Welcome to the CatsIllustrated Stupid Underdog Pick Contest. Each week the odds are gathered from the Oddstrader web page (usually on Sunday night) 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 should make your pick before the first game of the week has kicked off. Your pick may be invalidated otherwise. I can't know with the new Rivals format 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. You can change your pick before the first game of the week has started by editing your pick or deleting the old pick and making a new post. To change your pick after the first kick off of the week, leave the original post alone, make a new post and indicate that you want to change your pick in that new post. I'll verify that you can change it manually.
2) If you make your pick after the first game of the week kicks off, it may be invalidated. Make your pick before the first kickoff of the day or pick a game that is played on a later date. I might post that you can make picks a bit later in that day in the "Don't forget to..." thread, but don't count on it.
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.
5) Don't edit your picks after the first game of the week has kicked off.
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 VegasOdds 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. 25
EAST CAROLINA 6 Army
Friday, Sep. 26
Florida State 6½ VIRGINIA
ARIZONA STATE 2½ TCU
Houston 12½ OREGON STATE
Saturday, Sep. 27
OHIO 10½ Bowling Green
Notre Dame 5 ARKANSAS
Louisville 3 PITTSBURGH
Duke 4½ SYRACUSE
Georgia Tech 13½ WAKE FOREST
MINNESOTA 5½ Rutgers
KANSAS 6½ Cincinnati
NORTH TEXAS 12½ South Alabama
KANSAS STATE 6 UCF
USC 6½ ILLINOIS
VANDERBILT 22½ Utah State
CENTRAL MICHIGAN 5½ Eastern Michigan
JAMES MADISON 17 Georgia Southern
LOUISIANA-MONROE 2½ Arkansas State
TOLEDO 21 Akron
Utah 10 WEST VIRGINIA
San Diego State 2½ NORTHERN ILLINOIS
BOSTON COLLEGE 6½ California
Connecticut 2½ BUFFALO
Indiana 7½ IOWA
NORTHWESTERN 6½ UCLA
NAVY 14½ Rice
Baylor 20½ OKLAHOMA STATE
OLE MISS 2½ LSU
TEXAS A&M 6½ Auburn
Ohio State 8 WASHINGTON
AIR FORCE 6½ Hawaii
NEW MEXICO 14 New Mexico State
Tulane 14½ TULSA
Tennessee 7½ MISSISSIPPI STATE
OLD DOMINION 16½ Liberty
KENNESAW STATE 8½ Middle Tennessee
Memphis 13½ FLORIDA ATLANTIC
NORTH CAROLINA STATE 10½ Virginia Tech
SOUTHERN MISS 4½ Jacksonville State
IOWA STATE 6½ Arizona
Western Kentucky 5 MISSOURI STATE
BOISE STATE 16½ Appalachian State
STANFORD 2½ San Jose State
MISSOURI 44½ Massachusetts
COLORADO STATE 4½ Washington State
PENN STATE 3½ Oregon
GEORGIA 3 Alabama
SOUTH CAROLINA 6½ Kentucky
LOUISIANA 1½ Marshall
Louisiana Tech 3½ UTEP
Brigham Young 6½ COLORADO
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Underdog Winners - Week #4:
Syracuse : 17.5 points
Coastal Carolina : 14.5 points
WESTERN MICHIGAN : 14.0 points
Tulsa : 13.0 points
SAN DIEGO STATE : 12.0 points
Maryland : 9.5 points
MEMPHIS : 7.0 points
Delaware : 6.5 points
Troy : 6.5 points
KENNESAW STATE : 6.5 points
Louisiana-Monroe : 5.5 points
Texas Tech : 3.5 points
EASTERN MICHIGAN : 2.5 points
Arizona State : 2.5 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #4:
WESTERN MICHIGAN: Lonesome Hippopotamus
SAN DIEGO STATE: Nuke99m.
Maryland: c-a-t-s-f-a-n
MEMPHIS: Yardeth
Troy: btodd0224 n/a?
