Another college football regular season has passed us by, and it's time to find out if you have the ability to become one of life's winners. Are you talented enough to correctly pick winners of bowl games AND assign points in such a way that you collect them like Auburn collects quarterbacks kicked out of other schools for criminal activity?
ONLY TIME WILL TELL. Well, that and you signing up for this year's bowl pick 'em contest, which continues to plod along, despite the elements and my consistent ability to forget to do it until two days before the first bowl game.
The good news is that this year, I'm way ahead of schedule, as there are 11 full days between now and the first bowl game. So, you have plenty of time to go back and forth on your picks and cost yourself valuable points from overthinking the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl.
If you're new and dare to dream that you could win such a contest, it's fairly simple. Sign up via Yahoo! Sports with the information below, pick the winners of all the bowl games, and assign confidence points to each of the games.
For example, if you pick Ole Miss to remind Georgia Tech why they left for the ACC (NOTHING CAN SAVE YOU FROM THE SCALPEL OF DR. BO, TED ROOF) and you feel good about it, you could assign up to 35 points for the game. Or, if you feel like Ole Miss has never stopped any option plays ever (and you would be right!), yet you still want to pick Ole Miss, you could assign only 1 point to it.
You only get points if you pick the game correctly and you have to assign a different point value for each game (all of this will make more sense when you see it on your screen). The person with the most points wins and gets to tell friends and family how they won a game over mostly strangers on the Internet (this may alarm them, but when pressed, ask to see THEIR search history).
As usual, prizes are involved for first, second, and third place. And, as usual, I haven't carefully selected what these are yet, but I'm sure they'll be really nice.
But, the most important part of the contest, and the only reason I do it, is to not finish in last because you will receive a public shaming in this very space. Yes, here in this spot, you will be exposed to the world as person who is terrible at picking college football games and correctly assigning points to the winners.
I can imagine nothing worse, and it will haunt you the remainder of your days. For example, here is the verbal beating participant Kurt took after finding himself in last place last year:
"And finally, let us commence the public shaming of Kurt, who, despite a 21-14 record, knows nothing of how to best assign point values. His reliance on LSU, Florida, and Notre Dame (yes, NOTRE DAME) as three of his top four point values ultimately landed him in the basement.
Let this be a lesson for the kids out there, when in doubt, remember that Notre Dame nearly LOST TO PITTSBURGH, A TEAM OF HOT GARBAGE STATURE AND LATER BURNED TO THE GROUND BY OLE MISS. Don't be like Kurt. Always use your intense personal bias against Notre Dame as a reason to never pick them in any sporting event ever.
Perhaps next year, Kurt will remember his foolish mistakes and pick Florida State to beat Notre Dame in the Champs Sports Bowl so he can earn 15 points.
Once again, thanks to everyone who participated, but I'm mostly thankful I didn't finish in last, which I will save for my appearance in any NCAA Tournament pools.
*SEMI-IMPORTANT EDIT*
As noted in the comments below, Kurt originally chose Alabama, then switched to Notre Dame in hopes of making up points on the leaders. While I think we all can recognize that strategy as one that might work, justice was still served for siding with Notre Dame, even in the name of winning some pretty great pictures and optional self-cash gift.
But taking Landry Jones, Bob Stoops, and Oklahoma in a bowl game? LOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOLOL."
Truly a haunting moment in his life.
Anyway, here's the information you need to get yourself into the group and in position for prizes or a date with a public shaming.
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