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Pick It Standings Week 11: Math is Getting Hard

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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 and Stick It: Picks are Set, K-State’s Coach? Well….

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This weeks picks are in, but apparently K-State can’t decide on who to pick as their head coach.  Reports flew about the net and radio today about Gary Patterson being hired as the next Wildcat coach.  Oh wait, whoops, nope, he’s not in.  Patterson even called a Dallas radio show and said so.  What happened?  GoPowercat.com either got the wrong source or the Athletic Department let a ‘secret’ out and goofed up big time.  So chances are Patterson is OUT for the coach this time around.  Maybe he’ll consider the position a couple of years down the road?  At any rate, it’s a bad day for K-State Sports Administration and its fellow blogs.  On to the picks:
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Pick It Standings Week 10: Patriotically Awkward

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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 and Stick It: Spooky Picks

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Happy Halloween from the folks here at KCCGD!  It’s Halloween and it just so happens that we are celebrating Pick ’em style. We’ll get to the picks but first the KCCGD got together to come up with what’s especially scary this time of year in college football.  So here’s out spooky picks

That’s bound to get anybody to crap their pants in fear.  Heck I was turtle heading just typing that.  Anywho, here’s the picks:
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Pick It Standings Week 9: Let the Computers Do the Talking

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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 and Stick It: No Really I’m Coming Back. REALLY.

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Colt McCoy is coming back!  Or at least, that’s what he says.  At the same time, he’s telling us he looks like Tony Romo.  I tend to disbelieve any talk about leaving early until the season is over for players.  As frustrating as it is, that’s what happens in sports.  Coaches, players, GM’s, everybody pretty much lies up front to divert any media jibba jabba.  It’s a frustrating process indeed but we’re stuck with it until we evolve to read minds.

If Colt’s not ready, then he should stay another year, no matter what Scotty Borasch tells him.  That’s not what others are saying however.  Tim Griffin on the Big 12 ESPN blog tipped off a story that our own Jeffery Martin did about draft prospects in the Big 12 for next year. Martin talked to a draft scout and he listed Colt McCoy and Josh Freeman as potential first rounders if they declared.  Now I can see Colt going after the Oklahoma and Missouri game, but I still think he should play another year.  Josh, however, still looks raw and I’m not convinced he’s ready.  We’ll find out first hand next week. But that’s for the barspot.  Here’s the picks for the week:
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Pick It Standings Week 8: With a Lil BCS Sauce Mixed in

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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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Pick It and Stick It: Josh is Somehow Producing

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Josh Freeman Passes

Apparently, Josh was named the player of the week at USA Today.  His performance was impressive last Saturday in beating Texas A&M 44-30 with 4 rushing touchdowns.  Then Wednesday, the KC Star puts out an article showing that Josh in on pace to match Tim Tebow’s numbers from last year.  I guess the love is pouring on strong for the Kansas City native.  Heck even the Wildcats may be whispering bowls if they beat Colorado Saturday.  I’m not really sold on Josh being a big time quaterback just yet, however.  From the games I’ve watched, it looks as if he is still raw and if he were to leave after this year for the NFL, they would need to put him on an Aaron Rodgers like program before he can fully be realized.  It’s great to see Josh getting some love, but knocking down some more and wins plus putting in another year is what Dr. Yeti has ordered.  On to the picks:
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Pick It Standings Week 7: Coaches and Cabbottmtf Poppin’ Jerseys

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As we reach midseason, it seems that Cabbottmtf should be reaching for the champagne and prepping it to spritz all over the team of, um, himself.  Consistently hitting double digits, it would seem like this race can be called.  Krizzou and Purple Yeti tied this week, which might have seen good for the Yeti but it was Krizzou who felt the pain.  So Cabbottmtf is popping his jersey much like what the Big 12 coaches are doing today.  Even Dan Hawkins says that some of the teams should be in the NFL’s NFC West.  Who can argue?  At first, I bought into the SEC as being the big boy, but with entertaining and very competitive games coming from the top 10 Big 12 teams (all 4 of them, or a 1/3rd of the league), I have to say that for now Big 12 is king.  Here are the rankings:

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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 79
2 krizzou 16 12 8 11 9 10 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 72
3 Purple Yeti 14 10 8 10 4 6 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 58

But don’t like the big time get to your head, Big 12 and Cabbottmtf.  If you’re too busy showboating and reprazentin’, you’ll lose time and focus that the underdogs are taking full advantage of.  The Yeti and Krizzou are still in it, pick-wise.  Other conferences are coming up, even the Big 10 with an undefeated Penn State has a chance at the title game or the big prize.  If you lose your head, you can fall off the top.  Which is why the coaches are giving props now as the conference powerdog of the street, so the coach won’t feel too bad of a brunt if/when they lose.  Look at Gary Pinkel, for example.  Missouri choked away a game again this year and Mr. Pinkel was touting the strenghts of the conference as a whole in that article.  Believe me, he’s gonna need the help when they take on Texas this week.  Just like this update should help in picks for this week against Cabbottmtf.  Squash ’em YETIS!

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Pick It and Stick It: Good Football is Like Good Barbecue

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So the Yeti picked up his bro Sasquatch from the airport today and on the way home, there was a special trip to Arthur Bryant’s. The Squatch purposely starved himself to enjoy some great KC barbecue and was ready to tear into it right as we drove off from the drive thru. That got the Yeti thinking. Sometimes when you are around great food you can take it for granted. Football around the KC area can be thought of in the same way. Even though the pro teams are stale like week old bread, the college football around the area is meaty and can be easily put away as leftovers. Sometimes it takes an out of towner to help realize just what kind of full force meal we feast on every Saturday in the Big 12 in the KC area. Here are the picks:
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Pick It Standings Week 6: Like A Cornhusker Spit In The Face

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Okay, rounding up the week’s standings below, we can see that Cabbotmtf is waxing everyone again.  Krizzou is struggling to keep up and the Purple Yeti is a drooling over his pick sheet again.  Imitation is the sincerest form a flattery and the Yeti needs to spread his flattery all over the place if he were to have any hope of catching up.  According to Chase Daniel, however, it seems that Nebraska Cornhuskers spread saliva as well as flattery.

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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 69
2 krizzou 16 12 8 11 9 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 66
3 Purple Yeti 14 10 8 10 4 6 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 52

The big hullabalo came from Chase Daniel stating that a Nebraska player was hockin’ a lugey on him in the pre game.  Welp as the controversy stirred in spit, we come to find out that Chase wouldn’t tell who and the coaches called it a dead issue.  So are the Cornhuskers dirty?  Or is Chase talking smack?  Hmmm I think it’s both.

Original Wangstas

Yes Nebraska has a bushel of personal fouls this year.  Even coach Bo Pelini has one himself.  So they need to cool off.  But I think Chase is taking advantage of that.  There was no evidence on tape of spitting and it seems Chase didn’t feel the need to point out guy.  Combine that with the photo op of Chase with buddy Warren Buffett above, and you can see this guy is heading down the highway toward douche bag territory.  Chase, you practically have the Heisman won.  Don’t spit while you talk and win the games, or else you’ll lose the prize to someone more respectable.

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Pick It and Stick It: First Friday And Stinky Spreads

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And here we go with another week ‘o picks.  So the Yeti is rushing here a bit to get outta here to soak up some First Friday action, but the Saturday football action is all passing. Not like all things must pass, but more like Big 12 Conference play will be kicking of this weekend and some major bombs will be dropped in the air.  Josh Freeman knocking out quaterback records over at K-State is just one example. With much of the action rolling up to the big Mizzou vs. Nebraska, the Yeti wouldn’t be surprised if the offense spent this weekend in the Big 12 will top the rest of the BCS conferences combined. No seriously.  The Yeti means it. Here’s the picks:
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Pick It Standings Week 5: College Football And Picks Crash of 2008

