Streak for Cash Update and College Football Saturday

For those that are curious, they should know that the dude whom I featured in the last post, picked Wake Forest, so he fell 2 picks short of the million......OHHHHH....Sucks to be that guy.

Now a guy named Jordan is only one pick away from the million dollar prize. He picked three games correct on Saturday including a Rugby match to get to 24 straight. So one game...$1 Million. If he's correct he gets a million, if he's wrong....you get nothing....you lose....good day sir.


UPDATE: FOR THE MILLION DOLLAR PICK THE GUY SELECTED THE PANTHERS TO DEFEAT THE FALCONS.....OHHH....SUCKS TO BE THAT GUY!!!

Everyone knows the BCS sucks, so it's great to see major controversy heading into the final couple of weeks of the season. I'm pretty sure it's going to be Texas vs. the Florida/Bama winner. Although, this next weekend we could see a couple of surprises.

Both Bama and Florida has two big rivalry games this weekend. Auburn is horrible, and Bama is not going to look ahead considering they haven't beaten them in a long time.

Florida on the other hand, may have their hands full with Florida State. FSU has a very strong defense and the young Noles offense has gotten better offensively over the last few weeks. I think the Gators are going to get a tough game against the Noles and it wouldn't shock me to see an outright upset.

I'm a little surprised Bob Stoops called the dogs off against Texas Tech. Oklahoma needs to win with some major style points this next week vs. Oklahoma State. If they drop another 60 points on a good OSU team, it's going to be tough to keep them out of the top two.

Just for the hell of it, look at some of these matchups if we had an 8 team tournament.

(1) Alabama vs. (8) Ohio State

(4) Florida vs. (5) USC

(3) Texas vs. (6) Penn State

(2) Oklahoma vs. (7) Utah

Yeah....A playoff would suck....There is no way the people would actually watch these games. GIVE ME A BREAK!! Wake up college presidents and TV networks. A playoff would make a fortune rather than these BS exhibition bowl games that don't mean anything.

Why am I nervous for this guy?

I have never met this guy in my life, but I know he could be on the brink of becoming the next millionaire. All he has two to is pick 2 more sporting events correctly and he's going home with a huge chunk of change.

I'm talking about ESPN's "Streak for Cash" game in which if they are giving $1 Million to the first person to pick 25 games correctly. They only pick a couple of games or match ups per day, and even though they don't pick against the spread, most of the games they let you pick are a coin flip. I've been playing for a week and haven't gotten my streak to 2 yet so it's not very easy.

I have no clue his name but he goes by sfniners_1. He's hit 23 consecutive games and is only 2 away from winning the million dollars. Anyone who has ever placed a sports wager knows it's lot tougher than it looks. This isn't quite the same as hitting a 25 team parlay but it's close.

I think it's safe to say when it gets to this point, it takes away the fun of watching sports. It's one thing to have $50 wager or some fantasy guys need to make a catch down the stretch to give you a little anxiety, but $1 Million is in a new stratosphere. That is life changing money and as we saw last week with the Steelers/Chargers game, anything can happen.

If you were in his shoes and somebody offered you $250,000 for that opportunity would you do it? In most cases like this I would say this guy should head to Vegas and hedge his bets by betting a bunch of money the other way. But I'm not sure if he could get the amount of capital to really take the sting away if you lose out on the million.

You can follow his picks on ESPN and I'll keep you updated on this story because I find it absolutely fascinating to see if he can do it.