The Super Bowl, and the final football pool of the season, has arrived. It's an elimination pool, and here's how it's going to work. Pick the team to cover, select the correct over-under, and predict the score. Pick the wrong team to beat the spread, and you're eliminated. Pick the wrong over-under, and you don't advance to the final, score-prediction round. If more than one competitor beats the spread and picks correctly on the over-under, then the proximity of the final-score predictions to the actual outcome will serve as the tie-breaker and determine the winner. Here are my picks:
Round One: Patriots -7 over Eagles.
Round Two: Under on the 48 over-under total.
Round Three: The final score will be 27-17.
Make your picks in the comments section below.
closest to the final score without going over or just closest?
The closest--you can go over. This isn't the Price Is Right.
1. Pats to cover
2. Over
3. 38-13
1. Pats to cover
2. Over
3. 40-20
1 Push
2 Under
3 New England Patriots win 23-16
Cheers,
Boris O'Neill
1. Patriots
2. Under
3. 34-13
Good Luck to all participants.
1. Pats cover
2. Under
3. 27-17
1. Pats to cover
2. Under
3. 27-14
pats to cover
under
27-10
Eagles + 7; over 48; final score pats 27-24
Push? Now that's gutsy. My call:
Pats
Over
31-21
1. Pats Cover
2. Under
3. 24-14
pats
under
26-17
eagles
over
30-24
Alan, since your final score is within seven points, you need to say who you think is going to get 30 and who will get 24.
In the third round--the one where you predict the score--the total points is irrelevant. What matters is the proximity between the prediction for the Patriots and the Patriots' final total, and your prediction for the Eagles and the Eagles' final point total. In other words, if you predict a 49-2 Eagles victory and the Eagles end up winning 26-25, your score prediction doesn't win even though the totals match up. In this instance, one would need to have predicted an Eagles' final score near 26, and a Patriots' final score near 25.
Eagles
under
pats 17 -- eagles 14
Pats
under
26-13
Philadelphia
Over
Eagles 27 - New England 23
