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K Math Wins 2024 March Madness Championship

Congrats to K Math who won his first March Madness championship, once UConn won the NCAA tournament title. He finished 10 points ahead of AY. With 125 points, K Math scored the highest total since 2012 when Hooville had 128 points. Congratulations on filling out a great bracket!

Michigan Wins CFP Championship!

Congrats to the Michigan Wolverines for winning their first national championship since 1997. But most importantly for us, congrats to Jayhawk for winning the 1A Championship! When the game started, Jayhawk was tied with AM_Yanelli for first place with 61 points. Jayhawk picked Michigan, but AM_Yanelli picked Washington. Because Michigan won the game, Jayhawk earned the point and came away with his first ever 1A championship! Jayhawk has been in the Picks Club for several years, starting in the March Madness picks. He was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2021.

In the 1AA playoffs, TrojanCDR had a one game lead over Blue Coug when the game started. TrojanCDR picked Washington, while Blue Coug picked Michigan. So it came down to the score picks. Here's how it all went down.

So with that, Blue Coug wins because his predicted scores were 9 points lower than TrojanCDR's picks. This is his first 1AA championship, though he was also inducted into the Hall of Fame, way back in 2005. Congrats Blue Coug!

Four Pickmeisters in Week 12

Congrats to the four Pickmeisters in Week 12: AY (17), CalebsFingerNails (3), DaCougs (21), and Ezone00 (17)! And with that, the regular season comes to an end. It's hard to believe that we're already here, but now it's time for the playoffs!

Division Champs

Your 2023 division champions are: UVaCavs6, adafao, Hooville. The three of them qualify automatically for the 1A playoffs. They'll be joined by Ezone00, HollySahn03, and AM_Yanelli, who each won the most division games in their respective divisions.

The Wild Card qualifiers were: DaCougs, nschillen, White Lightning, Jayhawk and RyHutch. That brings our total to 11 players in the 1A playoffs. It appears we forgot to set up the tie-breaker, so both Jayhawk and RyHutch get in.

Playoff Picks

The 1AA playoffs start this week, with 14 games on Saturday. Be sure to send in your picks before kickoff of each game. If you are not in the 1A playoffs, but you sent in your picks for at least 100 total games during the regular season, you are in the 1AA playoffs.

DrumNFeather Wins 2023 March Madness!

Congratulations to DrumNFeather, who won his second March Madness championship. His first championship was 13 years ago, in 2010. This year's tournament proved to be very unpredictable. He won by 4 points but in the process set the Picks Club record for the fewest points ever scored by a champion (67). The previous record was set last year by BlueK who scored 80 points. Congrats DrumNFeather!

Contrats to UVaCavs6 and RyHutch

UVaCavs6 won his 2nd ever 1A championship, by scoring 75 points in the playoff round. He finished 6 points ahead of Cougar in Big D. He becomes the 6th player to have at least two 1A championships. Although he did well in all games (29-13 / 69%), his record in the 4 and 5 point games was especially impressive, at 12-3. Congrats on an excellent playoff run!

RyHutch won his first ever 1AA championship! In the final round of the 1AA playoffs, he beat out adafao by just one game (16-5 vs 15-6). RyHutch was 28-14 in bowl games, and 41-22 in all 1AA playoff games. Congrats Ry!

Round Three Starts Today!

In the 1AA playoffs, we are down to the last round, which starts today. The top 6 players have advanced to the final round. The standings page has been updated so you can check where you are.

The 1A playoffs continue today as well, with lots of movement in the standings. So far, compcoug and UVaCavs6 are tied for first, but it's still way too early to count anyone out. Lots of interesting games are coming up today as well.

Good luck everyone!

Congratulations to Our Regular Season Champions!

In the Starters division, Picks Club rookie Lovehandles won his first ever championship, finishing three games ahead of Hall of Fame player tander123. Lovehandles also won this week's Pickmeister award by winning 13 games! This is now the 4th time that he has won the weekly award.

In the Veterans division, Ezone00 is the champion! He pretty much took control of the division right from the start of the season and held on for the win. Ezone00 is a long time member of the Picks Club and also in the Hall of Fame, but this is his first time as a division champion.

There was quite a bit of drama in the Legends division. Four players tied for first place, so we had to go to the tie-breaker to determine the champion. The first tie-breaker is the total points off on the 4 guess the score games. Here's how it all went down.

So with that, Jayhawk wins the division by two points over Cougar in Big D. This is his third division championship of his career, and he becomes the first player to ever win the Starters, Veterans and Legends divisions.

Playoffs

The following players have clinched a playoff spot in the 1A playoffs:

After the division champions qualify for the 1A playoffs, the next three spots go to the players within the division who have the best record in division games only. In the Legends, Cougar in Big D qualified there with 73 division wins. In the Starters division, tander123 qualified with 72 wins. In the Veterans division, A Brighton tied with KaseyDH at 63 wins. Neither of them sent in their score picks so we broke the tie by looking at their records in the 4 division games. A Brighton won by going 2-2 in those games.

After the four wild card players made the playoffs, the rest with at least 100+ wins qualifed for the 1AA playoffs.

BlueK is 2022 March Madness Champion

Congrats to BlueK for winning the 2022 March Madness Championship!

Kansas came from 16 points behind in the first half to beat North Carolina for the NCAA championship, and with that, BlueK wins his second March Madness championship of his career. This was a very unpredictable tournament, as evidenced by the total number of points earned from each player. In fact, BlueK won with only 80 points, which was the lowest total of all time. The previous record was 83 points, set by D Jarvis in 1988. Perhaps it's ironic, but Kansas also won the 1988 NCAA championship as well.

AY Wins First 1A Title

Congratulations to AY for winning his first 1A championship! The outcome was already decided before the Alabama/Georgia CFP championship was played, since he had 70 points already and nobody was able to pass him, regardless of the outcome. He finished just one point ahead of Cougar in Big D. So Congratulations to AY!

BlueK Wins 1AA Title

In the 1AA playoffs, there were five players tied at 12-5, but BlueK was the only player of those five who picked Georgia to win. He joins four other players who have at least two 1AA championships. He and DaCougs are the only players who have won at least two 1A titles and two 1AA titles. Congratulations BlueK!

Three Pickmeisters in Week 12

During Week 12, we had three players who were 13-2 and won the Pickmeister Award. Bama and tripleD are both Hall of Fame players, while KnucleChange is not quite there yet. Bama won for the 13th time and tripleD won for the 15th time. KnucleChange now has 3 Awards. Congratulations everyone!

Division Champions

Three players tied for first place in the Legends division: Cougar in Big D, DrumNFeather, and UVaCavs6. The tie breaker is the score picks. UVaCavs6 won the score picks since he was only 58 total points off. Cougar in Big D and DrumNFeather could not beat that. I believe this may have been the first time we have ever had a three-way tie for the division title. This is the third division championship for UVaCavs6 in his career, but the first time since 2012 that he has won a division title.

AY is the Veterans division champion. He beat out both byubob and Ezone00 who missed two weeks of picks in the regular season. Ths is the second time that AY has won a division title, with the previous championship coming in 2015.

A Brighton won the Starters division by two games over gasman. Though A Brighton is one of the earliest players of the Picks Club, this was his first year in the online version. To find the last time he won a division title, you have to go all the way back to 1987 when he won Division 3.

Playoff Berths

So now that we're done with the regular season, we can move on to the first round of the playoffs. The 1A playoffs start with the bowl games on December 18. The 1AA playoffs will start on Thursday, November 25. That doesn't give us much time to get set up and ready. So please be sure to check your picks to see if you have any games to pick this week.

In the 1A playoffs, the division champions get automatic bids. This year, these players are UVaCavs6, AY and A Brighton. The next group to get into the 1A playoffs are the next best players in the Division games. In the Legends division, White Lightning won 67 division games, so he will advance. In the Veterans division, it will be Waterboy, who also won 67 division games. In the Starters division, gasman won 68 games, and he will advance to the 1A playoffs.

