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.