Big Ten Football OTR Survivor Pool - Week 7
UCLA! You did it again!
This year's survivor pool was on the small side for reasons... Just 40 intrepid individuals dared to brave the wilds that is Big Ten football in the year 2025. The group has been butchered one by one since setting off on our journey towards the promised land of a perfect season.
Three of our crew became lost in a snowstorm and eliminated when they failed to make it back to camp before we moved on. The Wildcats of Evanston mauled two of our number early. A crying Badger even waylaid an unfortunate adventurer. However, the number one killer of the survivor pool's members have been the Bruins of UCLA. The bears of Los Angeles have a confirmed 26 direct kills and in additional to that massive bloodshed just laid a trap that saw two of our original group succumb to their injuries this past weekend. There have been TWENTY-EIGHT eliminations thanks to UCLA.
The survivors now number just six with over half the season remaining. None have passed the UCLA test yet.
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, UNL, NW, Pur, Rut, Udub | Iowa, MSU |
| BobS | Ill, MD, OSU, Pur, USC, Udub, Uw | MSU, Purdue, Washington |
| IUinVA | IU, Iowa, MD, MI, NW, Pur, Udub | Iowa, Wisconsin |
| Louis Street | Iowa, MD, MN, UNL, NW, Pur, Rut | MSU, Rutgers, Rutgers |
| WhersMyElephant | MD, MI, MSU, OSU, Pur, Udub, Uw | Washington, Wisconsin |
| winless | Ill, MD, MI, UNL, NW, Pur, Rut, USC | MSU, MSU, USC, Wisconsin |
Everyone except winless needs to make an additional pick sometime in weeks 7-10.
Previously made picks:
WhersMyElephant: Minnesota
Losers' Pool
Previous Picks
| Previous Picks | Against | |
| BoilerUp89 | Iowa, MD, MN, MSU, Pur, UCLA, Uw | IU, OSU, USC |
| Broated Nutcrackle | Iowa, MSU, NW, Pur, Rut, UCLA, Uw | IU, MI, USC |
| cericjo | MD, Msu, MN, Pur, Rut, UCLA | OSU, OSU, USC |
| IronMonkee | MSU, MN, NW, Pur, UCLA, Udub, Uw | Maryland, OSU, OSU |
| IWasSayingBooUrns | Iowa, MD, MSU, NW, Pur, UCLA, Uw | IU, MI, Nebraska, USC |
| MiddlewestAverage | Ill, MD, MSU, NW, Pur, UCLA, Udub | IU, Nebraska, OSU |
| Nothsa | Ill, MN, NW, PSU, Pur, Rut, UCLA | IU, OSU, Oregon |
| SeeJayBee | Iowa, MD, MSU, MN, Pur, UCLA, Uw | IU, OSU, USC |
| glassjawed | IU, MD, NW, PSU, Pur, Rut, USC | MSU, Iowa, UCLA |
| RockyMtnBlue | MD, NW, OSU, PSU, Rut, Udub, Uw | UCLA, Washington |
Apologies to cericjo after I incorrectly left them off last week. Two losers were eliminated after not trying their hand in the losers' pool. Our number remains 10 thanks to our new fellow UCLA victims.
Every loser must still make an extra pick sometime in weeks 7-10.
Week 7 games
Friday, October 10
Rutgers at Washington, 9 PM ET
Saturday, October 11
Ohio State at Illinois, noon ET
UCLA at Michigan State, noon ET
Indiana at Oregon, 3:30 PM ET
Northwestern at Penn State, 3:30 PM ET
Nebraska at Maryland, 3:30 PM ET
Iowa at Wisconsin, 7 PM ET
Purdue at Minnesota, 7:30 PM ET
Michigan at USC, 7:30 PM ET
