[CrazedZooChimp]

[quote author=washingtonismoney link=topic=10428.msg95240#msg95240 date=1409064905]
Speaking of features for the game, I'd love to include two:

1) Last time we included the ESPN Pac-12 bloggers. Let's do it again!
2) I don't think we included Vegas's lines, but I think they'd be a fun addition as well. (Can use the consensus lines and over/unders from Vegas Insiders.)

I second the motion.  As for ESPN:  I don't think they know anymore than we (collectively) do.  Read today their picks for NC game and winner, listed each vote.  All over the map.  One (Mack Brown) picked us losing to FSU, one picked Georgia, one OklahomA, one Baylor.  Consensus teams seemed to be FSU, Alabama, UCLA.  Desmond Howard, who ranked us # 3 nationally last week, picked UCLA in the final.  Go figure.  How can we be # 3 one week, UCLA (ranked lower by him) winning it all?
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Lot's of them I agree, but Miller and Gemmel have actually been pretty good.  I think they were near the top of the scoring last year in this game, and at least one predicted the Pac-12 standings perfectly (maybe both?).  I believe it would only be including the Pac-12 bloggers, although there are 4 of them now.  Kind of neat that two of them covered Stanford specifically in the past, actually.

[CrazedZooChimp]

[quote author=washingtonismoney link=topic=10428.msg95240#msg95240 date=1409064905]
Speaking of features for the game, I'd love to include two:

1) Last time we included the ESPN Pac-12 bloggers. Let's do it again!
2) I don't think we included Vegas's lines, but I think they'd be a fun addition as well. (Can use the consensus lines and over/unders from Vegas Insiders.)

I second the motion.  As for ESPN:  I don't think they know anymore than we (collectively) do.  Read today their picks for NC game and winner, listed each vote.  All over the map.  One (Mack Brown) picked us losing to FSU, one picked Georgia, one OklahomA, one Baylor.  Consensus teams seemed to be FSU, Alabama, UCLA.  Desmond Howard, who ranked us # 3 nationally last week, picked UCLA in the final.  Go figure.  How can we be # 3 one week, UCLA (ranked lower by him) winning it all?
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Lot's of them I agree, but Miller and Gemmel have actually been pretty good.  I think they were near the top of the scoring last year in this game, and at least one predicted the Pac-12 standings perfectly (maybe both?).  I believe it would only be including the Pac-12 bloggers, although there are 4 of them now.  Kind of neat that two of them covered Stanford specifically in the past, actually.