Another week of football and there wasn’t much to choose from Top 25 wise. At least rivalry week kept the competitive juices flowing. And per the Yeti’s lady’s suggestion, we were letting the juices flow at Jaywalkers. It was an all day affair with a college like air, and we took full advantage of all they had to offer. What hoped to be a great day of football turned into a great day of hanging out at the bar.
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Category Archives: BCS
Barspotting: Chanches are We Won’t get Ticketed at Jaywalker’s
Jaywalkers just happens to be a Kansas University bar. No really. So what better time of the year to hit up the place then when the Jayhawks have the week off? As noted before, we love irony here at the KCCGD and we are game to keep in motion. Their website says they are the best Big 12 sports bar in KC and we’re gonna put that to the test. Who knows? Maybe they will prove to be numero uno. There’s one thing for sure, the Purple Yeti is eyeballin’ that big ole Sweet 16 burger.
When: Saturday, November 22, 2008
Where: Jaywalker’s Sports Bar & Grill – 3916 Rainbow Blvd, Kansas City, KS 66103
Time: 11 AM Sharp – There’s some huge rivalries going on
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Pick It Standings Week 12: Does Barack Talk affect BCS Stock?
Week 12 is over and we are glad we made it through. The election’s over too and we here at the KCCGD congratulate Barack Obama on his landslide win. We do want to point out that Obama made somewhat large sports news on Monday Night Football when he said there should be a playoff in the BCS. Welp, BCS Coordinator John Swofford responded. Basically Swofford punted the idea of an eight team playoff Obama proposed and welcomed dialogue for future talks. Really, Obama has better things to do than forcing a playoff on the world’s greatest tournament. Like choosing the new presidential dog or something. Here’s this week’s pick standings:
| Rank | Pick Set Name | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | Total |
| 1 | Cabbottmtf | 17 | 11 | 9 | 13 | 8 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 121 |
| 2 | Krizzou | 16 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 113 |
| 3 | Purple Yeti | 14 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 98 |
Krizzou won this week and the Troy upset pick is what sealed it for her. Cabbottmtf again came up last as we’re wondering why he went with Iowa State. The Yeti and Cabbottmtf for some reason drank the KU Kool-Aid and it ended up tasting like pee. Rounding out the rest of the Big 12 picks, we all peered into the crystal ball correctly with Oklahoma State. Hopefully Cabbotmtf’s slide will continue and Krizzou makes this competitive. Meanwhile the Purple Yeti is heading over to Dottie Mae’s for a costume fitting. Here’s the BCS standings:
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Pick It Standings Week 11: Math is Getting Hard
Lesson time as we figure out not only our picks and the BCS, but also what kind of BCS math to expect in the Big 12 this year. From what I’ve heard is that if the Big 12 South teams all end up tied then it would be head to head then BCS Standings. I can be completely wrong with my math however. Texas has the clearest sailing with Kansas and Texas A&M coming left. Tech has the challange this week against Oklahoma, then they cool off against Baylor. Oklahoma has the touhgest path with Tech this week and Oklahoma State next week. I don’t know what’s gonna happen but I’ve been thinking about the scenrios for last coulple of days and my head is starting to hurt. Don’t worry, though, as I won’t get kicked off the team or murder my neighbor.
