Colin Pedicini broke the record for best start in an Irish Trojan bowl pick ‘em contest, improving to 11-0 when time expired in Rutgers’s rout of Kansas State — then, minutes later, fell to 11-1 and ceded first place to Bill Reising when the clock hit 0:00 in Cal’s even bigger rout of Texas A&M.

Reising is also 11-1, but his only mistake came in the Las Vegas Bowl, worth 1 point, whereas Pedicini’s only mistake came in the Holiday Bowl, worth 2 points. As a result, Reising has 14 out of a maximum possible 15 points, while Pedicini has 13 points and is tied for second place with twelve other contestants: uscroger, alphadog, thebeef, Scientizzle, Matt Fairchild, Jon Schoenwetter, Jeff Freeze, Harold Adkins, Brendan Loy, David Plewes, Conor Sullivan and defending champion Brian Dupuis (DUP).

Fourteen contestants are tied with 12 points, twenty-six more have 11 points, and another fourteen have 10 points. With five bowl games on Friday, each worth two points, the standings are very volatile. Twenty-eight different contestants, including everyone currently tied for second place, have a chance to be in the lead (or a tie for the lead) at the end of the day.

Reising’s picks in Friday’s bowls are: Clemson, Oregon State, South Carolina, Minnesota and Maryland.