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Another chapter in the Greatest Pool in the History of the World is nearly complete. We have 2 games remaining, both double games – PJ with Ohio State over Northwestern and Mike Lynn with Alabama over Georgia. Mike Lynn would cap off a 6-0 week and could jump to 2nd – PJ has losses by West Virginia and LSU and left points on the table leaving Ohio State on the bench vs. Michigan.

Do you see what you get, Larry?

Walter continued his scorched earth policy in November posting another 6-0 week, scoring 42 for the week and icing the 2018 title. His 509 points is right in the ballpark with previous winner’s totals and he did it in one of the most competitive years ever. Congrats to Walter.

It also appears he will lead the Sisters to an improbable division win over Murderer’s Row – after trailing every week this year. Despite….

With the first pick in the 2019 College Football Draft, Gob selects Alabama. Fitting that he started 5 teams one week. The Badgers ended the year in style for Gob, pretty much the poster-team for his season.

The draft order will be set after this week’s conference championship games.

A big jump this week by Meathead, who chased every last point to the bitter end. He scores a season-high 57 powered by the Huskies double win at Wazzou in the snow Friday night.

Starkey’s Irish won but didn’t cover his double game, Wyoming and Mississippi State got defensive points but SMU fell to Tulsa spoiling a great week.

Skunk continues to prolong the longest sophomore slump in history. After winning in his rookie year (2014), he’s once again relegated to a bottom-tier team. His Dookies lost 59-7 Saturday at home, the old -4 loss. Fla Atlantic also lost as a 17.5 point fave. Ugh.

The last stand – started with a No. Illinois loss to Western Michigan. It then went off the rails when Michigan got trounced by Ohio State in his double game. And then, after the car crashed, an asteroid hit it, with a loss by Utah State, then the College Football Gods peed on the wreckage and had Hawaii beat San Diego State in his final game of the year. An epically tragic ending for our General, who came up short in his bid to be the first back-to-back champion in the pool.

“The only problem with doing the impossible is everyone expects you to repeat the impossible.” John McKay.

Welcome to the pool….

It’s been a wild two weeks in the college football pool. The standings are completely jumbled from the beginning of November – truly “Championship Month”.

Total Points – Weeks 10 and 11:

Walter- 105,  Skunk- 94,  Gob- 90,  Meathead- 87

George- 75,  PJ- 68,  Starkey- 58,  Mike Lynn- 51

Final week for picks, Conference Championship games next week are included in Week 13 picks. It certainly appears Walter will be wearing the crown in 2018.

 

 

First is 2nd – 5th is first – 2nd is 3rd – 3rd is 5th – 4th stays the same….

The tumbleweed at the top of the greatest pool in the history of the world rolls towards week 12, the 2nd to last week of the year. Week 13 will be the final week and will include the following week’s conference championship games. You will have your 6 games to fill with a week and change to do it as you see fit. Gonna be some very interesting strategery going on with a mere 15 points currently separating 1st from 5th.

Walter certainly rolled on Saturday, 6-0 vaults him into the lead in the pool. Clemson leads the way with it’s weekly thrashing in the ACC. His 12th-ranked Orange get his Irish this week, what to do indeed?

Alabama scores 22 with another shutout of ranked Miss St and Mike Lynn scores 30 for the week. 1-5 vs. the spread and an embarrassing loss by Purdue at Goophyville.

Starkey sits in 3rd managing only 29 points out of 5 wins. 2-4 vs the spread and a home loss by Texas Tech to the Hated.

George remains in 4th place, plodding conservatively along, His late-night weekly parlay finally got him as SDSU loses at home to UNLV. But will the erstwhile tortoise be smiling among all us hares in 2 weeks?

PJ slips to 5th place, despite the Buckeyes nice 20 point win in East Lansing. He was 0-2 Friday morning, but bounced back with 32 points for the week.

Meathead (6-0), Skunk (5-1), and Gob (5-1) scored in the low 40’s this week. but the pecking order looks pretty much set for next year’s top three in the draft.

The Sisters are closing the gap – Walter and Mike Lynn are beating their guys. Skunk is fortunate to have Gob in the pool.

