Gen-X Missional Wesleyan

Time once again for college football (hurray!), which means it’s also time for the college football pick ‘em game on ESPN.com. I’ve got a couple of groups going–one for church folks (JW Junkies) and one for anybody I know (and/or who reads this) who’d like to do a pick ‘em game! (Guy’s Posse)

Here’s the info from ESPN.com for the Guy’s Posse one. (If you’re a JWUMC person, email me and I’ll hook you up with an invite to that group)

This game challenges you to select the winner of 10 selected games for 13 weeks during the NCAA football season using a confidence scoring system. You receive the amount of confidence points you assigned to each game, but only if you correctly selected the winning team. Best of all, it’s FREE to play.

Get in the action now:
http://games.espn.go.com/cpickem/group?groupID=6520

Game Front:
http://games.espn.go.com/cpickem/frontpage

Group: Guy’s Posse

Congradulations to the LSU Tigers, the 2008 GMW National Champions! At the end of the wildest and most unpredictable college football season in most people’s memories, you ended up on the top of the heap!

Here’s the final poll:

1. LSU

2. USC

3. Georgia

4. West Virginia

5. Ohio State

6. Kansas

7. Missouri

8. Virginia Tech

9. Oklahoma

10. Tennessee

Others receiving votes: Boston College, Auburn

Good grief. What a year to try out a weekly poll on the blog. Thanks to my voters who hung with the craziness. Here’s the final regular-season pre-bowl edition. The last post-bowl edition that crowns the GMW national champion will come out after the last bowl is played. Until then…

1. LSU

2. Ohio State

3. Oklahoma

4. Georgia

5. USC

6. Virginia Tech

7. Missouri

8. West Virginia

9. Florida

10. Kansas

Others receiving votes: Hawaii, Illinois

Alright, here’s the poll before we get into bowl season. Much up in the air this weekend. Take care of business and you could be playing for a national title…

1. Missouri

2. West Virginia

3. Ohio State

4. Georgia

5. Virginia Tech

6. USC

7 (tie). LSU

7 (tie). Kansas

9. Oklahoma

10. Florida

Others receiving votes: Hawaii

A wonderful Thanksgiving to all!

Here is this week’s GMW Top 10 going into an exciting weekend of games… rivalries… title hopes on the line… coaching jobs on the line… There’s something about late November.

1. LSU

2. Missouri

3. W. Virginia

4. Kansas

5. Virginia Tech

6. Ohio State

7. Georgia

8. Arizona State

9. Oklahoma

10. Oregon

Others receiving votes: USC, Texas, Florida

Note: Poll conducted prior to this evening’s Oregon-Arizona game…

1. LSU

2. Oregon

3. Oklahoma

4. Kansas

5. Missouri

6. Georgia

7. West Virginia

8. Ohio State

9 (t). Virginia Tech

9 (t). Arizona State

Others receiving votes: USC

Alrighty, here goes… (note: poll completed prior to the WVA-UL game tonight, just not posted prior to kickoff)

1. Ohio State

2. LSU

3. Oregon

4. Oklahoma

(tie) 5. West Virginia

(tie) 5. Kansas

(tie) 5. Missouri

8. Virginia Tech

(tie) 9. Georgia

(tie) 9. Arizona State

Others receiving votes: Boston College, Michigan

Numbers are in, poll is ready for this week. We’re starting to see how things are really shaping up…but plenty of ball yet to be played.

1. LSU

2. Ohio State

3. Oregon

4 (tie). Boston College

4 (tie). Oklahoma

6. Arizona State

7. Missouri

8 (tie). West Virginia

8 (tie). Georgia

10. Kansas

Tonight is a big showdown in the ACC between #3 Boston College and #8 Virginia Tech. It’s a chance for Va Tech to get right back into things with a big win or for Boston College to prove it belongs among the top teams in the country. Gotta love the drama of college football.

GMW Top Ten

1. Ohio State

2. LSU

3. Boston College

4. Oklahoma

5. Oregon

6. Florida

7. USC

8. Virginia Tech

9. Arizona State

10. (tie) Missouri

10. (tie) West Virginia

Others receiving votes: Kentucky, South Florida