The final four spots in the 1A playoffs are filled by the top players in the Wild Card standings. This year, Cougar in Big D, Jeffacka, and DrumNFeather were the top three in the Wild Card standings. For the fourth and final spot, we had another three-way tie between tincanclub, tripleD and YCougars. In the score picks, tincanclub was 103 points off, tripleD was 80 points off, and YCougars was 76 points off. So YCougars claims the final 1A playoff spot.

Everyone else who has at least 100 total games of picks qualifies for the 1AA playoffs.

Hall of Fame Update

Congratulations to adafao and Jayhawk who have qualified for the Hall of Fame! Jayhawk qualifed when he won the Veterans division, while adafao qualifed when she won her 10th Weekly Pickmeister Award on December 5 last year. She is now the second female member of the Picks Club Hall of Fame (SLC Transplant is the first).

YCougars Wins Second March Madness Championship

Congratulations to YCougars who won his second March Madness championship! This year, he scored 116 total points, which was 15 points ahead of White Lightning. His previous championship was in 2015. YCougars is now the third player to have two March Madness Championships. Congratulations on a great bracket!

Ezone00 Wins 1A Championship

Congratulations to Ezone00 who won an impressive 72 points in the 1A playoffs. It seems this was a rather predictable bowl season and Ezone00 did very well. He tied with Weiser, and in a rare coincidence, they tied in every way. The final tiebreaker is a coin flip, which Ezone00 won. Congratulations Ezone00!

DaCougs is the 1AA Champion for 2020!

Congratulations to DaCougs who won his second career 1AA championship! DaCougs also has three 1A championships and 6 division titles. It came down to the championship game, which Alabama won 52-24. DaCougs had predicted a score of 42-27, which turned out to be 13 points off the total. AY had picked 41-31, which was a total of 18 points off. It was one of the closest championships that we have ever seen in the Picks Club. Congratulations DaCougs!

Week 14 has Four Pickmeisters

Congratulations to our Pickmeisters for Week 14! AY (13), Cougar in Big D (17), DrumNFeather (16), and Waterboy (12). All of them are long time players in the Picks Club. In fact, all combined, these four players have won 58 Pickmeister awards. Pretty amazing. Congratulations everyone!

COVID-19 Cancels March Madness Picks

As you are all certainly aware by now, the Coronavirus Pandemic has forced the cancellation of the NCAA March Madness tournament for 2020. Unfortunately, this means we did not have a March Madness champion for this year. Hopefully the pandemic will be resolved soon and we'll be able to get back to normal. We know tripleD is eager to defend his March Madness championship from 2019!

Hooville wins 1A Championship!

With LSU's 42-25 win over Clemson, Hooville claims his third 1A championship! He also won in 2011 and 2002. He earned one point on the game, but that was just enough to stay ahead of compcoug. If Clemson had won the game, Hooville and compcoug would have tied for first place and then we'd have to break the tie with the score picks. Congratulations to Hooville for winning your third title!

In the 1AA playoffs, Thundercoug and KnucleChange tied for first place. If Clemson had won, then hardpics would have also tied them. However, with LSU's 42-25 win, it forced a tie with Thundercoug and KnucleChange. This was unbelievably close. Thundercoug's score pick was 31-28, which was a total of 14 points off (42-31 = 11 and 28-25 = 3). KnucleChange's pick was 40-36, which was a total of 13 points off (42-40 = 2 and 36-25 = 11). So KnucleChange is the 1AA champion by a difference of just one point! Congratulations!

Hooville - Perfect in Week 12!

In Week 12, Hooville was 15-0 to win his 21st Weekly Pickmeister Award, which is a Picks Club record. Hooville was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2004 and has had a fantastic Picks Club career. He also becomes the first player to have a perfect week this year. Congratulations Hooville!

Division Champions

After the worst weeks were dropped, Bama has won the Legends Division. He is now a 5 time Division champion. SECFball has won the Starters division for his 3rd division title. In the Veterans division, Jayhawk and Rich Strong tied for first place. Rich Strong won the division because his final score picks were 56 total points off and Jayhawk was 71 total points off. So Rich Strong advances to the 1A playoffs as the Veterans Division champion. This is Rich Strong's 4th division title.

1A Playoff Contenders

The three division champions (Bama, Rich Strong, SECFball) advance to the 1A playoffs. Joining them will be the players with the best record in divisional games within each division. White Lightning advances from the Legends division. From the Veterans division, adafao advances to the 1A playoffs. And stripes advances from the Starters division. The final four spots in the 1A playoffs go to the top players in the wild card games: Jayhawk, Hooville, Bowl Cut and compcoug.

tripleD Wins March Madness Picks!

In 2019, tripleD won his second career March Madness championship, by winning 116 total points in the tournament. This was almost 30 points higher than his last championship in 2011, when he won with only 87 points. He won the championship over Thundercoug, who scored 105 points, and he was the only player to correctly pick Virginia to win the NCAA title. Congratulations!

1A Champion is hardpics!

Before the game started, hardpics was one point behind UVaCavs6. Without knowing which team he would pick, hardpics took Clemson while UVaCavs6 took Alabama. And with that, hardpics earned two points and took the championship. Though he has won four division titles, this is the first time hardpics has won the 1A championship. Congratulations to hardpics for claiming the 2018 1A championship!

1AA Champion is badgergirl!

In the 1AA playoffs, Cougar in Big D, jockanddoc and badgergirl all tied for first. To break the tie, each player had to predict the final score. Cougar in Big D went with 35-31 for Alabama. Since Clemson won the game 44-16, Cougar in Big D was 32 points off the total. Jockanddoc went with Clemson, 34-29. His final score pick was 23 points off. Badgergirl wins the championship because she picked 38-31 for Clemson, and was off by only 21 points total. This is her first ever championship in the Picks Club, and though we don't know for sure, she might be the very first female season champion in the history of the Picks Club. Congratulations!

Playoff Standings | Playoff Picks

Four Pickmeisters in Week 12

Congratulations to rookies Bowl Cut (3) and rpobr (3) who tied with Hall of Fame players Rich Strong (9) and YCougars (17) for this week's Pickmeister award. Bowl Cut and rpoabr won for the third time this year. Rich Strong has played in the Picks Club for almost every season we have been in existence. He was inducted into the first Hall of Fame class. YCougars became a Hall of Famer in 2008. These guys were 12-3 this week. Congratulations everyone!

Division Champions: hardpics, SLC Transplant, Bowl Cut

Congratulations to our division champions for 2018: hardpics won the Legends division in the very next season after having won the Veterans division. This is his third consecutive division championship - a feat accomplished by only a few other players. Hardpics was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2016. SLC Transplant won the Veterans division, so she will be moving up into the Legends division in 2019. This is her 2nd division championship. She was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2017. Bowl Cut is the Starters Division champion, in his rookie season. Next year, he will move up to the Veterans division.

Other News
For the first time in the history of the Picks Club, we are implementing a relegation and promotion set of rules, just like you see in professional soccer leagues. Those who won their divisions last year will move up a level, and those who took last in their divisions will move down.

Jayhawk will move up to the Veterans division, and hardpics will move up to the Legends division. In addition, because Hooville only sent in his picks for one week, he will move down to the Veterans division, while SECFball moves down to the Starters division for the same reason.

Good luck to everyone in 2018!

Latest Updates - August 5, 2018

Hall of Fame Update
Congratulations to Ezone00 and Spartacus for making the Hall of Fame in 2018! Ezone00 qualified on October 14, 2017 when he won his 10th Weekly Pickmeister award. Spartacus made the Hall of Fame on September 9, 2017 when he won his 10th Weekly Pickmeister.

Additional Updates from the 2017 Season

1. Rich Strong won his first ever 1A championship, beating Cougar in Big D by 3 points.
2. AY won his first ever 1AA championship by one game over several players (BlueK, tincanclub, Weiser, Thundercoug).
3. Jockanddoc won his third March Madness championship, and set a new Picks Club record for fewest points by a champion with a total of 85.

