College Bowl Pick'em and Live Chats!

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College Bowl Pick'em and Live Chats!

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Image College Bowl Pick'em Contest! Image

It's time to pick the college football bowl games again! \:D/ Our group is renewed, please go and join!
ESPN Bowl Mania Password: thetoo
You have until December 19th to submit your picks; I hope we have several people play this year!

This is like the March Madness game, but even easier to work through. It's literally just picking teams down a list. It can be entirely random, just click one in each game. The more participants there are the more fun it is, you don't have to really know what you're doing! Please enter, even if you don't care about the games at all. It takes less than two minutes to do and then you can forget about it if you want. Just join to be nice to us who would like a big group playing! :)

Previous: 2011, 2012, 2013, 2014, 2015, 2016, 2017, 2018

Expand below for instructions if you're confused about how to join the group or make your picks:
You will need an ESPN account. Make one now if you don't have one already, it's very easy and fast. You don't have to provide identifying information.
PM me if you have trouble or concerns making an account and I can make one for you.
  • Log in to your ESPN account and go to the page for our group linked above. Click the "Play Now" button.
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  • Set a name for your entry (it's nice if it has your ToO username in it somewhere) and enter the group password. Click "Continue"
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  • The ToO group should be added to your list. Click "Continue"
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  • Don't need to do anything at the next screen, just click "Continue"
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How to make your picks:
(These pictures are just examples of the process, the teams you see may be different.)
  • Simply go down the list of games and click on one team in each game. (The one you think will win.) The green bars show how many other people have picked that team. Continue picking one team in each game until you reach the bottom of the list.
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  • Guess how many points each team will score in the final championship game. (This is used for the contest tiebreaker if one is needed.)
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  • Verify you have picked winners for all the games and save your picks!
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That's it! You're all set! \:D/
PM me if you have problems or questions with anything.



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For those who do care I've also set up a Chatroom channel for live chatting the games! \:D/
Join #Bowl if you're able to be online while you watch, especially if you are rooting for either team playing! If you are watching but can't chat during the game you can at least come by to check in during commercial breaks! If you aren't really following the game but just want to come hang out that's great too!

I won't be there for most of the early bowls, but feel free to hold your own viewing parties if you want to.
Hopefully we'll have a good showing when we get to the bigger ones in a couple weeks! :)

Schedule of bowls, dates, times, and channels
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UGA broke my heart, we’ll lose against Baylor for sure because half the team will sit. It’s playoff or bust for my Dawgs. :/
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Only a few days left to enter, please join! We need more players!
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I joined a while ago but I never actually mentioned that I did/how I picked. Before this, I didn't know that each bowl had a different name (many of which seem very random, but maybe there's some reason I don't understand). So I looked at both teams and picked which one seemed to fit the bowl name better.
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Post by bookworm »

Congratulations to AE for winning the picking contest! \:D/

It came down to the very last pick! AE and 321tumbler were tied going into the final game and each had a different team; AE correctly picked LSU to win the championship securing victory.

Final standings:
AE - 25
321tumbler - 24
bookworm - 23
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I can't believe I actually did well, but that's super! I guess the Bowl names might have some impact. :P
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So I just realized that both teams in the final ended up being "Tigers" how did you decide between them?
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To be honest, I don't really remember. I think I probably just picked one at random.
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Well for the record it didn't matter, even if you had picked the other team and tied AE he would have still won the contest on the tiebreaker.
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