Dark Tower College Bowl Mania!
Updated link for the 2022 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 this afternoon/evening.
Mode: Confidence (make sure you select this mode!)
Password: roland
Get in the GAME!!!!!!
Last year's trophy - Garrell is the defending champ!
Last edited by NeedfulKings; 12-04-2022 at 10:01 AM.
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I'm in!
The rose speaks of love silently, in a language known only to the heart.
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?
Looking for FAB8 CD Number 439
Trying again...
Wish List:
Any of the following flatsigned or inscribed-
It, Shining, Salem’s Lot, Mr. Mercedes, The Stand
Brother ARC, Seed ARC
Took three tries to get my picks saved but I think I’m in!
WANTED:
Any DT S/L’s #181
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.
Looking for FAB8 CD Number 439
I don't see your entry in the Palaver Gunslinger area. Are you sure you're in? If so, under what name?Originally Posted by ajw2910
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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.
28 in 23 (?)!!!!
63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!
My Collection: https://www.thedarktower.org/palaver...ion-Merlin1958
The Houston Astros cheated Major League Baseball from 2017-18!!!! Is that how we teach our kids to play the game now?????
I think it’s under Tony67huntingI don't see your entry in the Palaver Gunslinger area. Are you sure you're in? If so, under what name?
WANTED:
Any DT S/L’s #181
Got it. Blaine from the Pigskin contest. Variety is the fruit of life!I think it’s under Tony67huntingI 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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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!!!
GET
In
THE
GAME!
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?
All that's left of what we were is what we have become.
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?
Looking for FAB8 CD Number 439
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.
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.
Looking for FAB8 CD Number 439
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.
It appears that I have a "lock" on last place this year!!! LOL
28 in 23 (?)!!!!
63 in '23!!!!!!!!!!
My Collection: https://www.thedarktower.org/palaver...ion-Merlin1958
The Houston Astros cheated Major League Baseball from 2017-18!!!! Is that how we teach our kids to play the game now?????
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?
Looking for FAB8 CD Number 439
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.
"Marty DiBergi: Why don’t you just make ten louder and make ten be the top number and make that a little louder?
Nigel Tufnel: (pause) These go to eleven."
All that's left of what we were is what we have become.
Go Ole Miss
Wish List:
Any of the following flatsigned or inscribed-
It, Shining, Salem’s Lot, Mr. Mercedes, The Stand
Brother ARC, Seed ARC
Thanks
Looking for FAB8 CD Number 439
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