SWAMI

2025 SWAMI RACE
COLLEGE FOOTBALL 

ISSUE # 9-25                NEWSLETTER WEEK #9                25 OCTOBER 2025

Congratulations go to Tenacious D for coming in first in Week # 9 only missing 3 games (WOW!), followed closely by Finn4thewin (4 losses), Old SWAMI (3 losses), Away We Go and IRISH (both with 4 losses), Horns Girl (5 losses), jasper, Chetek, and pearl (all with 4 losses), and BIG BROs RULE (5 losses). This must have been a close week for only 2 losses 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 # 9 only missing 8 games, followed closely by Kinko (8 losses), pub grub (7 losses), Acme (6 losses), ACE and WunderBrew (both with 5 losses), Go Yotes (6 losses), and Biggs Darklighter, LG Tomcats, and Kimo (all with 5 losses). 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 # 9 (second consecutive week), followed closely by pearl (up from 3rd), jasper (up from 4th), Kimo (down from 2nd), Chetek (up from 8th), Cavalry (down from 6th), WunderBrew (up from 9th), Acme (down from 7th), IRISH (up from 13th), and Just Before the Storm (up from 12th). Out of the top ten goes Kinko (down from 10th to 17th)! There are many more weeks to go so how will this list get juggled? Stay tuned for more intriguing stories!


Congratulations go to Yoda for jumping into the lead for the last place spot in Week # 9 (sixth consecutive week), followed closely by pub grub (up from 24th), Old SWAMI (up from 22nd), Nostraporcus (up from 20th), Away We Go (remained in 21st), Tenacious D (remained in 20th), Daddy's Little Girl (remained in 19th), ACE (up from 16th), Kinko (up from 10th), and Go Yotes (up from 15th)! (Biggs Darklighter is ineligible) 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 (Hint, hint, Biggs Darklighter)! Random is ineligible! Will these participants continue in their picky ways? Stay tuned for continuation of this exciting story in our next edition!


Are we having fun yet?

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??


SPECIAL ANNOUNCEMENTS!! - None!


NOTICE: - 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 # 9 :
Game #  1: 62-0  Angelo State aat Sul Ross State;    Game # 14:  7-53 Colorado at Utah;
Game #  2: 31-34 USF at Memphis;                     Game # 15: 23-0  San Diego State at Fresno State;
Game #  3: 38-37 Temple at Tulsa;                    Game # 16: 14-33 Utah State at New Mexico;
Game #  4: 16-41 Syracuse at Georgia Tech;           Game # 17:  7-28 Toledo at Washington State;
Game #  5: 24-38 Boston College at Louisville;       Game # 18: 33-24 Auburn at Arkansas;
Game #  6:  7-42 Stanford at Miami (Fla.);           Game # 19: 49-25 Texas A&M at LSU;
Game #  7: 17-16 Virginia at North Carolina;         Game # 20: 34-26 Ole Miss. at Oklahoma;
Game #  8: 34-53 North Carolina State at Pittsburgh; Game # 21: 29-22 Alabama at South Carolina;
Game #  9:  3-41 Minnesota at Iowa;                  Game # 22: 10-17 Missouri at Vanderbilt;
Game # 10: 31-20 Michigan at Michigan State;         Game # 23: 23-17 TCU at West Virginia;
Game # 11: 25-42 Illinois at Washington;             Game # 24: 24-34 Georgia Southern at Arkansas State;
Game # 12: 41-27 BYU at Iowa State;                  Game # 25: 19-29 UW-Platteville at UW-Whitewater;
Game # 13: 42-17 Kansas State at Kansas;

KEY GAMES PICKED OR MISSED:

Memphis beat USF!
BYU beat Iowa State!!
Auburn beat Arkansas!!

PROSPEROUS PICKS OF THE WEEK:

Old SWAMI, Random, Tenacious D, and Yoda picked Kansas State to beat Kansas!!!!
BIG BROs RULE, Daddy's Little Girl, pub grub, Tenacious D, and Yoda picked Ole Miss. to beat Oklahoma!

PITIFUL PICKS OF THE WEEK:

Random and Yoda picked Angelo State to lose to Sul Ross State?????????
Tenacious D and Yoda picked Temple to lose to Tulsa?
Go Yotes picked Louisville to lose to Boston College??
pub grub and Random picked Iowa to lose to Minnesota?????
Daddy's Little Girl, Horns Girl, pub grub, and Tenacious D picked Washington to lose to Illinois??
Kinko, pub grub, and Random picked San Diego State to lose to Fresno State???
BIG BROs RULE, Nostraporcus, Random, Tenacious D, and Yoda picked New Mexico to lose to Utah State???
Kinko, pub grub, and Random picked Washington State to lose to Toledo???
ACE and Random picked Texas A&M to lose to LSU???
Kinko, Old SWAMI, pub grub, and Random picked Vanderbilt to lose to Missouri?
Away We Go, Random, and Yoda picked Arkansas State to lose to Georgia Southern?
Acme, BIG BROs RULE, Kinko, and pub grub picked UW-WHitewater to lose to UW-Platteville?

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 Angelo State and they did!
Switzer picked his Alma Mater/Favorite (Kansas State) to beat Kansas and they did!
Knox picked her Alma Mater/Favorite (Colorado) to lose to Utah and they did!
JHawkins picked her Alma Mater/Favorite (Fresno State) to lose to San Diego State and they did!
Markarian picked his Alma Mater/Favorite (Fresno State) to beat San Diego State and they lost!
Smith picked his Alma Mater/Favorite (UW-Whitewater) to beat UW-Platteville and they did!
Everybody else picked correctly for their Alma Mater to win or lose!

COMMENTS AND INSIGHTS (FACT OR FICTION):

Here 'tis! ... You betcha!
Platteville scores a rare win on Whitewater's homefield! ... Not quite!
Random has been assisting me ... I figured that!
Wow! One third of the games have predicted margins of 3 points or less! ... Makes for an interesting week, heh!

WHO'S WHO IN SWAMI:

Tenacious D, Old SWAMI, Chetek, Just Before the Storm, Biggs Darklighter, Go Yotes, ACE, Acme, and Yoda picked the most regular games perfectly (1)! (although Random had 2 but that didn't count)
Tenacious D and Old SWAMI picked the most starred games perfectly (1)!
Tenacious D, Old SWAMI, and Random picked the most total games perfectly (2)!
Finn4thewin had the most margin points with 2097 pts. with ACE in second with 2079 pts.!
Daddy's Little Girl had the least margin points with 1467 pts. with pub grub in second with 1485 pts.!
Kinko moved the most places DOWN the ladder this week - 7, from 10th to 17th!
BIG BROs RULE and Horns Girl moved the most places UP the ladder this week - 4, from 17th to 13th, and from 18th to 14th, respectively!

GOOD LUCK AND GOOD PICKINS'

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