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 7:
Thursday, Oct. 13
Navy 3 EAST CAROLINA
Friday, Oct. 14
LOUISVILLE 32 Duke
Memphis 11 TULANE
BYU 7 Mississippi State
San Diego State 16½ FRESNO STATE
Saturday, Oct. 15
OHIO 8½ Eastern Michigan
TOLEDO 25½ Bowling Green State
Ball State 9½ SUNY-BUFFALO
SOUTH FLORIDA 17 Connecticut
Louisiana Tech 15½ MASSACHUSETTS
Virginia Tech 18½ SYRACUSE
CENTRAL FLORIDA 3½ Temple
Iowa 13 PURDUE
TEXAS 14 Iowa State
MIAMI (FL) 7 North Carolina
CLEMSON 17 North Carolina State
MICHIGAN STATE 4 Northwestern
OKLAHOMA 10 Kansas State
Nebraska 6½ INDIANA
LSU 24 Southern Miss
Pittsburgh 5 VIRGINIA
TEXAS TECH 1½ West Virginia
AIR FORCE 13½ New Mexico
HOUSTON 20 Tulsa
GEORGIA TECH 11 Georgia Southern
TROY 16 Georgia State
ARKANSAS STATE 6 South Alabama
Texas-San Antonio 2½ RICE
Central Michigan 3 NORTHERN ILLINOIS
Alabama 11½ TENNESSEE
Mississippi 7 ARKANSAS
COLORADO 10 Arizona State
BAYLOR 34½ Kansas
FLORIDA STATE 22½ Wake Forest
MIDDLE TENNESSEE ST 1 Western Kentucky
LOUISIANA-MONROE 7 Texas State
NOTRE DAME 2½ Stanford
Ohio State 10½ WISCONSIN
IDAHO 4 New Mexico State
WASHINGTON STATE 4½ UCLA
Southern Cal 7 ARIZONA
BOISE STATE 29 Colorado State
Utah 12 OREGON STATE
SAN JOSE STATE 1 Nevada
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Underdog Winners - Week #6:
NAVY : 18.0 points
TEXAS-SAN ANTONIO : 15.5 points
UNC Charlotte : 14.5 points
OREGON STATE : 12.5 points
WYOMING : 10.5 points
NORTH TEXAS : 10.5 points
Washington State : 8.5 points
Purdue : 8.0 points
ARIZONA STATE : 7.5 points
COLORADO STATE : 6.0 points
BYU : 5.5 points
Idaho : 4.0 points
Florida Intl : 4.0 points
CONNECTICUT : 3.5 points
Hawaii : 3.5 points
LOUISIANA TECH : 3.0 points
Virginia Tech : 2.5 points
Florida State : 2.0 points
NORTH CAROLINA STATE : 1.0 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #6:
WYOMING: bigbluemist, docholiday51, WildcatDJ, jsyeag, BIGCAT4LIFE, WildOnKnoxville, PRPcoach
Washington State: Gabewcat
ARIZONA STATE: stinger11723
COLORADO STATE: number8please, straykat, ukcatsfan2
BYU: OSOK, Maxwell41, warrior-cat
Florida State: maysvilleky
Nobody picked: NAVY, TEXAS-SAN ANTONIO, UNC Charlotte, OREGON STATE, NORTH TEXAS, Purdue, Idaho, Florida Intl, CONNECTICUT, Hawaii, LOUISIANA TECH, Virginia Tech, NORTH CAROLINA STATE
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #6:
33.0 : straykat
32.5 : Gabewcat
30.5 : WildOnKnoxville
28.5 : BIGCAT4LIFE
28.5 : kyfan606
25.5 : stinger11723
23.5 : ukcatsfan2
22.5 : OSOK
21.5 : docholiday51
21.0 : AMJ_13
21.0 : chesterfield1
21.0 : josh72484
21.0 : JSgorocks
20.5 : rockycard
19.5 : Big_Blue_1018
18.0 : rockhound24
18.0 : Roe07
17.5 : Blueisbest
17.5 : Faithful Blue in the 812
17.5 : Greasy Creak Mafia
17.5 : Serenity Now!!!
