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Posted: 3:00 p.m. Thursday, Oct. 3, 2013

RTT Pick 'Em - Week 6 Standings & Trends

By Will Shelton

www.SBNation.com

Yours truly finally gets his name in the paper in the Week 5 standings:

1GOMV19-120717-31
2richvol19-120110-42
3Aerobab19-119538-14
4Will Shelton17-319320-40**
4BZACHARY16-41930-0
6British Vol17-319218-37
7utvol197418-219117-35**
7And the winners are15-519117-42
7Muhler17-319121-28
7ga_dawg_in_ut16-419114-52

The overall standings see a new overall leader this week - full standings available here:

1richvol82-18951
2birdjam84-16943
3Anaconda85-15941
4wedflatrock83-17929
5Butch Please82-18928
6ChuckieTVol81-19926
7British Vol77-23923
8jfarrar9079-21922
9Muhler81-19920
10Joel @ RTT83-17916

Our trends for a very good slate of action this weekend:

  • One person likes Utah tonight as a 4.5 point home underdog against undefeated UCLA. Careful...
  • 87% are taking the Dawgs over the Vols. I'd lament this more, but I'm not sure anyone is surprised.
  • Close calls of the week: 56.5% take Missouri on the road at Vanderbilt, and Michigan State and Iowa are currently a dead even 50/50 split.
  • Most confident pick of the week: Clemson getting an average of 17.0 confidence points on the road at Syracuse. Least confident pick of the week: again, Michigan State/Iowa with the Hawkeyes getting 3.2 points on average and the Spartans 2.0
  • Finally, a reminder that we've dealt with cancelled games due to weather in the past, so my assumption is the system will do the same thing if Air Force/Navy does not happen: the game will be removed and confidence points will adjust accordingly 1-19, then we'll pick 21 games next week.