Ladies and Gentlemen,
Welcome back! This is the post for Week One of the TWELFTH season of Stupid Upset Picks. Since a full year has elapsed and we have moved to a new website since I last published the rules, here they are again, as a primer:
1) You may pick only ONE game each week, and ONLY from the listed games.
2) Your pick must be an underdog.
3) No 1-A vs. 1-AA games will be posted. My personal preference here, sorry all.
4) Your pick must be posted by the time the game you have selected kicks off, and you are locked in to that game for the week (so, if you lose Thursday, you cannot pick again Saturday).
5) You are not locked out if you fail to pick before the first game of the week kicks off (so, you can still pick a Saturday game on Friday, even after the results for Thursday are known).
6) If your team loses, you get 0 points. It does not matter if they cover the spread or not.
7) If your underdog wins outright, you get the value of the listed spread - so, if you pick a 7-point underdog and they win, you get 7 points. It does not matter if they win due to a late safety or by three touchdowns.
8) You do not have to play every week to win the season-long crown.
9) If you want to change your pick, please reply to your own post, so that it threads nicely and I can change it easily.
10) If you catch a mistake(likely to happen, given my tenuous ability to read in straight lines and transcribe them), please let me know - not just in the SUP thread, but in a general discussion thread, so I can correct it.
11) If you pick a favorite, I will try to let you know, but no guarantees there. If you don't change that pick, it will be marked as an unplayed week.
12) There will be picks for every week of the season except for Army-Navy, and two picks from the bowl games.
Last years top 10 finishers, so you know who you are chasing, were: 2018 Champion RamblerGambler(64.5 points), MacularDegenerate(63 points), Eggplant Wizard(59.5), Illusions, Michael(55.5), Narrow Right(54.5), Croftonpost(54), Mild Plaid(52.5), The SartorialisT(50.5), UnCivilEngineer(50), and a tie for tenth between Jon Berg and snacktastic, both with 49 points.
The previous champions were as follows: 2017 - AlonsoWDC(69.5 points); 2016 - mnHorn(90 points); 2015 - CounterTrap(61.5); 2014 - Illusions, Michael(77.5); 2013 - tommybowden.can.suck.it(88); 2012 - The Commenter Formerly Known as Not You(67.5); and 2011 - VUfanInNJ(74). Further years back have been lost to the vagaries of time and old laptops.
As there have been no picks yet made this season, we can dispense with the scoreboard and get right to this week's slate of games:
Favorite | Spread | Underdog |
Thurs., 29 Aug. | ||
Utah | 5 | BYU |
TULANE | 2 | Fla. Int'l. |
CLEMSON | 36 | Georgia Tech |
ARIZONA ST | 25 | Kent St. |
TEXAS A&M | 33.5 | Texas St. |
CINCINNATI | 3 | Ucla |
Fri., 30 Aug. | ||
COLORADO | 13 | Colorado St. |
Purdue | 10 | NEVADA |
Oklahoma St. | 15 | OREGON ST |
ARMY | 23.5 | Rice |
Wisconsin | 13.5 | S FLORIDA |
MICHIGAN ST | 22.5 | Tulsa |
RUTGERS | 15.5 | Umass |
WAKE FOREST | 3.5 | Utah St. |
Sat., 31 Aug. | ||
ILLINOIS | 16.5 | Akron |
Alabama | 34.5 | Duke |
INDIANA | 17 | Ball St. |
Virginia Tech | 3.5 | BOSTON COLLEGE |
E. Michigan | 5.5 | C CAROLINA |
NC STATE | 16.5 | E. Carolina |
OHIO ST | 27.5 | Fla. Atlantic |
SOUTHERN CAL | 13.5 | Fresno St. |
LSU | 28 | Georgia So. |
TENNESSEE | 26 | Georgia St. |
Mississippi St. | 21 | LA-LAFAYETTE |
Syracuse | 17.5 | LIBERTY |
TEXAS | 20.5 | Louisiana Tech |
IOWA | 21.5 | Miami(OH) |
MICHIGAN | 33.5 | Mid. Tenn. St. |
MEMPHIS | 5.5 | Mississippi |
S. Carolina | 8 | N CAROLINA |
WASHINGTON ST | 32 | New Mexico St. |
STANFORD | 6.5 | Northwestern |
Auburn | 3.5 | Oregon |
Virginia | 2.5 | PITTSBURGH |
NEBRASKA | 36 | S. Alabama |
ARKANSAS ST | 2.5 | Smu |
KENTUCKY | 11.5 | Toledo |
Georgia | 20.5 | VANDERBILT |
Missouri | 17.5 | WYOMING |
This week, I will be taking Nevada over Purdue. Good luck, and happy picking!
EDIT: Already had to fix one - Bama is favored over Duke.