2018 PICK'EM KICKOFF COMPETITION

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2018 PICK'EM KICKOFF COMPETITION

Post by AGinNEIowa » August 5th, 2018, 7:14 pm

2018 Pick’em Kick-Off Competition

All 75 picks and tiebreakers are due before fifth kick-off, Saturday 01 Sept 1:30 pm MDT.

Preferred Entry method - Enter your Picks on GOOGLE DOCS, KICKOFF PICK'EM. (Games entered here will periodically be transferred to my official spreadsheet for tracking purposes. If you make changes before the deadline, please notify me via PM on this website, so you get credit for the changes)

Secondary Entry method - reply to this thread with each game picked (either retype game # and team - or copy/paste the games and bold the winner - prefer bold, rather than just colors, easier to read when doing 75 games at a time).

PLEASE NOTE THERE ARE 4 Games which kickoff before the picks deadline - I will leave the entries open until the 5th game's kickoff, but anything submitted after a game's KICKOFF will be scored as an incorrect pick.

Rankings are the Coaches Poll, August 2018 - known times noted as MT, I think I have noted all of the neutral-site games.


THE GAMES
30 August

1 - Central Florida Knights at Connecticut Huskies 5pm ESPNU

31 August
2 - UTAH STATE AGGIES at michigan state spartans 5pm BTN

3 - San Diego State Aztecs at Stanford Cardinal 7pm FS1

4 - Colorado Buffaloes at Colorado State Rams 7:30pm CBSSN Sports Authority Field, Denver CO

01 September
5 - Washington State Cougars at Wyoming Cowboys 1:30pm CBSSN

02 September
6 - Miami (FL) Hurricanes at Louisiana State Tigers 5:30pm ABC

03 September
7 - Virginia Tech Hokies at Florida State Seminoles 6pm ESPN

08 September
8 - Mississippi State Bulldogs at Kansas State Wildcats 10am ESPN

9 - Nevada Wolfpack at Vanderbilt Commodores 10am SECN

10 - UCLA Bruins at Oklahoma Sooners 11am FOX

11 - Iowa State Cyclones at Iowa Hawkeyes 3pm FOX

12 - Wyoming Cowboys at Missouri Tigers 5pm

13 - new mexico state aggies at UTAH STATE AGGIES 6pm

14 - Southern California Trojans at Stanford Cardinal 6:30pm FOX

15 September
15 - Central Florida Knights at North Carolina Tar Heels 10am

16 - Boise State Broncos at Oklahoma State Cowboys 1:30pm

17 - Louisiana State Tigers at Auburn Tigers 1:30pm CBS

18 - Oregon State Beavers at Nevada Wolfpack 5pm ESPN3

19 - Alabama Crimson Tide at Mississippi Rebels 5pm ESPN

20 - Arizona State Sun Devils at San Diego State Aztecs 8:30pm CBSSN

22 September
21 - Louisville Cardinals at Virginia Cavaliers TBD

22 - Texas Christian Horned Frogs at Texas Longhorns TBD

23 - Florida Gators at Tennessee Volunteers TBD

24 - air force falcons at UTAH STATE AGGIES TBD

29 September
25 - Ohio State Buckeyes at Penn State Nittany Lions TBD

26 - Tennessee Volunteers at Georgia Bulldogs TBD

27 - Toledo Rockets at Fresno State Bulldogs TBD

28 - Nevada Wolfpack at Air Force Falcons TBD

29 - Stanford Cardinal at Notre Dame Fighting Irish 5:30pm NBC

05 October
30 - UTAH STATE AGGIES at byu cougars 7pm ESPN2

06 October
31 - San Diego State Aztecs at Boise State Broncos TBD

32 - Fresno State Bulldogs at Nevada Wolfpack TBD

33 - Texas Longhorns versus Oklahoma Sooners TBD at Cotton Bowl, Dallas, TX

34 - Florida State Seminoles at Miami (FL) Hurricanes TBD

35 - Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Virginia Tech Hokies TBD

