Final Pollsters Tallies: Bowls take their toll

Sadly, football season has come to a close, and the bowl games didn't favor the pollster's picks, putting us lower than .500 for our first season. However, the bright side if you figure that at $10.00 a game, we only lost 10 bucks for the whole season.
A big congrats should go out to Greg, who really finished strong in the final round of the season, winning 7 or his 12 picks, and finishing with a 51-37. Max finished just 2 games shy of first for 2nd, and I finished 5 games out in 3rd.
Maybe we'll have better luck next season. Thanks again to all who participated, it was fun, and close right up to the end. See you next season!

Pollster Pick'em
Bowl Week 7: 3-6
Final Tally: 42-43-1, or 49.4%

Pollster	This Week	Overall	Overall Percentage
Greg Frayser	7-5	51-37-1	.580
Max Renfro	4-8	49-39-1	.557
Jarad Wilson	3-9	46-42-1	.523
John Buzbee	6-5-1	43-44-2	.494
Eddie Slep	4-7-1	42-46-2	.483
Kumar Chadha	5-7	40-48-1	.455
Ashley Chadha	1-11*	34-54-1	.386
Jeff Renfro	1-11*	34-54-1	.386
Brian Smith	5-7	34-54-1	.386
Jordan Renna	1-11*	32-56-1	.364
Anil Chadha	1-11*	31-57-1	.352
Doug Bendinger	2-10	31-57-1	.352

Pollster's Bowl Time Picks

Alright SFCF poll readers, here are the pollster's picks for the bowl season. We chose to pick our top 16 teams games, as well as three picks of our own, all of which will count as a single game. Here are the picks, and the bowl, along with the line by the favorite.

No. 1 Florida (-3) vs. No. 2 Oklahoma, FedEx BCS National Championship Game
No. 3 Texas (-9.5) vs. No. 10 Ohio State, Tostitos Fiesta Bowl
No. 4 Alabama(-10)vs. No. 7 Utah, AllState Sugar Bowl
No. 5 USC vs. No. 6 Penn State (+10), The Rose Bowl Game presented by Citi
No. 8 Texas Tech(-5.5)vs. Ole Miss, Cotton Bowl
No. 9 Boise State (+2.5) vs. No. 12 TCU, San Diego County Credit Union Poinsettia Bowl
No. 11 Cincinnati vs. No. 16 Virginia Tech (+2), FedEx Orange Bowl
No. 13 Georgia Tech (-4) vs. LSU, Chick-fil-A (Peach) Bowl
No. 14 Oklahoma State (-3) vs. No. 15 Oregon, Pacific Life Holiday Bowl

Some other popular picks for games were
North Carolina (pk) vs West Virginia (pk) split picks
Boston College (-3.5) vs Vanderbilt

Thanks to the pollster's who participated, and best of luck to all the bowl teams in their respective games. GO JACKETS

Pick 'Em Votes for Rivalry Weekend

Alright SFCF, here are this week's pollster picks for the big college football weekend finale. With the final rivalry week upon us, let's hope we improve upon our 1-1 record this week.

"Iron Bowl"- Auburn (+14.5) vs Alabama
"Sunshine Showdown" - Florida (-16.5) vs Florida St
"Oklahoma Bedlam Football Game" - Oklahoma (-7) vs Oklahoma St
"Jeweled Shillelagh" - USC vs Notre Lame (+30)
Baylor vs Texas Tech (-20)
Fresno St (+21) vs Boise St
"Border Wars" Kansas vs Mizzouri (-14)
"Clean Old Fashioned Hate" - Georgia Tech (+8) vs Georgia
"The Civil War" - Oregon vs Oregon St (-3.5)

Pick 'Em Picks Texas A&M

In what is sure to be a high-profile, all about style-points game, the SFCF Pollsters have picked the Longhorns to fail to impress the BCS. The 35.5 point spread just appears to be too much for the Longhorn's to overcome. Failing to impress in the last game may just open the door for Oklahoma to get the Big 12 South Nod.