KENNESAW STATE: ILiveBlue-GoCats
Texas Tech: CGBlue1.0, Anon1756516332
Arizona State: Artlaibesghost
Nobody picked: Syracuse, Coastal Carolina, Tulsa, Delaware, Louisiana-Monroe, EASTERN MICHIGAN
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #4:
31.0 : ILiveBlue-GoCats
20.5 : Jimmycowboy
19.0 : Hang_Time_2
18.5 : btodd0224 n/a?
18.0 : BlueBallzz
18.0 : satcheluk
17.0 : Anon1756516332
15.0 : c-a-t-s-f-a-n
14.0 : CGBlue1.0
14.0 : Lonesome Hippopotamus
13.0 : MAYHOO22
12.0 : jsmith4415
12.0 : Nuke99m.
10.5 : Chadrock
10.0 : josh72484
7.0 : KyMaster
7.0 : Yardeth
6.5 : Bryguy
6.5 : cat tat2
6.5 : Catapult44
6.5 : LordEgg
6.5 : RocknRollCats
6.0 : PickSixKing
5.5 : BurgLife
5.5 : MaysviileKY
3.5 : BlueWorldOrder74
3.5 : Cardinalrules
3.5 : OldSmoky
3.0 : Anon1751937321
3.0 : Buckwheat Otay Is Dead
2.5 : Artlaibesghost
Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #4:
4 : ILiveBlue-GoCats
3 : Anon1756516332
3 : btodd0224 n/a?
3 : CGBlue1.0
2 : c-a-t-s-f-a-n
2 : Hang_Time_2
2 : Jimmycowboy
2 : jsmith4415
2 : MAYHOO22
Underdog Winners:
Week 1: 7
Week 2: 12
Week 3: 12
Week 4: 14
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 11.2
Correct Underdog Picks:
Week 1: 5
Week 2: 13
Week 3: 18
Week 4: 9
Season Average for Correct Picks: 11.2
Total Picks Made:
Week 1: 39
Week 2: 38
Week 3: 34
Week 4: 35
Season Average for Total Picks: 36.5
Welcome New SUP Winners - Week #4:
Lonesome Hippopotamus, Nuke99m., Yardeth, Artlaibesghost
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 should make your pick before the first game of the week has kicked off. Your pick may be invalidated otherwise. I can't know with the new Rivals format 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. You can change your pick before the first game of the week has started by editing your pick or deleting the old pick and making a new post. To change your pick after the first kick off of the week, leave the original post alone, make a new post and indicate that you want to change your pick in that new post. I'll verify that you can change it manually.
2) If you make your pick after the first game of the week kicks off, it may be invalidated. Make your pick before the first kickoff of the day or pick a game that is played on a later date. I might post that you can make picks a bit later in that day in the "Don't forget to..." thread, but don't count on it.
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.
5) Don't edit your picks after the first game of the week has kicked off.
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 VegasOdds 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. 25
EAST CAROLINA 6 Army
Friday, Sep. 26
Florida State 6½ VIRGINIA
ARIZONA STATE 2½ TCU
Houston 12½ OREGON STATE
Saturday, Sep. 27
OHIO 10½ Bowling Green
Notre Dame 5 ARKANSAS
Louisville 3 PITTSBURGH
Duke 4½ SYRACUSE
Georgia Tech 13½ WAKE FOREST
MINNESOTA 5½ Rutgers
KANSAS 6½ Cincinnati
NORTH TEXAS 12½ South Alabama
KANSAS STATE 6 UCF
USC 6½ ILLINOIS
