Tulsa leads Bowling Green, 21-0 at the end of the first quarter of the GMAC Bowl, and the Golden Hurricane is threatening to score again. That’s bad news for Trisha Neudorff and good news for Seth Carmack, who, as noted earlier, will clinch the 3rd annual Irish Trojan Bowl Pick ‘em Contest if Tulsa wins tonight.

UPDATE, 10:35 PM: It’s 42-7 Tulsa with 11:20 left in the third quarter. I’m going to bed now, but I think we can safely declare it over: Tulsa wins, and Seth Carmack is the 2007 Irish Trojan Bowl Pick ‘em Contest champion!

Carmack is the first winner to clinch the contest prior to the BCS title game. That’s partly the result of how heavily favored LSU is — just three of the current Top 15 contestants picked Ohio State, so most of them have no opportunity to gain any ground on Carmack, who went with the majority and picked LSU — and partly the result of my blatant editorializing in making the Mythical Championship Game have an equal point value to the other BCS bowls. If the title game was worth 8 points, like last year, Neudorff would still be alive to win. But it’s only worth 5, and she trails by 6, so the best she can do is lose by one point.

Anyway, congratulations, Seth!

UPDATE: The final score was 63-7. Pick ‘em standings here and after the jump.

After each contestant’s point total, you can see who they picked to win the championship game.

The maximum possible number of points so far is 65.

1. Seth Carmack - 49 (LSU)
2. Brian Dupuis (DUP) - 48 (LSU)
3. Bill P - 46 (LSU)
4. Scott Fort - 45 (LSU)
5. Mark Gardner - 44 (LSU)
5. chris healey - 44 (LSU)
5. Jeff Dickens - 44 (LSU)
8. Trisha Neudorff - 43 (Ohio St)
8. Hal Strickland - 43 (LSU)
8. Rick Boeckler - 43 (LSU)
8. Mike Donahue - 43 (LSU)
8. Bill Reising - 43 (Ohio St)
13. Colin Son (CT) - 42 (LSU)
13. Andrew Long - 42 (Ohio St)
15. Matt Higgins - 41 (LSU)
15. Marge - 41 (Ohio St)
15. Gerry deSimas - 41 (LSU)
15. Jacque\’ Wicker - 41 (LSU)
19. Steve C. - 40 (LSU)
19. DBrooks - 40 (Ohio St)
19. Kay Torg - 40 (LSU)
19. Ken Stern - 40 (Ohio St)
19. Jeff Morrison - 40 (LSU)
19. TS Kelso - 40 (Ohio St)
19. Becky Loy - 40 (LSU)
26. Joey Kaufman - 39 (LSU)
26. John Chung - 39 (LSU)
26. Sergio Lopez - 39 (LSU)
26. Andy Matthews - 39 (LSU)
26. Sandy Underpants - 39 (Ohio St)
26. Nate Djordjevic - 39 (LSU)
26. Wobbly H - 39 (LSU)
33. Garry Moon - 38 (LSU)
33. JLR - 38 (Ohio St)
33. Russ - 38 (LSU)
33. Dean Thor - 38 (LSU)
33. BK - 38 (LSU)
38. Chris - 37 (LSU)
38. thebeef - 37 (LSU)
38. David K. - 37 (Ohio St)
38. Brendan Loy - 37 (Ohio St)
38. Lane Buchan - 37 (LSU)
38. Jeff Freeze - 37 (LSU)
38. Mike Wiser - 37 (LSU)
38. Mike Dagen - 37 (Ohio St)
46. Rachel L. - 36 (LSU)
46. Andrew H - 36 (Ohio St)
46. Dan Dinunzio - 36 (LSU)
46. Jay Johnson - 36 (Ohio St)
46. Victoria Lopez - 36 (Ohio St)
46. Jeff V - 36 (LSU)
46. Christine P. - 36 (LSU)
53. Alphadog - 35 (LSU)
53. Shireen Garcia - 35 (LSU)
53. Marty West - 35 (Ohio St)
53. Johanna Cummings - 35 (LSU)
53. edward eylar - 35 (LSU)
58. Timugen - 34 (LSU)
58. Joel Thrift - 34 (LSU)
58. Scott Robertson - 34 (Ohio St)
58. Benjamin Sloniker - 34 (LSU)
58. Rob Atherton - 34 (LSU)
58. Buzz Lightyear - 34 (LSU)
64. Courtney Tawresey - 33 (Ohio St)
64. Sam W - 33 (LSU)
64. USC 2L - 33 (Ohio St)
64. Lisa Velte - 33 (LSU)
64. Scientizzle - 33 (Ohio St)
64. C. Bassett - 33 (LSU)
70. Larry Caplin - 32 (Ohio St)
70. Derek Walden - 32 (Ohio St)
70. Pat Caplin - 32 (Ohio St)
70. Anaconda - 32 (LSU)
74. scott paine - 31 (LSU)
74. Colin Pedicini - 31 (LSU)
74. Jeremy K - 31 (LSU)
74. AnthonyH - 31 (Ohio St)
78. Greg Plank - 29 (LSU)
79. william arthur - 28 (Ohio St)
79. Antonia Namnath - 28 (LSU)
79. Randy S - 28 (LSU)
79. Sean Sullivan - 28 (LSU)
83. Kate P. - 27 (LSU)
84. Jennifer Elam - 25 (LSU)
85. MT Swanson - 24 (LSU)
86. Anonymous Hoosier - 23 (LSU)
86. Joanna Rubin - 23 (Ohio St)
88. Jordan Pinjuv - 22 (LSU)
89. Kevin Hauschulz - 20 (Ohio St)
90. Rob M - 16 (LSU)