17.0 : Nuke99m
16.5 : Larry00
15.0 : KyMaster
14.5 : gblue5744
14.5 : warrior_SW
14.0 : number8please
14.0 : ukmonty2001
13.5 : jimmy cowboy
13.0 : maysvilleky
13.0 : warrior-cat
12.5 : SWVA WildcatFan
11.0 : blubud
11.0 : CGblue
11.0 : Littlefeller
11.0 : TotesMcGotes
10.5 : bigbluemist
10.5 : jsyeag
10.5 : PRPcoach
10.5 : WildcatDJ
10.0 : Caveman Catfan
10.0 : Chad Rock
10.0 : Don't TrashTheCats
10.0 : Hang_Time_2
10.0 : Ken Cat
10.0 : ThePhoenix
7.5 : dswan17
7.5 : JBHolmesfan
7.5 : jrburt
7.5 : LordEgg
7.5 : On_track_4_8
6.5 : *CatinIL*
6.5 : allabouttheUK
6.5 : crosbycatfan3745
6.5 : UK_ Alum_02
6.0 : august-west
5.5 : Maxwell41
5.5 : ram1955
4.5 : AsianPICat
3.5 : MrHotDice
3.5 : Owen68
3.5 : pappy52
3.5 : WildcatStu1
2.5 : 13space82
2.5 : BlueBallz
Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #6:
4 : Gabewcat
4 : straykat
3 : BIGCAT4LIFE
3 : docholiday51
3 : jimmy cowboy
3 : JSgorocks
3 : maysvilleky
3 : Nuke99m
3 : stinger11723
3 : ukcatsfan2
2 : AsianPICat
2 : august-west
2 : Big_Blue_1018
2 : blubud
2 : Blueisbest
2 : Faithful Blue in the 812
2 : gblue5744
2 : Greasy Creak Mafia
2 : josh72484
2 : kyfan606
2 : KyMaster
2 : Larry00
2 : number8please
2 : On_track_4_8
2 : OSOK
2 : ram1955
2 : rockhound24
2 : rockycard
2 : Roe07
2 : Serenity Now!!!
2 : SWVA WildcatFan
2 : warrior-cat
2 : warrior_SW
2 : WildOnKnoxville
Underdog Winners:
Week 1: 13
Week 2: 6
Week 3: 6
Week 4: 12
Week 5: 13
Week 6: 19
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 11.5
Correct Underdog Picks:
Week 1: 39
Week 2: 10
Week 3: 30
Week 4: 6
Week 5: 10
Week 6: 16
Season Average for Correct Picks: 18.5
Total Picks Made:
Week 1: 87
Week 2: 68
Week 3: 66
Week 4: 65
Week 5: 56
Week 6: 60
Season Average for Total Picks: 67.0
Welcome New SUP Winners - Week #6:
bigbluemist, WildcatDJ, jsyeag, PRPcoach, Maxwell41
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.
2015: kyfan606 with 50.5 points - SWVA WildcatFan had the most correct picks with 7.
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:
------------
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 7:
Thursday, Oct. 13
Navy 3 EAST CAROLINA
Friday, Oct. 14
LOUISVILLE 32 Duke
Memphis 11 TULANE
BYU 7 Mississippi State
San Diego State 16½ FRESNO STATE
Saturday, Oct. 15
OHIO 8½ Eastern Michigan
TOLEDO 25½ Bowling Green State
Ball State 9½ SUNY-BUFFALO
SOUTH FLORIDA 17 Connecticut
Louisiana Tech 15½ MASSACHUSETTS
Virginia Tech 18½ SYRACUSE
CENTRAL FLORIDA 3½ Temple
Iowa 13 PURDUE
TEXAS 14 Iowa State
MIAMI (FL) 7 North Carolina
CLEMSON 17 North Carolina State
MICHIGAN STATE 4 Northwestern
OKLAHOMA 10 Kansas State
Nebraska 6½ INDIANA
LSU 24 Southern Miss
Pittsburgh 5 VIRGINIA
TEXAS TECH 1½ West Virginia
AIR FORCE 13½ New Mexico
HOUSTON 20 Tulsa
GEORGIA TECH 11 Georgia Southern
TROY 16 Georgia State
ARKANSAS STATE 6 South Alabama
Texas-San Antonio 2½ RICE
Central Michigan 3 NORTHERN ILLINOIS
Alabama 11½ TENNESSEE
Mississippi 7 ARKANSAS
COLORADO 10 Arizona State
BAYLOR 34½ Kansas
FLORIDA STATE 22½ Wake Forest
MIDDLE TENNESSEE ST 1 Western Kentucky
LOUISIANA-MONROE 7 Texas State
NOTRE DAME 2½ Stanford
Ohio State 10½ WISCONSIN
IDAHO 4 New Mexico State
WASHINGTON STATE 4½ UCLA
Southern Cal 7 ARIZONA
BOISE STATE 29 Colorado State
Utah 12 OREGON STATE
SAN JOSE STATE 1 Nevada
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Underdog Winners - Week #6:
NAVY : 18.0 points
