2009 Season Closed

ACC	Big 12	Big East	Big Ten	Pac 10	SEC

Description: Weekly Challenges will test college football fans' ability to predict games on a week to week basis. Contests will include all games that have a member from the selected conference. See how you fair against other fans throughout the entire season for the chance to win cash and earn a place on the Winners Wall. Just like in college football, your record will determine your success.

How To Play: Click the desired conference's logo above and follow the on screen instructions. Those instructions are as follows. Select which team you think will win each game by selecting the option button next to that team. Next, enter the level of confidence you have in each of your selections using the confidence numbers provided. This will depend on how many games there are for that contest and that week. For instance, if there are eight Big East games for the Big East contest in a given week, you will see numbers 1-8 inside each game. An 8 would represent your most confident selection while a 1 would represent your least confident selection. So however many games there are for a selected contest in a given week, that number will represent the highest confidence point value and 1 will always represent the least confidence point value. Simply change the numbers around to fit the confidence of your selections.

Each participant may submit up to one entry per contest. Only your latest entry to the deadline will be used as your official entry and only two participants per IP address are permitted. You do not have to submit an entry for every contest but this will increase your chances to win. Play the conference(s) you are most familiar with first.

Scoring: Scoring will be based on your win-loss record for that week of games. The games you pick correctly will add the confidence points you assigned to them. Any games picked incorrectly will forfeit assigned confidence points for that game. Any of the six conference contests you play throughout the season will accumulate your records and points for those contests so if you play multiple contests each week, be sure to play those conferences every week for the best chance to win. You may view your updated record, points and standings among other participants following each weekend of games. These cumulative standings are for the end of season prize to be given out to the top-ranked participant at the end of the regular season. The standings will be located under Standings on the main menu when available. These standings rank you among others based on a CFBPredictors rating. The CFBP rating is simply your winning percentage multiplied by your total points. For example, if a participant has a record of 26-10(0.722) with 127 points at a given time during the season, his CFBP rating will be calculated as 127 x 0.722 = 104.72. This gives a natural advantage to those who play more weeks because they will accumulate more points.

Deadline to Play: Saturdays at Noon ET unless there is a conference game on a Wednesday, Thursday or Friday. For instance, the Big East plays a lot of Thursday and Friday games so most of the Big East contests will have lock times by Thursday or Friday nights. An email will be sent out on Tuesdays with alerts of Thurs./Fri. contest starts and they will also be posted above. Contests will lock and become inaccessible at the announced time so be sure to make your picks before the lock times or you will not be able to play that week.

Prizes: A $20 cash prize will be awarded for the winner of each conference contest. The prizes will be awarded to the top ranked predictor from each conference contest as indicated on the respective final standings. CFBPoints will be awarded to the top five from the final standings in each of the various contests. Any outright weekly winner will be awarded 500 points. See the table below for details.

To be eligible for end of season prizes that go to the best accumulated records, you must play a minimum of 75% of that contest's games. Minimum participation requirements to be eligible for end of season prizes are shown below.

- ACC → 72 games or approx. 11 of 13 weeks
- Big 12 → 72 games or approx. 11 of 13 weeks
- SEC → 72 games or approx. 11 of 13 weeks
- Big 10 → 66 games or approx. 9 of 12 weeks
- Pac 10 → 57 games or approx. 10 of 14 weeks
- Big East → 51 games or approx. 10 of 14 weeks

Any ties will split cash prizes between the winners. All cash prizes will be sent via PayPal to the email address registered on this site. If you do not have a PayPal account, you will receive an email upon winning a contest, with easy instructions for creating a PayPal account.