Pick per Day for 1/8/09 - Day 53

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Lots of games to choose from but unfortunately the line for the Gopher-Hawkeye game isn't posted as yet. I'll add it if it's available by tomorrow early AM. DEADLINE for Thursday games is 5PM.
Good luck with your picks!
Loyola Chicago at Cleveland State -13.5 (7:30 PM EST )
Utah State -6.5 at Louisiana Tech (8:00 PM EST )
Detroit at Valparaiso -5 (8:00 PM EST )
South Alabama -5.5 at UL - Monroe (8:00 PM EST )
Ul - Lafayette -1 at New Orleans U (8:00 PM EST )
Fla Atlantic at Middle Tenn St -13.5 (8:00 PM EST )
Saint Louis at Xavier -15 (8:00 PM EST )
North Texas at Arkansas LR -3.5 (8:00 PM EST )
Oregon at Arizona -11 (8:30 PM EST )
Arkansas State -1 at Denver U (9:00 PM EST )
Nevada at New Mexico State -5 (9:00 PM EST )
San Jose State at Boise State -2.5 (9:00 PM EST )
California at Washington State Pick (10:00 PM EST )
Long Beach State at Pacific -7.5 (10:00 PM EST )
Oregon State at Arizona State -20 (10:30 PM EST )
Stanford at Washington U -6.5 (10:30 PM EST )
CS Fullerton -2.5 at Cal Poly SLO (11:00 PM EST )
Georgia Southern -3 at The Citadel (6:00 PM EST )
Nc Greensboro at Western Carolina -15.5 (6:00 PM EST )
Elon at Appalachian St -7.5 (7:00 PM EST )
Tennessee Tech at Morehead State -3.5 (7:00 PM EST )
Wofford at Tennessee Chat -7 (7:00 PM EST )
Jacksonville St at Eastern Kentucky -4.5 (7:30 PM EST )
Furman at Samford -8.5 (6:00 PM EST )
Weber State at Portland State -10.5(10:00 PM EST )

Games with Lines now available:
Minnesota +1.5 at Iowa (7:00 PM EST )

Va Commonwealth - 3.5 at Drexel (7:00 PM EST )
Western Kentucky -6.5 at Florida Intl (7:00 PM EST )
Wright State at Butler -10.5 (7:00 PM EST )
Illinois Chicago -5 at Youngstown State (7:30 PM EST )
Cal Riverside at UC Davis -4 (10:00 PM EST )
Hawaii at Idaho U -7 (10:00 PM EST )
Cal Irvine at Cal Santa Barb -10 (10:00 PM EST )
Tennessee State at Murray State -11 (8:30 PM EST )
Austin Peay at Tenn Martin -4.5 (8:30 PM EST )
Northern Arizona at Montana -3 (9:00 PM EST )
Sacramento State at Montana State -15 (9:00 PM EST )
Idaho State at E. Washington -3.5 (10:00 PM EST )





Small Print

If you'd like to participate but haven't done so before, please send
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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:
Moniker: Team and Spread
(e.g. MNSnowman: Minnesota +1)
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 1/8/09 Picks

MNSnowman: Minnesota +1.5
MinnMarchDTF: Minnesota +1.5
rrjack: Long Beach State +7.5
Zales04: CS Fullerton -2.5
Gopher In Qatar: Boise St. -2.5
RoyalGO4: Stanford +6.5
Jike Spingleton: California pick
The Big L: California Pick
ilovethebarn: Arizona -11
TheSportsAce: California pick
gopherholefan: Cal pickem
MadisonRaisedGopherCrazed: CS Fullerton -2.5
USTGopher: Minnesota +1.5
goldenfuture5: Minnesota +1.5
SaturnSweater: Tennesse-Martin -4.5
GopherRock: St. Louis +15
gopherfan10: Xavier -15
XMan: Minnesota +1.5
GOLDY1966: Boise State -2.5
GopherHarvey: Minnesota +1.5
Ski U Mah Gopher: Minnesota +1.5
nemosgold: Minnesota +1.5
 

PPD Standings after 1/7/09 Games

NOTES

  • Gonzaga snaps their string of 3 losses with an OT win by 10 against host Tennessee
  • Michigan comes back strong (or Indiana finishes weakly) to win by 6 in OT. Indiana led by 17 at the half.
  • NJIT lost their 15th of the season at home to Yale, 80-51.
  • Coach K had to share the limelight on ESPN with Tommy AmaKer as Harvard beat BC for the 1st time since the early 1900s, blah, blah, blah.
Today's Results
Our losing streak persists as we now are 16 games under 0.500. Unfortunately I seem to be part of the trend.

