My college football bowl picks

Each year, 20 or so of my friends and I get together to pick which teams we think will win the college football bowl games. Each person playing the game puts $10 into the pool. The winner takes the entire pot in January.

#The rules

The rules to our game are fairly basic:

• Pick a winner for all 35 bowl games.
• Assign a confidence number ranging from 1 – 35 with 1 being the least confident pick and 35 being the most confident pick.
• For every game you win, you get those confidence points.
• For every game you lose, you subtract confidence points.

So, if you correctly pick the winner of all 35 bowl games, you get a total of 630 points (and most likely all the cash).

#My picks

I meant to post this last week but got a little too busy. I’ve already lost two and won two games at the moment.

Here’s my list in the order the games are played in.

#Your picks

Call me crazy on some of these. I’m definitely gambling on a few games, but you have to take a few chances to win.

Do any of you do similar pools? Feel free to write a blog post and link back here with your list. Or, just call me out in the comments when you see how horrible my picks are.