ok football experts and idiots as well

[Tom Poje]

here is the challenge (and its free) for bragging rights amongst us :

http://games.espn.go.com/frontpage/games

there is college pick em - each week 10 games are listed, and you rank the teams (ten through 1) based on your confidence.

they already have the first 10 games up and ready to be picked.

soon they will have pigskin pick em (with or without the spread (you can do both)) just pick the winners

and

eliminator - pick one team to win each week. but you can only pick a team once.

if there is an interest, it is easy to set up a group just amongst the pension folks to see who is the best (without an actuarial adjustment of course).

[Tom Poje]

I see ESPN has all the games up and running.

(I am putting 10 points on Virginia Tech in College Pick em)

any takers for bragging rights?

the other web site running a 'pick em' is Sports Illustrated

http://www.fannation.com/college_pickem/

you have to rank 14 games instead of 10

(They also have a pro pick em as well)

[Guest Sieve]

I'll take the Red Wings over the Celtics by 2 touchdowns in extra innings. Do I win?

[Guest Sieve]

Tom -- Now that the first week of college football is finished, how'd you do? (More difficult than identifying helmets, I presume . . .)

[Tom Poje]

I think I ended up at 75% on the ESPN site - but at work I can't check. (but then I'm originally from Michigan so its within such individuals rites to be a 'Chokerine' at picking. I suppose that is behind you, but what the heck. onward and upward. Are you offering any guarantees for 'eliminator', besides using up New England the first week in pro-football?