***Touchdown Auburn Bowl 2023 - GRAND FINALE!***

[Auctoritas 2,828]

Well, everyone, it's been an amazing year. I've said it a bunch lately, but let me thank everyone for sticking around with this for the year. Auburn may not have ended up where we wanted it to be, but this really has helped keep my attention on CFB writ large more than it has the last couple of years. More than that, it's been great to see the community around it - a little trash talk, some congratulations. I really really appreciate everyone's good humor and patience as we worked through a few hiccups, but overall I think this went really well.

Below, you'll find the preseason picks results. As a reminder, way back before the season, you picked the order of finish for both SEC East and West Divisions (the last time they will exist, to boot!). For every team in the right place, you got 5 points (so, if you guessed Alabama to be in first, Auburn in second, and LSU in third, you'd get 10 points for having Alabama and LSU in the right spots). We also had the big daddy extra points bonus - a correct guess for the number of Auburn touchdowns (41, as it turns out) would net you an additional 100 points (we had two AUFAMILY members get that right, so extra congrats to @provibe and @subterranean_jack for winning the Preseason and tying at 120 points.

You'll also find the season leaderboard with those points counted in. This year's winner - maybe surprising nobody at this point - was @phillyeagle, who went wire to wire! This year's game had a grand prize - I'll be making a donation to AUFAMILY in their name. Phillyeagle was already a site donor at the Platinum level, so he gets to have an extra helping of the warm fuzzies that we get for supporting the site we all love.

Didn't win this year? you can still make a donation! It's among the best money I've spent, personally, and every bit of it goes to keep this place running. The side benefits are no joke, too. Heck, makes a great holiday gift too.

I hope you'll stick around for the Bowl Season Extravaganza - most people who participated in the last week answered that they'd participate for bragging rights. If you join that one, i'll see you there, and if not, then I hope you'll tune in again next year! Thanks again for everyone who played - even if you didn't last the entire year. -Auc

Edit: sorry folks, as noted in the new reply, I'm not going to be able to do the bowl pick em this year. Hope to see you in the fall!

Preseason Picks			Place		Leaderboard
Provibe	120		1		phillyeagle	801
subterranean_jack	120		2		SMITTY4AU	777
dilligas	40		3		VicTree	770
Aux	35		4		Aux	763
aublaise	30		5		aublaise	746
AuburnEagle79	30		6		PikesEagle	737
AUGreen03	30		7		AUGreen03	735
I_M4_AU	30		8		I_M4_AU	734
vatz22au	30		9		DaddyBoyAU	731
WVR	30		10		alabastertiger	729
AKCWDE	25		11		CoffeeTiger	724
AuburnNTexas	25		12		weagle98	724
aucanucktiger	25		13		theweegler	722
CoffeeTiger	25		14		AuburnNTexas	717
ertrader	25		15		Auburnfan91	714
frozennugget	25		16		wareaglefan444	714
KansasTiger	25		17		vatz22au	713
rednilla	25		18		Trakem	712
SMITTY4AU	25		19		KTATLEagles	711
TeBoneAU	25		20		SumterAubie	708
Auburnfan91	20		21		mofaith	703
Auctoritas	20		22		Jgarrett7	700
Autime	20		23		aumarine	695
BornAU76	20		24		cctiger	695
cctiger	20		25		eulessau	693
Duder	20		26		toddc	683
Ellitor	20		27		TigerTale	682
Jgarrett7	20		28		AUbritt	681
jmthomas28	20		29		aucanucktiger	679
Norfolk	20		30		Duder	676
phillyeagle	20		31		C’viewTiger	675
SRBautigerfan	20		32		Auctoritas	670
SumterAubie	20		33		PKPTiger81	668
toddc	20		34		Shadow Tiger	662
VicTree	20		35		AUBwins	661
WDE_OxPx_2010	20		36		WVR	654
Weagle1787	20		37		ertrader	651
around4ever	15		38		FUZZYAUFAN	638
AUcivE09	15		39		AuburnEagle79	633
C’viewTiger	15		40		TeBoneAU	629
DaddyBoyAU	15		41		arein0	626
Hank2020	15		42		Hank2020	623
McFU	15		43		around4ever	621
Mickeyspano	15		44		abw0004	616
mofaith	15		45		rednilla	611
PikesEagle	15		46		GWillMac6	599
SirIsaac	15		47		Tiger	596
Tiger	15		48		Abbygpaw	595
ValleyTiger	15		49		Provibe	595
wareaglefan444	15		50		BornAU76	592
AUBwins	10		51		AubTigers	591
aucat	10		52		Zeek	587
aumarine	10		53		Ellitor	583
GWillMac6	10		54		RunInRed	583
KTATLEagles	10		55		dilligas	571
Lotto	10		56		ScotsAU	551
RunInRed	10		57		subterranean_jack	537
Shadow Tiger	10		58		ValleyTiger	534
Trakem	10		59		Weagle1787	524
WarEagle1983	10		60		Paladin	514
Zeek	10		61		WarTim	502
AUJete1112	5		62		Hopsing	478
FUZZYAUFAN	5		63		Autime	462
			64		causeyjt	452
			65		HAPvsOA	425
			66		WDE_OxPx_2010	372
			67		McFU	334
			68		WarEagle1983	324
			69		Bigaufanwhb	317
			70		KansasTiger	281
			71		GATiger81	255
			72		PoetTiger	204
			73		SRBautigerfan	173
			74		Mickeyspano	167
			75		Tigerpro2a	153
			76		baccusm	146
			77		AU120289	112
			78		AUEAGLE	104
			79		AKCWDE	68
			80		AUJete1112	58
			81		Heather_ishh	55
			82		auburnpride99	53
			83		frozennugget	25
			84		jmthomas28	20
			85		Norfolk	20
			86		AUcivE09	15
			87		SirIsaac	15
			88		aucat	10
			89		Lotto	10

