SWAMI

2025 SWAMI RACE
COLLEGE FOOTBALL 

ISSUE # 12-25                NEWSLETTER WEEK #12                15 NOVEMBER 2025
Remember to get your SWAMI entries in by midnight Wednesday, 26 November, of Thanksgiving week!

Congratulations go to Acme for coming in first in Week # 12 only missing 4 games (WOW!), followed closely by Just Before the Storm, Away We Go, Nostraporcus, Cavalry, and Biggs Darklighter (all with 4 losses), and ACE, WunderBrew, Go Yotes, and Finn4thewin (all with 5 losses). (Odd Swami was ineligible) This must have been a close week for only 1 loss separate 1st place and 22nd place! Will these participants continue in their picky ways? Stay tuned for continuation of this exciting story in our next edition!


Congratulations go to Yoda for coming in last in Week # 12 only missing 10 games, followed closely by pub grub, IRISH, and Tenacious D (all with 7 losses), Horns Girl (5 losses), BIG BROs RULE (6 losses), and LG Tomcats, Old SWAMI, jasper, and Chetek (all with 5 losses). (Random was ineligible.) 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 # 12 (seventh consecutive week), followed closely by Acme (remained in 2nd), pearl (up from 4th), Just Before the Storm (down from 3rd), jasper (remained in 6th), Cavalry (up from 13th), Kimo (down from 7th), Chetek (up from 11th), WunderBrew (up from 12th), and Go Yotes (down from 8th). (Odd Swami and Average were ineligible) Out of the top ten go Horns Girl and LG Tomcats (down from 9th to 13th and down from 12th to 14th, respectively)! There are two more week 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 # 12 (ninth consecutive week), followed closely by pub grub (remained in 25th), Tenacious D (remained in 24th), Biggs Darklighter (remained in 23rd), IRISH (up from 16th), BIG BROs RULE (down from 22nd), Old SWAMI (remained in 20th), Daddy's Little Girl (down from 21st), ACE (down from 19th), and Nostraporcus (down from 17th)! 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!! - Remember to get your SWAMI entries in by midnight Wednesday, 26 November, of Thanksgiving week!


SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS!! - If anybody has any comments about the contents of this SWAMI season or ways to change it for next season, please let me know! There were a few key games that were left off this season so I'll need to do better research for next season! I'll still take recommendations on the Alma Mater's frequency in next year's schedule for a few more weeks. I've received some inputs already!


NOTICE: - There was a team that was listed twice (USF), once against Navy and once against Texas Tech. The Texas Tech game should have been listed as UCF and therefore that game will not be included in this week's stats. Sorry about that! 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 # 12 :
Game #  1: 10-74 Sul Ross State at Texas Permian Basin; Game # 14: 13-44 TCU at BYU;
Game #  2: 27-31 Memphis at East Carolina;              Game # 15: 30-24 Arizona at Cincinnati;
Game #  3: 38-41 USF at Navy;                           Game # 16:mismatched USF at Texas Tech;
Game #  4: 14-31 Oregon State at Tulsa;                 Game # 17: 17-20 Colorado State at New Mexico;
Game #  5: 36-34 Georgia Tech at Boston College;        Game # 18: 23-21 Oklahoma at Alabama;
Game #  6: 34-17 Virginia at Duke;                      Game # 19: 10-35 Texas at Georgia;
Game #  7:  7-41 North Carolina State at Miami (FLA);   Game # 20: 22-23 Arkansas at LSU;
Game #  8: 37-15 Notre Dame at Pittsburgh;              Game # 21: 24-34 Florida at Ole Miss.;
Game #  9: 28-10 Penn State at Michigan State;          Game # 22: 30-31 South Carolina at Texas A&M;
Game # 10: 10-48 UCLA at Ohio State;                    Game # 23: 17-38 UC-Davis at Montana State;
Game # 11: 21-26 Iowa at USC;                           Game # 24: 27-35 Cal Poly SLO at Northern Arizona;
Game # 12: 23-25 West Virginia at Arizona State;        Game # 25: 24-7  UW-Whitewater at UW-Oshkosh;
Game # 13: 45-28 Utah at Baylor;

KEY GAMES PICKED OR MISSED:

East Carolina beat Memphis!
Tulsa beat Oregon State!!
Virginia beat Duke!!