Ball State Picked Again!

Ball St was picked by our pollsters to cover the 10.5 point spread, even though they may never play on a weekend. Hopefully they pull through again, and complete their undefeated season.
Western Michigan vs Ball St (-10.5)

How About That Oklahoma Team!

A good week for our pollsters, and a good week for the favorites. As Ashley noted, you have to like the favorites this week, and only 2 did not cover. A huge week for Oklahoma, who finally looked like the Big 12 Champs they have been made up to be. LSU just gets blown out, TCU just destroyed an outclassed Air Force team, and Penn St did the same for JoePa's 383rd victory. Everyone tip their hat to Doug for going just shy of undefeated, losing only the LSU game. Rivalry week is next, so plenty of close spreads, and good games upcoming.

Pollster Pick'em
Week 5
Overall: 31-27-1

Pollster	This Week	Overall	Overall Percentage
Greg Frayser	6-3-1	36-22-1	.621
Jarad Wilson	7-2-1	34-24-1	.586
Max Renfro	7-2-1	33-25-1	.569
Eddie Slep	5-4-1	30-28-1	.517
Ashley Chadha	7-2-1	30-28-1	.517
Kumar Chadha	6-3-1	28-30-1	.483
John Buzbee	7-2-1	28-30-1	.483
Jeff Renfroe	3-6-1	26-32-1	.448
Brian Smith	6-3-1	23-35-1	.397
Travis Markle	0-9-1*	22-36-1	.379
Doug Bendinger	8-1-1	22-36-1	.379
Jordan Renna	1-8-1	21-37-1	.362
Anil Chadha	0-9-1*	20-38-1	.344

Currently 0-0-1, looking to make it 9-0-1

Alirght, here are the tallies of our picks, 11 picks total. Having already picked a Ball St. Cover, and merely getting a PUSH, we're looking to improve our overall record. The picks we're quite close for several games, so someone's record is bound to improve this week.

Texas Tech vs Oklahoma (-6.5)..... Vote was 6-5

BYU vs Utah (-6.5)..... Vote was 6-5

Michigan St (+14.5) vs Penn St..... Vote was 6-5

Boise St (-6.5) vs Nevada

Michigan vs Ohio St (-20.5)

Air Force (+18.5) vs TCU ..... Vote was 6-5

Mississippi vs LSU (-4.5)..... Vote was 6-5

Oregon St (+3) vs Arizona

Pittsburgh vs Cincinnati (-5)

Pick 'Em... Better... But Some Work to Do

Alright, the results are in (have been in, but I've been recovering). Congrats to Greg, and Jordan. In terms of stratgey, Jordan made all his picks, then made the reverse, and he was this weeks co-winner. This week looks to be a great week for watching football. Some big games with some important implications, so pick them well.

Pollster's Overall Picks : 6-6-0
Overall we are 25-24-0..... Not too bad I must say

Pollster Pick'em
Week 4
Overall: 25-24-0

Pollster	This Week	Overall	Overall Percentage
Greg Frayser	7-5	30-19	.612
Jarad Wilson	6-6	27-22	.551
Max Renfro	7-5	26-23	.531
Eddie Slep	7-5	25-24	.510
Ashley Chadha	6-6	23-26	.469
Jeff Renfro	7-5	23-26	.469
Kumar Chadha	7-5	22-27	.449
Travis Markle	7-5	22-27	.449
John Buzbee	7-5	21-28	.429
Jordan Renna	8-4	20-29	.408
Anil Chadha	4-8	20-29	.408
Brian Smith	6-6	17-32	.347
Doug Bendinger	5-7	14-35	.286

Pick 'Em... Workin' Back to a .500 Week

Another week where our pollsters took one on the nose, but we did take advantage of the extra game to edge the woeful week two 5-7. Kudos to Greg and Jeff, taking a 7 and 8, respectively, while Frayser also inched past Jarad. Glory be to Jordan though, who kept Jarad out of this week's cellar with his lowly 3.

