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2017 OOTB ACC Survival Thread, Week 1

TarHeelNation11

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The rules are simple.
  • There's 13 weeks in the college football regular season; there's 14 ACC teams (Notre Dame does NOT count as an ACC team in this contest).
  • Each week, you select one ACC team to win its game that week. If your chosen team wins, you move on to the next week. If your chosen team loses, you are out of the tournament.
  • Each team can only be selected once. If you choose Clemson in Week 1, you cannot choose Clemson again and must choose a different ACC school for Week 2
  • Pay attention to byes and match-ups. If you get stuck in a week where you can only pick Clemson or Georgia Tech, and both those schools have a bye that week, tough titties, you're going to be eliminated.
  • Important: because of the 14 teams in 13 weeks, I have randomly selected Week 11 as the "Two-for-One" week. In Week 11, you must pick two ACC schools to win their games that week. In every other week, you pick just one.
  • Single elimination. One loss and you're out
  • All selections must be made 1 minute before scheduled kickoff.
  • We're playing for bragging rights only this year. Not enough people are in to make it worth the $90 or whatever it would be. But if y'all all want to agree to ante up $10 a piece, I'm game. If we choose to do this, we will Paypal/mail money at the conclusion of the tourney like always.
  • I promise to update this thing by Tuesday at the latest every week. If I don't, y'all can disown me from OOTB.
Here's the link to an ACC logo schedule.

MAKE YOUR WEEK 1 SELECTIONS IN THIS THREAD.

Contestants are:

@BillyL
@Hark_The_Sound_2010
@strummingram
@UNC71-00
@HEELS1984
@ohio tarheels
@ticket2ride04
@toophly1124
@TarHeelNation11
 
Please note that Wake plays tonight (8/31) and Syracuse and BC play on Friday. I didn't really think about early games for Week 1, otherwise I would've made it sooner. Sue me.
 
For those who have never done such a contest, I strongly recommend planning out all 13 weeks ahead of time, rather than winging it week to week. The logo schedule poasted in my OP is really useful in that effort, IMO.
 
Good shout. I know they're supposed to be "pretty good" this year or whatever BS the pre-season articles say, but.... looking on their schedule, I sure don't see many "Ws" on there.

Ya, I don't want to entice others to follow - but I didn't feel safe picking them in any other game so got them out of the way early. Where's everyone else slotting them in, @army? who knows...
 
I still have flashbacks of last season
I figured what are the chances of that happening again?

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@TarHeelNation11 is it too late for me to join this contest? I'll be glad to ante up $10. If I can join, I'll take Syracuse. If I can't, I'll sit back and cheer everyone on.
 
Attention all: Looks like we are in for the $10 ante. Winner takes all. Payouts will be at the end like we usually do.

Also, plenty of time for others to get in as well. BC and Syracuse play tonight. Rest of the teams play tomorrow.
 
Fortune favors the bold. Well played!
Thank you.
I was tempted to switch to UVA. What are the chances that UVA loses 2 season openers in a row to FCS teams?

But, I liked my overall season schedule too much with BC winning.

"Ohhhh, mercy, yes we got to beat that competition!"
 
I'm in for $10 if it isn't too late. I'll go with VT tonight, so may be out in the first week again. Probably so. Anyway, since this is basically donating 10 dollars to someone I can't see anyone objecting. Never know with this crowd though.
 
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