 

 

 

 

Saturday​ in Austin, Texas, West​ Virginia coach Dana Holgorsen made​ arguably​ the​ boldest​ call​ of any coach​ in the​ country​​ this season. Despite facing the risk of possibly falling out of Big 12 title and College Football Playoff contention, Holgorsen, down 41-40 with 16 seconds remaining, elected to go for two rather than kick and go to overtime against No. 15 Texas.

Pretty Ballsy Decision there, Coach H.  As your Mountaineers sat, safely tucked away on PJ’s bench in lieu of the pride of Minnesota, on display in Champaign, Illinois.  As Will Grier was crossing the goal line keeping championship hopes alive for UWV, something called AJ Bush was scoring half a hundred on the Beloved. Ahh, the awesome cruelty of the college football pool, the greatest pool in the history of the world.

But all is not lost for ball-less PJ. 5 other wins this week, although Ohio State didn’t do much to prove Purdue was an aberration in his double game posting 8 points.

5 wins for Starkey – he wins the week with 47 points getting 18 from BC in his double game and defensive points from Miss St and Coach Bald. Florida State got hammered by NC State for his only loss.

Bama scored the most possible points in the pool – road, shutout, cover, ranked win at LSU. 28 points for the Tide. Houston and Virginia were losers for Mike Lynn who remains (barely) in the overall lead.

George fell to from 2nd to 4th place this week (Miami is his Florida State). Utah State continues to pile up big points, scoring 18 in his double win at Hawaii.

Walter sits in 5th (Okie State is his FSU/Miami losing to Baylor). Clemson is leaving no doubt in the embarrassingly weak ACC – aren’t we all excited for the ACC title tilt with Pitt?

The bottom feeders, Meathead – Skunk – Gob, continue to flounder, but Gob is the best flounderer of all. The Utes lose his double game along with L’s by Texas and Ole Miss. Skunk gets 22 out of the Dawgs win at Kentucky but gets losses by TXA&M, Iowa and Marshall. Meathead gets a 52-3 win posted by UAB vs UTSA.

There is is, fellas. About as tight as she gets. 6 points separates 1st from 5th place.

Walter climbs into the fray, winning the week getting 4 road/cover wins led by Clemson’s whupping of Florida State.

PJ was right behind with 49, NC State’s loss at Syracuse costing the week.

A bunch of garbage in the middle. Noteworthy, TCU’s loss at Kansas was Mike Lynn’s first double loss of the year – George’s Buffs made the Beaver’s season – Starkey spent Saturday lamenting the Gopher win over his Hoosiers.

Gob remains in the cellar but he is being chased(?) by Skunk and Meathead who posted a couple dumpster fire weeks. A&M loses Skunk’s double game – Iowa, USC, and Duke also lose. It’s amazing Meathead isn’t in last looking at his top 4 picks in the draft – Washington, Ark St, Memphis, and App St (his 2X loser this week).

On to week 10 – the pre-season is over. Who will ultimately?….

Play. To Win. The Game.

 

Only 5 weeks left of the greatest pool in the history of the world and it looks like we’re going to the wire. We’re more stacked at the top heading to week 9 – which features the most teams in any week on their bye, gearing up for the home stretch.

Walter, George, and Meathead were 6-0, Walter wins the week with 48 points – Clemson was good for 20 vs. NC State. George sweats out the final Saturday game in his doubler with a 16-13 SDSU win over winless San Jose (monitoring it on his phone as his MIL’s house with no cable) That’s the beauty of the pool right there, boys. Meathead gets 36 points out of 6 wins and moves to the top half of the standings in 4^th, Walter slowly climbs and moves to 6th – and George is officially lurking, 3 points out of first place.

Starkey and Gob lost 1 this week, Miss State got stone-walled by LSU for Starkey and ASU lost Thursday night to Stanford for last-place Gob, the only guy with NO hope of winning the pool this year. Zero. Hope. Gob. Starkey sits in 3^rd, just 13 out of the lead.

Everyone else was 4-2.

Leader Mike Lynn had the -4 (home-scored less than 10-no cover) loss from Michigan State.