Hall of Fame Update

I have finally found some time to make some very needed updates to the website. I apologize for how long it has taken me to do this. The latest updates include entering everyone's historical data, and so far the career leaders pages have been updated. There have been quite a few changes in the past several years. The next update will be the Hall of Fame pages. The last Hall of Fame update was in 2013, so I will be updating for the past 4 years.

Most recent Hall of Fame inductees:
2014 - jockanddoc (after winning 2nd 1AA championship)
2015 - Waterboy (after winning 2nd division championship)
2016 - hardpics (after winning 10th Weekly Pickmeister Award on Sep. 15, 2015)
2016 - tincanclub (after winning 10th Weekly Pickmeister Award on Oct. 10, 2015)
2016 - AY (after winning 10th Weekly Pickmeister Award on Nov. 7, 2015)
2017 - Jeffacka (after winning 10th Weekly Pickmeister Award on Oct. 29, 2016)
2017 - tripleD (after winning 10th Weekly Pickmeister Award on Oct. 15, 2016)
2017 - SLC Transplant (after winning 10th Weekly Pickmeister Award on Oct. 1, 2016)

DrumNFeather and tripleD Win Week 12 Pickmeister

In the final week of the 2017 regular season, DrumNFeather and tripleD win the Weekly Pickmeister Award by winning 13 games. For DrumNFeather, this is his 14th award of his career, and for tripleD, this is his 11th. Congratulations to both players on a great week!

Division Champions
Congratulations to our division champions for 2017: DaCougs, hardpics, and Jayhawk, who is in his rookie season. The closest division race was in the Legends division, where DaCougs won by one game over UVaCavs6 and two games over Cougar in Big D and DrumNFeather. In the Veterans division, hardpics finished three games ahead of Rich Strong. In theh Starters division, Jayhawk won by one game over tripleD. Congratulations to the 2017 division champs!

Other Updates

I have also taken the time to update the career records pages. You can click on the active player links to see your up-to-date records in the regular season, playoff and total games. The last time I updated those pages was way back in 2010 - I didn't realize it had been that long. I have also updated the Hall of Fame checklist page so you can see how close you are to making the Hall of Fame. Thanks for your patience as I update the site content.

DaCougs Wins March Madness Championship!

Congratulations to DaCougs who won the 2017 Picks Club March Madness Championship. Sixteen years ago, DaCougs won his first championship by setting a record of 130 total points earned. This record would stand until 2007. DaCougs joins BlueCoug and jockanddoc as the only players with two March Madness Championships.

DaCougs won by just 4 points over Hooville, who would have also won his second championship. The difference between the two players was in the Sweet Sixteen when DaCougs won 3 games and Hooville won 2. DaCougs had picked Gonzaga to beat West Virginia, while Hooville picked the opposite.

Our three fake players Dice Roll, Coin Toss and Loco prove yet again that picking teams randomly or by mascot is not a good strategy. They almost always finish at the bottom of the standings, and this year was no different.

Thanks to everyone for a great March Madness tournament. We'll see you here again in the fall for the Football Picks!

UVaCavs6 Wins 1A Championship!

Congratulations to UVaCavs6 who won his first ever 1A Championship! He scored 74 total points out of a possible total of 100 points in order to claim the championship. Even though he picked Alabama to win, so did most other players. Ezone00 came in second and finished 7 points behind, so the outcome of the championship game didn't seem to matter. UVaCavs6 had a record of 13-4 in the 3, 4, and 5 point games. UVaCavs6 is a long-time member of the Picks Club and was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2008. Congratulations on a fantastic playoff run!

jockanddoc Wins 3rd 1AA Title

Congratulations to jockanddoc who became the first player ever with three 1AA titles. He won his second title in the 2013 season, and he won this year's title by going 16-5 in the final round of the playoffs. There was a tie for first place with jockanddoc, compcoug and stripes, but compcoug was the only player of the three to pick Clemson. However, the tiebreaker rule is that the closest to the actual score is the champion. In this year's case, jockanddoc picked a 31-27 win for Alabama, which put him at 8 total points off, since the final score was 31-35. Compcoug was next, at 12 total points off. His score prediction was 23-31, so he was off by 8 points for Alabama and 4 points on Clemson. Stripes was third, with a score pick of 28-21. He was off by 3 points for Alabama and 14 on Clemson for a total of 17.

In the early rounds of the playoffs, jockanddoc was 12-9 and then 11-9, which was just good enough to keep advancing to each round. Then in the final round, he only missed 5 games. Great work, jockanddoc!

hardpics Wins the Division!

With a record of 119-46, hardpics wins the division title by 2 games over Cougar in Big D. He held off some strong competition in the last few weeks of the season from several players. This is the second time hardpics has been the division champ - the last time was in the 2009 season. He now tries for a 1A championship in the same year as a division championship. Congratulations hardpics!

Cougar in Big D was 11-4 to win the Weekly Pickmeister for week 12. Despite winning three Pickmeister awards and never having a record worse than 9-6 in any given week this year, Big D still only managed to take 2nd place.

If you are in the 1AA playoffs, your picks start this week. There will be one game on Thanksgiving Day (LSU @ Texas A&M) and several more games on Friday. The picks are ready for you to submit now. There will also be seven additional games next week.

Playoff Assignments Announced

That's right, it's time again for the Picks Club playoffs. Ten players have qualified for the 1A playoffs. Everyone else with picks in at least 100 games has qualified for the 1AA playoffs. Here's how it went.

According to the rules, the top 2 players in overall record get their tickets punched for the 1A playoffs first. By winning the division, hardpics went in first, followed by Cougar in Big D, who took second.

The next three players in the standings in division games go into the playoffs next. UVaCavs6 was next, by winning 74 division games, and he was followed by AY with 71 wins. There was a five-way tie with 70 wins, but byubob won because his score picks were off by only 71 total points. White Lightning was off by 80 points, followed by DaCougs and SLC Transplant who were off by 82 points each, and compcoug was off by 85 points.

The last 5 spots go to the top 5 players in Wild Card standings. Ezone00 had 48 wild card wins, followed by DaCougs, MT in MD, BlueK and busdriver449 who each had 45. Overall, this was a very competitive season - perhaps the most competitive season we have ever had in the Picks Club. One or two games here or there and we might have had a completely different set of players in the playoffs.

Jockanddoc Wins March Madness Picks!

Congratulations to jockanddoc who wins his second career March Madness championship. He becomes the second player in Picks Club history to have two March Madness championships. BlueCoug was the first one back in 2005. Jockanddoc's first championship came in 2008.

This race was perhaps the closest in Picks Club history. Besides jockanddoc, Rodney Mosley also finished with 102 points, so we had to go to the tiebreaker. The final score was 77-74, or a total of 151 points. Rodney predicted 129 points while jockanddoc predicted 134. So the championship was determined by only 5 points. Coming in 3rd place was Cougar in Big D, having earned 101 points.

How close was it? Well, in the first round, jockanddoc and Rodney both picked St Joe's while Cougar in Big D picked Cincinnati.

Again, congratulations to jockanddoc for filling out the winning bracket!

1A Champion is byubob

For the second time in his career, byubob has won the Picks Club 1A Championship. His record in the 3, 4, and 5 point games was outstanding, going 15-2 and earning 64 total points in these games. In the final 13 games of the playoffs, byubob was 12-1, after having started out with 10 losses in the previous 28 games. The last time byubob won the 1A championship was in 2008, and he becomes the 5th player in Picks Club history to have more than one 1A championship. Congratulations to byubob for a great playoff run!

