College Football Bowl Pick'em Reminder!

by yellow fever on Dec 14, 2008 7:23 PM PST Comment 26 comments

If you haven't already signed up for our Bowl Pick'em and would still like to, there's still time! The instructions again:

You'll need a Yahoo! ID - once you do
Click here
Use group #13086
Password "gobears"

I think we'll be using confidence points if only because I'm too lazy to change them, and it seems more fun. Besides, who doesn't want to put 34 points on the line on Rutgers vs. NC State in the Papajohns.com bowl?!?!? You know, besides me.

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That’s what I hate about college bowl pick-’ems – those damn confidence points. Seriously, please get rid of them.

It’s fun predicting scores. It’s not fun predicting “confidence”. Seriously. Please.

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by Rishi on Dec 13, 2008 6:21 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

Is there anything you ever like? Yknow, besides Ray Malugagh and Quizz.

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by TwistNHook on Dec 13, 2008 6:34 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I feel that without confidence points, bowl pick-’ems could be as popular as NCAA brackets. Just pick who wins each game.

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by Rishi on Dec 13, 2008 7:16 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

There are way too many tiebreakers that could go into effect regarding
“guess the stupid score of the BCS title game” and someone will just randomly guess a number. It’s easier to win an NCAA bracket outright.

by BearsNecessity on Dec 13, 2008 7:25 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

True – but for individual brackets like these, there shouldn’t be confidence points.

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by Rishi on Dec 15, 2008 8:26 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

So winner of the bowl pick’em gets a dinner date with Twist at Chez Panisse?

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by HydroTech on Dec 13, 2008 6:38 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

In that case, I just might have to delete my account just in the off chance that I win.

Go Bears!

by RollOnYouBears667 on Dec 13, 2008 6:53 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Hooray confidence. I can’t wait to lose seventeen points on the N. Illinois-La Tech game.

by BearsNecessity on Dec 13, 2008 6:54 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

This.

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by Rishi on Dec 13, 2008 7:15 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I did the pickem backwards last year (with a different group) and won, but most of that was dumb luck, obv.

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by Spazzy Mcgee on Dec 13, 2008 10:18 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

Also

any chance we can challenge one of the other Pac blogs to a pick ’em contest? Winner gets…something?

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by Spazzy Mcgee on Dec 13, 2008 10:20 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

Winner gets to go to the Rose Bowl?

by BearsNecessity on Dec 13, 2008 11:16 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

And by winner I mean the team. Cal's hopes for the Rose Bowl are still alive!

by BearsNecessity on Dec 13, 2008 11:16 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Instead of Confidence Points...

…I would love to have it be against the spread. That would decrease the chance of ties and also be helpful for betting purposes!

by MCM711 on Dec 15, 2008 5:31 PM PST reply actions 0 recs

Um, it isn’t against the spread?

by BearsNecessity on Dec 15, 2008 5:40 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Oh my god. It isn’t.

Well my chances of winning this thing just dropped to zero.

by BearsNecessity on Dec 15, 2008 5:42 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I’m literally devastated. I spent about twenty minutes researching the lines and reorganizing them. Now it’s all crap. Damnit.

by BearsNecessity on Dec 15, 2008 5:44 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

You continue to achieve!

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by TwistNHook on Dec 15, 2008 6:37 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

LITERALLY devastated?! LITERALLY?!

Man it was literally raining cats and dogs out today!!! LITERALLY.

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by Spazzy Mcgee on Dec 15, 2008 9:16 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Why must you be so literal

by BearsNecessity on Dec 16, 2008 12:25 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

oh the agony

by MCM711 on Dec 16, 2008 5:23 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Um… wow, I can’t believe it isn’t.

That may be because the spread constantly changes, but still!

I have no new information on that at this time.

by Rishi on Dec 16, 2008 10:09 AM PST up reply actions 0 recs

and i greatly dislike how it tells me what percentage of people pick which team to win

by MCM711 on Dec 16, 2008 5:24 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

Damn the people!

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by TwistNHook on Dec 16, 2008 7:17 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs

I don't get this confidence point shit

So I randomly ordered it.

In other words, Go Bears!

by royrules22 on Dec 16, 2008 10:37 AM PST reply actions 0 recs

Basically, you assign the most “confidence points” to the team which you REALLY think will win. For, say, Missouri vs. Northwestern, you’re probably pretty darn sure Missouri is going to win. Therefore, you’d assign it the maximum confidence points, so that when Missouri wins, you’d get 34 points. For Northern Illinois vs. Louisiana Tech, you a) have no clue who is going to win (and b) don’t care), so you’d assign it 1 confidence point.

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by Spazzy Mcgee on Dec 16, 2008 12:26 PM PST up reply actions 0 recs