PJ’s Buckeyes got trounced in his doubler, he falls to 5^th place.

Skunk drops to 7^th place despite a shutout win from Iowa in his doubler.

The Sisters are slowly closing the gap.

After George ran roughshod over the pool in 2017, it looks like we’re back in a dogfight for the top spot this year. Just 21 points separates 1^st from 5^th place. And one really bad week (like PJ this week) doesn’t kill you – you just can’t string those together.

Mike Lynn takes the lead in the pool, one of 3 guys with a 5-1 week. TCU loses Thursday night but he bounces back Saturday – Alabama even covered it’s spread.

George (5-1) moves up to 2^nd place, looking for the first ever back-to-back CFB Pool championship. Miami’s loss to UVA was his lone loss.

Meathead wins the week with 52 points – he gets defensive bonus points out of 4 wins – Washington screwed his perfect week.

Starkey had to start 3 dogs, Texas Tech started the week with an upset win but asking for Indiana and Akron wins too? A bit much. He drops to 4^th place.

Skunk and Walter lost their double games this week with Georgia and Penn State. Skunk also had a -4 loss from Cal – Walter’s Okie Staters are who we thought they were, getting drilled at K State.

The Carolinas (South and Coastal) lose for last-place Gob. He’s heading for the Bama pick in 2019.

Karma was a bee-otch for PJ this week, who doubled Ohio State against himself. The Buckeyes managed 8 points out of that win, keeping PJ over the zero mark for the week. Auburn, West Virginia, Western Kentucky, and Troy all lose this week. 7 points for PJ, he drops to third.

And finally, one of the Sisters is beating their guy.

 

The ol’ conference games are in full swing. Lots more upsets, road wins, home losses, and Vegas has no idea what it’s talking about. The top 3 players in the standings were a collective 3-14 vs. the spread. Collectively the pool members scored the lowest point total in a few years; 236 points for the week or an average of 29.5 per guy.

 

Boise State. Dead. Stanford. Dead. Boston College. Dead. Akron. Dead. Wyoming. Dead.

Our gunfighter killt hisself off this week. An Irish road-double-cover win managed to keep him above zero. He scores 5 points and drops to 3^rd place, we welcome the true namesake of another famous Ringo to the pool – Starkey.

Walter and Meathead were the only guys to score 40 points. Walter gets a pool-high 20 out of Clemson – Missouri spoiled Meathead’s perfect week.

George, Gob, and Skunk scored in the 30’s. Boomer Sooner’s loss was a big one (double for George). A win would’ve had him in 2^nd place. Arizona State’s loss at Colorado was Gob’s only L. Skunk bounced back from a Marshall loss Friday, helped out big by Iowa’s road-cover-double W.

PJ and Mike Lynn were in the 20’s. Auburn and LSU welcomed PJ to SEC ball with a couple losses. Sparty and UNLV were home fave losers for Mike Lynn.

On to week 7 – It’s shaping up to be a tight one this year – 1^st and 4^th separated by less than 30 points.

 

 

 

 

 

 

PJ and George win the week with 51 points, going 6-0.

PJ’s Buckeyes get a huge road-ranked double win. He re-takes the lead in the pool.

George’s Wolverines rally for a double win in Evanston. He jumps to 4^th place.

 

Ringo, Mike Lynn, and Walter go 5-1.

Mississippi State takes the home, no-cover, loss to the Gators for Ringo.

Mike Lynn goes the dreaded 1-5 vs. the spread so 5 wins gets him only 25 points.

Walter – chasing points – loses his 2^nd double game as Penn State falls apart in the 4^th quarter at home.

 

Skunk and Gob each post 4-2 records.

Skunk also goes 1-5 vs the spread, scoring a pool-low 21 this week. At least he had the enjoyable trip to Linc…

Utah and Air Force takes losses for Gob.

 

Finally, Meathead’s strange draft-night strategy rears its ugly head and its gross.

2^nd pick Arkansas State, 3^rd rounder Memphis and Buffalo all lose.

 

The divisions are lop-sided, the Sisters sitting in 6^th, 7^th and 8^th.

All of Murderer’s Row is beating their guy. Easily.