Pac-12 Survivor Pool: 2019

[Applejack]

Welcome back! It's football time! And another season means another chance for you to enter and lose this contest with no discernible prize! Good luck!

The rules are the same as every year:
1. Every week you have to pick one Pac-12 team to win against an FBS opponent. Do so be replying to this thread.
2. You can not select that same team again during the year.
3. Also, you cannot pick against the same team to lose again during the year. (For example, if you select our Utes over the Cougars in week 1, you can't choose USC over BYU in week 3 or Washington over BYU in week 4).
4. Once you choose a game incorrectly, you are banished from the contest.
5. To win, you must be the only person to correctly predict a game during a week.

OK, now that the legal stuff is out of the way, let's get down to it.

[Applejack]

Here are this week's games:

UCLA @ Cincinnati (Thurs)
Utah @ BYU (Thurs)
Colorado State @ Colorado (Fri)
Oklahoma State @ Oregon State (Fri)
Kent State @ ASU
Northwestern @ Stanford
Auburn @ Oregon
New Mexico State @ Washington State
Fresno @ USC

INELIGIBLE:
EWU @ Washington
UC Davis @ Cal

BYE:
Arizona, LOLOLOLOLOLOL

[Applejack]

Washington state

[chrisrenrut]

Colorado

[DrumNFeather]

Stanford

[Mormon Red Death]

Welcome back! It's football time! And another season means another chance for you to enter and lose this contest with no discernible prize! Good luck!

The rules are the same as every year:
1. Every week you have to pick one Pac-12 team to win against an FBS opponent. Do so be replying to this thread.
2. You can not select that same team again during the year.
3. Also, you cannot pick against the same team to lose again during the year. (For example, if you select our Utes over the Cougars in week 1, you can't choose USC over BYU in week 3 or Washington over BYU in week 4).
4. Once you choose a game incorrectly, you are banished from the contest.
5. To win, you must be the only person to correctly predict a game during a week.

OK, now that the legal stuff is out of the way, let's get down to it.

Kent St is in the MAC... Therefore I select ASU

[LA Ute]

I am boycotting this thread because I am really bad at this and don't understand the rules anyway. I say this with love in my heart.

[Applejack]

Kent St is in the MAC... Therefore I select ASU

I did not know that. Who let them in?

(I've edited the original)

[Applejack]

I am boycotting this thread because I am really bad at this and don't understand the rules anyway. I say this with love in my heart.

Fine. Your admission to not understanding basic legal rule analysis suffices as an excuse.

[Sullyute]

Arizona State

[LA Ute]

Fine. Your admission to not understanding basic legal rule analysis suffices as an excuse.

I do enjoy the score prediction competition. Those rules are simple enough for me to bother understanding. I'm saying this with love in my heart still.

[Scorcho]

Stanford

[mUUser]

Washington State

[hostile]

Colorado

[LuckyUte]

University of Lori Loughlin

[C-Monster]

Colorado

[Scratch]

Colorado

[SoCalPat]

Colorado.

[noneyadb]

Wazzu

[snafu]

Buffs

[Senioritis]

I'll take the Washington State University Beavs!!!!

[UTEopia]

CU - just visited Boulder for the second time. Still not impressed.

[UtahsMrSports]

Colorado

[concerned]

colorado

[Heike]

Colorado

[UBlender]

Asu

[Applejack]

Votes thusfar:

ASU
UBlender
MRD
Sullyute

Colorado
Chrisenrut
Heike (welcome!)
Concerned
Utah Mr Sports
Uteopia
SoCalPat
Snafu
Scratch
C-Monster
Hostile

Washington State
Senioritis
Noney
Applejack
Muuser

USC
LuckyUte

Stanford
Scorcho
DnF

Arizona + UCLA
LAUte

[LA Ute]

Colorado

[Applejack]

Everyone Survives!


Last week's results:

ASU
UBlender
MRD
Sullyute

Colorado
LaUTE
Chrisenrut
Heike (welcome!)
Concerned
Utah Mr Sports
Uteopia
SoCalPat
Snafu
Scratch
C-Monster
Hostile

Washington State
Senioritis
Noney
Applejack
Muuser

USC
LuckyUte

Stanford
Scorcho
DnF

[Applejack]

There are a lot of home games across the Pac this week with some juicy inter-conference affairs (Go Cardinal!).

