To begin, I want to warmly welcome all of our new players this year. Welcome aboard! We hope you have fun and that this adds interest to your college football season. I want to clarify a few of the rules this year so that we’re all on even ground.<\/p>\n
First, I want to ensure that everyone understands the way that the confidence points system works. Place more points on games in which you feel more confident in the outcome. Your score will be based on the points assigned to your correct picks.<\/p>\n
In previous years, we have often used a “drop two worst weeks” format, where each player’s lowest two weekly point totals are removed to determine their total. This year, however, every week and every game counts towards the grand prize! Now, if you end up accidentally missing a week, it might be tough to catch up for that prize, but don’t stop playing! We’re coming up with new categories to compete in this year, and the only way to give yourself the best chance of winning one of these categories is to keep picking each week!<\/p>\n
Now, for a bit of trivia: Florida State’s 37-31 win over Oklahoma State was interesting for a couple of reasons. First, it was the 500th win in school history, which is pretty impressive given that FSU has only been playing football since 1947. (For comparative purposes, Michigan, the all-time winningest program with 911 wins, has won 526 in that span). The second is a little more disconcerting for Seminole fans: it was the closest margin of victory by the #1 program in their first game since 1991. But perhaps Florida State fans shouldn’t be too concerned. Several teams that have ended up winning the national title have had close calls in their first game: the 2009 Alabama team won 34-24 over Virginia Tech. USC beat the Hokies 24-13 in 2004. In 1998, Tennessee needed a last-second field goal to beat Syracuse 34-33.<\/p>\n
Congratulations to Mayhalls picks<\/strong>, who wins week 1 with a tie-breaker over gatorbamalover<\/strong>! Both finished with 252 points, having only missed their 1-point game. War Ralphie<\/strong>, Allison<\/strong>, bamaken<\/strong>, JHutto<\/strong>, and AUTiger<\/strong> were all a single point behind with 251 points. Starting next week, I will also list a top ten standing.<\/p>\n There are 22 games on the docket for next week, so there will again be a large number of points on the line! The first games are Saturday, September 6 @ 12 PM ET<\/strong>, so make sure to get your picks in by then!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" To begin, I want to warmly welcome all of our new players this year. Welcome aboard! We hope you have fun and that this adds interest to your college football season. I want to clarify a few of the rules this year so that we’re all on even ground. First, I want to ensure that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-205","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-football"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=205"}],"version-history":[{"count":3,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":208,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/205\/revisions\/208"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=205"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=205"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.e-systems.net\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=205"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}