College football pick'em

From The Bench

Get off the bench. Get into every game.

One card, ten picks, every week of the season — and a stake in games you would never have looked twice at. Every point splits between the players who made the same pick, so the obvious answer is the expensive one.

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From The Bench — your card

2026 · Week 7

Your card

Sunday Regulars · 12 players

7/10

locks Sat 12:00Submit card

Upset

1 point per ranking place

Back the lower-ranked team to win. No limit on the payout, and a miss costs nothing.

#74

Tulane

at #12 Ole Miss · Sat 3:30

62 places between them. It lands, it pays 62.

Biggest comeback

rotating · best pick takes 12

Largest halftime deficit erased. Your team has to win — trailing and losing scores nothing.

#31

Arizona State

vs #19 Utah · Sat 10:15

picks on your card, every week

of them are brand new each Monday, drawn from 20

matching picks divide the points between them

137

the most a single upset pick can be worth

The split

Right and crowded loses to wrong and alone.

In every other pick'em you win by landing on the same answer as everybody else. Here the points for a pick get divided among everyone who made it. Take the favorite along with three friends and you keep a quarter of it — so the week you back a team nobody else believes in is the week you pull ahead.

Try it · You picked Oregon for biggest blowout

Oregon wins by 41, and no team all week wins by more. That pick is worth 30 points.

You score

+10

30 ÷ 3rounded in your favor

Players in your league who also took Oregon, you included3

3 of you took Oregon, so the 30 is divided 3 ways — 10 points each. Someone alone on a smaller blowout beats every one of you.

The rotating three

Three picks you did not prepare for

Seven of your ten picks are the same every week. The other three are drawn on Monday morning out of a pool of 20, so last week's research is worth nothing. Some of them cannot be answered by sorting a stats page at all — you need a team good enough to win but likely to be losing at halftime, or an offense you like that you then have to root against.

Most total yardsMost passing yardsMost rushing yardsMost penalty yardsLongest time of possessionMost yards per playMost kick + punt return yardsFewest total yards allowedMost combined passing yards (both teams)Largest combined scoreSmallest combined scoreMost first downsBest third-down conversion rateMost points in a single quarterMost sacksFewest puntsHighest-scoring loserLowest-scoring winnerBiggest comebackMost turnovers forced

From The Bench — this week's draw

Drawn Monday · 3 of 20

Best pick takes 12 · worst takes 1

8
Biggest comeback
Largest halftime deficit erased, by a team that goes on to win
You are shopping for a team good enough to win and bad enough to trail.
9
Highest-scoring loser
Most points scored by a team that loses
Pick an offense you like — then root against it.
10
Fewest punts
Lowest punt count, net punt yards breaks the tie
Sortable on a stats page. So is everyone else's answer.

Next Monday these are gone and three others are in. Seventeen you have not seen yet.

You are ranked against your league

There is no fixed points table for these three. In a twelve-player league the best pick scores 12, the second best 11, on down to 1 for the worst. Being right is not enough — you have to be more right than eleven other people looking at the same games.

Suddenly the noon game matters

Fewest punts. Biggest comeback. Longest time of possession. Picks like these land you in a Tuesday night MAC game you would have scrolled straight past, watching a punt team like it owes you money. That is the whole idea.

Bring the group

A card is better with a crowd to beat

Points only get divided when there are people to divide them with. Start a league and send one link, or drop in the code somebody already sent you.