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2009 Pac-10 Preseason Challenge

By Matthew Smith
Mr Pac Ten
Posted Aug 25, 2009

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For the third straight year, scout.com users projected the Pac-10 season.

For the third straight year, I organized a preseason contest on the cfn scout board, open to all scout.com members. Users were invited to pick every Pac-10 conference game, and at the end of the year will be scored by how many games they got right as well as how close they came to getting the final league standings correct. In addition, the user picks were tabulated game by game and used to create consensus picks for each game. With 9 entrants, any game that went 6-3 or more towards one team was marked as a projected win; anything 5-4 was marked as a tossup. These consensus picks will be added to the list of expert picks in my season preview. In addition, last year's winner (Alderian) will get his picks listed alongside all of the other experts'. For ease of organization, each entrant was classified by which school they root for, and entries were organized in order by team. Without further ado, here are the user picks:

Key (mapping each user to the shorthand that identifies their pickset):

bearrage Cal 1
BearEEGoodSir Cal 2
EricCartmann Cal 3
Alderian OS 1
Pac10East USC 1
ahnil8er USC 2
kidC USC 3
CougarMVP WSU 1
thaicoug WSU 2

Game by Game Picks and Projected Standings

Away Home Cal 1 Cal 2 Cal 3 OS 1 USC 1 USC 2 USC 3 WSU 1 WSU 2 Consensus
Stan WSU Stan Stan Stan Stan Stan Stan Stan WSU WSU Stan
USC Wash USC USC USC USC USC USC USC USC USC USC
Ariz OS Ariz OS Ariz OS OS OS OS OS OS OS
Cal UO Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal UO UO UO UO
Wash Stan Stan Stan Stan Stan Stan Stan Stan Stan STAN Stan
WSU USC USC USC USC USC USC USC USC USC USC USC
OS ASU ASU OS OS OS ASU OS ASU OS ASU
USC Cal Cal USC Cal USC Cal USC Cal Cal USC
WSU UO UO UO UO UO UO UO UO UO UO UO
UCLA Stan Stan Stan Stan Stan Stan Stan Stan Stan STAN Stan
Ariz Wash Wash Ariz Ariz Wash Ariz Wash Wash Ariz WASH
ASU WSU ASU ASU ASU ASU ASU ASU ASU WSU ASU ASU
UO UCLA UCLA UO UCLA UO UCLA UO UO UO UO UO
Stan OS OS OS OS OS OS Stan OS OS OS OS
Stan Ariz Ariz Stan Ariz Ariz Ariz Ariz Ariz Ariz ARIZ Ariz
Wash ASU ASU Wash ASU ASU ASU ASU ASU ASU ASU ASU
Cal UCLA UCLA Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal UCLA Cal CAL Cal
OS WSU OS OS OS OS OS OS OS WSU OS OS
UCLA Ariz UCLA Ariz Ariz UCLA Ariz Ariz Ariz Ariz ARIZ Ariz
ASU Stan Stan Stan Stan ASU Stan ASU Stan Stan ASU Stan
WSU Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal WSU CAL Cal
UO Wash UO UO UO UO UO Wash UO UO UO UO
OS USC USC USC USC USC USC USC USC USC USC USC
Cal ASU ASU Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal CAL Cal
USC UO USC UO UO USC USC USC USC UO USC USC
UCLA OS OS OS UCLA OS OS UCLA OS OS OS OS
WSU Ariz Ariz Ariz Ariz Ariz Ariz Ariz Ariz WSU ARIZ Ariz
USC ASU USC USC USC USC USC USC USC USC USC USC
OS Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal CAL Cal
UO Stan UO UO UO UO Stan UO Stan UO UO UO
Wash UCLA UCLA Wash UCLA UCLA UCLA Wash UCLA UCLA WASH UCLA
Ariz Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal CAL Cal
ASU UO ASU UO UO UO UO UO UO UO UO UO
Wash OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS OS
Stan USC USC USC USC USC USC USC USC USC USC USC
UCLA WSU UCLA UCLA UCLA UCLA UCLA UCLA UCLA UCLA WSU UCLA
UO Ariz UO UO Ariz UO Ariz UO UO UO UO UO
ASU UCLA UCLA UCLA UCLA ASU ASU ASU UCLA UCLA ASU
Cal Stan Cal Cal Cal Cal Stan Stan Cal Cal CAL Cal
WSU Wash Wash Wash Wash Wash Wash Wash Wash WSU WSU Wash
Ariz ASU ASU Ariz ASU ASU ASU Ariz ASU Ariz ASU ASU
UCLA USC USC USC UCLA USC USC USC USC USC USC USC
Ariz USC USC USC USC USC USC USC USC USC USC USC
Cal Wash Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal Cal CAL Cal
OS UO OS UO UO UO OS UO OS UO UO UO
Projected Wins
Ariz 3 4 6 2 5 4 3 4 3 3.5
ASU 6 1 3 5 5 4 4 1 6 4.0
Cal 7 8 9 8 8 6 7 7 7 8.0
UO 4 8 6 7 3 7 6 9 8 7.5
OS 5 6 4 6 6 4 6 5 5 5.5
Stan 4 5 4 3 6 5 5 3 2 4.0
UCLA 6 2 6 3 3 2 4 3 0 2.5
USC 8 8 6 9 8 9 8 7 9 8.5
Wash 2 3 1 2 1 4 2 0 2 1.5
WSU 0 0 0 0 0 0 0 6 3 0.0

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