CYCLONE STAMPEDE, WEEK FOUR! | Send in your picks to enter before this week’s games

EDITOR’S NOTE: The deadline to enter the Cyclone Stampede Pick-Off for this weekend is 6:30 p.m. Thursday, because of the Thursday NFL matchup, Green Bay at Detroit. If you don’t enter this week, enter next week. The top five records each week advance in the contest.

OK, this is week four of our Cyclone Stampede Picks Contest, with the ultimate goal of winning the ETBlitz Tailgate Party Pack.

The Cyclone Stampede continues through the UIL high school football playoffs and then through the college football bowl season, winding up with the national championship game in January.

There are plenty of chances to qualify, but you can’t win if you don’t submit an entry.

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.

These are the same picks that the ETBlitz.com panel is picking here: ETBLITZ POWER PICKS | Who you got: Ragin’ Red or blue & yellow Bulldogs? How will everybody else in ET do? Our best guesses right here.

The prize: 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, an unbelievable amount of Dr. Pepper, and more.

Good luck! Here’s your games. And don’t forget to pick the tiebreakers at the bottom.

CYCLONE STAMPEDE PICKS CONTEST

Thursday, December 5-Monday, December 9, 2024

HIGH SCHOOL GAMES

High school games

Kilgore (11-2) vs. Chapel Hill (10-3), UIL Class 4A, Division I Region 3 finals: Friday, 7:30 p.m., City Bank Stadium, Forney

Carthage vs. Van, UIL Class 4A, Division II Region 2 finals: Friday, 7 p.m., Pine Tree ISD Pirate Stadium

Liberty Eylau (11-2) vs. Malakoff (13-0), UIL Class 3A-Division I Region 2 finals: Friday, 7 p.m., at CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Rose Stadium, Tyler

Daingerfield (8-5) vs. Woodville (11-2), UIL Class 3A-Division II Region 3 finals: Friday, 7 p.m., Palestine ISD Wildcat Stadium

Longview (11-2) vs. DeSoto (11-2), UIL Class 6A, Division II Region 2 finals: Saturday, 3 p.m., McLane Stadium

COLLEGE GAMES

Friday’s games

CONFERENCE USA CHAMPIONSHIP: Western Kentucky (8-4) at Jacksonville State (8-4), 6 p.m., AmFirst Stadium, Jacksonville, AL; CBS Sports Network

MOUNTAIN WEST CHAMPIONSHIP: No. 20 UNLV (10-2) at No. 10 Boise State (11-1), 7 p.m., Albertsons Stadium, Boise, ID; FOX

AMERICAN ATHLETIC CONFERENCE CHAMPIONSHIP: Tulane (9-3) vs. No. 24 Army (10-1), 7 p.m., Michie Stadium, West Point, NY; ABC

Saturday’s games

BIG 12 CHAMPIONSHIP: No. 16 Iowa State (10-2) vs. No. 15 Arizona State (10-2), 11 a.m., AT&T Stadium, Arlington, TX; ABC

MID-AMERICAN CHAMPIONSHIP: Ohio (8-4) vs. Miami (Ohio, 9-3), 11 a.m., Ford Field, Detroit, Mich.; ESPN

SEC CHAMPIONSHIP: No. 5 Georgia (10-2) vs. No. 2 Texas (11-1), 3 p.m., Mercedes-Benz Stadium, Atlanta, Ga.; ABC

SUN BELT CHAMPIONSHIP: Marshall (9-3) at Louisiana (10-2), 6:30 p.m.; Cajun Field, Lafayette, La.; ESPN

BIG TEN CHAMPIONSHIP: No. 3 Penn State (11-1) vs. No. 1 Oregon (12-0), 7 p.m.; Lucas Oil Stadium, Indianapolis, Ind.; CBS

ACC CHAMPIONSHIP: No. 17 Clemson (9-3) vs. No. 8 SMU (11-1), 7 p.m.; Bank of America Stadium, Charlotte; ABC

NFL GAMES

Thursday’s game 

Green Bay (9-3) at Detroit (11-1), 7:15 p.m., Amazon Prime Video

Sunday’s games

Atlanta (6-6) at Minnesota (10-2), noon, FOX

Cleveland (4-8) at Pittsburgh (9-3), noon, CBS

Seattle (7-5) at Arizona (6-6), 3:05 p.m. CBS

Buffalo (10-2) at L.A. Rams (6-6), 3:25 p.m., FOX

L.A. Chargers (8-4) at Kansas City (11-1), 7:20 p.m. NBC

Monday’s game

Cincinnati (4-8)  at Dallas (5-7), 7:15 p.m., ESPN

Tiebreakers

The total combined score in the Kilgore-Chapel Hill game.

The total combined score between Georgia and Texas in the SEC Championship Game.

The total combined score between Dallas and Cincinnati on Monday night.