The polls are now closed and we're locked with these 13 pollsters for the rest of the way. With the pollsters finalized, the scores have been updated to address pollster that missed a week. Any pollster that missed a week received one point less than the lowest point-getter of that week. (e.g. Both Anil and Travis took two points after missing Week 3, one point less than Jordan).

Going forward, any pollster that misses a week will receive one point less than the lowest pollster.

Pollster's Overall Picks : 6-7-0
Overall we are 20-17-0

Pollster Pick'em
Week Three
Overall: 20-17-0

Pollster	This Week	Overall	Overall Percentage
Greg Frayser	7-6	22-15	.595
Jarad Wilson	4-9	21-16	.568
Max Renfro	6-7	19-16	.514
Eddie Slep	4-9	18-19	.486
Ashley Chadha	6-7	17-20	.459
Anil Chadha	2-11*	16-21	.432
Jeff Renfro	8-5	16-21	.432
Travis Markle	2-11*	15-22	.405
Kumar Chadha	6-7	15-22**	.405
John Buzbee	6-7	15-22	.378
Jordan Renna	3-10	14-23	.324
Doug Bendinger	4-9	9-28***	.243
Brian Smith	4-9	9-28***	.243
Notes * - received one point less than the lowest place pollster (2 points) ** - overall score reflects missing week 1 (received 3 points) *** - overall score reflect missing weeks 1 and 2 (received 5 total points)

Week 10 Picks

Alright Pollster's, here are the Southern Fans' College Football Poll's picks for tis week in college football. With one W already secured thanks to Ball St, we hopefully will only improve.

Ball St (-9.5)

Utah (+2.5) split votes 6-5

LSU (+4) split votes 6-5

Texas Tech (-3) split votes 6-5

Penn St (-7.5)

Florida (-23.5)

Texas (-26)

Oklahoma (-25)

USC (-18.5)

Boise St (-32)

Georgia (-10)

Missouri (-26)

Northwestern (+11)

We're quite favorite heavy, but hopefully it works to our favor. Three of the games were really close in the voting, but luckily we had an odd number of voters. Sorry for the late posting, long night in lab.

Pollster's Fighting Lettermans Pick

I've tallied those who got votes in early, and our pick for tonight's game is.....
Ball St by 9.5
Get those picks in early, so we can keep our string of wins going.

Pick 'Em..... Ouch

Well, this week was the week for some great performances (mainly teams we didn't think would cover), and some under-performances (on teams we thought would cover). Tulsa was finally exposed by a lesser SEC team, and we should consider that when ranking non-BCS teams. So here are the final tallies, and our results...

Pollster's Overall Picks : 5-7-0
Overall we are 14-10-0..... Not too bad I must say

Pollster Pick'em
Week Two
Overall: 14-10-0

Pollster	This Week	Overall	Overall Percentage
Jarad Wilson	7-5	17-7	.708
Greg Frayser	6-6	15-9	.625
Eddie Slep	6-6	14-10	.583
Anil Chadha	5-7	14-10	.583
Travis Markle	6-6	13-11	.542
Max Renfro	6-6	13-11	.542
Kumar Chadha	6-6	6-6	.500
Ashley Chadha	5-7	11-13	.458
John Buzbee	5-7	9-15	.375
Jordan Renna	4-8	9-15	.375
Jeff Renfro	3-9	8-16	.333

The Results Are In...

Ok, once again Tech doesn't show up, loses to UVA, and forces me to celebrate less than I would've. So, I've tallied all our results in my less celebrated form.
Overall, our Pollsters were pretty spot on. We went 9-3-0 for our first week among our Top 16. South Florida continues to underperform, USC did the same, and Florida came out on fire against Kentucky, which no-one expected.
Here is how our Pollsters faired
Jarad - 10-2: I promise I didn't cheat, and I'll start sending my poll out to everyone as well.
Anil - 9-3
Greg - 9-3
Eddie - 8-4
Travis - 7-5
Max - 7-5
Ashley - 6-6
Jordan - 5-7
Jeff - 5-7
John - 4-8