 : LordEgg
3 : On_track_4_8
3 : OSOK
3 : PokerCat67
3 : RocknRollCats
3 : straykat
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 : Littlefeller
2 : pappy52
2 : PRPcoach
2 : Serenity Now!!!
2 : specialkd24
2 : stinger11723
2 : ukcatsfan2
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
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 10.6
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
Season Average for Correct Picks: 14.6
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
Season Average for Total Picks: 63.4
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 are several ways to win: there are 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 first game listed has started. Your pick will invalidated otherwise. 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 first game has started, make a new post and indicate that you want to change your pick or simply delete your first pick before the first kickoff.
2) If you make your pick after the first game 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 12:
Friday, Nov. 20
Cincinnati 3 SOUTH FLORIDA
BOISE STATE 12½ Air Force
Saturday, Nov. 21
PITTSBURGH 3 Louisville
AKRON 4 SUNY-Buffalo
GEORGIA 14 Georgia Southern
Rutgers 4½ ARMY
KENTUCKY 24 UNC Charlotte
MARYLAND 2½ Indiana
MASSACHUSETTS 10 Miami (OH)
West Virginia 28 KANSAS
CLEMSON 30½ Wake Forest
Western Kentucky 16 FLORIDA INTL
MISSISSIPPI 4½ LSU
MIDDLE TENNESSEE ST 23 North Texas
MINNESOTA 5½ Illinois
Memphis 2 TEMPLE
VIRGINIA 2½ Duke
North Carolina 6½ VIRGINIA TECH
WISCONSIN 11 Northwestern
ARKANSAS 3½ Mississippi State
BYU 26 Fresno State
Navy 12 TULSA
MIAMI (FL) 1 Georgia Tech
Tennessee 9 MISSOURI
OKLAHOMA STATE 1 Baylor
OHIO STATE 13 Michigan State
Michigan 5½ PENN STATE
SOUTHERN MISS 20 Old Dominion
KANSAS STATE 6 Iowa State
UTAH STATE 14 Nevada
STANFORD 12 California
SOUTHERN METHODIST 3 Tulane
LOUISIANA-LAFAYETTE 13 New Mexico State
Colorado State 1½ NEW MEXICO
Washington 16 OREGON STATE
TEXAS-SAN ANTONIO 3½ Rice
UTAH 3 UCLA
Texas AM 7 VANDERBILT
WASHINGTON STATE 15 Colorado
FLORIDA 31 Florida Atlantic
AUBURN 31½ Idaho
Notre Dame 17 BOSTON COLLEGE
OREGON 4 Southern Cal
Louisiana Tech 23 UTEP
IOWA 19½ Purdue
San Diego State 13 UNLV
San Jose State 10 HAWAII
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Underdog Winners - Week #11:
New Mexico : 30.0 points
Washington State : 9.5 points
Oregon : 9.5 points
Arkansas : 8.0 points
ARIZONA : 6.0 points
MISSOURI : 5.0 points
Fresno State : 4.5 points
Pittsburgh : 3.5 points
SOUTH FLORIDA : 3.0 points
Tulane : 3.0 points
Georgia State : 3.0 points
Oklahoma : 3.0 points
Georgia : 1.0 points
AIR FORCE : 1.0 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #11:
Washington State: stinger11723, gamecockcat
Oregon: kyfan606, Blue Strype, JBHolmesfan
Oklahoma: straykat
Nobody picked: New Mexico, Arkansas, ARIZONA, MISSOURI, Fresno State, Pittsburgh, SOUTH FLORIDA, Tulane, Georgia State, Georgia, AIR FORCE
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #11:
40.0 : THE_OAK
37.5 : kyfan606
35.0 : Blue Strype
33.5 : warrior-cat
32.0 : Hang_Time_2
31.5 : PokerCat67
29.5 : 13space82
29.5 : Gabewcat
28.5 : ukwazoo
27.0 : gamecockcat
27.0 : ram1955
26.5 : docholiday51
26.5 : Greasy Creak Mafia
26.5 : Larry00
25.5 : bigbluemist
24.5 : *CatinIL*
22.0 : KyMaster
22.0 : OSOK
22.0 : SWVA WildcatFan
21.5 : straykat
20.0 : Bryguy
20.0 : LordEgg
20.0 : maysvilleky
20.0 : On_track_4_8
19.5 : BigBlueFan1963
19.5 : Serenity Now!!!
19.0 : AsianPICat
19.0 : jimmy cowboy
17.5 : DubyaT
17.5 : JBHolmesfan
17.0 : Deeeefense
17.0 : stinger11723
16.5 : crosbycatfan3745
16.0 : BlueBallz
16.0 : dvillecatfan
14.5 : BigBadBlueDaddy
14.5 : RocknRollCats
14.0 : calicat21
14.0 : GoBigBlue37
14.0 : jsyeag
14.0 : PRPcoach
14.0 : specialkd24
14.0 : ukcatsfan2
14.0 : warrior_SW
13.0 : Faithful Blue in the 812
12.5 : BLUINLOU
12.5 : WildOnKnoxville
11.0 : pappy52
9.5 : catben
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 #11:
5 : Hang_Time_2
5 : ram1955
5 : THE_OAK
4 : AsianPICat
4 : bigbluemist
4 : Blue Strype
4 : docholiday51
4 : Gabewcat
4 : gamecockcat
4 : kyfan606
4 : KyMaster
4 : maysvilleky
4 : SWVA WildcatFan
4 : warrior-cat
3 : *CatinIL*
3 : 13space82
3 : Bryguy
3 : DubyaT
3 : JBHolmesfan
3 : Larry00
3 : LordEgg
3 : On_track_4_8
3 : OSOK
3 : PokerCat67
3 : RocknRollCats
3 : straykat
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 : Littlefeller
2 : pappy52
2 : PRPcoach
2 : Serenity Now!!!
2 : specialkd24
2 : stinger11723
2 : ukcatsfan2
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
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 10.6
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
Season Average for Correct Picks: 14.6
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
Season Average for Total Picks: 63.4
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.