| Rank | Pick Set Name | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | Total |
| 1 | Cabbottmtf | 17 | 11 | 9 | 13 | 8 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 114 |
| 2 | Krizzou | 16 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 104 |
| 3 | Purple Yeti | 14 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 90 |
Well lookie here, it seems that the Purple Yeti actually tied for first for the first time this year. Is the turn around too late? Who knows. Props to both the Purple Yeti and Cabbottmtf for picking the spread against Missouri Saturday. And Krizzou thought it was in hand. It should be an easy ride to the finish line for both Cabbottmtf and the Purple Yeti. So what’s the Yeti to do for the major bet this year? Let us know. Nothing much else to say except the Yeti was the only one to call the Iowa upset. That brings us the BCS:
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Pick It Standings Week 10: Patriotically Awkward
As we pop into line this year to hang our chad on whichever douche bag gets to run the nation today, we mustn’t forget what a weird season of college football it’s been already. Texas Tech is actually living up to the hype with and upset win over Texas. Michigan locked a losing season for the first time since 1968, and no bowl game for the Wolverines. More and more non cons are undefeated and/or showing up. I guess it translates to what happened to this weeks picks. Yes, nobody voted for KCCGD last week. Here we go with the standings:
| Rank | Pick Set Name | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | Total |
| 1 | Cabbottmtf | 17 | 11 | 9 | 13 | 8 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 11 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 107 |
| 2 | Krizzou | 16 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 5 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 95 |
| 3 | Purple Yeti | 14 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 10 | 6 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 81 |
So nobody was on this week as we discovered that or voting prowess blows some major chunks. Cabbottmtf is on top again in a landslide while the Purple Yeti for the second week in a row ends up in second place. No consolation here as the race is getting as the race is still not over yet. And we know there could be some damaging photos to post online to help sway the pick ’em voter mojo base. Needless to say, a crack team of dirt diggers are rummaging away in the hopes of making this contest believable. Boy do we love politics. Speaking of which, here’s the BCS Standings:
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Pick It Standings Week 9: Let the Computers Do the Talking
The pickness hits again as it is confirmed that the BCS Standings will be apart of the standings up date from here on out. Before we discuss our picks and the BCS picks, however, we need to get one thing off our collective chest. Ever since last week and the announcement of the first picks, we’ve heard about ‘The Computers.’ Is it me or does that just sound silly? Granted most of that talk comes from the sports media, but whenever that is mentions, it always irks me just a bit. Here’s why.
‘The Computers’ just spit out the requirements set up by the company/organization/guy who comes up with who the best college football team is at that point in time. A bunch of math geeks sat down and came up with some statistical way of showing the best. The computer makes it super fast to calculate that. Give me a whiteboard and a dry erase marker and I can figure out who is better according to the algorithm. There is no difference between a whiteboard and a computer in this case.
Most people are stupid (except our readers of course) and most of the sports media tend to be lower than that IQ wise, so whenever I hear some ex jock whine about the magical ‘Computer,’ I just want to reach across the radio waves and flick him in the nut sack. Jolly gave me some insight at the last barspot, however, quoting Pablo Picasso when he said, “Computers are useless. They can only give answers.” Mmmmmm. Well, I guess for the punditry livelihood it’s okay, but I still don’t like it. Here’s our Yahoo calculated picks:
| Rank | Pick Set Name | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | Total |
| 1 | Cabbottmtf | 17 | 11 | 9 | 13 | 8 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 99 |
| 2 | Krizzou | 16 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 8 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 90 |
| 3 | Purple Yeti | 14 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 9 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 74 |
It looks like we need to contact Yahoo and change the configuration for the Pick ‘Em league as Cabbottmtf is still winning week in and week out. It looks like the Penn State pick helped him out on that cause. In the interest of full disclosure, Yahoo also has a tie breaker set up by choosing two games and making you predict the scores. That’s why last week Krizzou won the week. For the Purple Yeti to win the week, he will either have to get off his ass and pick for real or use some trickeration to mold the Yahoo Pick settings his way. Okay after the rant earlier that isn’t gonna but but dang it would make things easier. So with the new BCS section we have the Week 2 update:
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Pick It Standings Week 8: With a Lil BCS Sauce Mixed in
A week of no surprises on the field showed itself on the picks. Krizzou eeked by Cabbottmf with a tie breaker this week, but is still behind him in the overall standings. Meanwhile, the Yeti improves on his picking but is still licking his wounds from previous weeks. Let’s hope that Krizzou can bounce back better than Mizzou did against Texas last week. Talk about drunken fury. At any rate, we are getting down to biz-ness and winding down to the last half of season. There’s still time to suggest what the loser, which clearly looks like the Purple Yeti, will do at the Championship game humiliation wise. Send those thoughts in. Here are the picks:
| Rank | Pick Set Name | 1 | 2 | 3 | 4 | 5 | 6 | 7 | 8 | 9 | 10 | 11 | 12 | 13 | 14 | 15 | Total |
| 1 | Cabbottmtf | 17 | 11 | 9 | 13 | 8 | 11 | 10 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 89 |
| 2 | krizzou | 16 | 12 | 8 | 11 | 9 | 10 | 6 | 10 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 82 |
| 3 | Purple Yeti | 14 | 10 | 8 | 10 | 4 | 6 | 6 | 7 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 0 | 65 |
Another standing update comes from the first release of the BCS standings. I haven’t decided yet whether or not to keep the BCS update with the Pick It standings post or not. Maybe if I have time, I can do both. Until then, we can bask in the glory that 6 of the Big 12 teams are in the top 25 of the BCS, with 4 of them in the top 8. Here’s the top 10:
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