12 October
36 - Air Force Falcons at San Diego State Aztecs 7pm CBSSN

13 October
37 - Georgia Bulldogs at Louisiana State Tigers TBD

38 - Michigan State Spartans at Penn State Nittany Lions TBD

39 - New Mexico Lobos at Colorado State Rams TBD

40 - unlv running rebels at UTAH STATE AGGIES 2pm

19 October
41 - Colorado State Rams at Boise State 7pm ESPN2

20 October
42 - UTAH STATE AGGIES at Wyoming Cowboys TBD

43 - Michigan Wolverines at Michigan State Spartans TBD

44 - Oklahoma Sooners at Texas Christian atTBD

26 October
45 - Wyoming Cowboys at Colorado State Rams 8pm CBSSN

46 - Clemson Tigers at Florida State Seminoles TBD

47 - San Diego State Aztecs at Nevada Wolfpack TBD

48 - Florida Gators versus Georgia Bulldogs 1:30pm at TIAA Bank Field, Jacksonville, FL

49 - new mexico lobos at UTAH STATE AGGIES 2pm

50 - Boise State Broncos at Air Force Falcons 5pm CBSSN

03 November
51 - Stanford Cardinal at Washington Huskies TBD

52 - Penn State Nittany Lions at Michigan Wolverines TBD

53 - West Virginia Mountaineers at Texas Longhorns TBD


54 - Alabama Crimson Tide at Louisiana State Tigers TBD

55 - UTAH STATE AGGIES at hawai'i rainbow warriors TBD

10 November
56 - Colorado State Rams at Nevada Wolfpack TBD

57 - Wisconsin Badgers at Penn State Nittany Lions TBD

58 - Auburn Tigers at Georgia Bulldogs TBD

59 - Ohio State Buckeyes at Michigan State Spartans TBD

60 - san josė state spartans at UTAH STATE AGGIES 2pm

61 - Florida State Seminoles at Notre Dame Fighting Irish 5:30pm NBC

16 November
62 - Boise State Broncos at New Mexico Lobos 7pm CBSSN

17 November
63 - UTAH STATE AGGIES at colorado state rams TBD

64 - West Virginia Mountaineers at Oklahoma State Cowboys TBD

65 - Miami (FL) Hurricanes at Virginia Tech Hokies TBD

22 November
66 - Colorado State Rams at Air Force Falcons 1:30pm CBSSN

23 November
67 - Nebraska Cornhuskers at Iowa Hawkeyes 10am FOX

68 - Oklahoma Sooners at West Virginia Mountaineers 6pm ESPN

24 November
69 - Notre Dame Fighting Irish at Southern California Trojans TBD

70 - Auburn Tigers at Alabama Crimson Tide TBD

71 - Oklahoma State Cowboys at Texas Christian Horned Frogs TBD

72 - UTAH STATE AGGIES at boise state broncos atTBD

73 - Wyoming Cowboys at New Mexico Lobos TBD

74 - Michigan Wolverines at Ohio State Buckeyes 10am FOX

75 - Nevada Wolfpack at UNLV Running Rebels 7:30pm CBSSN


TIEBREAKERS - Total losses for each of these teams after Conference Championship Weekend and USU Total Points Scored (including MWCCG)
1- ACC- #2 Clemson
2- Big 10 - #3 Ohio State
3- Big 12 - #5 Oklahoma
4- PAC - #6 Washington
5- SEC - #1 Alabama
6- SEC - #4 Georgia
7- Utah State Points Scored in all games

Example - if you think Ohio State and Oklahoma will enter the Conference Championship weekend as the only 2 undefeated teams, then your Tiebreaker could look something like this (since 1976, only 6 teams ranked as the AP preseason #1 have finished #1 - before Alabama in 2018, the prior one was Southern California in 2004)
1- Clemson - 2
2- Ohio State- 0
3- Oklahoma- 0
4- Washington- 1
5- Alabama- 1
6- Georgia - 2
7- USU- 375 (2009 was 349, 2010 was 264, 2011 was 414, 2012 was 413, 2013 was 431, 2014 was 390, 2015 was 356, 2016 was 287, 2017 was 372)

GOOD LUCK -
neIowa