Pick Per Day for 12/30/08 - Day 44

Tuesday's deadline for picks is 5PM except as noted.

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 12/30 Picks

MNSnowman: Illinois +8.5
gopherfan10: Cleveland State -1
SaturnSweater: Cleveland State -1
MadisonRaisedGopherCrazed: Seton Hall +13.5
Zales04: Illinois +8.5
Gopher In Qatar: New Mexico State -1
RoyalGO4: Wisc Milwaukee +11
Jike Spingleton: Clemson -3
NateDawgUM: Illinois Chicago -11
mom8pop: Oklahoma -6
nemosgold: Western Michigan -1
ilovethebarn: Purdue -8.5
rrjack: Oklahoma -6
USTGopher: Houston U -6.5
XMan: Mississippi St -8
Alltimetwinsfan: Georgia Tech -19
GOLDY1966: Houston -6.5
Gopher07: Illinois +8.5
goldenfuture5: Oklahoma -6
GopherRock: Cleveland State -1
Ski U Mah Gopher: Cleveland St. -1

PPD Standings after 12/29 Games

NOTES

• Uconn is the consensus pick (picked by 6). They're favored by 6 but lose by 11.
• Davidson wins by 4 but the spread was -4.5. Darned 1/2 point spread.
• MadisonRaisedGopher loves the 1/2 point spread as UL-Lafayette is 27.5 point underdog and loses by 27 and (s)he scores the win
• OSUFan nudges past GopherRock who has been leading the pack for a long time.

Today's results Cumulative Record Consensus Picks Individual Standings
Steady Selectors
.. 1 - OSUfan ( 22 - 12 - 0 ) - 0.647
.. 2 - GopherRock ( 23 - 13 - 1 ) - 0.639
.. 3 - Goldy 1966 ( 22 - 18 - 0 ) - 0.550
.. 4 - rrjack ( 18 - 15 - 1 ) - 0.545
.. 5 - The Big L ( 15 - 14 - 1 ) - 0.517
.. .. ..NemosGold ( 15 - 14 - 0 ) - 0.517
.. 7 - Gopher In Qatar ( 22 - 21 - 0 ) - 0.512
.. 8 - Ski U Mah Gopher ( 20 - 20 - 0 ) - 0.500
.. 9 - RoyalGO4 ( 18 - 19 - 2 ) - 0.486
10 - MinnMarchDTF ( 15 - 16 - 2 ) - 0.484
11 - Alltimetwinsfan ( 17 - 19 - 0 ) - 0.472
12 - Gopherholefan ( 16 - 20 - 1 ) - 0.444
13 - Jike Spingleton ( 19 - 24 - 0 ) - 0.442
14 - Zales04 ( 14 - 25 - 0 ) - 0.359
15 - MNSnowman ( 15 - 28 - 0 ) - 0.349
Mildly Addicted
.. 1 - GopherJim ( 7 - 1 - 0 ) - 0.875
.. 2 - SaturnSweater ( 19 - 8 - 1 ) - 0.704
.. 3 - Gopherlady ( 7 - 3 - 0 ) - 0.700
.. 4 - MadisonRaisedGopherCrazed ( 13 - 7 - 1 ) - 0.650
.. 5 - USTGopher ( 16 - 10 - 1 ) - 0.615
.. 6 - NateDawgUM ( 13 - 9 - 0 ) - 0.591
.. 7 - GoldenFuture5 ( 12 - 9 - 1 ) - 0.571
.. 8 - Gopher07 ( 11 - 9 - 0 ) - 0.550
.. 9 - gopherfan10 ( 13 - 11 - 0 ) - 0.542
10 - mom8pop ( 14 - 12 - 0 ) - 0.538
11 - Ilovethebarn ( 15 - 13 - 0 ) - 0.536
12 - GopherHarvey ( 8 - 8 - 0 ) - 0.500
.. .. CoolHand ( 7 - 7 - 1 ) - 0.500
.. .. TheSportsAce ( 1 - 1 - 1 ) - 0.500
15 - Mikie S ( 11 - 12 - 1 ) - 0.478
16 - soneillumn ( 11 - 13 - 0 ) - 0.458
17 - Xman ( 10 - 12 - 0 ) - 0.455
18 - Alan Shore ( 8 - 11 - 0 ) - 0.421
19 - grunkiejr ( 5 - 9 - 0 ) - 0.357
20 - From the Barn ( 3 - 7 - 0 ) - 0.300
21 - JMGIII ( 0 - 3 - 0 ) - 0.000
One & Apparently Done (all 0 - 1 - 0 ) - GopherKev, Howeda7 and LloydBraun

gopherfan10: Cleveland State -1

SaturnSweater: Cleveland State -1

MadisonRaisedGopherCrazed: Seton Hall +13.5

Zales04: Illinois +8.5

Gopher In Qatar: New Mexico State -1

RoyalGO4: Wisc Milwaukee +11

Jike Spingleton: Clemson -3

NateDawgUM: Illinois Chicago -11

mom8pop: Oklahoma -6

nemosgold: Western Michigan -1

ilovethebarn: Purdue -8.5

rrjack: Oklahoma -6

USTGopher: Houston U -6.5

Pick

XMan: Mississippi St -8

Alltimetwinsfan: Georgia Tech -19

GOLDY1966: Houston -6.5

Gopher07: Illinois +8.5

goldenfuture5: Oklahoma -6

GopherRock: Cleveland State -1

Ski U Mah Gopher: Cleveland St. -1