Welcome to the New Bill's Ultimate College Football Pool!

Friends, as you know, BUCFP has been providing college football based entertainment for nearly two decades. What began as a meager, spreadsheet based pool between a few friends, has blossomed into a multi-state, dynamic pool community. Having served in that capacity for many years, and enjoying the results, I decided to step back and look at how to change the pool, maintain its excellence, but reduce the administrative burden. As many of you know, the answer to that challenge was to rejigger the entire thing. That's right, you will still get the same fill of weekly competition from your fellow participants. You will still get the cutting edge journalism that will fill these blog pages. And there will still be a big winner. However, unlike years past, the big winner will be something bigger than each of us as individuals. The real winner will be the worthy charity of choice, selected by the one participant that bests us all!

How it works

As in years past, there will be a main pool, This pool will consist of picking games, against the spread, week in and week out. The games will be based on that week's AP Top 25 (usually between 15 and 20 games per week.) Each correct pick will be worth one point. The player with the most points at the end of the regular season will be declared the 2013 BUCFP Champion! More importantly, the remaining players will all, based upon their pledge (as noted on the Yahoo! page), stroke a check for $25 to the designated charity of the champions. Had this been in place for last year's pool, some lucky charity would have received $900! I've received a lot of positive responses and have ten players registered so far (so all ready a cool $250!)

How to register

If you've not all ready done so, log in to Yahoo! and join our group by going to http://football.fantasysports.yahoo.com/college, picking Group #1303, and the same password as always (check your email, or email me to find out.) Once that's done, watch your email and this blog for updates, college football musings, and more.

What else?

Look for new features this year in the blog, and possibly other places. For starters, look for the CHARITY SPOTLIGHT. Throughout the season, I will spotlight the selected charities of each player so we all know why we are doing this crazy thing. Who knows? You may see something new that you would like to support too. Depending on feedback received, we may try something for the post season. We also may try a Facebook page for those interested in that type of interaction.

NOW LET'S GET BUCFPING!