DaCougs Wins Tie-Breaker in 1AA Playoffs

In the 1AA playoffs, DaCougs and badgergirl tied for first place with records of 15-6. It then came down to the score picks to see who our new champion will be. Both players picked Alabama. DaCougs picked 35-27, and badgergirl picked 31-24. DaCougs was 23 total points off (45-35 = 10 and 40-27 = 13), and badgergirl was 30 points off (45-31 = 14 and 40-24 = 16). So with that, DaCougs wins the 1AA championship for the 2015 season. This is the first time he has won the 1AA championship, and he becomes the 5th player in Picks Club history to win both a 1A and a 1AA title. Congratulations to DaCougs!

2015 Playoff Update

This week, I forgot to set up the pick-the-score games, so I had to make a slight change to the rules. Under normal circumstances, the pick-the-score games were used to break ties. Since there were no score picks this year, then I allowed tied players to advance to the 1A playoffs, when necessary.

AY qualified first by winning the regular season. byubob also qualified for the 1A playoffs for finishing in 2nd place. The next three spots went to the players with the most division wins. With 71 division wins, hardpics qualified next, followed by Bama who had 70 wins. The rules said 3 players would get in, but there was a tie with 69 wins between White Lightning and Damose. Because there were no score picks, both of them advanced. This left 4 spots in the 1A playoffs to go to the players with the most Wild Card wins. jockanddoc advanced first with 48 wins, followed by Ezone00, compcoug, and adafao who each had 45 wins. That brought the total to 10 players who advanced to the 1A playoffs.

YCougars Wins March Madness Picks!

YCougars turned a very strong performance in the Sweet 16 into his first ever March Madness championship. He earned 35 points out of a possible 40 in the round of 16. This meant he correctly picked 7 of the Elite Eight teams. YCougars had one of the championship teams correct, and that was enough to give him the victory over LTC H. The 118 total points earned by YCougars was the most since 2012 when Hooville had 128. The record for most points belongs to Absolute Empire who scored 153 points in 2007. Cougar in Big D was the only player who correctly picked Duke to win the championship, but Big D could only manage to take 8th place.

DaCougs Wins Unprecedented Third Straight 1A Title!

DaCougs made Picksclub history tonight by winning his 3rd straight 1A Championship. Nobody has ever won this many consecutive titles. He won the championship by coming from behind. He was down by 2 points against Rich Strong before the national championship game started. However, Rich Strong picked Oregon to win and DaCougs picked Ohio St. They ended up tied for first place, so it came down to score picks. DaCougs had predicted a 37-33 win, while Rich Strong picked a 38-24 win for Oregon. DaCougs won because his picks were a total of 18 points off (42-37 and 33-20). Rich Strong's picks were 36 points off (42-24 and 38-20). Congratulations DaCougs for a third straight championship. This is unbelievable.

BlueK Wins First 1AA Championship!

In the 1AA playoffs, Weiser and KaseyDH were tied for first place before the game started, and there were 5 players tied for 3rd place. However, both Weiser and KaseyDH picked Oregon, but BlueK and UVaCavs6 picked Ohio St. So all four of them tied for first place. It came down to the score picks to break the tie.

In the score picks, Weiser picked Oregon 45-32, which meant she was a total of 35 points off (45-20 and 42-32). Next, KaseyDH picked Oregon 28-18, which meant he was a total of 32 points off (28-20 and 42-18). Then was UVaCavs6, who picked Ohio St 34-32, which meant he was a total of 20 points off (42-34 plus 32-20). BlueK won because his score pick was 41-37 (42-41 plus 37-20). In fact, when Ohio St scored their final touchdown with 28 seconds left in the game, that gave BlueK the championship since a final score of 35-20 would have been closer to UVaCavs6.

This is BlueK's first 1AA championship, but he also won two 1A championships back in 1983 and 2000. He was the first Picks Club player to win two 1A championships.

Waterboy Wins 2014 Division Championship!

For the second time in his career, Waterboy has won a division championship! He won his first division championship way back in 2000. In 2014, he withstood strong competition from several players, and several weeks of very difficult picks. This could have been the most difficult season in a long time.

Jockanddoc Wins Week 12 Pickmeister

With a total of 10 wins, jockanddoc wins the final Pickmeister award of 2014. This is the 8th time that he has won the weekly pickmeister award. Congratulations on a great week and on avoiding too many upsets! Jockanddoc qualified for the Hall of Fame last year.

Playoff Update

With the regular season now complete, it's time to announce the players who have advanced to the 1A playoffs. Waterboy qualified first, by virtue of winning the division championship. Rich Strong was next, having finished in 2nd place in the division. The next three spots went to adafao, hardpics and SECFball, who were the top 3 finishers in the division games, after Waterboy and Rich Strong were removed from the standings. The next 4 spots went to the top percentages in the Wild Card games: Ezone00, Cougar in Big D, DaCougs, and tripleD. There was a tie for the final playoff spot, with Hooville, AY, jockanddoc, stripes and Weiser, who all had records of 39-27 in Wild Card games. Jockanddoc won the tie-breaker, based on the 4 games in the score picks. His predictions were a total of 42 points off, which was 8 points ahead of AY, who came in second place. Congratulations!

Lee Tanner Wins March Madness Picks!

Nobody expected Connecticut to beat Kentucky in the championship game, but Lee Tanner was the only player to correctly pick two of the Final Four teams (Florida and Wisconsin). So he squeaks past White Lightning and 92 Coog to win this year's March Madness picks. The 87 points he scored are the fewest by any champion since tripleD just 3 years ago. This is Lee's first ever March Madness Championship. BlueCoug is still the only player with two March Madness championships.

Deja Vu, Twice, All Over Again, Repeated

DaCougs Wins 2nd Consecutive 1A Championship!

This year's 1A championship came right down to the wire. When Florida St finally pulled out the win over Auburn, DaCougs earned 5 points, which put him 4 points ahead of Bama, who finished in second place. If Auburn had pulled out the win, then stripes would have been the champion instead. He would have earned 1 point, which would have put him 1 point ahead of DaCougs. It was a fitting end to a very interesting bowl season. DaCougs won his second consecutive 1A championship. Damose is the only other player in Picks Club history to have won 2 consecutive 1A championships. DaCougs has been very impressive in each of the last two seasons - winning both the regular season and 1A championships in both 2012 and 2013. And you thought the SEC was dominant! Congratulations, DaCougs!

1AA Champion is jockanddoc, for the Second Consecutive Year!

In a very strange coincidence, jockanddoc also won his second consecutive championship, in the 1AA playoffs. He joins compcoug, KaseyDH and Moose as the only players with two career 1AA championships.With that, jockanddoc now qualifies for the Hall of Fame, following his father mystic ken, who was inducted after last season. Jockanddoc was in the lead after every round of the 1AA playoffs this year, and he finished with a playoff record of 37 wins and 18 losses. Seven of those losses came in the third round of the playoffs, when only 5 players had a winning record. Thundercoug would have tied jockanddoc for 1st place if Auburn had been able to hold off Florida St in their final drive of the game. But congratulations go to jockanddoc for a great playoff run and for his second consecutive 1AA championship!

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DaCougs Wins 2013 Division Championship

Congratulations to DaCougs on winning his 5th career division championship, and for the second consecutive year. Only two other players have 5 division championships (Hooville and Cougar in Big D). DaCougs did not send in his picks in week 12, but it was probably a good thing, since it was such a rough week for most players. He won the division by two games, over SLC Transplant and stripes, who tied for second place. With the championship, DaCougs clinched a spot in the 1A playoffs for this year. Congratulations on a great year!

1A Playoffs Announced

Since there was only one division this year, we changed up the qualifications a little for this year's 1A playoffs. To get in, you needed to finish 1st or 2nd in overall winning percentage, or in the top 3 in division games, or in the top 5 in wild card games. As mentioned above, SLC Transplant and stripes tied for 2nd in the division, which means they needed to rely on the pick the score games to determine the winner. But when the points were totaled, both players tied with 88 total points off. So the next tiebreaker is W-L record in the pick the score games. SLC Transplant and stripes both picked the same games, with one exception: stripes picked BYU over Notre Dame. So thanks to the Luck o' the Irish, SLC Transplant claimed the next spot in the 1A playoffs.