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The turbulent economic turmoil faced in this great nation has finally trickled down to all that is near and dear to our hearts here at the KCCGD. Much like the market, many high stock football teams tumbled over the weekend and panic is pulsating through the minds of many a sports junkie. Looking at this week’s standings, we can see that Cabbottmtf is turning into the Warren Buffett of pick ’em with yet another consistent week while Krizzou makes up a step with some apparent wisdom from Alan Greenspan.  The Purple Yeti?  Well, it seems he was too busy checking out Sarah Palin’s ass.  Somebody bail him out STAT.

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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 58
2 krizzou 16 12 8 11 9 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 56
3 Purple Yeti 14 10 8 10 4 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 46

As for hot button topics from the weekend, we’re gonna roll through it O’Reilly/Colbert/Olberman style:

  • Gary Chandler from K-State was arrested Saturday for driving with a revoked license.  The former Big 12 defensive newcomer of the year, apparently lied to the cops and then came clean about his name in the process.  Now being an alum from the ‘ole KSU, all I can say is, “WALK!  Everything is about a 15 minute jaunt from each other! DUDE!” Ron Prince gave Gary his walking papers until his legal troubles are fixed and my guess is this incident will tacked on to Prince’s dossier.  The case for delivering Ron Prince’s walking papers at the end of the year is quickly stacking up.
  • The toast of college football this week is the BIG 12!  That’s right, 3 of the top 5 are Big 12 boys will Oklahoma, Missouri, and Texes rocking it respectively.  The Big 12 blogger Tim Griffin pointed out this morning on the ESPN College Football Insider Podcast that all of the ranked Big 12 teams (6) are facing the unranked teams to start out conference play.  Chances are we’ll get at least one or two upsets.
  • While the Yeti was busting a sweat tonight at the gym, a large barrel chested man sporting an Oklahoma football shirt was squeezing out a quick spin on the bike.  Yeah, so what?  Welp, the Yeti also follows pro football and he just had to see the start of Monday Night Football.  After popping on the game, Oklahoma decides to switch up and run the elliptical.  But instead of choosing the machine in front of the game, he squats right down on the one in front of Dancing With The Stars!  That alone tells me that the Sooners will have at least one loss and just may miss the Big 12 Championship game.
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Pick It and Stick It: WTF Just Happened?!?!?!

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So I’m sitting over at a friend’s house rocking out and ruling some Scene It.  Welp, the host’s wife passed out and it was time to go.  Driving away from there I popped the game on the radio and JT the Brick was yammering on about how USC is not showing up.  Welp in between his actual show, they were dropping in updates to USC vs Oregon State game.  I came into with about 10 minutes to go into the game and USC down 7 with the ball on their 5 yard line.   Here’s this week’s picks first:
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Pick It Standings Week 4: I’m Really Thirsty All Of The Sudden

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Here’s the standings for Week 4. Purple Yeti needs to stop gulping down Rockstar energy drinks and actually focus on some pics.  Cabbottmtf stretches his lead out against Krizzou with the key picks of Texas, Alabama, Georgia.  Heck he’s been drinking the southern belt kool aid.  If each participant was a Kool Aid flavor I’d say that Cabbottmtf would be Cherry Cracker, Krizzou would be Rock-a-dile Red, and Purple Yeti would be Purplesaurus Rex (of course).  What do you think?

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 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 50
2 Krizzou 16 12 8 11 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 47
3 Purple Yeti 14 10 8 10 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 42

Speaking of drinking the Kool Aid, apparently East Carolina dropped the BCS Buster title over the weekend in an overtime loss to NC State (BCS Buster should be a Kool Aid flavor btw).  So now Boise St assumes the title after their whuppin of Oregon.  I’m not sure they can match the sweetness that was the win over Oklahoma in the 2007 Fiesta Bowl, but let’s hope they can deliver.  The last game of the season should be a great one against Fresno State.