The My Entry page is your home to view/edit your College Football Bowl Pick'em selections. You can view the teams you have picked to win and the game spread (if Spread entry). If your entry belongs to a group that awards bonus points, this information will be displayed here as well.
What are the scoring guidelines for College Bowl Pickem?
An entry earns 1 point for each correct selection in non-BCS Bowl games and 5 points for each correct selection in BCS Bowl games.
Spread vs. Non-Spread Entries
When you created your entry, you chose whether you wanted to make selections against the spread or straight-up. If you created a spread entry, the selection table will display the point spread for each game along with who is the favorite and who is the underdog.
Point Spread
A point spread is the predicted scoring difference between a game's two opponents.
If picking the favorite, that team must win by more than the value of the point spread. If picking the underdog, that team must lose by less than or tie the value of the point spread (or win the game outright) to cover the spread and be the winning pick. If the spread is not covered by the favorite, then the underdog wins the matchup. For instance, if the spread is 4.0 points and the favorite wins by only 4 points, then the favorite did not cover the spread and the underdog wins the matchup.
No Line When a point spread is not in use for a particular game, the spread will be "No Line". The selection table will display a "NL" for the game in question and neither team is the favorite. In this scenario, a winning pick will be credited to the winning team.
Bonus Points In groups which bonus points are awarded, entries issued a bonus point receive a bonus (in addition to the standard one point) for every correct selection. The maximum total points an entry can earn in a bonus points group is 685 (55 game points + 630 bonus points). Bonus points are not counted on the overall leaderboards.
Rankings
The BCS rankings will be used, not Associated Press (AP)
Lock time
All games played in 2011 lock five minutes prior to respective game.
All games played in 2012 lock at 11:59p PT on December 31, 2011.
If a game is locked, the participant is not able to change the team selected to win or the bonus points assigned to that game (if applicable).
If a game is not locked, the participant is able to change the team selected to win or the bonus points assigned to that game (if applicable).
Tiebreaker
Participants enter the predicted final score for the BCS Championship game.Tiebreakers during the College Bowl pick'em season are as follows:
- Entry that correctly predicted the winner of the BCS Championship
- Entry that was the closest to the total points for the BCS Championship
- Entry that was the closest to the home team points for the BCS Championship
- Entry that was the closest to the road team points for the BCS Championship
- Entry that correctly predicted the winner of the Orange Bowl
- Entry that correctly predicted the winner of the Fiesta Bowl
- Entry that correctly predicted the winner of the Sugar Bowl
- Entry that correctly predicted the winner of the Rose Bowl
- Entry with higher number of correct picks
- Entry with most bonus points (where applicable)
My Entry Extras
After you've gotten all the expert info you need to tear up your league, use the Print Entry tab to keep a copy of your picks and compare with your friends or at the office.
