AND DOWN THE STRETCH THEY COME!!

For those of you still paying attention to the Inaugural F&BT College Football Pick'Em Challenge, the final week of the season is upon us and the race for first place is about as tight as you could expect after a 13 week season. Here's the leaderboard heading into the final week...

1) Whetst1 - 476
2) WildHawks - 472
3) Bobby Petrino - 435
4) Buckingham - 389
5) Kenny G - 361
6) Lil Bro #1 - 347

WildHawks is carrying the banner for the F&BT bloggers...even though he got a girlfriend and forgot all about our little blog and his priorities. Whetst1 is out to prove that Illinois fans actually can be smart, despite choosing to cheer for the Illini. And Kenny G is going to owe me $20 when he doesn't pass me this week.

Make sure to get your picks in this week and look for an interview with the winner next week!

F&BT Pick'em

Not to toot my own horn or anything, but I'm pretty good at this. I mean, the numbers speak for themselves. Whammy.

















Grail Knight: "You have chosen wisely"


On that note: 3 posts in a row! I'm on a roll baby!

F&BT College Pick'Em Challenge Update!

It's been a rough couple of weeks for a few of us in the F&BT inaugural College Pick'Em Challenge. The schedule was decidedly tougher two weeks ago, and a few strategies were followed. Most people played it straight and put the harder games as lower confidence levels. But some of you, including my current roommate Kenny G, chose the interesting strategy of not picking games at all. Many of you followed that same strategy, but looks like it worked about as well as the Emmy's having 5 reality show hosts run the show. Dis-as-ter. Also, for the record, I will usually not make fun of any of you by name or your picks on the blog, but Kenny G is an exception. He is fully aware that I write this blog, and knowingly refuses to read it. "I'm not really a blog guy," he says, "...plus, I know when you're writing it and I can just ask you what you're posting and get everything that you're going to write. So there's really no reason for me to read it."

Well, touche Kenny. But from now on I will be making fun of you until you start reading. Have fun playing your saxophone.

As for the F&BT College Pick'Em Challenge standings, a few bad weeks have put me out of the medals for now. Lil Bro #1 had a couple strong weeks after which he usually sent a text along the lines of "What happened in the Picks this week? I can't see the standings." Thank God this stopped and he's no longer in first. That honor goes to the always difficult to find Bobby Fischer...I mean WILDHAWK! Seriously, is anyone harder to find these days than WildHawk? He hasn't posted in a while, and has rebuffed most of my attempts to get him to write. But alas, at least he's still making picks.

Keep making your picks each week and ranking them from your most confident game (10) to your least confident game (1). There's still plenty of time to make a move for the medal stand!

F&BT College Pick'Em Challenge: Week 1 Results

It certainly wasn't a good week for the participants in the Inaugural F&BT College Pick'Em Challenge. The top scorer was none other than good friend Sober, who reigns king with a total of 37 points out of 55. Yours truly tied for second, so I'll only allow Sober to give me crap this week.

Make your week 2 picks and be sure to check the rules for how to score correctly. A refresher for those of you unfamiliar (*cough* Lil Bro #1 *cough*):
1)Pick the winner of all ten games listed.
2) Rank the games in order of your confidence level in the team you picked winning. 10 being your most confident game. 1 being your least confident game.
3)Scoring: You get points equal to the confidence level of every game you correctly pick. For example, in week 1 if you picked Alabama over Clemson, and assigned a confidence level of 1o....you will receive 10 points.

You can still sign up for the league if you haven't yet. It's ok if you're lazy, you'll fit right into this group.

ESPN.com College Football Pick'Em
Group Name: First and Big Ten
Password: bigtenfootball

Good luck...

Inaugural F&BT College Pick'Em Challenge!

For all of you F&BT fans out there who think we're idiots...here's your chance to prove it. Welcome to the inaugural season of the F&BT College Pick'Em Challenge! Graciously (read: free) hosted by ESPN.com, all you loyal F&BT readers or, more likely, friends of ours that we force this blog upon, now have your shot at proving how much smarter you are than us. Sign up for ESPN fantasy (it's free), go to the College Football Pick'Em page, search the private groups, and join the F&BT group.

Group Name: First and Big Ten
Password: bigtenfootball

The standings will be posted weekly in the blog, and the overall winner at the end of the season will get their 15 minutes of fame, courtesy of an interview in this very blog. So fire up the brain cells, do some research, and pick the winners of a few games every week. Then rank them in order of your confidence level that the team you picked will actually win. Basically, if you can't figure it out...well, you're probably an SEC fan.

Think your smarter than us? Prove it.