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 any game has started on the day you make your pick. 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 that day, 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 5:
Thursday, Sep. 29
TEXAS TECH 28 Kansas
HOUSTON 28½ Connecticut
Friday, Sep. 30
BYU 3½ Toledo
WASHINGTON 3½ Stanford
Saturday, Oct. 1
BOSTON COLLEGE 17½ SUNY-Buffalo
PITTSBURGH 1 Marshall
MISSISSIPPI 14 Memphis
Tulane 2 MASSACHUSETTS
PENN STATE 3 Minnesota
IOWA 12 Northwestern
OHIO STATE 38 Rutgers
WEST VIRGINIA 3½ Kansas State
DUKE 3½ Virginia
Notre Dame 13 SYRACUSE
TEMPLE 12½ Southern Methodist
Old Dominion 9½ UNC CHARLOTTE
Middle Tennessee St 15 NORTH TEXAS
LOUISIANA TECH 20½ UTEP
Florida Atlantic 5 FLORIDA INTL
Western Michigan 3 CENTRAL MICHIGAN
BALL STATE 4 Northern Illinois
BOWLING GREEN STATE 3½ Eastern Michigan
Ohio 2½ MIAMI (OH)
EAST CAROLINA 5½ Central Florida
Akron 4½ KENT STATE
Miami (FL) 6½ GEORGIA TECH
NEBRASKA 21 Illinois
MICHIGAN 10½ Wisconsin
CLEMSON 2 Louisville
FLORIDA STATE 12 North Carolina
AUBURN 33½ Louisiana-Monroe
AIR FORCE 7 Navy
SOUTHERN MISS 21½ Rice
COLORADO STATE 7 Wyoming
ALABAMA 34 Kentucky
Tennessee 3½ GEORGIA
APPALACHIAN STATE 21 Georgia State
Florida 9½ VANDERBILT
CALIFORNIA 1 Utah
OKLAHOMA STATE 3 Texas
COLORADO 16½ Oregon State
NORTH CAROLINA STATE 9 Wake Forest
Texas AM 17 SOUTH CAROLINA
UCLA 11 Arizona
SOUTHERN CAL 8 Arizona State
Baylor 16½ IOWA STATE
Michigan State 7½ INDIANA
Oklahoma 2 TEXAS CHRISTIAN
LSU 13 Missouri
San Diego State 20 SOUTH ALABAMA
Louisiana-Lafayette 6½ NEW MEXICO STATE
Troy 12½ IDAHO
NEW MEXICO 6½ San Jose State
BOISE STATE 20½ Utah State
Oregon 1 WASHINGTON STATE
UNLV 8 Fresno State
Sunday, Oct. 2
Nevada 6½ HAWAII
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Underdog Winners - Week #4:
Duke : 21.0 points
Idaho : 14.5 points
SUNY-BUFFALO : 14.0 points
Colorado : 7.5 points
Vanderbilt : 7.5 points
Wake Forest : 7.5 points
North Texas : 7.0 points
Wisconsin : 5.5 points
AUBURN : 3.5 points
Syracuse : 3.5 points
VIRGINIA : 3.5 points
EASTERN MICHIGAN : 3.0 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #4:
Duke: chesterfield1
SUNY-BUFFALO: ukmonty2001
Vanderbilt: blubud, KyMaster, docholiday51, maysvilleky
Nobody picked: Idaho, Colorado, Wake Forest, North Texas, Wisconsin, AUBURN, Syracuse, VIRGINIA, EASTERN MICHIGAN
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #4:
28.5 : kyfan606
21.0 : AMJ_13
21.0 : chesterfield1
21.0 : josh72484
21.0 : JSgorocks
20.5 : rockycard
19.5 : straykat
18.0 : rockhound24
18.0 : Roe07
18.0 : stinger11723
17.5 : Blueisbest
17.5 : Faithful Blue in the 812
17.5 : Gabewcat
17.5 : Greasy Creak Mafia
17.5 : Serenity Now!!!