TEXAS-SAN ANTONIO : 15.5 points
UNC Charlotte : 14.5 points
OREGON STATE : 12.5 points
WYOMING : 10.5 points
NORTH TEXAS : 10.5 points
Washington State : 8.5 points
Purdue : 8.0 points
ARIZONA STATE : 7.5 points
COLORADO STATE : 6.0 points
BYU : 5.5 points
Idaho : 4.0 points
Florida Intl : 4.0 points
CONNECTICUT : 3.5 points
Hawaii : 3.5 points
LOUISIANA TECH : 3.0 points
Virginia Tech : 2.5 points
Florida State : 2.0 points
NORTH CAROLINA STATE : 1.0 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #6:
WYOMING: bigbluemist, docholiday51, WildcatDJ, jsyeag, BIGCAT4LIFE, WildOnKnoxville, PRPcoach
Washington State: Gabewcat
ARIZONA STATE: stinger11723
COLORADO STATE: number8please, straykat, ukcatsfan2
BYU: OSOK, Maxwell41, warrior-cat
Florida State: maysvilleky
Nobody picked: NAVY, TEXAS-SAN ANTONIO, UNC Charlotte, OREGON STATE, NORTH TEXAS, Purdue, Idaho, Florida Intl, CONNECTICUT, Hawaii, LOUISIANA TECH, Virginia Tech, NORTH CAROLINA STATE
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #6:
33.0 : straykat
32.5 : Gabewcat
30.5 : WildOnKnoxville
28.5 : BIGCAT4LIFE
28.5 : kyfan606
25.5 : stinger11723
23.5 : ukcatsfan2
22.5 : OSOK
21.5 : docholiday51
21.0 : AMJ_13
21.0 : chesterfield1
21.0 : josh72484
21.0 : JSgorocks
20.5 : rockycard
19.5 : Big_Blue_1018
18.0 : rockhound24
18.0 : Roe07
17.5 : Blueisbest
17.5 : Faithful Blue in the 812
17.5 : Greasy Creak Mafia
17.5 : Serenity Now!!!
17.0 : Nuke99m
16.5 : Larry00
15.0 : KyMaster
14.5 : gblue5744
14.5 : warrior_SW
14.0 : number8please
14.0 : ukmonty2001
13.5 : jimmy cowboy
13.0 : maysvilleky
13.0 : warrior-cat
12.5 : SWVA WildcatFan
11.0 : blubud
11.0 : CGblue
11.0 : Littlefeller
11.0 : TotesMcGotes
10.5 : bigbluemist
10.5 : jsyeag
10.5 : PRPcoach
10.5 : WildcatDJ
10.0 : Caveman Catfan
10.0 : Chad Rock
10.0 : Don't TrashTheCats
10.0 : Hang_Time_2
10.0 : Ken Cat
10.0 : ThePhoenix
7.5 : dswan17
7.5 : JBHolmesfan
7.5 : jrburt
7.5 : LordEgg
7.5 : On_track_4_8
6.5 : *CatinIL*
6.5 : allabouttheUK
6.5 : crosbycatfan3745
6.5 : UK_ Alum_02
6.0 : august-west
5.5 : Maxwell41
5.5 : ram1955
4.5 : AsianPICat
3.5 : MrHotDice
3.5 : Owen68
3.5 : pappy52
3.5 : WildcatStu1
2.5 : 13space82
2.5 : BlueBallz
Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #6:
4 : Gabewcat
4 : straykat
3 : BIGCAT4LIFE
3 : docholiday51
3 : jimmy cowboy
3 : JSgorocks
3 : maysvilleky
3 : Nuke99m
3 : stinger11723
3 : ukcatsfan2
2 : AsianPICat
2 : august-west
2 : Big_Blue_1018
2 : blubud
2 : Blueisbest
2 : Faithful Blue in the 812
2 : gblue5744
2 : Greasy Creak Mafia
2 : josh72484
2 : kyfan606
2 : KyMaster
2 : Larry00
2 : number8please
2 : On_track_4_8
2 : OSOK
2 : ram1955
2 : rockhound24
2 : rockycard
2 : Roe07
2 : Serenity Now!!!
2 : SWVA WildcatFan
2 : warrior-cat
2 : warrior_SW
2 : WildOnKnoxville
Underdog Winners:
Week 1: 13
Week 2: 6
Week 3: 6
Week 4: 12
Week 5: 13
Week 6: 19
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 11.5
Correct Underdog Picks:
Week 1: 39
Week 2: 10
Week 3: 30
Week 4: 6
Week 5: 10
Week 6: 16
Season Average for Correct Picks: 18.5
Total Picks Made:
Week 1: 87
Week 2: 68
Week 3: 66
Week 4: 65
Week 5: 56
Week 6: 60
Season Average for Total Picks: 67.0
Welcome New SUP Winners - Week #6:
bigbluemist, WildcatDJ, jsyeag, PRPcoach, Maxwell41
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.
2015: kyfan606 with 50.5 points - SWVA WildcatFan had the most correct picks with 7.
