2023 SWAMI RACE
COLLEGE FOOTBALL

Congratulations go to Biggs Darklighter for coming in first in Week # 10 only missing 9 games (WOW!), followed closely by LG Tomcats (9 losses), Yoda (10 losses), Go Yotes, Finn4thewin, and Kinko (all with 9 losses), and Just Before the Storm, Cavalry, pearl, and Horns Girl (all with 10 losses). This must have been a close week for 1st place and 22nd place had the same number of losses! Will these participants continue in their picky ways? Only four more weeks to go!!! Stay tuned for continuation of this exciting story in our next edition!

Congratulations go to BIG BROs RULE for coming in last in Week # 10 only missing 13 games, followed closely by pub grub (12 losses), IRISH (11 losses), Old SWAMI), Acme, Chetek, Away We Go, and Nostraporcus (all with 10 losses), Daddy's Little Girl (11 losses), and Kimo (10 losses). (Random was ineligible but did beat four other people.) Will these participants continue in their picky ways? Stay tuned for continuation of this exciting story in our next edition!

Congratulations go to Finn4thewin for remaining in the cumulative lead in Week # 10 (third consecutive week), followed closely by pearl (remained in 2nd), jasper (remained in 3rd), Kimo (remained in 4th), Cavalry (up from 7th), Chetek (down from 5th), WunderBrew (remained in 8th), Just Before the Storm (up from 11th), Acme (down from 9th), and LG Tomcats (up from 15th). (Average and Odd SWAMI are ineligible.) Out of the top ten go IRISH (down from 10th to 14th)! There are a few more weeks to go so how will this list get juggled? Stay tuned for more intriguing stories!

Congratulations go to Yoda for remaining in the lead for the last place spot in Week # 10 (seventh consecutive week), followed closely by pub grub (remained in 25th), Tenacious D (up from 20th), Biggs Darklighter (recently became reeligible), Old SWAMI (down from 23rd), BIG BROs RULE (up from 13th), Nostraporcus (down from 22nd), Away We Go (down from 21st), Daddy's Little Girl (down from 19th), and ACE (down from 18th)! This battle for that covetted last space spot rages!! Remember, the eligibility for this race requires at least 80% of the games picked! Some people are already hindering their chances by missing a paper! Random, Average, and SWAMI-odds are ineligible! Will these participants continue in their picky ways? Stay tuned for continuation of this exciting story in our next edition!

ANNOUNCEMENTS!! - None!

SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS!! - Some people have been wondering when their Alma Mater (or somebody else's) would show up in the schedule and that made me think that maybe we should put everybody's Alma Mater/or Favorite on the schedule every week they play and suppliment them with other well known teams games! What do you think about that for next season??! What this would mean would be we would have the following teams on the SWAMI schedule for every Saturday (and Thanksgiving weeks games) that they play - USC, Stanford, Texas, Notre Dame, Wisconsin, UCLA, Fresno State, Sul Ross State, Idaho, Colorado, San Diego State, Penn State, Nebraska, Missouri S&T, Cornell, Cal Poly SLO, Hawai'i, UW-Whitewater, Kansas State, Montana State, UC-Davis, and North Dakota!

NOTICE: - The Idaho-Northern Arizona game was played Friday night so it won't be included in the stats this week. As always, if you notice any errors, please don't hesitate to bring them to my attention via a phone call or comment in the comments section on your weekly picks! Any changes will be noted in the Newsletter and reflected in the Cumulative Standings. All pages that have been newly updated will be noted in the Newsletter for those of you wishing to look back on previous weeks. If anybody wishes a hardcopy update of a previous week, just request it - but it may cost you a drink!