5 - Wins
19 - Losses

0.208 - Winning pctge
24 - Participants
Consensus Pick: Tennessee (-2.5), selected by 7. Lost in OT to Gonzaga.​
Cumulative Record
551 - Wins
567 - Losses
15 - Pushes
0.493 - Winning pctge
1133 - Number of Picks
52 - Number of Days​
Consensus Picks
37 - Wins
28 - Losses
1 - Pushes
0.569 - Winning pctge​
Individual Standings
Steady Selectors
.. 1 - SaturnSweater ( 24 - 11 - 1 ) - 0.686
.. 2 - GopherRock ( 27 - 18 - 1 ) - 0.600
.. 3 - OSUfan ( 24 - 17 - 0 ) - 0.585
.. 4 - USTGopher ( 19 - 15 - 1 ) - 0.559
.. 5 - Goldy 1966 ( 27 - 22 - 0 ) - 0.551
.. 6 - rrjack ( 22 - 19 - 1 ) - 0.537
.. 7 - NemosGold ( 19 - 19 - 0 ) - 0.500
.. 8 - MinnMarchDTF ( 17 - 17 - 2 ) - 0.5
.. 9 - The Big L ( 17 - 18 - 1 ) - 0.486
10 - RoyalGO4 ( 22 - 24 - 2 ) - 0.478
11 - Gopherholefan ( 20 - 22 - 1 ) - 0.476
12 - Gopher In Qatar ( 24 - 28 - 0 ) - 0.462
13 - Ski U Mah Gopher ( 22 - 26 - 0 ) - 0.458
14 - Jike Spingleton ( 23 - 29 - 0 ) - 0.442
15 - Alltimetwinsfan ( 19 - 24 - 0 ) - 0.442
16 - MNSnowman ( 20 - 32 - 0 ) - 0.385
17 - Zales04 ( 16 - 31 - 0 ) - 0.340
Mildly Addicted
.. 1 - GopherJim ( 7 - 1 - 0 ) - 0.875
.. 2 - Gopherlady ( 8 - 3 - 0 ) - 0.727
.. 3 - MadisonRaisedGopherCrazed ( 19 - 10 - 1 ) - 0.655
.. 4 - GopherHarvey ( 14 - 10 - 0 ) - 0.583
.. 5 - Gopher07 ( 12 - 11 - 0 ) - 0.522
.. 6 - NateDawgUM ( 13 - 12 - 0 ) - 0.520
.. 7 - mom8pop ( 15 - 15 - 0 ) - 0.5
.. 8 - gopherfan10 ( 14 - 14 - 0 ) - 0.500
.. 9 - CoolHand ( 7 - 7 - 1 ) - 0.500
10 - GoldenFuture5 ( 14 - 15 - 1 ) - 0.483
11 - Mikie S ( 11 - 12 - 1 ) - 0.478
12 - Ilovethebarn ( 15 - 17 - 0 ) - 0.469
13 - soneillumn ( 12 - 14 - 0 ) - 0.462
14 - Alan Shore ( 8 - 11 - 0 ) - 0.421
15 - Xman ( 11 - 17 - 0 ) - 0.393
16 - grunkiejr ( 5 - 9 - 0 ) - 0.357
17 - From the Barn ( 3 - 7 - 0 ) - 0.300
18 - TheSportsAce ( 1 - 4 - 1 ) - 0.200

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

MinnMarchDTF: Minnesota +-(whatever the line is)
 



Zales04: CS Fullerton -2.5

If I am going to go down, I might as well go down with small conference picks. This one's for you, J-Stew!
 






Jike Spingleton: California pick


Looks like the Gophers are 1.5 pt dogs....
 













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XMan: Minnesota +1.5
 





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