This week's games:
Nebraska @ Colorado
Northern Illinois @ Utah
San Diego St @ UCLA
Nevada @ Oregon
CAL @ Washington
Stanford @ USC
Oregon State @ Hawaii

Non-FBS opponents:
Sacramento St @ Arizona State (let me know if this week's ASU opponent is FCS, MRD), Northern Arizona @ Arizona, Northern Colorado @ Washington State

[Scorcho]

Oregon for the Win

[Mormon Red Death]

Ucla

[Sullyute]

I’m feeling the beaver love. Go Oregon State!

[Heike]

Oregon State (yes, I said it)

[DrumNFeather]

UCLA. Come on Chip, don't fail me now!

[chrisrenrut]

Oregon.

[hostile]

Ucla

[Applejack]

I’m feeling the beaver love. Go Oregon State!


Oregon State (yes, I said it)

It was great having you play this year, Sullyute and Heike,

[LA Ute]

ucla

[C-Monster]

Oregon

[mUUser]

Feel like I’m in a corner here. If I don’t pick Oregon State now, when in the world can I pick em?....so The Beavs I guess.

[hostile]

Feel like I’m in a corner here. If I don’t pick Oregon State now, when in the world can I pick em?....so The Beavs I guess.
When was the last (or even first) time this competition has extended the entire season?

[chrisrenrut]

Feel like I’m in a corner here. If I don’t pick Oregon State now, when in the world can I pick em?....so The Beavs I guess.

It's a 14 week season, and usually this contest is over by week 8. So you usually don't have to pick every team once. It gets more complicated come league play to not duplicate picking them a loser picks.

[Applejack]

When was the last (or even first) time this competition has extended the entire season?

Never happened. You can technically only survive for 12 picks, and that is assuming that you haven't run out of loser picks.

That's why this competition is called the "contest of whits." ( Get it? Whit-tingham?)

[LuckyUte]

I have to get Oregon State out of the way, because when can I pick them (also said earlier, but reinforcing).

Oregon State.

[snafu]

Ucla

[SoCalPat]

The two-time champion* picks UCLA

[UTEopia]

Ucla - I hate picking against most of our former MWC mates. I enjoyed watching Wyoming beat Missouri and CSU did some nice things in the first half against CU.

[Applejack]

Your University of Utahhhhhhhh Running UUUUUUUUUUUUUUTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTTEEEEEEEEEEEEESSSSSSS SSSSSSS!

[UtahsMrSports]

Ucla

[noneyadb]

Utah

[UBlender]

Ucla

[concerned]

Ucla

[Scratch]

Ucla

[chrisrenrut]

Live lookin on those who picked UCLA

13Cmju3maIjStW

[Applejack]

Live lookin on those who picked UCLA

13Cmju3maIjStW

If Oregon State loses (haha, of course they will), very few people will be left in the contest. Next week could be the championship!

[hostile]

If Oregon State loses (haha, of course they will), very few people will be left in the contest. Next week could be the championship!
And there you go...

[Applejack]

And there you go...

So after 8 weeks we are down to five survivors....oh, week 2? Uh......

The results from this week:

OSU
LuckyUte
Musser
SullyUte
Heinke

UCLA
UBlender
Scratch
DnF
MRD
Concerned
UtahMrSports
Uteopia
SoCalPat (2x winner)
Snafu
LAUteHostile

Oregon
C-monster
Chrisenrut
Scorcho

Utah
Noneyadb
Applejack

[LA Ute]

So after 8 weeks we are down to five survivors....oh, week 2? Uh......

The results from this week:

OSU
LuckyUte
Musser
SullyUte
Heinke

UCLA
UBlender
Scratch
DnF
MRD
Concerned
UtahMrSports
Uteopia
SoCalPat (2x winner)
Snafu
LAUteHostile

Oregon
C-monster
Chrisenrut
Scorcho

Utah
Noneyadb
Applejack

Just as I suspected. This game is rigged.

[Applejack]

Just as I suspected. This game is rigged.

Rigged for smart guys! I can't understand why anyone would pick OSU. But the amount of people choosing UCLA last week is astounding. Chip Kelly is 0-5 against non-conference opponents while at UCLA, soon to be 0-6. I think the verdict is in on his coaching ability.

[LA Ute]

Rigged for smart guys!

That's what con men always say.


But the amount of people choosing UCLA last week is astounding. Chip Kelly is 0-5 against non-conference opponents while at UCLA, soon to be 0-6. I think the verdict is in on his coaching ability.