The next three players to get into the 1A Playoffs were from the top records in division games only. UVaCavs was 76-23 this year in division games, so he was the 3rd player into the playoffs. Hooville and Ezone00 were next, with records of 75-24.

The next five players came from the best records in wild card games only. Stripes and hardpics tied for the best record in wild card games, after all the other players who had already qualified were removed from the standings. So both of them were in, which left three available spots. Five players tied for the last three spots. Bama qualified first, because he had the lowest total points off (89). Next was Jeffacka with 95, and White Lightning, with 97. That left tripleD (115) and jockanddoc (119) as the first two players in the 1AA playoffs.

Congratulations to everyone on a great year. Good luck in the playoffs!

Compcoug Wins Week 12 Pickmeister

Only two players this week won more than 9 games - it was a rough week with lots of upsets, apparently. Compcoug won 11 games and claimed his 11th Weekly Pickmeister Award, just about one year after winning his 10th. Compcoug was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2004. Congratulations on a great week!

Since we only have one division this year, the following 10 players will qualify for the 1A playoffs: Top 2 players in overall winning percentage, Top 3 players in division winning percentage, and Top 5 players in wild card winning percentage. Also, remember that you must have 11 weeks of picks to qualify for the 1A playoffs. Those who have 12 weeks will have their worst record erased before the standings are finalized.

The 2013 Class of the Hall of Fame includes mystic ken, stripes and DrumNFeather

The Hall of Fame is always big news here at the Picks Club. This year, we have three players going into the Hall of Fame: DrumNFeather, who won his 10th Weekly Pickmeister Award in the very last week of the regular season; stripes, who won his 10th Weekly Pickmeister Award on November 10, 2012; and mystic ken, who qualified by winning his 496th regular season game way back in Week 3. We're not exactly sure which game it was, but it was probably when Ohio St beat California. DrumNFeather has 12 years of experience in the Picks Club, stripes has 7, and mystic ken has just completed his 5th season. Congratulations to everyone!

Thundercoug Wins 2013 March Madness Picks

Congratulations to Thundercoug, who won his first ever March Madness championship! Though he only scored 105 total points - the 5th lowest score ever by a champion - he had enough to beat out Cougar in Big D and LTC H who tied for second with 99 points. If Louisville had lost in the championship game, Leslie Eaton would have won the championship instead. But congratulations to Thundercoug on submitting the winning bracket in this year's picks!

DaCougs Wins 2012 Picks Club Championship

Congratulations to DaCougs, who won his first ever 1A title. He and Cougar in Big D tied for first place in the 1A playoffs, with 76 total points. Both players picked Alabama to win, but DaCougs predicted a 31-13 game while Cougar in Big D predicted a 21-13 game. "I knew I should have picked a blowout", said Cougar in Big D right after the game ended. "I had a feeling that Alabama would spank Notre Dame, but I set that feeling aside and tried to go with the safe pick." Sounds like Cougar in Big D is a sore loser and is looking for moral victories - which don't count in the Picks Club, by the way. Congratulations again, DaCougs!

Jockanddoc Wins 2012 1AA Championship

There was also a tie in the 1AA championship between jockanddoc and Bama. Both players finished the third round of the playoffs with 12-4 records. But in the score picks, both players tied as well. In fact, both players picked the same exact score (27-20 for Alabama). So the next tie-breaker was W-L record in the previous rounds. In Round 2, both players were 11-8, so they were still tied. But in Round 1, jockanddoc was 15-5, while Bama was 6-14. So your 2012 1AA champion is jockanddoc. This is his first 1AA championship - congratulations on a great playoff run!

I don't believe I have ever seen such a tight race as we saw in 2012. Not only were there ties in both the 1A and 1AA playoffs, but in the 1AA playoffs, the tie-breaker went down to the 3rd level. And in the regular season, there were ties in two of the divisions, plus 8 players tied for the final playoff spot in the 1A playoffs. And two of those players were still tied, so we had to break the tie using the 2nd tie-breaker rule. This has never happened before, so we can say with 100% certainty that the 2012 season was the closest year we have ever had. Who knows what 2013 will bring. Maybe this is what the Mayan Calendar thing was all about. Thanks to everyone for making this such a memorable year. See you in a couple of months for the basketball picks!

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Division Champions Announced

Two of our division champions have been decided already - UVaCavs6 has won the Top 25 division and tripleD is the South division champion. There were ties in the North and West divisions, which means we had to use the tie-breaker pick the score games. Here's how it turned out:

So byubob wins the North division, and DaCougs wins the West. Congratulations to the division champions!

Wild Card Winners

The top 6 players in the Wild Card standings make the 1A playoffs. The top five players in the wild card standings were AY, Cougar in Big D, SLC Transplant, Ezone00 and hardpics. All of them will advance to the 1A playoffs. For the 6th and final spot in the 1A playoffs, there was an 8-way tie. I don't believe I have ever seen 8 players tie. Actually, there were two more players who were tied with them, but they were already in 1A playoffs by winning their divisions. So here are the results of the pick the score games for these players:

So compcoug and KaseyDH tied for the fewest points off on the guess the score games. This means we had to go to the next tie-breaker which was won/lost record in the four guess the score games. Compcoug wins because he was 3-1 in these games and KaseyDH was 2-2 in them. This is definitely the closest race we have ever had in the Picks Club. We have never needed to go to the 2nd tie-breaker rule.

Week 12 has 4 Pickmeisters

For most of us, Week 12 was pretty rough - there were lots of upsets and tough games this week. But tripleD (6), DrumNFeather (10), tincanclub (7) and busdriver449 (4) were 12-3 in the final week of the regular season to be this week's pickmeisters. Congratulations to everyone!

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Hooville Wins March Madness Picks (2012)

When Kentucky beat Kansas in the national championship game, Hooville won his first ever March Madness championship, by scoring 128 points. Congratulations! He also becomes the first player in Picks Club history to win a football championship in January and the basketball championship only three months later. Excellent work for the Hall of Fame player.

Hooville Wins 2nd 1A Championship (2011)

With a total of 79 points, Hooville wins his second career 1A championship. He finished two points ahead of Bama and three points ahead of KaseyDH. Hooville becomes the third player to have two 1A championships. Damose won back-to-back 1A championships in 2006-07, and BlueK won his second 1A championship in 2000. Hooville was inducted into the Hall of Fame in 2004.

Moose Wins 2nd 1AA Championship

Even though Moose picked LSU, he still comes away with the 1AA championship, since the players right below him also picked LSU. Congratulations to Moose, who wins his second 1AA championship, and becomes the third player to do so. Last year, KaseyDH won his second 1AA championship, and in 2003, compcoug won for the second time. Moose was inducted into the Picks Club Hall of Fame in 2010.

Weasel Wins Week 12 (2011) Pickmeister

The final week of the regular season was a very difficult one for everyone - there were a ton of upsets this week. It was so bad that only three players in the entire Picks Club managed to win 10 games or more. Weasel somehow won 11 games this week to become the last Pickmeister of the 2011 season. This is the 9th time in his career that Weasel has won the award. The last time he won it was way back in 2009 on September 19. Congratulations!

With Week 12 now in the books, we can congratulate our four division champions. Cougar in Big D won the Top 25 division, and he now joins Hooville as only the 2nd player to have 5 division championships in his career. SLC Transplant won the North division, coming from behind and passing up several players. This is the first time she has won a regular season title. Bama won the South division by 6 games, and he now has 4 division championships in his career. The only other player with 4 championships is White Lightning. Spartacus hangs on to the West division championship, and this is also his first division championship in his career. Congratulations to everyone for a great year of picks!

