Pick Per Day for 1/10/09 - Day 55

DEADLINE for games in Red is one hour prior to tip-off Central Time -- note the times shown are Eastern Standard Time.

For games in blue, deadline is 5PM.

Good luck with your picks!
Here's the way Pick-per-Day (PPD) works:

1. You make one pick per day by selecting a team and the point spread that's offered.
For example, if Florida is favored by 22.5 points versus Toledo and you choose Florida, you pick Florida -22.5
If instead you think that spread is too generous, you pick Toledo +22.5

2. The pick must be in required format (see#5 below) and submitted by that day's deadline.

3. I always identify the deadlines for picks (picks on weekdays are usually due at 5:00 while picks on weekends and holidays will usually be due at 12 noon.) If you don't make the published deadline, I'll still try to include your pick if I can, but no promises and it largely depends on how busy I am around the deadline time or after I edit the summary.

4. Please verify your pick was recorded when the posting is Closed and please check the next days tally to make sure I correctly credited you with the win or loss. Mistakes will happen and I'm more than happy to go back a day or two and figure out what went wrong and then make any corrections. But I really don't want to go back a couple of weeks and try to recalculate the wins and losses.

5. All picks must be entered using this format:
Picks that are submitted after the deadline without making prior arrangements or do not use this format will not be counted in that days tally

6. If you want to change your pick, please add a new post rather than editing your original pick and please note it's a change in the header. (It's easier to pick up and make the change this way.

7. Every now and then, the provider of the Lines has a strange point spread. I reserve the right to scratch games where the spread exceeds normal expectations or if the picks are subsequently corrected, the correction is substantially different than the first pick and the original spread gives a participant an unfair advantage.

In other words, if it looks too good to be true, it probably is.

8. We now have two divisions ... one for the seriously addicted (must have made picks 2/3rds of the time) and the other for the more leisurely, laid-back participants. You'll move to the "upper" division if you make frequent picks over time ... the divisions are calculated each night. Because I round off the required minimum number of games, you may bounce back and forth between divisions from one night to another if you're close to the cut-off.

Summary of 1/10/09 Picks

MNSnowman: Creighton -1
Gopher In Qatar: Boston College -2
GOLDY1966: Villanova -1
Zales04: UTEP -6.5
Coolhand: Villanova -1
rrjack: Indiana U +18
RoyalGO4: UC Riverside +8.5
SaturnSweater: Tennessee -7
soneillumn: Nebraska +2.5
Ski U Mah Gopher: Arizona -16
Nemosgold: Oklahoma -1
ilovethebarn: West Virginia +3
GopherRock: Arkansas -6
Gopherholefan: Oklahoma -1
Jike Spingleton: Oklahoma -1
goldenfuture5: Oklahoma -1
gopherfan10: Duke -9
XMan: Boston College -2
MadisonRaisedGopherCrazed: Portland -23.5
Alltimetwinsfan: Washington State -2

PPD Standings after 1/9/09 Games

NOTES

• Today's tally was a bit off and the board now is 2 picks below .500
• GopherRock continues his free-fall from the lead and is now in 4th position
• Note to USTGopher, MinnMarchDTF and The Big L: you have only 37 picks and the cut-off to stay in the top division is 36 … you're in danger of dropping down to the other division.
• And to MadisonRaisedGopherCrazed: keep up the daily picks and you'll be in the top division before the month is out.

Today's Results Cumulative Record Consensus Picks Individual Standings
Steady Selectors
.. 1 - SaturnSweater ( 25 - 12 - 1 ) - 0.676
.. 2 - OSUfan ( 24 - 17 - 0 ) - 0.585
.. 3 - USTGopher ( 21 - 15 - 1 ) - 0.583
.. 4 - GopherRock ( 27 - 20 - 1 ) - 0.574
.. 5 - Goldy 1966 ( 28 - 23 - 0 ) - 0.549
.. 6 - rrjack ( 23 - 19 - 1 ) - 0.548
.. 7 - NemosGold ( 21 - 19 - 0 ) - 0.525
.. 8 - MinnMarchDTF ( 18 - 17 - 2 ) - 0.514
.. 9 - Gopherholefan ( 22 - 22 - 1 ) - 0.500
10 - The Big L ( 18 - 18 - 1 ) - 0.500
11 - Ski U Mah Gopher ( 24 - 26 - 0 ) - 0.480
12 - RoyalGO4 ( 23 - 25 - 2 ) - 0.479
13 - Gopher In Qatar ( 25 - 29 - 0 ) - 0.463
14 - Jike Spingleton ( 24 - 30 - 0 ) - 0.444
15 - Alltimetwinsfan ( 19 - 25 - 0 ) - 0.432
16 - MNSnowman ( 21 - 33 - 0 ) - 0.389
17 - Zales04 ( 17 - 32 - 0 ) - 0.347
Mildly Addicted
.. 1 - GopherJim ( 7 - 1 - 0 ) - 0.875
.. 2 - Gopherlady ( 8 - 3 - 0 ) - 0.727
.. 3 - MadisonRaisedGopherCrazed ( 20 - 11 - 1 ) - 0.645
.. 4 - GopherHarvey ( 14 - 11 - 0 ) - 0.560
.. 5 - CoolHand ( 8 - 7 - 1 ) - 0.533
.. 6 - Gopher07 ( 12 - 11 - 0 ) - 0.522
.. 7 - NateDawgUM ( 13 - 12 - 0 ) - 0.520
.. 8 - gopherfan10 ( 16 - 15 - 0 ) - 0.516
.. 9 - Ilovethebarn ( 17 - 17 - 0 ) - 0.500
10 - mom8pop ( 15 - 15 - 0 ) - 0.500
11 - GoldenFuture5 ( 15 - 16 - 1 ) - 0.484
12 - Mikie S ( 11 - 12 - 1 ) - 0.478
13 - soneillumn ( 12 - 14 - 0 ) - 0.462
14 - Xman ( 13 - 17 - 0 ) - 0.433
15 - Alan Shore ( 8 - 11 - 0 ) - 0.421
16 - grunkiejr ( 5 - 9 - 0 ) - 0.357
17 - TheSportsAce ( 2 - 4 - 1 ) - 0.333
18 - From the Barn ( 3 - 7 - 0 ) - 0.300

Retired (no picks in last 3-4 weeks) - GopherKev, Howeda7 JMGIII and LloydBraun

Gopher In Qatar: Boston College -2

Davidson v. Citadel line has been corrected

GOLDY1966: Villanova -1

Thank you...

Zales04: UTEP -6.5

Coolhand: Villanova -1

rrjack: Indiana U +18

RoyalGO4: UC Riverside +8.5

SaturnSweater: Tennessee -7

soneillumn: Nebraska +2.5

Ski U Mah Gopher: Arizona -16

Nemosgold: Oklahoma -1

ilovethebarn: West Virginia +3

MNSnowman said:

[*]GopherRock continues his free-fall from the lead and is now in 4th position

Click to expand...

Gee Snowman, thanks for the vote of confidence...

GopherRock: Arkansas -6

Gopherholefan: Oklahoma -1

Jike Spingleton: Oklahoma -1

goldenfuture5: Oklahoma -1

gopherfan10: Duke -9

Pick

XMan: Boston College -2

MadisonRaisedGopherCrazed: Portland -23.5

Alltimetwinsfan: Washington State -2