Protect Your Unit Week 6 Picks Thread: Hooray For Normalcy

(DISCLAIMER: This game is for entertainment purposes only. No actual money is being wagered.)

For this first time in awhile, I don’t have any corrections, rules interpretations, medical problems, or any other administrative issues we need to discuss. Yay!

And the week this happens, USF plays its most normal opponent. Cincinnati is the most, played opponent in USF history; and they’re the only school USF has played 20 times, a figure no other school can reach until at least 2028. This will come to an end next year when Cincinnati joins the Big XXIV or whatever it ends up being after the Big Ten is done cherry-picking the Pac-10 for new members. So let’s contemplate our last game against Cincinnati, which will probably play out as expected. Here’s hoping I’m wrong.

As of about 11 AM, the following picks had been entered:

There were no mid-week games this week, except the SMU-UCF game which was rescheduled from last week.

RESULTS

I’ve decided to merge the Friday picks thread and the Sunday results thread into one post, so as not to have so many posts out there.

Let’s start with the big winning bets of Week 6:

dsidwell31, ElliotMoore, and jrjs each had two big winners this week. Defdans had three. But none added up to McIntyre2K7’s one parlay win on overs.

Just for funsies, let’s see the bets that would have won if USF had managed to win that game in Cincinnati:

A 31-28 ending would have made these two parlay bets partial winners as well, since 59 was the over:

Damn, we’re a weird fanbase. No matter how far USF goes to show there’s no reason to hope, our fans do anyway. And damn if the team doesn’t try sometimes. Tune in next week, when USF either leads Tulane at the half, or is behind by 28. Or possibly both. I don’t even know how it works anymore.

Who profited and earned points this week?

This week it’s McIntyre2K7’s turn to deliver a big blow, in what’s looking like a season-long prizefight between him and Danj725. They’re way ahead of the field in the money race, though some other challengers are starting to emerge. After a slow start, six other players are over 1,000 for the season, and two others are above 975:

ULhothot (158.83) and speruche (98.70) are below 250 and can bet their remaining bankroll on one bet if they wish to.

Let’s look at the points standings:

McIntyre2k7 takes the lead here also, but there’s still a lot of season to go.

Weel 7 includes a Wednesday night Fun Belt game, plus two Thursday and two Friday games involving Temple-UCF, Navy-SMU, and UTSA-FIU. AAC games on Saturday are Tulane-USF, Memphis-East Carolina. Rice-FAU, Charlotte-UAB, and Louisiana Tech-North Texas.

Nationally, top games are Alabama-Tennessee, Penn State-Michigan, Southern California-Utah, Oklahoma State-TCU, NC State-Syracuse, Mississippi State-Kentucky, and Clemson-Florida State.