ESPN.com College Bowl Mania Group for MGoBloggers

Submitted by BeatOSU52 on

I created a private group on espn.com for all of us to join and compete for bowl game selecting bragging rights.   We will use the confidence point system, as 35 will be your most confident pick and 1 the least confident.  First games start Saturday, December 15, and so please have your picks in by then. 

The name of the group is called "MGoBloggers" and the password is "bighouse" (direct link below).  Please use your MGoBlog username as your entry name so we know who is who.

http://games.espn.go.com/college-bowl-mania/en/group?groupID=20228&entryID=275877

If you don't have an ESPN SN, get one!...it's easy.

Good luck!

 

EDIT (please note):Please note there is a rolling lock feature on this in which I have ZERO control over, meaning people can change their picks for any of the games yet to be played (before kickoff obviously).  Again, this a feature that is mandatory to use for on espn.com that don't have the option to eliminate.

One Inch Woody…

December 9th, 2012 at 9:47 PM ^

Awesome! Another way to procrastinate for end of the term assignments. I feel like this bowl season has a lot of slam dunks (Ok St vs. Purdue, for example) so it will be an interesting competition.

mGrowOld

December 9th, 2012 at 10:16 PM ^

Easy except for one thing.  When I went to create an account under my email it said an account already exists for this email address.  So I asked for the password and I got a pop up saying "invalid email address.  No such record found."

Doesnt look like  ESPN wants me in this pool.  

Edit:  So because I wanted to be in the pool more than ESPN wanted me out of the pool I went and created a new account with my work email address.  After doing so it asked me to sign in so I entered my password (which is the same password I use for all these sorts of things) and I got the pop up again saying incorrect password.  And when I clicked on the "forgot password" prompt (even though I had just set it up seconds before) I again got the "invalid email address.  No such record found".

Ok ESPN you win.  MGrowOld will not enter this pool.

Hank Hill

December 9th, 2012 at 11:35 PM ^

Yes, however, Michigan does have a shot at beating South Carolina, don't underestimate the importance of Georgia losing the SEC Championship Game (i.e. Motivation factor) and Sparty will be playing to build for next year. Could have been a much better line-up without two of the top programs in the conference being on probation for negligent behavior at very high levels.

MGoStrength

December 10th, 2012 at 9:43 AM ^

So, I was just looking through the group and started making a few picks then when I got to the bottom and picked the ones I was prepared to the only option is "Submit your picks".  Do you have to submit your picks or can you just save them and/or come back and change them later?  I'm not ready to submit yet, but it seems like that's the only option.  

LSAClassOf2000

December 10th, 2012 at 11:03 AM ^

I actually made a few changes this morning to mine - when you start making the revisions, the "Submit Your Picks" button will become available and you can send the changes up until the 15th, I believe the rules said.

Wolverine Devotee

December 10th, 2012 at 10:02 AM ^

I don't like the whole confidence points crap. Kind of lame.

For my 35 & 34: Florida over UL, FSU over NIU.

cclittle

December 10th, 2012 at 12:13 PM ^

"

he maximum number of entries per user has already been reached for this group.

The group creator enabled a maximum number of entries limit for this group. That limit has been met and therefore you cannot add any additional entries to this group. "

BeatOSU52

December 10th, 2012 at 1:29 PM ^

All I did is select the option where there can be only 1 entry per user, so people don't create more than one entry on a username and both entries be in the group (assuming that that's what the setting means).  There isn't any cap/maximum for group members that I see on the settings.  I just changed the setting, so that there can be 2 entries per username and it is an "unlocked" group..  Try it now and see if that makes a difference.

 

I also am going on the forum there, and see if anyone knows why this is.

panderberg

December 13th, 2012 at 9:25 AM ^

Only Mgoblog could get me to pick games based on confidence.

ESPN is so charming (/sarcasm)

Yahoo Sports used to run a game using spreads - does anyone know if this still exists?