It’s that time of year again… time for the 3nd annual Living Room Times College Football Pick ‘em Contest! It’s free! It’s fun! Join in!
To join the group, click here, then enter Group ID number 20146 and password PANIC. Basic rules:
• We’ll be picking all games involving AP Top 25 teams + all games involving Pac-12 teams + all games deemed “interesting” by Yahoo’s editors.
• No point spreads. We’re picking the games straight-up.
• The deadline is five minutes before each game. Thursday games generally are not included, but Friday games sometimes are. So for instance, this week, for full possible points, you’ll want to make your picks before 5:25 PM MDT Friday! (That said, if you forget to enter your picks before the weekend’s first included game(s), you can still predict the remaining games. Obviously, you’ll get no points for any games that started before you entered your picks, but at least you aren’t shut out for the entire weekend because, say, you forgot about TCU-Baylor.)
• Unlike last year, I don’t presently plan to drop the lowest weekly score. So make sure you enter every week! When signing up, you may want to select the option to have Yahoo! send you a reminder 1 or 2 days before the deadline.
• As per usual, there’s no monetary or tangible prize — just the respect and admiration of your peers, and recognition on Twitter and the blog, like Marty West got in 2010 and Lisa Velte got last year.
Speaking of which: contestants are encouraged, in choosing their “Pick Set Name,” to use either their real name, or a nickname / handle / pseudonym that will be recognizable to other members of the blog / Twitter community.
Once you’ve joined the contest, you’ll be able to access its Yahoo group page here. But first you gotta join! To do that, again, click here, then enter Group ID number 20146 and password PANIC. Good luck!