Big Ten Football OTR Survivor Pool - Week 6
A third of the way thru the survivor pool and less than a third of the initial group remains.
Week 5 saw two participants attempt to the most difficult and dangerous maneuver in Big Ten football survivor 2025: picking UCLA to win and not getting sent to the losers' pool. Hopefully it comforts BoilerUp81 and HuskersFirst to know that the other 7 active losers also fell from the precipitous heights of the winner's pool by putting their faith in UCLA as well.
The remaining 8 contestants in the winners' pool were not without their moments of crisis. Three survived picking Indiana thanks to a late touchdown by the Hoosiers. Three more saw the Huskies fail to cement a real lead against the Buckeyes in the first half and survived their OSU picks. The final two survived a made field goal by Illinois and a missed field goal by Rutgers. That leaves us with our Elite 8.
BoilerUp89
Rules are as follows:
There are 2 brackets, Winners and Losers. Everyone starts in the Winners bracket and continues in the Winners' bracket until you lose. If you are eliminated from the Winners bracket you will have a second chance to continue making picks in the Losers' bracket (more on that later).
The Winners' Bracket rules:
The rules for the game are pretty simple, and follow most standard Survivor/Eliminator pools. You pick one* B1G team each week to win. If that team wins, you move on to the next week, but cannot pick that team again for the rest of the season. If your pick loses, you're out. The goal is to correctly pick each team in the conference once each to win a game over the course of the season. Since there are 15 weeks in the B1G season (including championship week), you´ll have to reserve your presumed champion for week 15 if you wish to complete a perfect season. *And since the Big Ten has expanded to 18 teams, three times during the season you will have to make an additional pick in a week.
You must get both picks correct to advance to the next week.
We will partition these extra picks into thirds of the season. So in weeks 1-5 you will make one pick each week excepting one week of your choosing over that span where you choose to roll the dice and make an extra pick. Same thing in weeks 6-10 and weeks 11-15 (noting there is only one game in week 15). You will again have to make an extra pick during those periods. Please note that if you want to feast on cupcakes, you should make your first additional pick early before conference play starts. If you fail to make a pick in any particular week you will be eliminated.
If you fail to make 6 picks by the end of week 5, or 12 picks by the end of week 10, or 17 picks by the end of week 14 you will be eliminated. You may only pick against any particular team a maximum of 3 times. So as you are picking a team to win each week... those teams you are picking have opponents. Once you have divined that Michigan State would lose to your picks three times, for example, you may not make another pick where your winning pick would once again vanquish the Spartans.
If all remaining players get eliminated the same week, the tiebreaker rules are as follows (same as previous years): 1. Most combined wins of B1G teams you haven't used 2. Strength of Victory (Total combined wins of your picks opponents) If you pick against a team 3 times, that teams season wins count for you 3 times. Non FBS teams' records get converted to 0-for 3. Whomever got their losing pick in first
Please be mindful of dates and kickoff times as the deadline for making your pick is the announced kickoff time of the game you choose to pick.
The Losers' Bracket rules:
If you get knocked out of the Winners' bracket you'll get a second chance, if you wish, to continue making picks in the Losers' bracket. The idea is much the same as the Winners bracket except contestants in the Losers' bracket pick pick a Big Ten team each week* to lose their football game. If your pick wins, you are out. You may not pick any team you have picked before; this includes ALL picks you made in the Winners' bracket. The goal remains to pick each B1G once over the course of the season and championship game (you would need to pick the loser of the conference championship game to get a correct pick in week 15).
Winners' Pool
Previous Picks
| Previous Picks | Against | |
| AlmaOtter | IU, MSU, NW, Pur, Rut, Udub | Iowa |
| BobS | MD, OSU, Pur, USC, Udub, Uw | MSU, Washington |
| glassjawed | IU, MD, NW, Pur, Rut, USC | MSU, Iowa |
| IUinVA | IU, Iowa, MD, NW, Pur, Udub | Iowa |
| Louis Street | Iowa, MD, MN, NW, Pur, Rut | Rutgers, Rutgers |
| RockyMtnBlue | MD, NW, OSU, Rut, Udub, Uw | Washington |
| WhersMyElephant | MD, MSU, OSU, Pur, Udub, Uw | Washington |
| winless | Ill, MD, NW, Pur, Rut, USC | MSU, USC |
As a reminder, everyone must make another 2 pick week between now and the end of week 10. Louis Street - you can only pick against Rutgers one more time.
Previous picks:
WhersMyElephant: Michigan
Losers' Pool
Previous Picks
| Previous Picks | Against | |
| BoilerUp89 | Iowa, MD, MSU, Pur, UCLA, Uw | IU, USC |
| Broated Nutcrackle | Iowa, MSU, NW, Pur, Rut, UCLA | IU, USC |
| IronMonkee | MSU, NW, Pur, UCLA, Udub, Uw | Maryland, OSU |
| IWasSayingBooUrns | Iowa, MD, MSU, NW, Pur, UCLA | IU, USC |
| MiddlewestAverage | Ill, MD, NW, Pur, UCLA, Udub | IU, OSU |
| Nothsa | Ill, NW, PSU, Pur, Rut, UCLA | IU, Oregon |
| SeeJayBee | Iowa, MD, MSU, Pur, UCLA, Uw | IU, USC |
| BoilerUp81 | MD, NW, Pur, Rut, UCLA, Udub | Northwestern |
| HuskersFirst | MD, NW, Pur, UCLA, Udub, Uw | Northwestern |
Previous picks:
HuskersFirst: Northwestern
Week 6 games
22 Illinois at Purdue, 12 PM ET
wisconsin at Michigan, 12 PM ET
Penn State at UCLA, 3:30 PM ET
Washington at Maryland, 3:30 PM ET
Louisiana Monroe at Northwestern, 3:30 PM ET
Michigan State at Nebraska, 4 PM ET
Minnesota at Ohio State, 7:30 PM ET
