A L A B A M A ! ! ! 21-0 rout of LSU to become National Champions. The SEC has now won the last 6 National Titles. The first-ever BCS shutout! Nothing like last years Oregon-Auburn game. Even if you had picked LSU, come the end of the game, weren’t you rooting for them NOT to cross the 50-yard line? Shows how hard it is to beat the same team twice in one season!

Congratulation to PDMAC (San Diego’s Peter McArthur) for winning our 2011-12 College Football Pool. PDMAC was going to be our winner REGARDLESS of the outcome of the final game – a very nice position to be in. This scenario has now happened 3 years in a row in our pool. ZACZOEMAX (Josh Berman) last year & QUASIMODO (Doug Banker) the year before that! Peter dominates this year - a whopping 34 points ahead of his closest competitor with a grand total of 344 points getting 22 of 28 winners. In 2011 it was 318 points with 21 winners & in 2010 it was 269 points with only 18 winners. What a superb job of picking - Peter’s 6 losses were mostly ‘low-pointers’: 23 (Miss. St.) – 2 (Georgia Teck) – 4 (UCLA) – 6 (Ohio St.) – 18 (Clemson) – 9 (Pitt). That’s maxxxxximizzzzzing your loses!

As you can imagine, correct points from the last game was critical to others entries: Had LSU covered (haha) – JACK ROSE would have finished 6th instead of Out-Of-The Money. YOUNGWALLACE (Bradley Wallace) & JON GIDAN would have finished 11th & 12th respectfully. On the other side, with the ALABAMA cover, these 4 make the final cut rather than being Out-Of-The-Money: last years winner, MAXZOEZAC (Josh Berman) finishes 7th - LARR (Larry Fulop) finishes 9th – BENGALSBLOW (Aaron Butkus) finishes 11th and DOUG n’ MATT FREEMAN squeak in 12th Place.

Special note to our 6th Place finisher, JORDANSMOM (Sheri Weinstein) who finished 9th last season - she makes her picks based on if she knew someone or something about the school or state >> nothing to do with football) With 2 bowl games to go, she still had a chance to win the pool! There were 120 official entries (there were 111 last season). We will pay-out to the Top-12 slots.

Prize money will be distributed to the following winners as follows:

BONUS PRIZE: $595. to the entry with the most wins – 22 of 28 was that number! Had LSU covered, PDMAC would have still won the pool, but, he would have had to share this $$ with 2 other winners with 21 Overall wins (EL GUAPO CANTINA & JACK ROSE) . So he really had a wager of $396. on the line in the BCS Championship and the other 2 had $198. each on the line.

Notice there were 2 multiple winners this season: FLY ‘EM IN (Richard Bren) is very strong with a 2nd and 3rd place finish, this, after finishing in 2nd place last year! SKILL or LUCK? QUASIMODO (Doug Banker), a consistent winner over the years finishes in 8th and 10th this season.

Of our 28 games – FAVORITES dominated covering 19 of 28 (last year it was 14-14).

MOST POINTS WITH A LOSING RECORD:
62th PLACE – MCASSIDY1 (Michael Cassidy) 13-15 record with 225 points.

MOST POINTS (in the $$) WITH THE FEWEST WINS:
6th PLACE – JORDANSMOM (Sheri Weinstein) 17-11 record with 296 points.

FEWEST WINS WITH THE MOST POINTS:
111th PLACE – FISHBEAN (Bennett) 8-20 record with 148 points.

FEWEST POINTS WITH A WINNING RECORD:
35th PLACE – BOBBY BLAND (Bobby Bland) 15-13 record with 252 points.

In LAST PLACE: with a 9-19 record and only 101 points was one of QUASIMODO’s entries!

In our pool: 50 of the 119 entries picked over 50% going at least 15-13, that’s 42% !

BOWL TID-BITS: 18 of the 34 games were decided by a TD or less and 8 of those by a FG or less, there were a lot of close games with the ‘spread’ as well . . . highest scoring Rose Bowl ever with 83 total points by Oregon & Wisconsin . . . by themselves, West Virginia scored 70 points over Clemson . . . the BIG 12 went 6-2 / the PAC 12 went 2-5 / the ACC went 2-6 / the Mid-America Conference went 4-1 . . . Georgia Tech blew a 24-10 4th qtr lead and lost to Utah in OT . . . Georgia had a 16-0 halftime lead and lost in 3-OT.

In LAST PLACE: with a 9-19 record and only 104 points is FLY ‘EM IN (Richard Bren’s other entry) – not the one that finished in 2nd place!

Once again, Happy New Year to all..... Checks to be mailed on Friday.
That's it until the 2012 NCAA COLLEGE BASKETBALL POOL!
Billy