The staff won the Bye Week!
Following one of the worst weeks of picks ever, we all banded together to have, by percentage, possibly the best week of picks in the history of the contest. The staff was a niiice 69.4% for the week at 25-11 combined. I somewhat redeemed myself by going a perfect 6-0. Andrew, joining me in the “bottom feeders showing life” category only missed once, as did y’all in the Commentariat. Still on the positive side, Tom and Import went 4-2. The worst results were even 3-3 marks by Cole and Christian. That pulled the staff almost back to .500 for season at 296-298. Was the success because our football brains were not addled by thoughts of impending doom for Vanderbilt who were on their bye last week?
The biggest hits were on Texas and Missouri where 5 staffers and the nerd herd picked up wins. The majority of the staff were right about every single game except the even split over Auburn (+13.5) at Ole Miss. The only game missed by the Commentariat was Florida getting beaten by more than 11.5 points by Georgia.
The success in Week 9 apparently has us very much on the same page in Week 10. No SEC teams are on a bye, so there are 8 SEC-SEC games and the 1 ACC-ACC Lite matchup. We have uanimous picks in 3 games and 5 to 1 splits on another 3 contests. One more matchup has a majority while the final 2 games are even splits. This could swing ugly again really quickly.
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My record last week was not a challenge…
I have brought dishonor on myself, my family, and my cow.
Everyone was close even if 4 of us had a losing record in Week 5.
Nobody was a loser!
Andrew and I owe the rest of the staff an apology.
Boys, we picked like Stephen Rivers reads a wristband.
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