PROSPEROUS PICKS OF THE WEEK:

ACE and Random picked Navy to beat USF!!
Random and Tenacious D picked Arizona to beat Cincinnati!

PITIFUL PICKS OF THE WEEK:

Yoda picked Texas Permian Basin to lose to Sul Ross State?????????
IRISH and Random picked Miami (FLA) to lose to North Carolina State?????
Yoda picked Penn State to lose to Michigan State???
Tenacious D and Yoda picked USC to lose to Iowa?
pub grub, Random and Tenacious D picked Utah to lose to Baylor??
IRISH and pub grub picked BYU to lose to TCU????
Tenacious D picked New Mexico to lose to Colorado State?
Horns Girl and Random picked Georgia to lose to Texas???
BIG BROs RULE and Yoda picked LSU to lose to Arkansas?
Random and Yoda picked Montana State to lose to UC-Davis???
Random and Tenacious D picked UW-Whitewater to lose to UW-Oshkosh??

ALMA MATER NOTES:

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

Homer picked his Alma Mater/Favorite (Sul Ross State) to lose to Texas Permian Basin and they did!
Campbell picked his Alma Mater/Favorite (Notre Dame) to beat Pittsburgh and they did!
JHawkins picked her Alma Mater/Favorite (Notre Dame) to beat Pittsburgh and they did!
AHawkins picked his Alma Mater/Favorite (Notre Dame) to beat Pittsburgh and they did!
NHawkins picked his Alma Mater/Favorite (Notre Dame) to beat Pittsburgh and they did!
Krakowiak picked his Alma Mater/Favorite (Penn State) to beat Michigan State and they did!
Homer picked his Alma Mater/Favorite (UCLA) to lose to Ohio State and they did!
Moline picked his Alma Mater/Favorite (UCLA) to lose to Ohio State and they did!
JHawkins picked her Alma Mater/Favorite (UCLA) to lose to Ohio State and they did!
Bowen picked his Alma Mater/Favorite (USC) to beat Iowa and they did!
Whiteley picked his Alma Mater/Favorite (USC) to beat Iowa and they did!
Bradford picked her Alma Mater/Favorite (Texas) to beat Georgia and they lost!
Winslow picked his Alma Mater/Favorite (Montana State) to beat UC-Davis and they did!
Winslow picked his Alma Mater/Favorite (UC-Davis) to lose to Montana State and they did!
Schaniel picked his Alma Mater/Favorite (Cal Poly SLO) to lose to Northern Arizona and they did!
Smith picked his Alma Mater/Favorite (UW-Whitewater) to beat UW-Oshkosh and they did!
Everybody else picked correctly for their Alma Mater to win or lose!

COMMENTS AND INSIGHTS (FACT OR FICTION):

19 Home winners and only 6 away team winners! ... Just about right!
Aloha. Back from golfing on Kauai. Next is Silver Sea cruise to Vancouver. ... Sounds like you have it easy and enjoying yourself! Good luck getting back to picking winners!
Cal Poly Football...thank you ... You betcha!
Here 'tis! ... You betcha!
UCF is actually playing Texas Tech ... As a result, that game will not be counted in this week's stats!
Uncanny team contests picked each week ... All this was done weeks before the first game was played - but some key games were missed!

WHO'S WHO IN SWAMI:

Just Before the Storm, Away We Go, Biggs Darklighter, Kinko, and Chetek picked the most regular games perfectly (1)!
Random picked the most starred games perfectly (1)!
Just Before the Storm, Away We Go, Biggs Darklighter, Kinko, and Chetek, and Random picked the most total games perfectly (1)!
Acme had the most margin points with 2904 pts. with Average and ACE and Odd Swami were tied for second with 2832 pts.!
pub grub had the least margin points with 1824 pts. with Horns Girl in second with 1932 pts.!
Just Before the Storm moved the most places UP the ladder this week - 3, from 7th to 4th!
IRISH moved the most places DOWN the ladder this week - 6, from 16th to 22nd!

GOOD LUCK AND GOOD PICKINS'

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