Final Division Standings

Wild Card Players

The following players have advanced to the 1A playoffs because of their record in Wild Card games: KaseyDH, Hooville, Thundercoug, Rich Strong, RyHutch. Eight players have tied for the last spot in the 1A playoffs.We have never had this may players tie for the last spot in the playoffs before. To break the tie, we are going to rely on the results in the three pick the score games. The table below shows the results:

So the player who advances is UVaCavs6, whose point total was 2 points lower than BradAg05. I believe this is the closest race we've ever seen at the Picks Club.

tripleD Wins the 2011 March Madness Picks

Congratulations to tripleD, who wrapped up the 2011 Picks Club March Madness Championship when Connecticut advanced to the National Championship game. If Kentucky had won instead, DrumNFeather would have won the championship for the second consecutive year. Instead, tripleD wins his first championship in his career, with only 87 points. He set a Picks Club record for the fewest points ever earned by a champion. The previous record was set in 2000 when Blue Coug won with only 91 points. Great work, tripleD!

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tander123 Wins 1A Picksclub Title

Way back in January, 2011, tander123 became the 2010 1A Picks Club champion. He was 14-4 in the 3-5 point categories, which proved to be the difference in the standings. His winning percentage in these games was higher than everyone else in the 1A playoffs. In these games, he earned 59 of his total 70 points, which was also the most points earned in these rounds of the entire 1A playoffs. He beat out stiff competition from at least 5 other players who finished only five points behind. If even one of these players had been correct on just one more of the high-point bowl games, we may have had a different winner. This was a very competitive year in the Picks Club. With the 2010 1A championship under his belt, tander123 becomes only the 6th Picks Club player to win a division title and a 1A championship in the same year. By virtue of his championship, tander123 now qualifies for the Hall of Fame. Congratulations on a great season!

KaseyDH is 1AA Champion for 2010 Season

In the 1AA championship, we had a 3-way tie for first place. KaseyDH, Moose, and White Lightning all tied for first place with records of 13-4. This is different than what is currently shown on the playoff standings page. There was a mistake in the database in which most players were credited with fewer wins than they should have been. I'm not sure exactly what the problem was, but we'll try to get it fixed for this upcoming season. What's important is that we had to use the tie-breaker rule to find out who our champion would be. The table below shows why KaseyDH is the champion.

This is the second time KaseyDH has won the 1AA playoffs. He joins compcoug as the only player in history to win more than one 1AA championship. Because he won for the second time, KaseyDH qualified for the Hall of Fame. In the last week of the regular season, KaseyDH won his 10th Pickmeister Award, which also qualified him for the Hall of Fame. Congratulations on a great year, Kasey!

Week 12 (2010) has 3 Pickmeisters

Congratulations to adafao (2), compcoug (8) and KaseyDH (10) who were 14-1 in Week 12, and won this week's Pickmeister awards. This is the first time this year for adafao and compcoug to be Weekly Pickmeisters, but KaseyDH won his 9th in Week 2 this year. Since this is the 10th time KaseyDH has won the award, he now qualifies for the Hall of Fame - congratulations on the great accomplishment. Compcoug was part of the 2004 class of the Hall of Fame, and adafao seems well on his way to a Hall of Fame career. Congratulations to our winners and on a great week!

2010 Division Champions

Congratulations to Rich Strong, SportsFan, compcoug, and tander123, who are the division champions for 2010! This is the third division championship for Rich Strong and SportsFan, and the second one for compcoug. All three of them are in the Picks Club Hall of Fame. This is tander123's first division championship. In the Top 25 division, Rich Stron edged out byubob by just one game. In the North, SLC Transplant lost to SportsFan because his score picks were closer. Compcoug won the South by 4 games over SECFball, and in the West, tander123 beat out hardpics by two games.

The six players who qualified for Wild Card spots were SLC Transplant, stripes, hardpics, jockanddoc, DrumNFeather and Bama. This year, you needed 51 Wild Card wins to qualify, or 77.3%, which is a pretty high percentage. It very well could be the highest percentage needed to advance in the history of the Picks Club.

Hall of Fame Update

Two players joined the Picks Club Hall of Fame during the 2009 season: Moose and SECFball. Moose qualified for the Hall of Fame when he won his 10th Weekly Pickmeister Award, on October 17, 2009. Moose's record in that week was 13-2. SECFball qualified for the Hall of Fame when he won his second division championship. SECFball won the South division by just one game over rookie southernswami. Congratulations to the Hall of Fame Class of 2010!

DrumNFeather Wins 2010 March Madness Championship

Congratulations to DrumNFeather who won his first ever Picks Club March Madness championship in 2010. He won the championship with 121 points, which was the fewest points earned by a champion since 2006 when White Lightning won with only 101 points. DrumNFeather's lead was 27 points over runner-up DaCougs. Nice job, DrumNFeather!

mystic ken Wins Picks Club 1A Title

Just one season after winning the 1AA championship, mystic ken becomes the second player in Picks Club history to win back-to-back season titles. Damose won two straight 1A championships in 2006-07. To win the title, mystic ken had to overcome some pretty strong competition from Hoovile and SECFball.

Before the BCS championship game between Texas and Alabama, SECFball had a 3-point lead over both Hooville and mystic ken. All three players picked Alabama to win the game, so if Texas had won, SECFball would have won his first 1A championship. Hooville and mystic ken both assigned 5 points to the final game, while SECFball assigned one point to it. So after the game, SECFball fell one point behind, and Hooville and mystic ken tied for first place.

The championship had to be decided by the score picks, which were very close. Hooville had picked Alabama to win, 24-20 (-14 points), while mystic ken picked 27-23 (-12 points), which meant mystic ken's pick was only two points closer than Hooville's.

During the game, Alabama scored two late touchdowns off of Texas' turnovers, which were obviously very costly to the Longhorns. But they also prevented Hooville from winning his second 1A title. If the final score had been 24-21, Hooville's score pick would have only been one point off, and mystic ken's would have been 5 points off. But, congratulations to mystic ken on a great playoff and on winning the championship. Thanks to everyone for making this another memorable year in the Picks Club.

YCougars Wins 1AA Title

Picks Club Hall of Famer YCougars won his first 1AA playoff today, by correctly picking 9 of the last 14 bowl games. This year's bowl season was more difficult than usual, so there were a lot of players with sub-par records. In round 2, YCougars barely made the cut, with a 10-10 record, but it was just enough to get him into the third round. Congratulations to YCougars. Nice work on your bowl picks!

Hooville Wins Picks Club Record 5th Division Title

With Hooville's narrow victory over Damose, he becomes the first Picks Club player to win 5 division championships (2000, 01, 02, 04, 09). Cougar in Big D and White Lightning are now the only players who have 4 division titles, and Blue Coug, DaCougs, and Bama are the only players to win 3. This year, SECFball won his second division title, and he joins BlueK, D Talbot, Rich Strong, and SportsFan, as the only players with 2 titles.

Hooville, hardpics, SECFball and DaCougs Win 2009 Division Championships

Congratulations to our four division champions for 2009: Hooville, hardpics, SECFball, and DaCougs. Hooville was in second place after week 11, but after going 11-4 in his final week and after worst weeks were dropped, he moved into a tie first place with Damose. He won the division championship because his score picks were 4 points closer than Damose. hardpics had an incredible year, leading from start to finish. The Picks Club will need to look into historical records to see how often this has happened before, but I can only remember one other time when Sports Fan did it. hardpics is most likely the only rookie to have ever done that. SECFball was in an epic battle with southernswami and Cougar in Big D for the South division championship. Cougar in Big D made too many risky picks and finished in 3rd place, but southernswami and SECFball ended up tied for the best record. SECFball was 8 points closer on the 4 pick the score games, so he claimed the championship. DaCougs and stripes were neck and neck most of the season, but DaCougs ended up winning the division by just one game.

Here's the breakdown on the four pick the score games (Florida International at Florida, Oklahoma at Texas Tech, Purdue at Indiana and San Diego St at Utah). Here's how Hooville, Damose, SECFball, and southernswami did in each of the four games.

Wild Card Qualifiers

Congratulations also to our six wild card qualifiers: Damose, mystic ken, White Lightning, southernswami, stripes, and AY. The six of you plus the four division champions will play in the 1A playoffs which start in December during the bowl season. You've all earned a few weeks off. Congratulations on a very good year of picks!

