How to Set Up a College Football Pool

Bowl time is jolly time. Increase your natural inclination to watch college football by "making things a little more interesting."

Instructions

Difficulty: Moderately Easy

Things You’ll Need:

• Printer Paper
• Printers
• Computers
• Party Food
• Pens
• Beverages
• Internet Access
• Televisions

1. Find a list of college bowl games at ESPN.com.
2. Make sure to include the Bowl Champion Series: the Orange, Fiesta, Sugar and Rose Bowls. There are a number of major and minor bowls to help fill in around these.
3. Print out copies.
4. Gather friends and co-workers interested in playing.
5. Decide an entry amount and distribute the list.
6. Choose a winner of each bowl and circle the team name.
7. Collect each participant's entry amount and a copy of their list.
8. Stock up on potato chips and garlic-chive dip.
9. Watch every bowl game.
10. Create a key by filling in the winning teams.
11. Grade the entries by awarding 1 point for each correct answer.
12. Award the prize to the entry with the highest total points.
13. Guess at a combined total score of the two Sugar Bowl teams for use as a tiebreaker.

Tips & Warnings

• A variation on winner-take-all is to give 75 percent of the prize to first place and 25 percent to second.
• Take it easy on New Years' Eve or risk missing the Rose Bowl.