It's the most wonderful time of the year. When fans of any team not named Notre Dame or Alabama can dream about "What if," fans of little schools can dream about beating bigger schools who don't give a crap about the game they're playing in, and some schools can turn a great performance into a bowl game into a stronger pre-season ranking next year, and fans of 9-3 Louisiana Tech can scratch their heads and wonder "Wait, we didn't get into a bowl game because our AD didn't return a phone call?" It's College Football Bowl Season!
(Sadly, this also means that College Football Saturdays are largely a thing of the past, and it's 9 more months until theBowl Pick Em group is open; I'll get a full writeup once the games are actually posted, but for those who care, you can register already.
Bowl Pick Em is pretty simple. Pick the winners of all 35 bowl games. Then rank those games from 1 (least confident) to 35 (most confident). If you pick correctly, you get the corresponding amount of points; the team with the most points at the end wins.
ESPN Bowl Mania
Group Name: Orderofthebluegartr
Password: Northernillinois
To enter, you'll need to register on ESPN.com, but you can disable spam e-mails if you're worried about it. All of them do have a grand prize of some sort if you finish first amongst all the thousands upon thousands of entries in the game, so you might want to use real contact information just in case.
Also, please try to incorporate your BG handle somehow into your team name, or at least brag at the end that you won with your super creative team name so we can bestow you with all the accolades and everlasting respect you deserve by becoming the Grand Wizard of BG. Please note: if you don't use your name, please note that it's not my job to track through 50 pages of a thread to figure out who won the thing. I'll look at your name, maybe the last page or two of the thread to figure out who was bragging about it. If I get your name wrong on the list below, PM me and I'll fix it.
ONE ENTRY PER PERSON
There will only be one winner because ties suck, and in the event of a tie, I will use ESPN's tiebreakers for the grand prize to establish a group winner. I'm also going to be locking the contest after the first game so people can't move in or out. The first bowl game is Saturday, December 15th, so have your entries in before then.
If you have any questions or trouble logging in, or just generally like to bitch, do so below.
Contest Winners:
2006 Bowl Pick Em: Makaveli
2006 BG Fantasy Football: Thuggy
2007 March Madness: Byrd
2007 College Football Pick Em: Ryany
2007 Bowl Pick Em: Akiyama
2008 NFL Gridiron Playoff Challenge: Tyr
2008 March Madness: Snoogans
2008 College Pick Em: Byrd
2008 Eliminator: Byrd
2008 Pigskin Pick Em: Weltall
2008 Bowl Pick Em: Laguna
2009 Gridiron Playoff Challenge: Sekaran
2009 Super (Bowl) Pick Em: Stiker
2009 March Madness: MrW
2009 College Pick Em: Ryany
2009 Eliminator: Stiker
2009 Pigskin Pick Em: Weltall
2009 Bowl Pick Em: Alderon527
2010 Gridiron Playoff Challenge: Driver
2010 March Madness: Biddinger
2010 World Cup Bracket Predictor: Decy
2010 World Cup Pick Em: Plow
2010 College Pick Em: Bregor
2010 Eliminator: Akiyama
2010 Pigskin Pick Em: Byrd
2010 Bowl Pick Em: Byrd
2011 Gridiron Playoff Challenge: Bigrougabagel
2011 March Madness: Titanss
2011 College Pick Em: Byrd
2011 Eliminator: Intrinsic
2011 Pigskin Pick Em: Naafeih
2011 Bowl Mania: Vade
2012 Gridiron Playoff Challenge: Valisk
2012 March Madness: WOMP, ElvFenrir
2012 College Pick Em: Julian