That's right, we're taking the Deadpool into the college realm. The idea is mostly the same, but there are a couple of differences in the rules, so look them over.

*Each week, you pick one team. You may only pick each team once, no matter where they rank at the time you pick them. The team must be:
**Any team ranked in the AP Top 25 Poll
**Any team facing a team ranked in the AP Top 25 Poll
*All picks must be made before the kickoff of the first game on Saturday. You may not pick a team that has already played in a game that week when you make your pick, and you may not pick a team that is not playing that week.
*If you fail to make your pick, you will be randomly assigned a team that no other participant has picked. Missing two weeks in a row will result in being dropped from the contest.
*If the team you picked wins, you remain in the contest. If they lose, you're out.
*The last remaining person wins. If, at the end of the season, multiple people remain, the prize will be doubled, then split.
*If during a week, all remaining participants are eliminated, the round is voided and nobody is eliminated. The chosen team still can't be used again.
*This contest will not be restarted unless it ends REALLY early.

The base prize is a $5 Gift Card to Amazon.com. Also, all winners are eligible for double prizes in the Playoff Pick-Em. Since this is the first year, I'm not offering a bonus for a perfect season - I have no idea how easy or hard it will be to do that.

To enter, simply post here with your Week 1 pick.

Here's the AP rankings.
Here's the schedule for the Top 25.

Good luck to everyone!

Week 1 Picks
Douche McCallister - (9)Oklahoma State
Slayer1 - (5)Boise State
Tomdincan - (8)Texas A&M
Cpt. Fantastic - (17) Michigan State
UsaSatsui - (7)Stanford
Klimbatize - (20) Mississippi State

Week 2 Picks
Douche McCallister - (6)Stanford
Slayer1 - (12) South Carolina
Tomdincan - (2) LSU
Cpt. Fantastic - (5) Oregon
UsaSatsui - Nevada (playing (5) Oregon)
Klimbatize - (14) Arkansas

Week 3 Picks
Douche McCallister - (7) Wisconsin
Slayer1 - (13) Virginia Tech
Tomdincan - (2) Alabama
Cpt. Fantastic - (14) Arkansas
Klimbatize - (23) TCU

Week 4 Picks
Douche - (1) Oklahoma
Slayer - (11) Florida State
Tomdincan - (6) Wisconsin
Cpt. Fantastic - (20) TCU
Klimbatize - (18 ) South Florida

Week 5 picks
Douche - (20) TCU
Tomdincan - (6) Stanford
Cpt. Fantastic - (22) West Virginia
Klimbatize - (2) Oklahoma

Week 6 picks
Tomdincan - (12) Michigan
Cpt. Fantastic - (8 ) Clemson
Klimbatize - (6) Oklahoma State

Week 7 picks
Tomdincan - (12) Georgia Tech
Cpt. Fantastic - (4) Wisconsin
Klimbatize - (4) Wisconsin

Week 8 Picks
Cpt. Fantastic - (12) Kansas State
Klimbatize - (5) Boise State

Week 9 Picks
Cpt. Fantastic - (15) Virginia Tech
Klimbatize - (7) Oregon

Week 10 Picks
Cpt. Fantastic - (1 Georgia
Klimbatize - (15) Michigan State

Week 11 Picks
Cpt. Fantastic - (4) Alabama
Klimbatize - (1) LSU

Week 12 Picks
Cpt. Fantastic - (22) Southern Miss
Klimbatize - (13) Georgia

Douche McCallister wrote:

Dou you have to pick a team that is in the Top 25 AND playing someone in the Top 25? If not I think that's how this thing should be set up. The first 4 weeks are such a joke, and if you do your homework right you can find at least one ranked team playing a powderpuff team every week after that. Or maybe a stipulation that the team you are picking is playing someone with a winning record.

The way I have it set up is just either a top 25 team, or an opponent of a top 25 team. I'm all for discussing changing the format around, though.

Douche McCallister wrote:

As I was quoted above you could do something like that, or you could have "No picking ranked teams" Both would lead to less "Who's playing that scrub I-AA team this week."

That would be an issue for the early part of the schedule, but later on, for the most part, teams play actual good teams. And you can't pick Boise State every week.

I don't want to make it too too complicated, honestly.

Bump, the AP rankings are updated.

...unless one of those teams drops out of the top 25.

And honestly? If you're going to have that kind of attitude, and since you're the only person who has shown any interest in this at all, I should just file this under "bad idea" and cancel it.

Douche McCallister wrote:

UsaSatsui wrote: ...unless one of those teams drops out of the top 25. And honestly? If you're going to have that kind of attitude, and since you're the only person who has shown any interest in this at all, I should just file this under "bad idea" and cancel it. If I'm confident in all my picks? I gave you different ways to make this more difficult/fun but nothing has changed rules wise, so I picked all my picks preseason and made myself a little challenge of my own. Like I said I'm not changing my picks and if my team that week isn't in the top 25 I lose. Lastly I really don't care if a prize is offered or not this will be fun to me regardless of prize/participation.

Well I suggest you reconsider anyways. It's a 14 week season.

Klimbatize wrote:

Satsui, just let him do it. He's basically saying he doesn't want to win.

I pretty much already decided to.

I'll update this later on. I'm going with Boise.

Only 6 people. Eh. I've run worse contests.

Deadline to enter is Saturday, though games start tomorrow.

Also, changing my pick to Stanford.