College Football: Bama wins again; now is the long dark of the offseason

Welcome back to perhaps American's strangest and most fun major sport: college football.









There's some preseason polls and such but I believe most of them are hogwash. Also, if you would like team previews, you could do a lot worse than SB Nation's previews of every major college program.

The rest of this OP will be dedicated to explaining the rules of the PA Forums Pick 'Em.

To wit:
1. Picks will be due by the kickoff of the earliest game in the pick 'em. Because of this, I will generally avoid Thursday games. Regular players will be given sufficient notice (48 hours) if we select a Thursday game.
2. Nirya and I will pick the games for the pick 'em. I'll be using Google Forms/Sheets to track the stats and points over the course of the season.
3. There are three types of contests for our grand pick 'em. Generally, there will be 10 games to pick, with 5 games straight-up, 4 against the spread, and 1 GOTW.
Straight-up: If you correctly pick the winner, you get 1 point.
Against the spread: Each game will be listed with a point spread, like this:
Florida International @ Central Florida (-14)
This means Central Florida is favored by 14 points. If you pick Florida International, you are saying they will either win straight-up or lose by no more than 14 points. If you pick Central Florida, you are saying they will win by at least 14 points. Picking correctly nets you 1 point.
Game of the Week: The GOTW can be either straight-up or ATS. The main difference is that it is usually a marquee contest and will be worth 2 points.

This means, in general, there will be a maximum of 11 points in play each week.