Turnout has already exceeded last year’s contest, which is friggin’ awesome. We’ve got:
- 15 players who have already submitted round 1 picks
- Three more people who said they’d play but haven’t yet submitted their picks
- Three people who have taken my UT-UGA wager (two of whom have given no indication of whether they’ll submit picks for the general contest, and one of whom has already submitted round 1 picks)
The field is still open, so you can still jump in! You’ve got ’til midnight tonight to enter a pick for Arizona State-Temple, and until midnight Friday to enter a pick for most of the others (except Miami-FSU, which you can hold off on until Sunday at midnight). It bears repeating that there’s a $50 Amazon.com gift certificate at stake, there’s no entry fee, and the field is open to anyone. See the rules for more details.
Thanks to Tony for a plug on the Atlanta Metroblog, and to Mel @ Blog for Democracy and Reid @ Photodude for blog pimping on their respective sites.
UPDATE: Fixed the Photodude link.
UPDATE 2: As of the first deadline, there are now 24 players and four bloggers who have taken up my UT-UGA bet. Schweet! The Temple-Arizona State game isn’t until 10 p.m. EST, so I’m extending the deadline just this once for anyone else who wants to get in (CM and Thomas had expressed interest in playing, but never submitted any picks). You now have until 5 p.m. EST today to submit a pick for that game.
That was some other pimpin’ I did. This is your pimpin’.
As for joining the fun, I went to Wake Forest University, a 3,000 student school that tries to compete with the Big Boys, and which used to lose its homecoming game to Appalachian State. There’s never been any fun in college ball for me.
I prefer for my suffering to be professional … which is why I’ve been a Falcons fan for nearly three decades.
Check, fixed.
Wake Forest has come around to Not Suck the past few years, if that makes any difference to you.
So how to I submit my entry?
Chris, you can navigate to the Round 1 Odds post, look over the list, and enter favorites accordingly. It’s a win-loss format, the spread isn’t factored in. So if you think oddsmakers have named an incorrect winner in the Georgia-Boise State game but all the other favorites are correct, write “I’ll take the favorites except for Georgia.”