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

Jeff

August 24th, 2011 at 5:55 PM ^

The winner is based solely on the final poll of the year.

The weekly standings updates are just like regular season polls.  Interesting to look at, but completely meaningless when determining the champion.

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CompleteLunacy

August 24th, 2011 at 5:34 PM ^

A: Oklahoma

B: Oklahoma State

C: Wisconsin

D: Notre Dame

E: USC

Unranked: BYU

I'm second-guessing my B-pick...I think OSU is being hyped up too much this year in the Big 12 the more I think about it, and Nebraska will be better. But oh welll...I already submitted these choices.

I picked Notre Dame by virtue of 3 things: (1) ND is always overratted, regardless of how good they actually are, (2) Brian Kelly may actually be having them on the right track for once, (3) Their schedule, as always, is extremely favorable for success.

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Gulo Gulo Luscus

August 24th, 2011 at 6:35 PM ^

Anything stopping people from using every e-mail address under the sun for this competition?  I'm gonna enter 5 times, get the 5 best entries, and win 7 MGoShirts.

New contest: how many e-mail addresses would I need to ensure that one of them was the winner?  (Disclosure: I'm not good at math so I won't know the correct answer.  My guess is it involves some type of factorial and/or permutation.)

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SFBayAreaBlue

August 24th, 2011 at 8:11 PM ^

Haven't been watching much of the preseason breakdowns, so I have no shot at this. But here goes

 

 

  • 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
  • Unranked: Michigan

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wolver767

August 28th, 2011 at 5:46 PM ^

 1. Oklahoma    2. Stanford    3. Wisconsin    4. Notre Dame    5. USC    6. Michigan                                                                                                                                                     

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