Seven Pickmeisters in Week 12

This week's Pickmeisters were: AY (1), Blue Coug (8), byubob (6), DrumNFeather (6), DaCougs (9), Spartacus (3), and stripes (7). All of them were 13-2 in the final week of the regular season. Congratulations!

Hall of Fame Update

Congratulations to the Hall of Fame Class of 2009! These players include byubob, who qualified for the Hall by winning the 1A championship at the end of last season. Also, after looking through our records dating back to 1987, it appears we neglected to induct a very deserving player, D Talbot, into the Hall of Fame. He met the requirements for the Hall way back in 1987 when he won his second division championship. But he'll be inducted into the Hall of Fame this year. Our apologies to Mr. Talbot for this oversight, and we're pleased to finally correct this error.

2009 March Madness Champion - tincanclub!

Congratulations to tincanclub, who won the 2009 March Madness championship. It's really old news by now, but it has been a busy Spring so far here at the Picks Club. This is his first March Madness championship, and he becomes the 10th champion in the 11th season of the March Madness picks. BlueCoug is the only player to win more than one time (2005 and 2000). Congratulations to tincanclub!

byubob Wins Picks Club Championship

Congratulations to byubob, who won his first Picks Club 1A championship! His total of 65 points earned in the playoffs was two points more than Bama, who finished in 2nd place. In the last 20 bowl games, byubob won only one more game than Bama, but it was in the 3rd round when each game was worth 3 points. Up to then, Bama held a one-point lead over byubob. After the third round, byubob took a 2-point lead over Bama and never looked back. Congratulations on a great playoff run!

mystic ken Wins 1AA Championship

Two players tied for 1st place in the 1AA playoffs: mystic ken and UVaCavs6. Both of them picked Florida over Oklahoma in the BCS Championship game, but mystic ken's score prediction was 34-27, while UVaCavs6 predicted a score of 41-37. The final score was 24-14, which means mystic ken was 17 points closer to the actual score, and he wins the championship. Mystic ken joins only a handful of players who won a championship in their rookie seasons. UVaCavs6 is a long-time veteran of the Picks Club who was inducted to the Hall of Fame last July.

Thanks to everyone for helping to make this a great year in the Picks Club. We'll see all of you back here again in the Spring for the March Madness Picks!

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KaseyDH, Bama, White Lightning, and compcoug - Division Champions for 2008

Congratulations to KaseyDH, Bama, White Lightning and compcoug, who are the division champions for the 2008 season! White Lightning won his 4th division championship, going back to the 2003 season. He becomes only the third player in Picks Club history to have 4 division championships. Bama won his 3rd division championship in the last 5 years, and he joins Hooville, Cougar in Big D and White Lightning as the only players with 3 division titles or more. This is the first time KaseyDH has won a division championship, but he is the defending 1AA champion from last season. compcoug won his first division championship. In 2003, he became the first player with two 1AA championships. I'm sure he won't mind missing the opportunity to win a third, because he'll be in the 1A playoffs instead. Congratulations to all our winners for a great year of picks.

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Wild Card Race

This was a very interesting season in the Wild Card standings, and there were several ties. MT in MD finished in first place in the Wild Card, and he earned a trip to the 1A playoffs. Joining him as the top players in the Wild Card standings are DrumNFeather, byubob, and tincanclub. There was a 4-way tie for the 5th and 6th place spots, which means we had to use the tie-breaker rule of picking the scores in the games. Spartacus and stripes were the two best in the pick-the-score games, so they claimed the last two spots. Congratulations!

KaseyDH and adafao are Week 12 Pickmeisters

In the final week of the regular season, KaseyDH and adafao won 13 games to win this week's Pickmeister awards. Congratulations to both players. For KaseyDH, this is the 7th time he has won the award, and it is the first time adafao has won it.

Weekly Pickmeisters

Hall of Fame Update - 2007 Season

Congratulations to the following players, who qualified for the Hall of Fame in 2007:
Bama - only needed to win 6 more games when the 2006 season ended. He won 12 games in Week 1 of the 2007 regular season to pass the 570 total career win mark.
UVaCavs6 - won his 10th Weekly Pickmeister award (12-3) on Oct. 6, 2007.
Weasel - only needed 71 more wins to reach the 570 total career win mark. He earned that win on October 20 when Alabama beat Tennessee.
YCougars - qualified by winning his 10th Weekly Pickmeister award (12-3) on Nov. 10, 2007.

Congratulations to the Hall of Fame Class of 2008. This is the first time we've had four inductees in one season.

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jockanddoc Wins Picks Club March Madness

In March, jockanddoc won the March Madness Picks, by scoring a total of 127 points. Finishing in second place, only 4 points behind, was Bama. Delta Cougar came in third, with 121 points, and he was followed by last year's winner, Absolute Empire, who scored 119. The final standings are listed on the basketball page.

This is the first time jockanddoc has won the March Madness Picks, and he becomes the 9th different champion in the 10-year history of the Picks Club's office pool. The only player to have won twice is Blue Coug, who won in 2000 and 2005.

Damose Wins 2nd Consecutive 1A Championship

For the second year in a row, Damose wins the 1A championship. This time, he defeated Thundercoug in a battle of Picks Club Hall of Famers. Before tonight's BCS championship game, Damose was in 2nd place, only 1.5 points behind Thundercoug. But Damose picked LSU to win and Thundercoug picked Ohio St. As a result, Damose earned 5 points and passed Thundercoug to claim the championship. Both players are members of the Picks Club Hall of Fame. Damose is from the Class of 2007 and Thundercoug is from the Class of 2005.

Not only did Damose win a second consecutive championship, but he also becomes the only Picks Club player to ever win two 1A championships in his career. He also won the Top 25 division earlier this year, and became the third Picks Club player to win a division championship and a 1A championship in the same season (Bama and Hooville are the others). Congratulations, Damose on a fantastic season!

KaseyDH wins 1AA Playoffs
Before tonight's game, Bama and KaseyDH were tied for first place with 12 wins each. KaseyDH picked LSU, and Bama picked Ohio St, so the winner of the 1AA playoffs is KaseyDH. Congratulations to KaseyDH on his first championship!

Hall of Fame Update - 2007

Congratulations to the following players, who qualified for the Hall of Fame in 2007:
Sports Fan - qualified when he won his 2nd Division championship
Damose - qualified by winning the 1A championship at the end of the 2006 season

Click here to visit the Hall of Fame Checklist page to see who is most likely to make the Hall of Fame after this season.

Ezone00 and Thundercoug are Week 12 Pickmeisters

In week 12, Ezone00 and Thundercoug won 14 games to be this week's Pickmeisters. Ezone won his 4th career award, and won his 3rd during week 1 of this year's picks. Thundercoug, who is in the Picks Club Hall of Fame, won his 5th award. His fourth award came during week 2 this year. Congratulations to both of them.

Week 12 results: North | South | Top 25 | West

Congratulations to the four division champions and the top 6 wild card players. Click the links to view the final standings for each division and the wild card.

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Hall of Fame Update - 2006

Congratulations to the following players, who qualified for the Hall of Fame in 2006:
Sports Fan - qualified when he won his 2nd Division championship
Damose - qualified by winning the 1A championship at the end of the 2006 season

Click here to visit the Hall of Fame Checklist page to see who is most likely to make the Hall of Fame after this season.

Absolute Empire Wins!

Florida won easily today over Ohio St, and only three players had picked them to repeat as champions. Absolute Empire was one of them. His performance in this year's March Madness picks actually set a new Picks Club record for points - 153. The old record was 130 points, set by DaCougs, who happened to take second this year. One of the best things about this year's picks is that most players did just as well as the "guest experts." Congratulations to Absolute Empire, in his first year of making picks. Hopefully, he'll return next year to defend his title.

