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 4th, 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 3rd, 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 5th place.
Skunk drops to 7th 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 1st from 5th 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 2nd 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 4th 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 3rd 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 2nd 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 – 1st and 4th 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 4th 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 2nd double game as Penn State falls apart in the 4th 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.
2nd pick Arkansas State, 3rd rounder Memphis and Buffalo all lose.
The divisions are lop-sided, the Sisters sitting in 6th, 7th and 8th.
All of Murderer’s Row is beating their guy. Easily.
The commish’s thinking was very un-dude…
Upon further review:
For my doubler this week, I will go with Virginia Tech. Unlike the commissioner, I am doubling my biggest spread, but
1.) I cannot conceive of a situation wherein Va. Tech loses that game; Thaaaat’s right, Dude. The weight. The ringer can’t look empty.
2.) I should thus be certain of road win points; Ya see? Nothing is f**ked up here, Dude. Nothing is f**ked. These guys are f**king amateurs–
3.) Last year Virginia Tech won 38-0, in the only other meeting between the 2 schools, so hopefully I can get a defensive point; That’s the simple part, Dude. When we make the handoff, I grab the guy and beat it out of him.
4.) Next week Virginia Tech play Duke so they really shouldn’t be looking ahead; No Drop off? We can’t do that, Dude. That f**ks up our plan.
and 5.) Va. Tech’s game last week was cancelled so they should be dying to get on the field and play a game. Went alright. Dude’s car got a little dinged up–
Hello, Walter…
A relatively calm weekend at the very top of the college pool standings as well as the top 10 in the land, although OU and Stanford had George and Ringo sweating it out.
Boston College and Mississippi State lost in convincing fashion, Stanford’s OT win saved Ringo from a train-wreck weekend, he remains #1, but the lead is slim.
Tied for 2nd – Mike Lynn and PJ. Both were 6-0, PJ wins the week with 58 points, with 18 from Ohio State and 4 other 9 point wins. MLynn scores 51 led by a road doubler from Sparty.
George and Meathead were also 6-0, but both were 2-3 against the spread and didn’t cover double games.
Texas knocked off TCU for 5-1 Gob, he almost hit the daily double with Oregon.
Navy and Pitt lost by a combined 4 points for Skunk. He goes 4-2 managing 28 points.
“For my doubler this week, I will go with Virginia Tech. Unlike the commissioner, I am doubling my biggest spread, but 1.) I cannot conceive of a situation wherein Va. Tech loses that game; 2.) I should thus be certain of road win points; 3.) Last year Virginia Tech won 38-0, in the only other meeting between the 2 schools, so hopefully I can get a defensive point; 4.) Next week Virginia Tech play Duke so they really shouldn’t be looking ahead; and 5.) Va. Tech’s game last week was cancelled so they should be dying to get on the field and play a game.”
But, Mousie, thou art no thy lane [you aren’t alone]
In proving foresight may be vain:
The best laid schemes o’ mice an’ men
Gang aft a-gley, [often go awry]
An’ lea’e us nought but grief an’ pain,
For promised joy.
Another historic bad beat in a double game. Throw a ranked Okie State loss on top. And you get a 27 point, name-changin’ week.
Mousie Garner.
