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    Default Dark Tower College Bowl Mania!

    Updated link for the 2023 contest below - get in the game!!!! In an effort to recycle this thread through the coming years (and save our fine archive folks some work) this will be the general thread for this and subsequent Bowl Mania contests.

    https://fantasy.espn.com/games/colle...d-1ab2fba087a4

    Bowls will be announced Sunday afternoon/evening.

    Mode: Confidence (make sure you select this mode!)
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    Get in the GAME!!!!!!

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    Yeah, I'll try it for the first time!
    I couldn't get it to register me last year, but this year no problems. That's a good sign, eh?
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    Took three tries to get my picks saved but I think I’m in!
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    Geez. 44 games? Is this an everybody gets a trophy for college kids mentality?
    A bowl game at Fenway Park? For real? One at Yankee Stadium? The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl? A Mayo Bowl?
    My favorite must be the Taxslayer Bowl.

    Still rolling on the floor.
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    Quote Originally Posted by ajw2910 View Post
    Took three tries to get my picks saved but I think I’m in!
    I don't see your entry in the Palaver Gunslinger area. Are you sure you're in? If so, under what name?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Lurker View Post
    Geez. 44 games? Is this an everybody gets a trophy for college kids mentality?
    A bowl game at Fenway Park? For real? One at Yankee Stadium? The Famous Idaho Potato Bowl? A Mayo Bowl?
    My favorite must be the Taxslayer Bowl.

    Still rolling on the floor.
    So true! Not a fan of the new-look Bowl Mania site either. Gettin' too old.
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    Ok; I'm signed in! Will make picks later.

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    28 in 23 (?)!!!!

    63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!









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    Quote Originally Posted by NeedfulKings View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by ajw2910 View Post
    Took three tries to get my picks saved but I think I’m in!
    I don't see your entry in the Palaver Gunslinger area. Are you sure you're in? If so, under what name?
    I think it’s under Tony67hunting
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    Quote Originally Posted by ajw2910 View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by NeedfulKings View Post
    Quote Originally Posted by ajw2910 View Post
    Took three tries to get my picks saved but I think I’m in!
    I don't see your entry in the Palaver Gunslinger area. Are you sure you're in? If so, under what name?
    I think it’s under Tony67hunting
    Got it. Blaine from the Pigskin contest. Variety is the fruit of life! Good luck, mate!
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    9 - Nine. Only nine players so far. That's a 1 in 9 chance of winning. Why not join and make it 1 in 10 - still great odds!!!

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    First Bowl game is Friday MORNING!!!!
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    With all new players every 4-5 years, how the hell do you folks keep track of college ball?
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    Quote Originally Posted by Jon View Post
    With all new players every 4-5 years, how the hell do you folks keep track of college ball?
    I don't. This contest is pretty random to me, but it makes it a lot more fun watching the games!
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    What I don't get is this stuff - "Quarterback Sean Clifford announced on Friday that he will return to Penn State for a sixth year.

    Due to the complications presented by COVID-19 during the 2020 fall season, the NCAA granted an extra year of eligibility to all fall athletes. That allows Clifford to return to Penn State for a second redshirt senior season."

    A sixth year? Why do they even allow fifth years?
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    A "redshirt" year means a year you didn't play. Or only played under a de minimus amount of snaps. That way, a developing scrub doesn't lose an entire year just by taking a few snaps in garbage time. So that accounts for "five years" of eligibility: one year on the bench and four years playing.

    The NCAA is generally crediting the "COVID" year as a redshirt year for everyone. It was such a weird situation that a number of players who never would have played under normal circumstances got playing time and, more importantly, a number of would be stars might have played past the de minimus amount to count against their eligibility time, but then COVID (or COVID protocols) benched them for basically most of a season, no fault of themselves. Allowing that to be considered a redshirt year was seemed as a fair deal for those players.

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    Oh, ok. I guess I kinda see that sitting out a year playing. Sort of. And I guess Covid is a good excuse for an extra year since most schools didn't have in person attendance.

    But at some point don't they have to graduate. I mean six years? The guy should have a Master's.
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    You can continue to play after you graduate if you still have eligibility left. If fact, before the transfer portal that is how a lot of players would get to transfer. They would graduate and then "need" to get their masters elsewhere. That is how Russell Wilson went from NC State to Wisconsin.

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    It appears that I have a "lock" on last place this year!!! LOL
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    So, they just reset the numbering system because of the cancelled games?

    I can't remember but I'm pretty sure I hade a 44 point game that is now worth 40 points?
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    Yes, as games are canceled they shift the point values down. So if you had a game as 19 points but the game you valued as 18 gets canceled, your 19 becomes 18. We are down 4 so far so there were 44 but it only goes to 40 now.

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    Quote Originally Posted by RUBE View Post
    Yes, as games are canceled they shift the point values down. So if you had a game as 19 points but the game you valued as 18 gets canceled, your 19 becomes 18. We are down 4 so far so there were 44 but it only goes to 40 now.



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