[Shane Kroeker]

Okay Hipbasers, I've heard an awful lot of College football chatter on here lately, so its about time that all NCAA lovers are challenged to the ultimate test of Bowl wisdom.
Pick the winners of each college football bowl game, and select how confident you are that the team will win. Make your picks now... BCS is approaching!
Group name: Hipbase
Follow the link for registration and entry sheet.
http://games.espn.go.com/bowlmania/group?groupID=14614

[farmerdan]

sorry, the link doesn't work for me

[chris]

Try this: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://games.espn.go.com/bowlmania/group?groupID=14614">http://games.espn.go.com/bowlmania/group?groupID=14614</a><!-- m -->

[farmerdan]

Try this: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://games.espn.go.com/bowlmania/group?groupID=14614">http://games.espn.go.com/bowlmania/group?groupID=14614</a><!-- m -->

In my best Mr. Burns voice..."Excellent!!"

[farmerdan]

I have no idea about most of these....but I hope I win!!

[Shane Kroeker]

We currently have 6 entries in the Hipbase Bowl Mania pool. To maximize your chance of winning, submit your entry before December 19th. You might as well just enter now if you are confident in your NCAA football knowledge...

[Shane Kroeker]

Bowl Mania is here! Tonight the first bowl game is between TCU and Northern Illinois, you can watch it at 8:00PM EST on The Score channel. If you have not entered the Hipbase bowl mania pool, Now would be the most opportune time to do so! Hopefully after every day a bowl game is played, we will update the standings onto Hipbase.com, so bragging rights are most definately on the line.
P.S. You have an advantage, as everyone knows who esthete is going to pick in the BCS Championship game... :lol:

[The Horrible Esthete]

Yes.....c'mon 'basers! We need more entries! The more the merrier, and it's not as if you have to worry about your score. Picking the winners is what you want to do, of course, but take it from me -- this type of pick 'em game is most often won and lost by which confidence factors you put on which games. It's a heckuva lot of fun.

P.S. You have an advantage, as everyone knows who esthete is going to pick in the BCS Championship game... :lol:

Yes, but the question is did I put a big, little, or median confidence factor on it?

[grimes]

Thanks for the reminder guys, I keep forgetting to do my picks. I just sent myself an email at home so I remember to do it before kickoff tonight (I can't do the picks here at the office cause our stupid corporate firewall blocks all espn-related sites ).

[Shane Kroeker]

Bonner, Where's your entry? (If you win, you may be able to overtake Wendy as this year's Hipbase Member of the Year...)
Lance, you've gotta enter... I thought you were a sports fan. (maybe I was wrong? The Oilers probably won't make the playoffs anyways...)
Stephen Dame, The Liberals aren't calling for the election for at least the rest of this year... Surely you can find the time to make some picks. (Maybe you can even include the Bowl Mania winner in next year's "T'was the Night Before a Hipbase Christmas"!)
That's all the Trash talk for now, if you don't sign up now it could only get worse... :lol:

[grimes]

Got my picks in. I don't know about you all but I've got my money on the SCLSU Mud Dogs to take the Bourbon Bowl :lol:

[Shane Kroeker]

TCU wins big over Northern Illinois to capture the Pointsettia Bowl (37-7).
Here are the Hipbase group standings:
RANK....ENTRY, OWNER__________RECORD......... Total points
1........Esthete , s. binau____________1-0....................32
1........Grimes , K. Lane____________1-0...................32
3........Skroeker , S. Kroeker________1-0...................15
4........Seabourn Entry, D. Seabourn__1-0....................8
5........Kirkpatrick Entry, C. Kirkpatrick_1-0....................1
6........Douglas Entry, J. Douglas______0-1....................0
6........Picks Sure To Go Wrong , D. Schneider_0-1.........0
6........kershaw Entry, R. kershaw_____0-1....................0

[grimes]

Wow, I thought I would've been the only one to throw their full confidence behind TCU. Oh well, I suppose sharing the top spot is alright. For now.

[The Horrible Esthete]

Wow, I thought I would've been the only one to throw their full confidence behind TCU.

To quote Lee Corso -- not so fast my friend!

I had no doubt that TCU would dominate that game. And dominate they did: <!-- m --><a class="postlink" href="http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/boxscore?gameId=263532628&confId=null">http://scores.espn.go.com/ncf/boxscore? ... onfId=null</a><!-- m -->

That game was a mismatch. TCU is a far more complete and balanced team than NIU.

[Shane Kroeker]

BYU shoots down Oregon's hopes in the Las Vegas Bowl (38-8 ).
Here are the Hipbase group standings:
RANK....ENTRY, OWNER__________RECORD......... Total points
1........Grimes , K. Lane____________2-0...................63
2........Esthete , s. binau____________2-0..................43
3........Skroeker , S. Kroeker________1-1..................15
4........Seabourn Entry, D. Seabourn__2-0...................10
5........Kirkpatrick Entry, C. Kirkpatrick_2-0...................3
5........Picks Sure To Go Wrong , D. Schneider_1-1.......3
7........kershaw Entry, R. kershaw_____1-1..................2
8........Douglas Entry, J. Douglas______0-2..................0