 

 

Edited December 14, 2023 by Auctoritas

[VicTree 143]

Thanks for facilitating!!  It was fun, again!

I didn't even remember my preseason picks, but after missing most of the championship games I didn't have high hopes anyway.  Congrats to phillyeagle!

[AUBwins 10,075]

I only got 2 preseason picks right lol.  Crazy season. 

[I_M4_AU 7,842]

Thanks for doing this, it was fun.

Congrats Phillyeagle.

[phillyeagle 130]

Everybody here knows the perennial champ is @Auctoritas! Thank you so much for pulling this together for us every week, a true contribution to the AUFamily community. 

[Auctoritas 2,828]

Hi everyone - my apologies. Work and life got the best of me over the last couple of weeks, and totally has prevented me from being able to do the bowl season extravaganza like I'd planned. I'm really bummed about it - I'm a bowl season fan anyway, but this would have been some icing on the cake.

Sorry for not being able to follow through, but be on the lookout for the preseason picks thread come early August! Thanks again for everyone who participated throughout the year. You're all the best.

War Eagle!

[Hank2020 3,202]

33 minutes ago, Auctoritas said:

Hi everyone - my apologies. Work and life got the best of me over the last couple of weeks, and totally has prevented me from being able to do the bowl season extravaganza like I'd planned. I'm really bummed about it - I'm a bowl season fan anyway, but this would have been some icing on the cake.

Sorry for not being able to follow through, but be on the lookout for the preseason picks thread come early August! Thanks again for everyone who participated throughout the year. You're all the best.

War Eagle!

Thx for what you put together. It was a blast!!

[RunInRed 16,409]

Congrats @phillyeagle and a special thanks to @Auctoritas for running this!

[PikesEagle 168]

On 12/13/2023 at 5:47 PM, Auctoritas said:

Hi everyone - my apologies. Work and life got the best of me over the last couple of weeks, and totally has prevented me from being able to do the bowl season extravaganza like I'd planned. I'm really bummed about it - I'm a bowl season fan anyway, but this would have been some icing on the cake.

Sorry for not being able to follow through, but be on the lookout for the preseason picks thread come early August! Thanks again for everyone who participated throughout the year. You're all the best.

War Eagle!

I guess we can miss out on this year. ☺️. Great job with the weekly pool this year. If it makes you feel any better, I'm starting off 3-2 on the ESPN pool, with UCLA about to win, make that 3-3. Maybe I'm glad you didn't to a pool pick 'em.

[AuburnNTexas 7,149]

Thank you for doing this.