17.5 : ukcatsfan2
17.0 : Nuke99m
17.0 : OSOK
15.0 : KyMaster
14.5 : warrior_SW
14.0 : ukmonty2001
13.5 : jimmy cowboy
12.5 : SWVA WildcatFan
11.0 : BIGCAT4LIFE
11.0 : blubud
11.0 : CGblue
11.0 : docholiday51
11.0 : Littlefeller
11.0 : maysvilleky
11.0 : TotesMcGotes
10.0 : Caveman Catfan
10.0 : Chad Rock
10.0 : Don't TrashTheCats
10.0 : Hang_Time_2
10.0 : Ken Cat
10.0 : Larry00
10.0 : ThePhoenix
8.0 : gblue5744
8.0 : number8please
7.5 : Big_Blue_1018
7.5 : dswan17
7.5 : JBHolmesfan
7.5 : jrburt
7.5 : LordEgg
7.5 : warrior-cat
6.5 : allabouttheUK
6.5 : crosbycatfan3745
6.5 : UK_ Alum_02
6.0 : august-west
5.5 : ram1955
3.5 : AsianPICat
3.5 : MrHotDice
3.5 : Owen68
3.5 : pappy52
3.5 : WildcatStu1
2.5 : 13space82
2.5 : BlueBallz
1.0 : On_track_4_8
Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #4:
3 : jimmy cowboy
3 : JSgorocks
3 : Nuke99m
2 : august-west
2 : blubud
2 : Blueisbest
2 : docholiday51
2 : Faithful Blue in the 812
2 : Gabewcat
2 : Greasy Creak Mafia
2 : josh72484
2 : kyfan606
2 : KyMaster
2 : maysvilleky
2 : ram1955
2 : rockhound24
2 : rockycard
2 : Roe07
2 : Serenity Now!!!
2 : stinger11723
2 : straykat
2 : SWVA WildcatFan
2 : ukcatsfan2
2 : warrior_SW
Underdog Winners:
Week 1: 13
Week 2: 6
Week 3: 6
Week 4: 12
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 9.3
Correct Underdog Picks:
Week 1: 39
Week 2: 10
Week 3: 30
Week 4: 6
Season Average for Correct Picks: 21.3
Total Picks Made:
Week 1: 87
Week 2: 68
Week 3: 66
Week 4: 65
Season Average for Total Picks: 71.5
Welcome New SUP Winners - Week #4:
chesterfield1, ukmonty2001
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 any game has started on the day you make your pick. 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 that day, 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 5:
Thursday, Sep. 29
TEXAS TECH 28 Kansas
HOUSTON 28½ Connecticut
Friday, Sep. 30
BYU 3½ Toledo
WASHINGTON 3½ Stanford
Saturday, Oct. 1
BOSTON COLLEGE 17½ SUNY-Buffalo
PITTSBURGH 1 Marshall
MISSISSIPPI 14 Memphis
Tulane 2 MASSACHUSETTS
PENN STATE 3 Minnesota
IOWA 12 Northwestern
OHIO STATE 38 Rutgers
WEST VIRGINIA 3½ Kansas State
DUKE 3½ Virginia
Notre Dame 13 SYRACUSE
TEMPLE 12½ Southern Methodist
Old Dominion 9½ UNC CHARLOTTE
Middle Tennessee St 15 NORTH TEXAS
LOUISIANA TECH 20½ UTEP
Florida Atlantic 5 FLORIDA INTL
Western Michigan 3 CENTRAL MICHIGAN
BALL STATE 4 Northern Illinois
BOWLING GREEN STATE 3½ Eastern Michigan
Ohio 2½ MIAMI (OH)
EAST CAROLINA 5½ Central Florida
Akron 4½ KENT STATE
Miami (FL) 6½ GEORGIA TECH
NEBRASKA 21 Illinois
MICHIGAN 10½ Wisconsin
CLEMSON 2 Louisville
FLORIDA STATE 12 North Carolina
AUBURN 33½ Louisiana-Monroe
AIR FORCE 7 Navy
SOUTHERN MISS 21½ Rice
COLORADO STATE 7 Wyoming
ALABAMA 34 Kentucky
Tennessee 3½ GEORGIA
APPALACHIAN STATE 21 Georgia State
Florida 9½ VANDERBILT
CALIFORNIA 1 Utah
OKLAHOMA STATE 3 Texas
COLORADO 16½ Oregon State
NORTH CAROLINA STATE 9 Wake Forest
