Pick Six returns! Now on Mgoblog

Submitted by Jeff on

Although we may despise Notre Dame there have been some valuable contributions by Notre Dame football blogs.  One of the best was the Pick Six contest that the now defunct Notre Dame blog Blue-Gray Sky used to operate.  Before the season you pick 5 ranked teams and one unranked team that you think will end the season with the highest rankings after the bowls are done.

I enjoyed entering the contest when Blue-Gray Sky was still around so with Brian's approval we're bringing Pick Six to MGoBlog.

 

Here's how it works.
 
1. We divide the top 25 into 5 groups of 5 based on the preseason AP Poll: 1-5, 6-10, 11-15, etc. For this year's poll, the groups are:
  • A: Oklahoma, Alabama, Oregon, LSU, Boise State
  • B: Florida State, Stanford, Texas  A&M, Oklahoma State, Nebraska
  • C: Wisconsin, South Carolina, Virginia Tech, TCU, Arkansas
  • D: Notre Dame, Michigan State, Ohio State, Georgia, Mississippi State
  • E: Missouri, Florida, Auburn, West Virginia, Southern Cal
 
2. Before the season starts you pick one team from each group, plus one unranked team. You're trying to pick the teams you think will finish highest in the final AP poll (after the bowl games).
 
3. Each week we'll try to update and publish the standings in a spreadsheet so you can track the progress of your teams. You get 25 points for having the #1 team, 24 points for the #2 team, on down to 1 point for the #25 team. Unranked teams get zero points.
 
4. The winner is the person with the most points (i.e. the highest ranked teams) after the bowl season.
 
5. And the grand prize?  I will personally give the winner 10 meaningless upvotes.  Plus some guy named Brian will give you 3 MGoShirts from the MGoStore.  Places 2-5 all get a free shirt as well.
 
Throughout the season I will give semi-regular updates on the progress of the contest in the Diaries.
 
That's it for the Pick Six: short, sweet and simple. Polling closes on Wednesday August 31 at 12 pm (ET), so get your picks in now. Good luck!
 
 
I tried to embed the GoogleDocs form here, but it didn't work for me (and yes, I switched to plain text editor.  Does mgoblog accept <iframe> tags?).  Any help would be appreciated.  
 
For now, you have to visit the following link to enter.
 
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Comments

Victor70

August 24th, 2011 at 8:33 AM ^

I'm in, but am I allowed to make more than one entry?  I assume I would have to choose a different user name, I just did one for the moment.   I went with a system assuming that Michigan  will win all 12 games so I didn't pick any team we are scheduled to play, although I'm probably way too heavy on SEC where we could see one of them in a bowl.

A. Bama

B. OK State

C. Ark

D. Miss State

E. Fla

Unranked: Michigan

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EGD

August 24th, 2011 at 12:19 PM ^

It could be worse.  ChampKind has all the same picks as mine, except in the Unranked category he has Michigan while I have Texas.  I am not expecting to actually win this contest, but if I do I will know it's because instead of picking Michigan, I had to be the a-hole.

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Moleskyn

August 24th, 2011 at 9:16 AM ^

Great idea! I'm going to put my picks in my sig so that every time I post, everybody will be reminded of my Pick 6 prowess over them.

A. Oklahoma

B. Florida State

C. Wisconsin

D. Notre Dame

E. Florida

F. Michigan

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MGoPoints: 10287

One Inch Woody…

August 24th, 2011 at 9:33 AM ^

A. Boise State (Cupcake conference. They'll probably go undefeated)

B. Stanford (Pac-12 is one of the weakest conferences with the likes of Arizona, Colorado, Oregon State, etc.)

C. Virginia Tech (Will be one of the only decent teams in the ACC)

D. Mississippi State (An SEC team. Nuff said... they'll get their mandatory top 15 ranking)

E. West Virginia (Mark it right now WV vs. Pitt in the big east conference championship. WV wins)

F. Michigan (Schedule + Scheme + Denard)

Joined: 06/25/2011

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Doctor S

August 24th, 2011 at 9:46 AM ^

This lured me into my first post ever:

 

A:  Oklahoma

B:  Stanford

C:  Virginia Tech

D:  Mississippi State (not that MSU)

E:  USC

Unranked:  Michigan 

Joined: 01/28/2011

MGoPoints: 107

holt1974

August 24th, 2011 at 3:47 PM ^

A. Alabama (Looks to be really damn good, even though I hate Saban)

B. Nebraska (Unless Michigan upsets, they get to Indy)

C. TCU (could run the table again??)

D. Georgia (my pick to win SEC East)

E. West Virginia (wins lowly Big East, maybe even beats LSU)

Unranked:  Houston (I picked a team most likely to win a bad conference and have very few losses....Hopefully Michigan blows my pick up by winning 10+ games!)

Joined: 09/30/2010

MGoPoints: 358

Vivz

August 24th, 2011 at 4:54 PM ^

Is the goal to predict only the final AP poll? or is it a culumulative thing where a team gains points for each week in the top 25.  #3 seems to indicate that it is the latter, but #2 the former.

Or is there two different measures for a season long average and a final poll?

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