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Damose is the 2006 Picks Club Champion

Though Ohio State ran the opening kickoff back for a touchdown, it was all Florida after that, as the Gators went on to outscore the Buckeyes, 41-7 in the rest of the game. The Buckeye offense managed to gain fewer than 100 yards of total offense.

Though the game was never really in question after the 1st quarter, the Picks Club championship had already been decided the night before when S Mississippi beat Ohio. Damose was 7.5 points ahead of EZone00, who was in second place, but there were only 5 points left to earn. Jockanddoc was the only 1A player to correctly pick Florida to win the game, but he ultimately lost by 3 total points. It seems the biggest difference in determining this year's winner was in Rounds 3 and 4 when Damose was 12-2 and earned 33.5 points, while jockanddoc was 9-5 and earned 25.5 points. Damose has been a very good Picks Club player over the past few years, but this is his first time as champion. With the championship win, now he can also add "Hall of Fame" to his resume.

Moose Wins 1AA Championship
With only one game left to play, YCougars, Moose and SECFball were tied for first place, with records of 14-5. Hooville was a close second, with a record of 13-6. YCougars and SECFball both picked Ohio St to win, but Hooville and Moose both picked Florida. If Moose had picked Ohio St, we would have seen a 4-way tie for first place, and it would have come down to the score predictions to determine the champion. But, Moose picked Florida and took home the prize. Moose has now won a division championship as well as a 1AA championship.

Blue Bozo, DaCougs, White Lighting Make the Hall of Fame

August 5 , 2006 -
Blue Bozo, DaCougs, and White Lightning have earned their way into the Picks Club Hall of Fame. Blue Bozo won his 10th Weekly Pickmeister Award on October 15, 2005, by going 11-4. The week before, he won his 9th Weekly Award. DaCougs only needed 18 regular season wins to qualify for the Hall of Fame. Going into the 2005 season, he had already won two division titles (2004 and 2002), and he had 467 regular season wins. White Lightning made the Hall of Fame by perhaps the smallest margin in the history of the Picks Club. All he needed was a second division title, which he earned in 2005, but just barely. In the final week of the season, he had two more wins than torison56 to tie for first place in the division. In the tie-breaker, his scores in the four games were just 21 points closer than torison56's predictions (that's only about 5 points per game, by the way).

White Lightning Wins 2006 March Madness Picks

April 4, 2006 - When UCLA and Florida both advanced to the championship game, White Lightning was the only player to have both of them in his picks. He took a 13 point lead over horsecraazy, who also had UCLA in the championship game. Jonathan Trias was the only other player to have UCLA in the championship game, and nobody else (besides White Lightning) had Florida advancing that far.

With the win, White Lightning becomes the 8th different player to win a March Madness championship. The 13-point margin of victory was the highest in Picks Club history. His total of 101 points ties BlueK as the second-lowest point total by any champion, which really only means that the tournament results were pretty unexpected.

Previous Champions

2006 - White Lightning - 101 points, horsecraazy - 88
2005 - Blue Coug - 119 points, Blue Bozo - 112
2004 - skogrun - 128 points, Hooville - 124
2003 - DallasJayhawk - 113 points, 92 Coog - 105
2002 - t2realtor - 121 points, razorb - 109
2001 - DaCougs - 130 points, Cougar in Big D - 122
2000 - Blue Coug - 91 points, won because his final score prediction was closer than cougdad's
1999 - BlueK - 101 points, won because his final score prediction was closer than DFW LSU Fan's

Weasel Wins the 2005 Picks Club Championship

January 5 , 2006 - Although Weasel picked USC, he finished with enough points to earn his first ever 1A Picks Club Championship. He started the first round of the playoffs in 9th place (out of 10 players), and only had 11 of 20 possible points, but he finished the playoffs winning 18 and losing 9. Weasel beat out both of last year's defending champions, Blue Bozo and Bama. Congratulations to Weasel.

In the 1AA playoffs, Machokings also won his first ever championship in his rookie season, with an 11-4 record in the final round. Jeffacka and damose finished tied for second with records of 10-5. Machokings joins an elite group of Picks Club players who won championships in their rookie seasons. Congratulations!

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Blue Coug, Thundercoug - Hall of Fame Class of 2005

July 24, 2005 - At the end of the 2004 football season, Blue Coug and Thundercoug both qualified for the Picks Club Hall of Fame. Blue Coug qualified when USC beat Oklahoma in the Orange Bowl, because it was his 75th career playoff win. Thundercoug is a Picks Club "old timer," having played in 1987 and 1988 before continuing his career in 2000 and 2004. He qualified for the Hall of Fame when Oregon St beat Notre Dame in the Insight Bowl.

This year's Hall of Fame induction ceremonies will be held on July 29. The Hall of Fame page will be updated then.

Bama Wins Football Championship

January 5, 2005 - In a 36-point game that wasn't even that close, USC crushed Oklahoma to win the Orange Bowl, and with that, the 2004 edition of the Picks Club comes to an end. Bama has won his first Picks Club championship, in only his second season, despite losing both the Sugar Bowl and the Orange Bowl.

He was far enough ahead of the rest of the 1A playoff contenders who had correctly picked USC to win the game. However, there were four other players who were only one game away from winning the championship instead of Bama. That could be the closest race in Picks Club history.

Earlier this season, Bama also won the South Division championship, and became only the second player in Picks Club history to win both a division and an overall championship. Congratulations!

In the 1AA playoffs, four players tied for first place, with records of 12-4 in the final round. To break the tie, the points off tie-breaker rule had to come into play. While all four of the tied players picked USC to win, none of them picked them to win in a blowout. The table below shows the points off breakdown. Be sure to read the tie-breaker rules on the playoff rules page.

With only 23 total points off, Blue Bozo wins the tie-breaker and therefore, wins the 1AA championship. He also becomes the only player to win a 1A and a 1AA championship during his career. Congratulations!

92 Coog, compcoug, Hooville Inducted to Hall of Fame

July 22, 2004 - 92 Coog, compcoug, and Hooville have qualified for the Hall of Fame, and they were added to the Hall in last night's induction ceremonies. They were the first players inducted into the Picks Club Hall of Fame since 2000 when The Pickmeister was inducted. The Hall of Fame began in 1999 when Cougar in Big D, BlueK and Rich Strong were inducted.

92 Coog and Hooville both qualified for the Hall of Fame during the playoffs, and compcoug qualified at the end of the playoffs when he became the first player in the history of the Picks Club to win a second 1AA championship.

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Skogrun Wins 2004 Picks Club March Madness Office Pool

Last night, Connecticut beat Georgia Tech, 82-73 in a game that wasn't even that close, to win their second NCAA championship. With the win, skogrun becomes the 2004 Picks Club March Madness Office Pool champion, beating out Hooville by four points. Skogrun's 128 point total sets a new Picks Club record for points earned during the Office Pool contest, breaking Cougar in Big D's 2001 record of 122 points.

Hooville also set a new Picks Club record with 124 points for the runner-up. In fact, if Texas had beaten Xavier in the Sweet Sixteen, and no other changes took place, Hooville would have finished in 1st place with 129 points.

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1A Playoffs: 92 Coog Wins Picks Club Championship for 2003 Season

Congratulations to 92 Coog, the Picks Club 1A champion for the 2003 football season. He was able to win the championship because he correctly predicted LSU to beat Oklahoma. DaCougs was in first place, but he picked the Sooners. 92 Coog won 71% of the games in the playoffs (37-15).

1AA Playoffs: compcoug Holds Off Fierce Competition to Win Second 1AA Championship

With only one game left in the playoffs, compcoug, Moose, and MT in MD were all tied for first place with 9 wins each. It looked very likely that there would be a tie for the championship and that we'd have to use the tiebreaker rule to find the champion. However, compcoug correctly picked LSU to win the Sugar Bowl, and both Moose and MT in MD picked Oklahoma. Compcoug becomes the first Picks Club player in history to win the 1AA championship two times. Congratulations!

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