When all else fails, join a Holiday BOWL POOL

untcampbell · December 2, 2012

Well kids, the sheer joy and ecstasy we all share from another excellent year in NT Olympic sports has been tempered slightly by the lackluster performance by the "money" sports in North Texas land. So I urge you to turn your attention to the always festive bowl pool a friend of mine started many years ago. Really, what says Christmas better than the holiday bowl pool?

I have played for the last few years and it keeps me interested in Tuesday night bowl games in Mobile, Thursday afternoon bowl games in Boise and all days and points in between.

Entry is $25...my entries are listed as UNTCAMPBELL and GOMEANGREEN.COM (love to promote this magical place we have here).

I propose a separate $5.00 separate entry fee (I would be happy to serve as banker for this) for a winner-take-all prize to he who does best from this board.

Below are details for the pool, but PM me with your entry name(s) if you enter and want to participate in the side bet.

Good luck, and GMG.

UNTCAMPBELL - I'm sending you this website generated email to re-invite you into my pool named "College Bowl Pool XXVI". Follow the link below and when you log into the website you will be asked if you plan to participate in my pool again. If you don't go to the website, I'll assume you didn't get this email and I may try contacting you again.

Click here to Log In and Rejoin My Pool.

If you have any questions, please let me know. If you have trouble signing in, your username is "UNTCAMPBELL" without the quotes, and you can retrieve your password by clicking here: Get Password

Thanks,

COMFYSHEETS

Invite Your Friends!

Feel free to invite friends who may want to participate in the pool. Just forward the following link to them.

http://www.officefootballpool.com/pools.cfm?p=2&poolid=15441&pwd=Gators

Clicking on the link above will take them to officefootballpool.com where they will be walked through the process of creating a user account (if they don't already have one) and joining our pool.

Pool Rules

POOL FORMAT

This is a Confidence Pick'em pool where your standings are based on points. You pick all the games and rank them starting at 1 (your lowest rank) and get the rank value in points for each game you correctly predict.

POOL SCHEDULE

This pool will include all the bowl games starting 15-Dec-10 with the Famous Idaho Potato Bowl. Entries will be accepted up to 1:00p EST/10:00a PST on December 15.

POINTSPREADS

This pool does not use point spreads. Your win-loss record is based on the 'straight-up' outcome of the games.

POOL STANDINGS

The person with the most points is ranked first in the standings.

CONFIRMING PICKS

It is your responsibility to confirm that your own picks are accepted by the website. You can do this in a number of ways including the pick confirmation email and by returning to the pick sheet to see that your selections are bolded. The picks shown on the website after our deadline has passed are your FINAL picks.

TIEBREAKER

The tiebreaker for this pool is the total points scored by both teams in the BCS Championship game. If there is still a tie, the places will be combined and the payout split evenly among the places that tied.

ENTRY FEE

As always, the fee is $25.00 - Make sure to identify on your check any alias that is being used. It helps match up the payments to the entrants. Entry fees are due no later than December 25. I'm tired of chasing payments after the Bowls are completed! Send check(s) to Steve Lang, 14360 Morning Mountain Way, Alpharetta, GA, 30004.

Finally, we're all (mostly) big boys and girls so please pay up. Last year the Pool got hit for $50 because two people reneged on their payment.

PAYOUT

The top 10 places PLUS the "I'm So Bad I Deserve My Money Back" last place entry will be paid out using the following schedule less the web hosting fee of $9.95 + $1.00 for each entry.

1st Place - 35%

2nd Place - 20%

3rd Place - 15%

4th Place - 10%

5th Place - 7%

6th Place - 5%

7th-10th Place - 2% each

I'm So Bad I Deserve My Money Back - $25

FAILURE TO PAY

Should an entrant not pay their fee (imagine that), the total combined pot will be reduced accordingly. I will NOT pay the winners using my own cash hoping that the laggards will pay. When I send out final results, I will also include the name/alias/e-mail info of anyone who doesn't pay. Maybe the mob will be able to convince them!