CYCLONE STAMPEDE PICKS CONTEST, WEEK TWO | Correct picks in the HS playoffs, the college games and NFL can get you an ETBlitz tailgate pack
EDITOR’S NOTE: The deadline to enter the Cyclone Stampede Pick-Off for this weekend is 6:59 p.m. Thursday night. If you don’t enter this week, enter next week. The top five records each week advance in the contest.
We’re about to have week two of the UIL high school football playoffs, and it’s also week two of the Cyclone Stampede, our pick-the-winners contest.
The Cyclone Stampede continues through the college football bowl season, winding up with the national championship game.
The winner gets what we’re calling an ETBlitz.com Tailgate Party Pack, complete with a special package from Clower Meat Market, a charcuterie board made specifically by Kilgore-based Back Porch Creations for this ETBlitz giveaway, enough Dr. Pepper to quench the thirst of a small army, and much more.
Here’s how it works:
- Enter this week, or any week, leading up to the start of this year’s college football bowl games. You enter by making your picks each week in our 21-game contest, then sending your picks to us on Facebook Messenger, or by e-mailing your picks to mlucas@etblitz.com
- We take the top five finishers at the end of the weekend, after “Monday Night Football,” and those five are entered into our College Football Pick-Off.
- The UIL State Football Championships are at AT&T Stadium the week of Dec. 18-21. At the end of that weekend, there will be 30 finalists entered into the College Football Pick-Off.
- After the bowl game schedule is set, we’ll give you the picks list for it. You fill out who you think will win all of this year’s college football bowl games. The best record from the 30 finalists after the College Football Playoff National Championship Game will win the prize pack.
Here are this week’s games. There are 21 of them, and then the score tiebreakers at the bottom.
Send your name, your picks and the score tiebreaker in an e-mail to ETBlitz.com editor / publisher Mitch Lucas at mlucas@etblitz.com.
The top five winners from this weekend advance to the college portion of the game. The contestant who has the best record in the bowl games wins the prize pack.
For example, for JANE DOE to enter this contest, she would look below, and write a list of who he believes will win all 21 of this week’s games.
Then she’ll fill out the three tiebreakers, which this week is the total scores from the Overton-Mart game, the Texas A&M-Auburn game, and the Dallas-Washington game.
Then Jane Doe will either send their picks to ETBlitz on Facebook Messenger, or send it to the e-mail above. She’s entered. That’s it.
And if her picks are in the top five this weekend, she’s now in the college football picks game for a shot at the tailgate pack.
Here’s the thing: to enter this weekend’s picks contest, you have to have it in by 6:59 p.m. THURSDAY NIGHT, because Gilmer and Sunnyvale kick off at 7. Any e-mails we get after 6:59 p.m. tonight won’t be counted, and you’ll have to enter another week.
Good luck in the Stampede!
HIGH SCHOOL GAMES
Thursday
Class 4A, Division II area playoff: Gilmer (8-3) vs. Sunnyvale (8-3), Sulphur Springs, 7 p.m.
Friday
Class 3A, Division II area playoff: Troup (8-3) vs. Dekalb (10-1),Friday night, at Pine Tree Pirate Stadium, at 7 p.m.
Class 2A, Division II area playoff: Overton (9-2) vs. Mart (9-2), Friday night at Kemp High School, 7 p.m.
Class 4A, Division I area playoff: Chapel Hill (8-3) vs. Worthing (11-0), Thursday, Turner Stadium, 7 p.m.
Class 4A, Division I area playoff: Pine Tree (10-1) vs. Stafford (7-4),Bruce Field, Athens, 7:30 p.m.
Class 4A, Division II area playoff: Carthage (10-1) vs. Krum (9-2), Thursday, Melissa ISD Stadium, 7 p.m.
Class 4A, Division I area playoff: Kilgore (9-2) vs. Needville (7-4), Sheldon ISD Panther Stadium, 7 p.m.
COLLEGE GAMES
Saturday
Kentucky (4-6) at No. 3 Texas (9-1), 2:30 p.m., ABC
No. 15 Texas A&M (8-2) at Auburn (4-6), TBA
No. 14 SMU (9-1) at Virginia (5-5), 11 a.m., ESPN2
Baylor (6-4) at Houston (4-6), TBA
Texas Tech (6-4) at Oklahoma State (3-7), TBA
Arizona (4-6) at TCU (6-4), TBA
No. 5 Indiana (10-0) at No. 2 Ohio State (9-1), 11 a.m., FOX
NFL GAMES
Thursday
Pittsburgh (8-2) at Cleveland (2-8), 7:15 p.m., Amazon Prime Video
Sunday
Dallas (3-7) at Washington (7-4), noon, FOX
Minnesota (8-2) at Chicago (4-6), noon, FOX
Tennessee (2-8) at Houston (7-4), noon, CBS
Arizona (6-4) at Seattle (5-5), 3:25 p.m., FOX
Philadelphia (8-2) at L.A. Rams (5-5), 7:20 p.m., NBC
Monday
Baltimore (7-4) at L.A. Chargers (7-3), 7:15 p.m., ABC, ESPN
TIEBREAKERS
What will be the combined score of Overton and Mart? (Total points for both)
What will be the combined score of Texas A&M and Auburn? (Total points for both)
What will be the combined score of Dallas and Washington? (Total points for both)