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Description: The NCAA Weekly Challenge will test college football fans' ability to predict games on a weekly basis. The NCAA weekly contest will comprise of ten selected match-ups that pit at least one team from the current AP Top 25 basketball poll. See how you fair against other fans throughout the entire season or just play when you feel like it for a chance to win the cash prize. Just like in college football, your record will determine your success.

How To Play: Click the NCAA basketball logo above to enter the contest. You may select your school loyalty then 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. Enter in a Confidence Value, from 1-10, in the box between each of the teams. This value represents how confident you are that the team you picked will win. Each number may only be used once so you are basically ranking each pick from your most to least confident. 10=most confident. 1=least confident. For the 10th and final game, enter a margin of victory for your winner of the game.

Each participant may submit up to one entry per contest and only two participants per IP address are permitted. Only your latest entry to the deadline will be used as your official entry.

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. Your record and points will accumulate throughout the season. You may view your updated record, points and standings among other participants following each weekend of games. These cumulative standings are to determine who will receive the end of season prize to be given out to the top-ranked participant at the end of the season and they will also be used to seed participants for the NCAA Tournament Challenge. These standings will be located under College Basketball on the main menu and they will rank you among others according to the CFBP rating. The CFBP rating is simply your winning percentage multiplied by your total points. For example, if a participant has a record of 30-10(0.750) with 145 points at a given time during the season, his CFBP rating will be calculated as 145 x 0.750 = 108.75. This gives a natural advantage to those who play more weeks because they will accumulate more points.

Bonus Points: The contest will give the opportunity to win up to 2 bonus points if the correct winner is picked for the tenth game of each contest depending how close your Game 10 margin of victory is to the actual. The closer it is the more bonus points you will receive. A margin of victory prediction must be within 20 points to receive any points.

Deadline to Play: Every Wednesday, usually at 7 PM ET unless otherwise announced in email or the forums

Prizes: There will be a weekly $10 prize awarded to each of the contest winners during the 2009-2010 season. There will also be an end of season prize of $25 awarded to the top-ranked participant in the season standings after the final week of the regular season is complete. CFBPoints will be awarded to the top ten from each weekly contests and final standings(see table below).

Note: There will be no $10 weekly prize the first two weeks of the contest. The $10 prize payouts will pick up with the Week 3 contest after the conclusion of the college football regular season.

To be eligible for the end of season prize that goes to the best accumulated record, you must play a minimum of 75% of the contest's games. Meaning, the minimum participation requirement to be eligible for the end of season prize is to play 120 out of 150 games or approximately 12 of 15 weeks/contests.

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.