Big 12 Community Picks
by Warden11 on Sep 4, 2010 7:19 AM CDT
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PrintWeek one of the RCT Community picks are finalized and we ended up getting 31 votes total. Not too bad for week 1 and hopefully as the season goes along those numbers will pick up each week. I'm going to keep the results here short and sweet, especially this week because there is a pretty clear favorite in all but two games. Throughout the season I will keep track of the community's record so we can brag about our expertise at the end of the season.
The games will be broken down into three categories. Category one will be the locks and I'll put any team that gets 85% of more of the vote into this group. Category two will be the "pretty confident" group and this category will be games that have any from 60% to 84% of the vote for one team. The third category will be the "toss up" group, these games will have the votes split from 40% to 59% for one team. Time for the results after the jump!
Locks
- Kansas over North Dakota State: The Jayhawks ran away with the vote and pitched a shutout. Impressive work for the Jayhawks.
- Iowa State over Northern Illinois: 97% for Iowa State, good call on this one.
- Missouri over Illinois: 87% for the Tigers in this one today. Higher than I expected considering it requires us to vote for Missouri but it's the correct pick. Way to swallow your pride men.
- Texas over Rice: 100% for Texas. Yawn.
- Nebraska over Western Kentucky: 100% for the Corn.
- Oklahoma over Utah State: 97% for OU, who voted for Utah State?
- Texas A&M over SF Austin: Another shutout, 100% for the Aggies. I know this week will be a cakewalk but I'm not on the A&M bandwagon yet.
- Texas Tech over SMU: 90% for Texas Tech. Really looking forward to this game just to see how Tuberville handles the Tech offense.
Pretty Confident
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- Oklahoma State over Washington State: 84% for the Cowboys, missed this in the original posting.
Toss Up
- Kansas State over UCLA: 58% for the Wildcats on this one. K-State needs to win this game if they want to avoid a disappointing season and UCLA's injury situation helps them a lot.
- Colorado State over Colorado: 52% like the Rams. The only Big 12 team picked to take a loss this week. If we're correct, that contract extension that Hawkins wanted might be a little tougher to get.
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Nice...this is good.
I’m guessing I swayed the Colorado State vote with my pro Ram commentary earlier this week…sorry buffs, I can cheer for you any other time except KU and CSU.
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by Owen on Sep 4, 2010 7:33 AM CDT via mobile reply actions
CU hype
I just don’t buy the notion that CU has somehow changed their spots from last year. I still see them as dysfunctional – see QB battle again this offseason. They’ve talked about being motivated by revenge after the celebration on the field last year, but isn’t that what you do n a rivalry game.
My question for the year is th O/U for games til Hawkins is fired, or maybe they think Ralphie can run on 3 legs.
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Do you guys pick every game? Didn’t see OSU, although I imagine they’re in lock category. Baylor too?
I’m expecting 10-2 for Bix XII. KSU, CU and Tech could lose (Mizzou to win a close one). I expect KSU an Tech to lose.
Ah, good call. Missed the OSU game in the post. I'll make a quick edit on that.
Also noticed today when I was looking at the results that I completely skipped over the Baylor game in the poll. The plan is to pick all Big 12 games.
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You expect Tech to lose to SMU?
Tuberville might be forced to walk the plank if that happens.
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Nice break down
and good to keep a tally for the year as well.
Does the poll record how individuals voted. It would be interesting to see how rivet does vs. Denver vs. … Just a thought.
No, I'd have to make people email the picks to me or something like that.
Don’t want to make it that cumbersome.
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Shocked
im pretty shocked OSU game is not a lock like the others… Washington State is TRASH! You cant give OSU crap about losing players when there recruiting classes the past 5 years maybe more have been top 30… So we have guys that can replace them. But we will see :)
It's basically a lock, one vote away.
Most people here see them winning.
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