No one will finish with a perfect prediction record in the Irish Trojan’s Bowl Pick ‘em contest.
Nick Gustafson and Ed dropped from the ranks of the unbeatens yesterday when Boston College beat Boise State, and Mark Gardner, Darrin Bartley and Carl Lindecrantz followed suit when Nebraska stunned Michigan. (Michigan’s edge over Nebraska in terms of how many contestants picked them was the second-most lopsided of any bowl, with the Wolverines favored 115 to 13.)
Now Gardner, Bartley, Lindecrantz and Gustafson (who picked Nebraska; Ed got both games wrong) are tied for first place with 10 points, thanks to 10-1 prediction records. Eleven contestants are tied for second with 9 points, or 9-2 records.
This afternoon’s Emerald Bowl is the final one-point bowl of the contest. (It is also the only game with more lopsided prediction numbers than Michigan-Nebraska, as Georgia Tech is favored over Utah, 119-9.) This evening’s Holiday Bowl (in which Oregon is favored over Oklahoma 96 to 32) is worth two points, as are all remaining non-BCS bowls. The BCS bowls are worth three points, except the Rose Bowl, which is worth five.
All four co-leaders picked Georgia Tech and Oregon. A Utah win would not affect the top of the leaderboard, but an Oklahoma win would vault Phillip Price, Ondine, Barry and Ed ahead of the current leaders and into a four-way tie for first. A Ducks win will keep Gardner, Bartley, Lindecrantz and Gustafson atop the contest.
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December 29th, 2005 at 11:47:39 am
“We go to a banquet that turns into a pep rally; I didn’t have to say anything to this team. I ought to thank the mayor and the people of Boise for getting this team ready to play,” Boston College coach Tom O’Brien said. “There wasn’t anything I had to do to get this team ready.”
hah
So who can claim the longest at home winning streak with Boise’s snapped at 31?
December 29th, 2005 at 12:23:30 pm
How does a person go about recomending something to be added to the blog?
‘Honor’ killings shock Pakistan - From CNN
NSA Web Site Puts ‘Cookies’ on Computers
December 29th, 2005 at 5:17:50 pm
Ed could not be happier about incorrectly choosing the skunkbears to win. Ed gladly forfeits championship if ND wins and USC loses.
BTW - BSU’s loss will not count as a home loss. Bowl games are always neutral sites. Among other things, ticket distribution is vastly different. Fredo was actually the designated home team yesterday.
December 29th, 2005 at 5:45:47 pm
The local media(I’m in the Boise area) is counting it as a home loss, as the end of the streak. Officially, perhaps not, but that’s why I said “claim”. ;)
December 30th, 2005 at 12:44:58 am
Where’s the post about the Ducks losing? That made my night
December 30th, 2005 at 1:02:57 am
And David’s at my wedding, without internet access, so you can’t even taunt him! Heh.
December 30th, 2005 at 9:39:34 am
Imagine getting your ass kicked by a bunch of “scholar athletes” from Boston on a Smurf-colored football field. As if being called the “Boise State Broncos” wasn’t gay enough to begin with.
December 30th, 2005 at 9:44:52 am
Nebraska-
Good point on the “cookies.” I bet if the media dig a little deeper they will discover that virtually all Federal Government sites have been using cookies to track people. Do you really think people visiting the DOD or White House sites aren’t having cookies put on their computers?
Big Brother is here, about 20 years later than Orwell predicted, but he is here.
December 30th, 2005 at 2:34:15 pm
“Big Brother is here, about 20 years later than Orwell predicted, but he is here.”
Oh good lord. The government’s use of the very same internet tracking device on its websites as virtually every other corporate site in existence (not to mention this very blog / commenting site), while not free of troubling potential, is a far cry from “We have always been at war with Oceania.”
Valid points are often squandered and lost when smothered with overreaching, hyperbolic sky-is-falling rhetoric. See Election 2004.
December 30th, 2005 at 4:02:47 pm
Brian-
And I guess if 12 months ago Howard Dean said the CIA was operating black sites in Poland and Romania you would have called that hyperbole, too. Sometimes when someone says the sky is falling, it is.