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I thought it would be fun to go back and see what teams appeared the most and if I'd be biased towards any specific conference when choosing games to be on the pick'em. I didn't take into account this week since conferences with championship games would get hurt and it would skew the results. These are the appearances:teams ratio per conference (I took the total number of appearances in a conference and divided it by the amount of teams so I could even it out between conferences with more teams). So these would be the most often-occuring conferences weighted for size (there are a couple ties, but I rounded so I didn't keep track of the exact number in question):

1. Pac-12 - 5.5
T2. ACC - 5.25
T2. B1G - 5.25
4. SEC - 5.16
5. Big 12 - 5
T6. Big East 4.75
T6. WAC - 4.75
8. Independents - 4
9. C-USA - 3.41
10. Sun Belt - 3.1
11. MWC - 2.875
12. MAC - 2.75

The most-occuring teams:

1. Utah - 10
T2. Louisiana Tech - 8
T2. Rutgers - 8
T2. Michigan - 8
T2. Georgia - 8
T2. South Carolina - 8
T7. Clemson, Florida State, Miami, North Carolina, Illinois, Ohio State, Iowa, Michigan State, Kansas State, Texas, Texas A&M, ECU, Washington, USC, Auburn, Utah State - 7

Other Notable Teams For You Guys:

Boise State - 3
Arkansas - 4
West Virginia - 4
Purdue - 3
Syracuse - 5
Cal - 5
Duke - 3
Hawaii - 4

I think it looks like I would be biased against smaller conferences, but I mostly side with the larger ones in the Pick'em due to the fact that you guys are obviously more familiar with them. Also, teams like Boise State, Houston, Alabama, LSU, TCU, etc. didn't appear all that often this year since their competition was overmatched week-in and week-out.

Hey someone's gotta do it. Might as well be you! Thanks/

I think your picks are fine. I think my wishing ability is not so fine.

It's difficult to find 20 games each week that has teams of interest and not have huge point spreads. A game that everyone picks the same side, is meaningless. Oftentimes there must be obscure teams that the point spread is small to make it interesting.

I think the selection of the games was fine.