FINAL SCORES

Week # 10 :
Game #  1: 34-40 Sul Ross State at Eastern New Mexico; Game # 14: 14-45 Cincinnati at Utah;
Game #  2: 17-31 Navy at North Texas;                  Game # 15: 30-7  Fresno State at Boise State;
Game #  3: 31-21 Virginia at California;               Game # 16:  7-24 Wyoming at San Diego State;
Game #  4: 46-45 Duke at Clemson;                      Game # 17: 24-20 Georgia at Florida;
Game #  5:  7-42 Wake Forest at Florida State;         Game # 18: 14-30 South Carolina at Ole Miss.;
Game #  6: 36-48 Georgia Tech at North Carolina State; Game # 19: 33-27 Oklahoma at Tennessee;
Game #  7: 20-26 Miami (FLA) at SMU;                   Game # 20: 28-3  Buffalo at Bowling Green;
Game #  8: 13-35 Rutgers at Illinois;                  Game # 21: 17-20 Princeton at Cornell;
Game #  9: 14-38 Penn State at Ohio State;             Game # 22: 17-24 William Jewell at Missouri S&T;
Game # 10: 20-23 Michigan State at Minnesota;          Game # 23:played 10/31 Idaho at Northern Arizona;
Game # 11: 21-17 USC at Nebraska;                      Game # 24: 31-22 Louisiana at South Alabama;
Game # 12: 24-19 Arizona State at Iowa State;          Game # 25: 21-26 North Dakota at South Dakota;
Game # 13: 43-20 Texas Tech at Kansas State;

KEY GAMES PICKED OR MISSED:

USC beat Nebraska!

PROSPEROUS PICKS OF THE WEEK:

Daddy's Little Girl, Random, and Yoda picked Duke to beat Clemson!
Go Yotes picked North Carolina State to beat Georgia Tech!!
Biggs Darklighter, Old SWAMI, pub grub, and Random picked Oklahoma to beat Tennessee!
Biggs Darklighter, Finn4thewin, Nostraporcus, Random, and Yoda picked Buffalo to beat Bowling Green!!!!
Biggs Darklighter, Go Yotes, Kinko, and Random picked Cornell to beat Princeton!
Random and Yoda picked Louisiana to beat South Alabama!
Finn4thewin, LG Tomcats, Random, and Yoda picked South Dakota to beat North Dakota!

PITIFUL PICKS OF THE WEEK:

Daddy's Little Girl and Go Yotes picked North Texas to lose to Navy??
BIG BROs RULE, Biggs Darklighter, and Yoda picked Virginia to lose to California??
IRISH, Nostraporcus, pub grub, Random, and Yoda picked Florida State to lose to Wake Forest?????
Yoda picked Illinois to lose to Rutgers???
BIG BROs RULE picked Minnesota to lose to Michigan State?
Old SWAMI picked Texas Tech to lose to Kansas State???
pub grub picked Utah to lose to Cincinnati????
Finn4thewin and Random picked Missouri S&T to lose to William Jewell?

ALMA MATER NOTES:

This section will be used to note special picks for the participants Alma Maters/Favorites.

COMMENTS AND INSIGHTS (FACT OR FICTION):

Aloha.Going to Kauai to play golf next week. A 20 minute flight. Jet lag. ... And no time zone change!
Good Luck Del with Idaho...(I picked Northern Arizona...) ... Idaho won but it was played Friday night so won't count in this weeks standings!
Here 'tis! ... You betcha!
I really need an alias to pick this week! ... That much confidence in your picks, heh!
In Portugal next week limited access to internet ... Better safe than being sorry!
Like everyone's alma mater/FAV being on the slate of games to pick. ... We'll proceed with the survey until the last week!
Lobos vs Grey Hounds! might be a good game! ... A closer game than anticipated - may Sul Ross State is finally learning how to play football!
Sul Ross is gaining on them! ... You betcha!

WHO'S WHO IN SWAMI:

Biggs Darklighter, Cavalry, pearl, and ACE picked the most regular games perfectly (2)! (Although Odd Swami picked 3 perfectly but was ineligible)
Horns Girl, jasper, and Acme picked the mose starred games perfectly (1)!
Biggs Darklighter, Cavalry, pearl, and ACE picked the most total games perfectly (2)!
Biggs Darklighter had the most margin points with 2890 pts. with Just Before the Storm in second with 2880 pts.!
BIG BROs RULE had the least margin points with 2030 pts. with pub grub in second with 2080 pts.!
BIG BROs RULE moved the most places DOWN the ladder this week - 8, from 13th to 21st!
LG Tomcats and Go Yotes moved the most places UP the ladder this week - 3, from 15th to 12th and from 16th to 13th, respectively!

GOOD LUCK AND GOOD PICKINS'

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