bowl pick'em second round results and third round format

by joe bob priddy on Jan 4, 2012 8:24 PM PST

note: with 1:30 remaining in the third quarter and west virginia with the rock and leading clemson 63 to 26, i'm going to go out on a limb and publish these results. if the tigers come back to win, i'll repost the results after i get over the shock of the biggest bowl game comeback ever.

well, i pretty much owned the bowl season pick'em second round. the only game i missed was the rose bowl and had wisconsin's quarterback not thrown a late fourth quarter interception, who knows how that game could have turned out?

anyway, i ended up seven and one. chiefsfan and pack_fan tied for second at five and three each. roflcopter16 overcame a slow start and, despite computer problems and not getting his picks in before the start of the houston/penn st game, recorded a three and four record.

since there were only four contestants for the second round, i'm going to arbitrarily change the game. this next round will be a head to head matchup. i will be the number one seed by virtue of having the best second round record. chiefsfan will be number two since he had the closer tiebreaker guess. pack_fan is number three and roflcopter16 is number four.

it will play out this way...

one versus four and two versus three. head to head. mano a mano. picking these three games:

at&t cotton bowl -- kansas state vs arkansas (pick the final score of this game as the tiebreaker)

bbva compass bowl -- smu vs pittsburgh

godaddy.com bowl -- arkansas st vs northern illinois

the top two will advance to the one game championship picking a winner and guessing the final score of:

the allstate bcs national championship game -- #1 lsu vs #2 alabama.

make all four picks and tiebreaker scores and record them as a comment to this fanpost prior to the start of the cotton bowl on january 6th.

i'll post a short commentary after the godaddy.com bowl and then announce the winner after the lsu-alabama matchup.

whoever ends up on top will receive a genuine paper certificate, suitable for framing, identifying him as the winner of the mountain west connection's 2011-12 national collegiate athletic association football pick'em constest for all his friends and family to drool over and envy. it will be printed with proper capitalization, punctuation and everything and mailed first class to the winner.

thanks for playing and good luck!

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My picks.....

Kansas St. 38-35
Pittsburgh
Arkansas St.

by Chiefsfan_in_Tacoma on Jan 5, 2012 6:13 AM PST reply actions

pick the lsu-bama game and score and you won't have to race to get that done later.

This is national TV. So don't pick your noses or scratch your nuts.

by joe bob priddy on Jan 5, 2012 9:17 AM PST up reply actions

9-6 Bama another def. battle

by Chiefsfan_in_Tacoma on Jan 5, 2012 12:17 PM PST up reply actions

God, I couldn't bear to watch that.

SO BORING.

by ROFLCOPTER16 on Jan 5, 2012 1:05 PM PST up reply actions

I dont plan on watching it. ;)

by Chiefsfan_in_Tacoma on Jan 6, 2012 6:06 AM PST up reply actions

arkansas (49-40)

pittsburgh

northern illinois

louisiana state (13-10)

This is national TV. So don't pick your noses or scratch your nuts.

by joe bob priddy on Jan 5, 2012 9:55 AM PST reply actions

Arkansas 45-38

SMU
Arkansas State
Alabama 17-10.

by ROFLCOPTER16 on Jan 5, 2012 11:35 AM PST reply actions

dang sorry guys

Been busy the last few days. I’ll pick em anyway though since I have a chance still.

SMU
Arkansas St
LSU 13-9

by pack_fan on Jan 7, 2012 12:53 PM PST via mobile reply actions

sorry. can't accept the smu prediction.

the game started around 10 am pst, making the time of your pick well into the second half.

This is national TV. So don't pick your noses or scratch your nuts.

by joe bob priddy on Jan 7, 2012 3:08 PM PST reply actions

here's what we'll do though...

i can’t beat roflcopter16 in my bracket and you can’t beat chiefsfan in your bracket.

they’ll play for the championship of the world. chiefsfan picked alabama and roflcopter picked lsu. good luck to them both.

pack_fan, you and i will square off for the north american belt. we both picked lsu to win but you picked 13-9 and i picked 13-10. so, you win if the final score is under 22 points totalled and i win if it’s over. okay?

we’ll know the results monday night.

This is national TV. So don't pick your noses or scratch your nuts.

by joe bob priddy on Jan 7, 2012 3:14 PM PST up reply actions

oops.

both chiefsfan and roflcopter16 picked alabama. chiefs fan’s tiebreaker pick was 9-6 and roflcopter 16’s was 17-10. whoever’s closer wins that one.

This is national TV. So don't pick your noses or scratch your nuts.

by joe bob priddy on Jan 7, 2012 3:18 PM PST up reply actions

haha I had no idea the game was even on

Just figured it was a late game. Should’ve just picked no. Illinois. Anyway thanks jb for getting the bowl pick em going, it was fun.

by pack_fan on Jan 9, 2012 10:16 PM PST via mobile up reply actions

interesting head-to-head third round

chiefsfan failed to pick a winner out of three games yet advanced to the final game because pack_fan didn’t get all his picks in by the deadline.

roflcopter16 and i tied with records of 2 and 1 in the third round but i’m sitting out the final game with a worse tiebreaker guess.

congrats to chiefsfan and roflcopter16. good luck tonight. they both picked ’bama to win. the tiebreaker guess will decide the victor.

pack_fan and i are in the consolation finals. we both picked lsu to win the game tonight with nearly identical tiebreaker scores. i get the over. he gets the under. 22 is the magic number.

This is national TV. So don't pick your noses or scratch your nuts.

by joe bob priddy on Jan 9, 2012 6:06 PM PST reply actions