Week 1- BL Memorial Pick’Em

[vsuman]

Delta State by 14
Erskine by 21
West Alabama by 10
Valdosta State - 13
Mississippi College by 10
West Florida by 24
North Greenville by 5

Ferris State by 3

[Shugley]

Setting an alarm this year. I don’t want to fail to get picks in like last year:

Delta State - by 14
Erskine - by 28
West Alabama - by 21
Valdosta State - by 28
Mississippi College - by 10
West Florida - by 24
North Greenville - by 18

Pittsburg State - by 1

[Argonut]

I sure hope people are not thinking the season starts next Thursday. Where is the defending champion? I guess the procrastination bug has bitten most of the usual pickers.

Right now we have an even dozen in play and on time. You miss the first week and you will never catch up to the leaders. I have been warning everyone but I can’t make them read this thread or post on it.

[baldereagle]

Delta State by 20
Erskine by 10
West Alabama by 10
Valdosta State by 21
Mississippi College by 17
West Florida by 42
NGU by 14

Ferris State by 7

[Argonut]

It’s opening game day for 2024 and just 12 hours till foot meets pigskin to kickoff the season. This is your two minute warning to post your picks before Delta State takes on Mars Hill at 6 pm tonight.

[vsukerosene]

Thanks Argonut for picking up the baton:

Delta State at Mars Hill - by 7
St. Andrews at Erskine - by 15
Miles at West Alabama - by 21
Albany State at Valdosta State - by 20
Mississippi College at Shorter - by 17
McKendree at West Florida - by 20
Keiser at North Greenville - by 6

Ferris State at Pittsburg State - by 7

[vsukerosene]

I haven’t heard a peep out of anyone that wants to run the Pick’Em and I have things to do on Monday, so I’m kicking off the Blazer Lady Memorial Pick’Em today.

Reference the ‘2024 GSC Pic’Em’ thread on GSC forum for the format and rules and the ‘2024 Early Schedule Difficulty’ thread on General Discussion forum for deep dive into early schedule point values meaning and research results.

As mentioned in ‘2024 GSC Pic’Em’ thread I have added a significant inter conference game in each of first three weeks. For this week it is Ferris State at Pitt. State. That means the opening week pits teams from 9 conferences and/or levels, including the 2023 NAIA Champion Keiser.

The number in parentheses is the team’s early schedule difficulty value for first three games. A lower number means an easier start and a higher number means a harder start. The 2024 cumulative average for D2 is 11.43, Harding was an 8 last year and no team above 13 has won the D2 title in the last 7 years. Go to the thread in the General Discussion if you want more details, especially the Mudstomping metric and the typical profile of a D2 Champion since the 2000 season.

Please post your picks (winner and margin of victory) on this thread before the opening kickoff in the Delta State game on Thursday, August 29 at 6 pm (CST).

As always, please feel free to correct me if you see a miscalculation and good luck. Please remember there are 10 MOV bonus points to anyone that picks the winner of all the games in a particular week. I bow down to anyone who does that this week.

The games for Week 1

(12) Delta State at Mars Hill (15)
(NAIA) St. Andrews at Erskine (9)
(13) Miles at West Alabama (12)
(12) Albany State at Valdosta State (10)
(10) Mississippi College at Shorter (4)
(13) McKendree at West Florida (12)
(NAIA) Keiser at North Greenville (10)

(12) Ferris State at Pittsburg State (13)

Argo,
Some of these games a showing as next week-Mck 2@ WF and K @ NG, MC @ SU

[Argonut]

As I stated in 2024 GSC pickem thread (separate from this thread), I put all the games from Thursday, Aug. 29 to Thursday, Sept, 5 as week 1 rather than confuse everyone with week zero and week 1. Week 2 begins September 7, Week 3 is September 14, etc.

That thread lists the rules and all the weeks we are picking (12) and the number of games each week, modified by adding one inter conference game in each of first three weeks (Ferris at Pitt. St. this week).

I have also pre posted the first three weeks pickem threads for anyone that wants to post early.

[#1 Jayhawk Fan]

Delta State by 14
Erskine by 20
UWA by 10
Valdosta State by 13
Mississippi by 14
UWF by 17
North Greenville by 8

Pitt State by 12

[UWARTime]

(12) Delta State by 24
Erskine (9) by 31
West Alabama (12) by 1
Valdosta State (10) by 9
Shorter by 3
West Florida (12) by 15
North Greenville (10) by 21

Pittsburg State (13) by 3

[CalifOKRA]

(12) Delta State by 24
Erskine (9) by 31
West Alabama (12) by 1
Valdosta State (10) by 9
Shorter by 3
West Florida (12) by 15
North Greenville (10) by 21

Pittsburg State (13) by 3

You do know the Delta State game just ended, right? Haha

[Argonut]

For all those fans who missed the Delta State game last night, you can still post picks for the rest of week 1 games (Saturday, Aug. 31 through Thursday, Sept. 5) as long as you post your picks before the kickoff of the game.

You are only one game down on the leaderboard at this point and can still contend for the title with 59 more games to pick. Post your picks on this thread and I will count them if they are before the kickoff of each game you pick.

[Larold]

erskine by 24
uwa by 12
vsu by 28
mc by 10
uwf by 28
ung by 14
pitt state by 6

[boyblue]

Argo you can penalize me as you will but I've decided I can't miss the BL going away celebration...

Delta State by 14
Erskine by 14
West Alabama by 14
Valdosta State by 14
Mississippi College by 14
West Florida by 14
North Greenville by 14
Ferris State by 1

I promise I didn't peek

[CalifOKRA]

I just realized...
Why do we have Week 0 and Week 1 games combined?
Some Week 1 games are in this thread.