I followed the crowd. Mom always said that was a bad idea.

[chrisrenrut]

Week 1- Colorado
Week 2- Oregon
Week 3- Washington

Good to get through the first 3 weeks without picking OSU or Cal, er. . .UCLA as a loser yet. Easy to pick whoever is playing one of them the following weeks.

[Applejack]

This week's games:

WSU@ Houston (Fri)
USC @ BYU (who should I cheer for, SU?)
Air Force @ Colorado
Stanford @ UCF
ASU @ Michigan State
North Texas @ Cal
Hawaii @ Washington
Oklahoma @ Ucla
Texas Tech @ Arizona

Ineligible: Utah (Idaho State); Oregon State (Cal Poly); Oregon ​(Montana)

[Applejack]

week 1 - Wazzu
Week 2 - Utah
Week 3 - California Grizzly Bears

[Applejack]

And just to make things interesting this year, the prize for the winner will be a Cliff Russell rookie card!

[C-Monster]

Week 1 - Colorado
Week 2 - Oregon
Week 3 - California

[Scorcho]

honored to be in the final 5

1. Stanford
2. Oregon
3. Washington

[noneyadb]

Week 3- Cal Bears it is.

[Applejack]

The fabulous five lives to fight another week! Here are this week's games:

Utah @ Usc (Fri)
Cal (ranked?) @ Ole Miss
Washington @ BYU
Oregon @ Stanford
Colorado @ ASU
UCLA @ Washington State

BYES: Oregon State, Arizona

[chrisrenrut]

Week 1- Colorado
Week 2- Oregon
Week 3- Washington
Week 4- Wazzu (over UCLA)

[C-Monster]

Week 1 - Colorado
Week 2 - Oregon
Week 3 - California
Week 4 - Washington

[Applejack]

Week 1- Wazzu
Week 2-UTAH
Week 3-Cal
Week 4-Washington

[Scorcho]

1. Stanford
2. Oregon
3. Washington
4. Washington St

[noneyadb]

Oregon

[Applejack]

Tough week for our crew of five. We say good bye to Scorcho and Chrisenrut who didn't see the potential to have UCLA upset an undefeated Wazzu on the road. So now we are three. Good luck gentlemen.

ASU @ CAL
USC @ Washington
Stanford @ Oregon State
Washington State @ Utah
UCLA @ Arizona

BYE: Colorado, Oregon

[C-Monster]

Week 1 - Colorado
Week 2 - Oregon
Week 3 - California
Week 4 - Washington
Week 5 - Arizona (over ucla)

[noneyadb]

Wazzu, Utah, Cal, Oregon.
Week 5- UCLA

[Applejack]

1. Wazzu
2. Utah
3. Cal
4. Washington
5. Stanford (over OSU)

[Applejack]

So long, noney. We are down to the final two: yours truly and Cookie monster. Traditionally, at this point we have emailed the weeks pick, so that people can't wait to see the others pick and decide if they want to pick against them. This year that won't work because I am still alive. So I nominate Sancho to take on this heavy task. So, let's email our picks before the first game to Sancho.

Also, just to review the rules, to win one must be the only person to select a winner in a given week. Just having the other person get a pick wrong is not enough; you also must make a correct pick that week. If both contestants miss during a week, we continue into the next week and those incorrect picks do not count against you, ie, if you pick Oregon State in week 7 and osu loses, if both contestants make incorrect picks that week you may pick Oregon State in following weeks.

[Applejack]

This week's games:

Arizona @ Colorado
Cal @ Oregon
Oregon State @ UCLA
Washington @ stanford

[C-Monster]

It doesn’t look like Sancho posted my pick from last week, but I took ucla last week. Big miss on that one.

[Applejack]

It doesn’t look like Sancho posted my pick from last week, but I took ucla last week. Big miss on that one.

Woot-woot! I took the Ducks (Sancho can verify, if he's still with us).

I'M THE CHAMPION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

[sancho]

Woot-woot! I took the Ducks (Sancho can verify, if he's still with us).

I'M THE CHAMPION!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!!

This is true. I didn't understand what those emails were for because I missed the post where I was nominated to receive them.

[Applejack]

This is true. I didn't understand what those emails were for because I missed the post where I was nominated to receive them.

You weren't nominated; you were appointed.

[sancho]

You weren't nominated; you were appointed.

I was flattered before, but now I feel tremendously honored.