Texas AM 17 SOUTH CAROLINA
UCLA 11 Arizona
SOUTHERN CAL 8 Arizona State
Baylor 16½ IOWA STATE
Michigan State 7½ INDIANA
Oklahoma 2 TEXAS CHRISTIAN
LSU 13 Missouri
San Diego State 20 SOUTH ALABAMA
Louisiana-Lafayette 6½ NEW MEXICO STATE
Troy 12½ IDAHO
NEW MEXICO 6½ San Jose State
BOISE STATE 20½ Utah State
Oregon 1 WASHINGTON STATE
UNLV 8 Fresno State
Sunday, Oct. 2
Nevada 6½ HAWAII
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Underdog Winners - Week #4:
Duke : 21.0 points
Idaho : 14.5 points
SUNY-BUFFALO : 14.0 points
Colorado : 7.5 points
Vanderbilt : 7.5 points
Wake Forest : 7.5 points
North Texas : 7.0 points
Wisconsin : 5.5 points
AUBURN : 3.5 points
Syracuse : 3.5 points
VIRGINIA : 3.5 points
EASTERN MICHIGAN : 3.0 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #4:
Duke: chesterfield1
SUNY-BUFFALO: ukmonty2001
Vanderbilt: blubud, KyMaster, docholiday51, maysvilleky
Nobody picked: Idaho, Colorado, Wake Forest, North Texas, Wisconsin, AUBURN, Syracuse, VIRGINIA, EASTERN MICHIGAN
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #4:
28.5 : kyfan606
21.0 : AMJ_13
21.0 : chesterfield1
21.0 : josh72484
21.0 : JSgorocks
20.5 : rockycard
19.5 : straykat
18.0 : rockhound24
18.0 : Roe07
18.0 : stinger11723
17.5 : Blueisbest
17.5 : Faithful Blue in the 812
17.5 : Gabewcat
17.5 : Greasy Creak Mafia
17.5 : Serenity Now!!!
17.5 : ukcatsfan2
17.0 : Nuke99m
17.0 : OSOK
15.0 : KyMaster
14.5 : warrior_SW
14.0 : ukmonty2001
13.5 : jimmy cowboy
12.5 : SWVA WildcatFan
11.0 : BIGCAT4LIFE
11.0 : blubud
11.0 : CGblue
11.0 : docholiday51
11.0 : Littlefeller
11.0 : maysvilleky
11.0 : TotesMcGotes
10.0 : Caveman Catfan
10.0 : Chad Rock
10.0 : Don't TrashTheCats
10.0 : Hang_Time_2
10.0 : Ken Cat
10.0 : Larry00
10.0 : ThePhoenix
8.0 : gblue5744
8.0 : number8please
7.5 : Big_Blue_1018
7.5 : dswan17
7.5 : JBHolmesfan
7.5 : jrburt
7.5 : LordEgg
7.5 : warrior-cat
6.5 : allabouttheUK
6.5 : crosbycatfan3745
6.5 : UK_ Alum_02
6.0 : august-west
5.5 : ram1955
3.5 : AsianPICat
3.5 : MrHotDice
3.5 : Owen68
3.5 : pappy52
3.5 : WildcatStu1
2.5 : 13space82
2.5 : BlueBallz
1.0 : On_track_4_8
Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #4:
3 : jimmy cowboy
3 : JSgorocks
3 : Nuke99m
2 : august-west
2 : blubud
2 : Blueisbest
2 : docholiday51
2 : Faithful Blue in the 812
2 : Gabewcat
2 : Greasy Creak Mafia
2 : josh72484
2 : kyfan606
2 : KyMaster
2 : maysvilleky
2 : ram1955
2 : rockhound24
2 : rockycard
2 : Roe07
2 : Serenity Now!!!
2 : stinger11723
2 : straykat
2 : SWVA WildcatFan
2 : ukcatsfan2
2 : warrior_SW
Underdog Winners:
Week 1: 13
Week 2: 6
Week 3: 6
Week 4: 12
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 9.3
Correct Underdog Picks:
Week 1: 39
Week 2: 10
Week 3: 30
Week 4: 6
Season Average for Correct Picks: 21.3
Total Picks Made:
Week 1: 87
Week 2: 68
Week 3: 66
Week 4: 65
Season Average for Total Picks: 71.5
Welcome New SUP Winners - Week #4:
chesterfield1, ukmonty2001
