[This post was originally published on The Living Room Tumblr.]
College football’s bowls start Saturday – with local team CSU, alma mater USC, and Becky’s hometown school Buffalo all playing on Day 1 – and that means it’s time for the 9th annual Living Room Times Bowl Pick ‘em Contest!
Sign up now! You know you want to! #peerpressure
Above: Photo of various school flags in Becky’s and my Denver neighborhood, from my article about “Stapleton’s School Spirit.”
The contest is now underway at OfficeFootballPool.com, which is hosting my Pick ‘em for the fourth straight year.
If you entered my 2010, 2011 or 2012 Bowl Pick ’em contest(s), you can log in with your pre-existing username and password for OfficeFootballPool.com. (Forgot your username and/or password? Retrieve them here.)
If you didn’t enter my 2010, 2011 or 2012 contest(s), click here and you’ll be prompted to create a “Screen Name” – I encourage using Twitter handles as Screen Names (for those who tweet, obviously) – and a Password, and also your E-mail Address, “First Name,” “Last Name,” and (again) “Twitter Handle.”
NOTE: You are not required to put your full, real name in the “First Name” and “Last Name” fields (though it’s encouraged), but please give me some idea of who you are. I just want to avoid another situation where I have no clue who the winner is!
As always, the contest is free to enter. There’s no monetary prize, but the winner gets acclaim, publicity, and – at least here on my Tumblr, and on Twitter – eternal glory!
All picks are due before the New Mexico Bowl kicks off Saturday, December 21 at noon Mountain Time (11am Pacific, 2pm Eastern).
You can log back in & change your picks at any time before the deadline, so there’s no downside to joining early.
You pick the winners of each bowl game “straight up” (NOT against the point spread – the spread is displayed on the pick sheet for informational purposes only). Also, there are no “confidence points,” as in some other Pick ’em contests. Instead, each correct pick is worth a predetermined number of points. A total of 60 points are possible, broken down as follows:
• 4 points: BCS National Championship Game
• 3 points each: All other BCS games
• 2 points each: Las Vegas Bowl (12/21), Pinstripe Bowl (12/28), and all non-BCS bowls from the Music City Bowl (12/30) through the Cotton Bowl (1/3)
• 1 point each: All other bowls
Yes, I made USC and Notre Dame’s games worth more than all the other early bowls. So sue me. 🙂
In the event of a tie in point totals, tiebreakers are as follows:
1. Total # of games picked correctly (regardless of how many points each game is worth)
2. Correct pick of the BCS Championship Game winner
3. Closest to the combined total number of points in BCS Championship Game
So, there you go. Again, sign up here! Have fun! Good luck! Fight on Trojans & Go Irish! 🙂
P.S. If you prefer, you can enter by clicking here and then manually entering the Pool ID (67297) and the Pool Entry Code (kiffin2texas). Tee hee hee.
P.P.S. Speaking of “eternal glory”… here are the past winners:
2005-06: Brian Dupuis
2006-07: Ben Sloniker
2007-08: Seth Carmack
2008-09: Amy Booth
2009-10: Doug Mataconis
2010-11: Randy Styles
2011-12: @Nyghtewynd
2012-13: Ryan Morgan
2013-14: TBD. It could be you! Enter now!