ESPN College Bowl Pick Em'

[That_Guy_Arlo]

I was wondering if anyone else would be up to make a GMG.com group for ESPN's college bowl pick em' game. I always enjoy doing it every year cause it gives me a little more reason to be excited for games I wouldn't usually care for. I'm thinking about setting up either tonight or tomorrow, so I'll provide a link to it once I open it up.

So, anyone else in?

[Coffee and TV]

I'm down.

[Cr1028]

I'd be interested.

[GreenTexan13]

Count me in too

[foutsrouts]

Interesting that we get to see our two big OOC opponents next year face off on January 2nd.

[That_Guy_Arlo]

Ok, just got the group set up. The group name is "GMG.com", so feel free to join in.

http://games.espn.go.com/college-bowl-mania/2014/en/group?groupID=71607

Edited December 9, 2014 by That_Guy_Arlo

[That_Guy_Arlo]

Giving this thread a bump in case we have anyone else that wants to join. I'll be making my picks tonight. Link to the group is provided in the previous post.

[Coffee and TV]

10am start time for the New Orleans Bowl this year. Effffff that.

[That_Guy_Arlo]

Just an awful time for that one, but at least I'll have something to watch when I wake up.

It seems to me that this year's bowls are a lot tougher to pick. I worked on it for over an hour last night and still need to rank them by number.

[JesseMartin]

I just finished and didn't even pick confidence for most of them. I put a few towards the top, and since so many were tough to call I just left the rest in the order they were already in since I feel no more or less confident about a lot of them than I do the others.

[Mean Green 93-98]

I just finished and didn't even pick confidence for most of them. I put a few towards the top, and since so many were tough to call I just left the rest in the order they were already in since I feel no more or less confident about a lot of them than I do the others.

All an indication that we have some very good bowl matchups this year.

[JesseMartin]

Yeah, if there are going to be any blowouts it's pretty tough to call in advance. Of course, that's probably what a lot of people thought about the B1G championship game....

[Mean Green 93-98]

Well, that's a stinker. . . . I misunderstood the confidence ranking thing, and had mine backwards.

[NM Green]

New Orleans Bowl was on here in Hawaii at 7:00am.

GMG

[greenit]

You may have to change your screen name.

[JesseMartin]

Ha!

Yeah, I'm still a bit fuzzy on how the confidence ranking affects the points total. How is it that somebody has 105 points when their wrong answer had only a slightly lower confidence ranking than the one I got wrong, and I only have 10 points? I don't see where they explain how it's calculated.

[JesseMartin]

Also, I thought the Dubai Bowl was supposed to start this year. Is that still in the works to pop up in a future season, or has it been scrapped?

[That_Guy_Arlo]

Ha!

Yeah, I'm still a bit fuzzy on how the confidence ranking affects the points total. How is it that somebody has 105 points when their wrong answer had only a slightly lower confidence ranking than the one I got wrong, and I only have 10 points? I don't see where they explain how it's calculated.

The confidence number represents the actual number of points you'll receive for a correct pick. 39 being most confident, 1 being the least confident.

[Coffee and TV]

4 for 4 but low confidence.

[JesseMartin]

Oh shit, then I did mine backwards too. I put my most confident as #1, etc.

[UNT86]

Updated Standings

I know ESPN keeps standings by games correct. If you do it by games missed, the standings would be as follows:

780 MeanGreen15

737 UNT86

734 The Claw

722 Coffee and TV

720 GMG2013

709 MeanGreenFury

705 Eagle83

701 SIG381

700 GreenTexan13

692 MeanGreenMan

691 That Guy Arlo

691 CR1028

690 Jesse

647 NT93

634 MeanGreen93-98

553 MeanestGreen

[UNT86]

I'm pretty sure MeanGreen15 won't miss a single game.

[NT93]

Oh shit, then I did mine backwards too. I put my most confident as #1, etc.

Me too, but I just went back and corrected the ones that haven't been played yet.

I'd have 273 pts if I'd have filled it out correctly

Edited December 29, 2014 by NT93

[Coffee and TV]

Way to hold a lead Boston College...

[That_Guy_Arlo]

Longhorns had like 59 total yards of offense last night against Arkansas. Christ.

This has been a tough season to watch as a t-shirt Horns fan.

Edited December 30, 2014 by That_Guy_Arlo