A popular pick 'em game for college football fans is to not only pick bowl winners, but to also assign confidence points to their picks. The goal is to accumulate more points than your friends.
The format is simple - pick a winner of all 35 games and, depending on how confident you are of each pick becoming reality, rank them in order of 1-35. You assign 35 to the pick that gives you the most confidence, and assign 1 to the pick that gives you the least confidence. No number can be assigned more than once. The maximum number of points anyone can accumulate with a perfect record is 630.
Here is how the computer would rank its' picks, based on the computer's projected margin of victory for each bowl winner:
| 35 |
Insight |
Oklahoma 20.74 over Iowa |
35 |
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| 34 |
MAACO Las Vegas |
Boise State 16.03 over Arizona State |
34 |
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| 33 |
Meineke Car Care Texas |
Texas A&M 13.62 over Northwestern |
33 |
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| 32 |
Independence |
Missouri 13.25 over North Carolina |
32 |
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| 31 |
Music City |
Mississippi State 11.36 over Wake Forest |
31 |
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| 30 |
New Mexico |
Temple 10.92 over Wyoming |
30 |
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| 29 |
Poinsettia |
TCU 10.20 over Louisiana Tech |
29 |
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| 28 |
New Orleans |
San Diego State 9.46 over La.-Lafayette |
|
28 |
| 27 |
Fiesta |
Oklahoma State 9.42 over Stanford |
27 |
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| 26 |
Cotton |
Arkansas 9.04 over Kansas State |
26 |
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| 25 |
TicketCIty |
Houston 8.36 over Penn State |
25 |
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| 24 |
Alamo |
Baylor 7.44 over Washington |
24 |
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| 23 |
Beef 'O' Brady's |
FIU 5.61 over Marshall |
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23 |
| 22 |
Kraft Fight Hunger |
Illinois 5.32 over UCLA |
22 |
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| 21 |
Holiday |
Texas 5.30 over California |
21 |
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| 20 |
Outback |
Michigan State 4.32 over Georgia |
20 |
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| 19 |
Military |
Toledo 4.24 over Air Force |
19 |
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| 18 |
BCS Championship |
LSU 4.16 over Alabama |
|
18 |
| 17 |
Liberty |
Cincinnati 3.92 over Vanderbilt |
17 |
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| 16 |
Sugar |
Michigan 3.16 over Virginia Tech |
16 |
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| 15 |
Little Caesar's Pizza |
Western Michigan 3.11 over Purdue |
|
15 |
| 14 |
Champs Sports |
Florida State 3.04 over Notre Dame |
14 |
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| 13 |
BBVA Compass |
Pittsburgh 2.84 over SMU |
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13 |
| 12 |
Armed Forces |
Tulsa 2.81 over BYU |
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12 |
| 11 |
Sun |
Utah 2.32 over Georgia Tech |
11 |
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| 10 |
Gator |
Ohio State 2.28 over Florida |
|
10 |
| 9 |
Hawai'i |
Southern Miss 1.97 over Nevada |
9 |
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| 8 |
Chick-fil-A |
Auburn 1.81 over Virginia |
8 |
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| 7 |
Rose |
Wisconsin 1.73 over Oregon |
|
7 |
| 6 |
Belk |
N. C. State 1.36 over Louisville |
6 |
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| 5 |
Orange |
Clemson 0.87 over West Virginia |
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5 |
| 4 |
Pinstripe |
Rutgers 0.665 over Iowa State |
4 |
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| 3 |
GoDaddy.com |
Northern Illinois 0.660 over Arkansas State |
3 |
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| 2 |
Capital One |
Nebraska 0.41 over South Carolina |
|
2 |
| 1 |
Famous Idaho Potato |
Utah State 0.11 over Ohio |
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1 |