Rules

This page covers how the app behaves — deadlines, scoring, voids, autopick — not the pool's prize structure, which you already know from joining. Read this before your first deadline.

Scoring

One point per correct pick against the spread. No bonuses. The spread is captured when the slate is published and never re-read — if the market line moves before kickoff, your pick is still graded against the number that was on the page when you made it.

Deadlines

Each slate has one deadline (shown in Pacific time on the pick page), and it is the only thing that decides whether picks are open — not the slate's displayed status. It is set when the slate is published and never changes afterward.

The default deadline is the earlier of Saturday 9:00 AM Pacific or five minutes before the earliest kickoff in the slate — it is not always Saturday morning. A Thursday or Friday night game in the slate will pull the deadline back to before that game starts. Always check the deadline on the pick page rather than assuming Saturday.

A pick on an individual game closes at the earlier of the slate deadline or that game's own kickoff. If a game's kickoff moves earlier than the slate deadline after publish, that game is automatically voided and dropped from what you need to pick — it does not block you from submitting the rest of the slate.

Picks only count once you press Submit. Selecting teams doesn't save anything by itself — closing the tab before submitting saves nothing. You can resubmit as many times as you like before the deadline; each Submit replaces your previous picks in full and sends you a new confirmation email. That email — which lists every pick, the frozen spread, and your tiebreaker guess — is your record of what you submitted; if a resubmission changes anything, the email says what changed.

Tiebreakers

Where a slate has a tiebreaker game, every submission includes a predicted combined score for it. Ties (for the weekly, bowl, and season prizes alike) are broken in this order:

1. Smaller difference between guess and actual combined score.
2. A human guess beats an autopick guess.
3. Still tied — the prize splits.

A player with no guess loses any tiebreak they'd otherwise be part of, unless every player still tied also lacks a guess — in which case they split. If the designated tiebreaker game is voided, the slate's backup tiebreaker game is used instead. If both are voided, or the slate has fewer than 5 surviving games, no weekly prize is awarded for that slate at all.

The national championship game is its own tiebreaker, used for the bowl and season prizes. A player with no championship guess forfeits any tiebreak they'd otherwise be in, under the same split-if-everyone-lacks- one fallback. If the championship game itself is voided, both the bowl and season tiebreakers fall back to cumulative tiebreaker accuracy across the season, then split.

Autopick

You get 3 autopicks for the regular season and 1 for bowl season — flat allowances, the same for everyone regardless of when you joined. If you miss a deadline and still have an autopick available, the app submits picks for you automatically (using whichever mode you've set — random, all favorites, or all underdogs) with a fixed tiebreaker guess of 52. Whether that guess wins a tiebreak still comes down to how close it lands — the first rule above is closeness, not who made the guess — but if an autopick guess and a human guess land equally close, the human guess wins. You'll get an email telling you autopick was used and how many you have left.

Once your autopick allowance for that phase is used up, missing a deadline scores zero for that slate.

An autopicked slate is marked publicly once its deadline has passed, so nobody's picks look like a real submission when they weren't.

Voids

A game can only be voided for one of these reasons, and for no other reason:

• The feed marks it canceled.
• The feed marks it postponed.
• Its kickoff moves earlier than the slate deadline.
• It still isn't final 48 hours after its scheduled kickoff.
• It ends before completing regulation (shortened).
• It's forfeited.

There is no discretionary void. Admins can only confirm a void the system has already proposed for one of the reasons above — they cannot originate one, including on a game they personally lost. A voided game awards no points to anyone and lowers that slate's maximum possible score, exactly like a push (a game that lands exactly on the spread). Every voided game on a results page shows its reason and trigger.

Prizes and payment

Fewer than 5 surviving (non-voided) games in a slate means no weekly prize is awarded for it, regardless of how anyone scored. Whether you've paid is private and never stops you from playing — but you must have paid before a slate's deadline to collect that slate's prize. An unpaid winner is still shown as the winner; their share rolls into the pot instead of being paid out.

The season calendar

The regular season runs weekly from late August through early December; bowl season follows through the national championship in late January, with several slates open at once as bowl matchups are set. Not every calendar week gets a slate — admins may skip a week, and which weeks are skipped is decided and published before Week 1, not announced after the fact. Any later change to that plan comes with a stated reason.

Army/Navy overlaps the first bowl slate — concurrently open regular and bowl slates start in mid-December, not January. The picks page lists every published slate, and any deliberately skipped week, as soon as admins decide it.

Admin integrity

Admins get no earlier access to anyone's picks than any other player — picks stay private to their owner until the slate's deadline passes, then become visible to everyone, admins included. Admins cannot originate a void (see Voids, above). Manual spreads and score corrections are recorded with who made them and why, and shown to players alongside the game.