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Many of you may remember Blogging Pantsless hosted our own College Football Pick'em Group last year. This year I decided we'd open the gates for readers to win some prizes that don't include warm beer from my tailgate!

Pick'em Reminder

I just wanted to remind everyone to make your picks this week if you haven't done so yet.

http://sports.yahoo.com/fantasy

I went 2 for 3 with my upsets last week, I've got a couple slated for this week also. If you're dumb enough to take the risks I do, you're lookin' at...

-Kansas over South Florida
-UCLA over BYU

...that could be why I'm running in the middle of the pack.

Things to look out for but I'm sure as hell not picking:
-Auburn getting Croomed?
-Ohio State not being as bad as we all think they are and/or USC not covering the spread?
-Skip Holtz pulling a Lou Holtz against Tulane?
-South Carolina...hmm...you know what? I'm not even gonna say this one.

BP-Pick'em

Week one officially wrapped up with Tennessee eating a big fat turd sandwich out in California this morning (EST). Now it's time we turn our attention to week two. This is the time where all the meatheads who lack good decision making skills in the off-season get to come back from suspensions and we get an idea of what most teams will be working with.

In the Blogging Pantsless Pick'em over at Yahoo, essentially here is what happened.
Seven people are tied for 1st because everyone picked Virginia Tech to beat ECU and Pitt to beat Bowling Green. After that was everyone else who did the same but also thought Clemson would wait until week 3 to implode. We even had a few people showing some sack making an upset pick or two (special mention to The Rich Robich Experiment for getting the ECU upset...that took some talent).

Pulling up the rear we had 4 sociopaths who didn't even make their selections. Anyway, so far so good but now ladies, we're gonna get into the meat of the schedules. Week 2's picks should be available to make later this afternoon.

Blogging Pantsless Pick'em

Also, just a little milestone info. After I posted the video below I got 120+ NEW visitors to the blog thanks to linking. So thanks to everyone who shared the Great Moments for Fat Guys in SEC history vid, I enjoyed the traffic.

Week One Picks

Just a reminder if you haven't made your picks for week 1 in the Blogging Pantsless Pick'em Group, this is the last week.

It's not too late to join, just follow this link.
Group #: 10885
Password: nopants

Here's the thing. Week one is usually full of easy picks. This is usually due to the fact most programs know to enforce off season suspensions, they need a cupcake to sit their big boys out on. An unfortunate problem, but a smart idea by the ADs and scheduling staff. Unfortunately, every now and then a couple of top programs decide to wear their ovaries on the outside and schedule an opponent most programs save for week 3. Makes for great television, but usually prevents me from starting out with a 100% perfect pick week.

As most of you know now, this year that game is Alabama and Clemson playing a neutral site game at the Georgia Dome. This is the classic Shakespearean dilemma of heart vs. head.

My Head:
Clemson takes this game 28-21. The Tigers have a way more experienced team and Bama still isn't quite there. This is really Saban's first year with his recruits and unless he pulled some top talent guys he expects to carry the weight of the team through this year Alabama will start out 0-1. Tommy Bowden's team has some real talented running backs and Cullen Harper is a top QB in the ACC. (9)Clemson begins the season with a strong start rolling through Bama and Citadel before hitting their conference schedule with NC State week 3.

My Heart:
Alabama shocks the world with a 32-24 upset in Atlanta. Clemson's got a lot of talent and are expected to do well this season, but this sounds like the beginning of the season from the last 5 years. Why should I not expect coach Bowden to fall flat on his face this year? Alabama's got the top WR recruit expected to compete in Julio Jones, he could potentially either make or break Alabama's offense this season. Plus it is a middle of the pack SEC team playing a top ACC team...why should I not expect Bama to dominate? Think I'm the only one thinking Bama might pull an upset? Yahoo users have the Clemson/Alabama game with a 66% confidence to the Tigers. Compareably the next lowest percentage is Missouri vs. Illinois with 79% confidence in Missouri. However UGA is 100% facing GA Southern...just so you know.

I still haven't decided which way to go the first week. I'll pull for Alabama as long as they aren't playing UGA on Saturdays, but I can't ever find it in my heart to cheer for Clemson. Therefore I might be leaning toward picking Clemson to win, because I'll want Bama to win and if they lose at least I'll have the right pick. Vice versa if Bama wins I'll be happy Clemson lost and not as upset about my record.

Either way I'm starting to ramble, care to show your cards before picks are due? Let me know what you're thinking because I'm still up in the air.

College Football Pick'em

I've started up a group over at Yahoo Sports. You can follow the link below to their main page.

Blogging Pantsless NCAA Football Pick'em

This will be a straight-up pick'em without the spread. Having to cover the spread has proved to be a harsh mistress in my past groups so I said screw it. You either win or you lose, bottom line.

Click on the College Football Pick'em banner above the main photo.

You will proceed to the "Join a Group" link.

Our Group ID# is : 10885

Our Group Password: nopants

Lets get this party started, WOOT WOOT! We will actually be able to start picking teams once the AP rankings are published (which shouldn't be too far away).

Winner will receive something...that's as far as I'm willing to go right now, we'll establish what "something" is later but I'm not going to back myself into a corner right now.