VANDERBILT 22½ Utah State
CENTRAL MICHIGAN 5½ Eastern Michigan
JAMES MADISON 17 Georgia Southern
LOUISIANA-MONROE 2½ Arkansas State
TOLEDO 21 Akron
Utah 10 WEST VIRGINIA
San Diego State 2½ NORTHERN ILLINOIS
BOSTON COLLEGE 6½ California
Connecticut 2½ BUFFALO
Indiana 7½ IOWA
NORTHWESTERN 6½ UCLA
NAVY 14½ Rice
Baylor 20½ OKLAHOMA STATE
OLE MISS 2½ LSU
TEXAS A&M 6½ Auburn
Ohio State 8 WASHINGTON
AIR FORCE 6½ Hawaii
NEW MEXICO 14 New Mexico State
Tulane 14½ TULSA
Tennessee 7½ MISSISSIPPI STATE
OLD DOMINION 16½ Liberty
KENNESAW STATE 8½ Middle Tennessee
Memphis 13½ FLORIDA ATLANTIC
NORTH CAROLINA STATE 10½ Virginia Tech
SOUTHERN MISS 4½ Jacksonville State
IOWA STATE 6½ Arizona
Western Kentucky 5 MISSOURI STATE
BOISE STATE 16½ Appalachian State
STANFORD 2½ San Jose State
MISSOURI 44½ Massachusetts
COLORADO STATE 4½ Washington State
PENN STATE 3½ Oregon
GEORGIA 3 Alabama
SOUTH CAROLINA 6½ Kentucky
LOUISIANA 1½ Marshall
Louisiana Tech 3½ UTEP
Brigham Young 6½ COLORADO
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Underdog Winners - Week #4:
Syracuse : 17.5 points
Coastal Carolina : 14.5 points
WESTERN MICHIGAN : 14.0 points
Tulsa : 13.0 points
SAN DIEGO STATE : 12.0 points
Maryland : 9.5 points
MEMPHIS : 7.0 points
Delaware : 6.5 points
Troy : 6.5 points
KENNESAW STATE : 6.5 points
Louisiana-Monroe : 5.5 points
Texas Tech : 3.5 points
EASTERN MICHIGAN : 2.5 points
Arizona State : 2.5 points
Correct Underdog Picks - Week #4:
WESTERN MICHIGAN: Lonesome Hippopotamus
SAN DIEGO STATE: Nuke99m.
Maryland: c-a-t-s-f-a-n
MEMPHIS: Yardeth
Troy: btodd0224 n/a?
KENNESAW STATE: ILiveBlue-GoCats
Texas Tech: CGBlue1.0, Anon1756516332
Arizona State: Artlaibesghost
Nobody picked: Syracuse, Coastal Carolina, Tulsa, Delaware, Louisiana-Monroe, EASTERN MICHIGAN
Stupid Underdog Picks Leader Board - Week #4:
31.0 : ILiveBlue-GoCats
20.5 : Jimmycowboy
19.0 : Hang_Time_2
18.5 : btodd0224 n/a?
18.0 : BlueBallzz
18.0 : satcheluk
17.0 : Anon1756516332
15.0 : c-a-t-s-f-a-n
14.0 : CGBlue1.0
14.0 : Lonesome Hippopotamus
13.0 : MAYHOO22
12.0 : jsmith4415
12.0 : Nuke99m.
10.5 : Chadrock
10.0 : josh72484
7.0 : KyMaster
7.0 : Yardeth
6.5 : Bryguy
6.5 : cat tat2
6.5 : Catapult44
6.5 : LordEgg
6.5 : RocknRollCats
6.0 : PickSixKing
5.5 : BurgLife
5.5 : MaysviileKY
3.5 : BlueWorldOrder74
3.5 : Cardinalrules
3.5 : OldSmoky
3.0 : Anon1751937321
3.0 : Buckwheat Otay Is Dead
2.5 : Artlaibesghost
Stupid Underdog Picks Multiple Winners - Week #4:
4 : ILiveBlue-GoCats
3 : Anon1756516332
3 : btodd0224 n/a?
3 : CGBlue1.0
2 : c-a-t-s-f-a-n
2 : Hang_Time_2
2 : Jimmycowboy
2 : jsmith4415
2 : MAYHOO22
Underdog Winners:
Week 1: 7
Week 2: 12
Week 3: 12
Week 4: 14
Season Average for Underdog Winners: 11.2
Correct Underdog Picks:
Week 1: 5
Week 2: 13
Week 3: 18
Week 4: 9
Season Average for Correct Picks: 11.2
Total Picks Made:
Week 1: 39
Week 2: 38
Week 3: 34
Week 4: 35
Season Average for Total Picks: 36.5
Welcome New SUP Winners - Week #4:
Lonesome Hippopotamus, Nuke99m., Yardeth, Artlaibesghost
