San dai kindly set up pick'em page and I have updated the information for week one. 

I have use AP top 25 team to be picked upon. And I am adding one more bonus random game every week. 

As always SEC seems in top with 6 rankings and ACC with 5. Non big six conference has their representative to , Boise state at no 3 and TCU.

This year does not have star quarterbacks name like last year, Heisman race is open their is no favorite. Everyone expect Alabama to repeat but history shows less chance. How about new coaches?? esp notre Dame, USC, tennesse, texas tech....

3 games with both team ranked, Boise state , VT being both top 10.

lets go..

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There are some questions from my Side>>

1)I am really confused about different Bowls they hold like cotton Bowl, National and all that, I really don't get into it, 

2) and what  about the ranking they have. Do they change it as the game is in progress and the quality each university plays or, they change the ranking next year after all the games are done for this season. 

I know Florida Gators, Alabama, and OU is better teams for me. 

I support OU.. 

please enlighten me with some Bulleted questions. College Football Vet's 

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Welcome , its a whole new world, its no NFL...........

some comparison of NFL and College football

1.teams: NFL 32 -AFC and NFC , 4 subdivision in each, so, 4 in each team; 

  College: 120 Div I teams, 11 conference and 3 independent teams

2. Schedule: NFL : 16 games in s17 weeks, 3 games played both home and away....and bla bla.......

  11-12 games: some conference have sub division where they play all of their subdivision , few other side, and few chosen by them may or maynot be div I. No games played twice. Home and away rule is every alternate year.

3. In NFL, post season is more interesting while in college regular season is more interesting..

4. Ranking: this is what makes college football interesting, different, weird.....than NFL. AP/ coaches/..publish preseason ranking. But BCS publishes sometime 6-7 weeks later in regular season. Every week ranking is changed based on win lose. 

5. post season: playoff in NFL, but there is no playoff in college. Thbats why some people say the college champs are not true champs.and bla bla, there is whole lot of discusion on this. but basically there are 35 post season games which are called bowl games. 5 of them are BCS bowls 1 being the national championship. The national championship game is played between 1, 2 ranked team while other bowls have ties to certain conference at least one team. So, mostly 3,4 ...7,8 ranked team fell that they left out from title competition ....bla bla...There is only one post season game for 70 teams...(35 bowls) Thats why only few post season games attract interest including National champ.

6. A scenario on last season, There were 5 undefeated team on the end of regular season and only two Alabama, texas played national champ...and it draws controversy

7. As ESPN says every Saturday can change season, u have to win all games if you want to play national champ. (there are some exceptions though), sometimes 1 loss team from big conference like SEC can make it to final, (even two loss, 2007 LSU).  not like in NFL you go 9-7, 8-8 and even make post season..

8. Rivalry and players emotion is greater in college football then in NFL...

9. there is some difference in rules too.. clock rules

 extra time rule, Both team gets one chance to score not like in NFL, sudden death.. (NFL changed this rule for post season this year right??)

The schedule and initial ranking makes a whole lot difference in college football.  

I guess I answered some question, let us know if there are any more queries...

and ya college football fans correct me if i am wrong in any above points....

and as u said u know alabama, florida , OU...there are some buzz teams in college football, the writers just love them....I will be surprised if you dont know Notre Dame.......

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that was whole lot of information for the Rookie like me. It has given lot of information. I know ND as well. I missed Notre Dame and also LSU, I like KU, K-State though they don't rank that good. 

regards

walkahead

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Hello, guys first kick off starts tomorrow 6:30 with Presbyterian at Wake Forest on Espn3.com, national coverages on espn, espnU are at 7:30 for other games, dont foget to watch and also dont forget to pick you teams before the game starts every week. Now we have bookmark in sajha homepage for college picks (and also NFL)

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ya some always overrated teams, ohio, virginia tech, lets see how good they will do. I really want VT to beat boise state otherwise there will be again a lot talk aboput undefeated boise vs 1 loss SEC/big12 etc...

about georgia/ florida, I think georgia is equally good good but main thing is quarterback, florida quater back has played many times and proven to be good but georgia, quarterback .......dont know

lets see, waiting for a rocking season

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but I am happy that non-BCS teams like Boise are getting more attention and bigger playing stage. If they are good enough, of course they should be in BCS Bowl. 

Last season was lot of fun, hope y'all will have great fun again. 

Unfortunately I won't be joining this year, my current situation won't allow me to follow and keep up with both College Football and NFL :(

Good luck to y'all !!

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Anyway, getting ready for Kickoff..........!!!!!!!!!!!!

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