Help on a couple of picks for this week's pool

[hifigator]

I would appreciate any input some of you might have on a couple of games in our pool. I haven't seen any of these teams play a whole game. I have seen some highlights on all of them, but not a lot on any of them.

Purdue at Minnesota -- I would probably take the home team, if I don't have any information one way or the other. But it seems like there is always some second tier Big 10 game that trips me up.


Houston at Mississippi State -- I know Houston was a media darling and supposed, potential BCS buster after their upset in Stillwater. But any team that can give up 60 points to UTEP can't be that good. Miss. St. looked decent in the game against LSU and should have won. Given they are playing at home, I'm leaning to State, but I wonder if maybe that UTEP loss was a letdown and maybe Houston is the better team.


Arizona at Washington -- I've probably seen more of Washington than any other of these teams. I was impressed enough to wonder how the hell they didn't win a single game last year. But I know that Arizona is supposed to be a potential dark horse in the Pac 10. Again, I'd probably lean to the home team if I have to pick, but I'm looking for a good reason not to.


thoughts???

P.S. There's no spread involved. It's simply a matter of winning or losing.

[AustinHoya03]

Oct 8, 2009 16:06:20 GMT -5 hifigator said:

I would appreciate any input some of you might have on a couple of games in our pool. I haven't seen any of these teams play a whole game. I have seen some highlights on all of them, but not a lot on any of them.

Purdue at Minnesota -- I would probably take the home team, if I don't have any information one way or the other. But it seems like there is always some second tier Big 10 game that trips me up.


Houston at Mississippi State -- I know Houston was a media darling and supposed, potential BCS buster after their upset in Stillwater. But any team that can give up 60 points to UTEP can't be that good. Miss. St. looked decent in the game against LSU and should have won. Given they are playing at home, I'm leaning to State, but I wonder if maybe that UTEP loss was a letdown and maybe Houston is the better team.


Arizona at Washington -- I've probably seen more of Washington than any other of these teams. I was impressed enough to wonder how the hell they didn't win a single game last year. But I know that Arizona is supposed to be a potential dark horse in the Pac 10. Again, I'd probably lean to the home team if I have to pick, but I'm looking for a good reason not to.


thoughts???

P.S. There's no spread involved. It's simply a matter of winning or losing.

Minnesota, Mississippi State, and Arizona.

[theexorcist]

I flipped a coin. Purdue.

Go with Houston. They're good, at the UTEP loss was a wake-up.

Go with Washington. Arizona's never been particularly impressive, and UW's at home.

[EasyEd]

Pick LSU in every game this weekend.

[hifigator]

Oct 9, 2009 13:35:06 GMT -5 EasyEd said:

Pick LSU in every game this weekend.

If I did that, I'd lose every single game.

[hoyarooter]

I took LSU and the points. Everyone is bagging on them, and I agree they don't deserve their high ranking, but I think they should get at least some credit for finding ways to win on the road against decent opponents. Now they get the Gators at home, and I have a hunch we won't see Tebow. So, I took the points in the contest.

As for those three games, I would say Minnesota, Houston and the Huskies.

[hifigator]

Rooter, you nailed all three of them. I ended up going with Minnesota, MIss. St. and Washington, going 2 for those 3. I finished at a respectable 9-3 overall, but I was mathematically eliminated when Houston won. There were 3 different people that had the exact same picks as I did, except for one game. In those situations, then you must hit those particular games. Sure enough, the Houston-Miss. St. game was one of those 3.

The winner went 11-1, so I really wasn't that close.