The whole thing in five minutes
How it works
The point of the game
Every week of the college football season, you pick who you think wins each game in your league's slate. Right answer, one point. Wrong answer, nothing. Whoever has the most correct picks at the end of the season wins.
That's it. No money, no confidence points, no spreads to cover. Just picking winners and talking about it with your friends all fall.
Put it on your phone
This works in any browser, but you can add it to your home screen so it opens like a real app — full screen, no address bar, its own icon.
iPhone / iPad
Open the site in Safari(this doesn't work in Chrome on iOS). Tap the share button — the square with an arrow pointing up. Scroll down and tap Add to Home Screen, then Add in the top right.
Android
Open the site in Chrome. You may see a banner offering to install — tap it. Otherwise tap the three dots in the top right and choose Install app or Add to Home screen.
Once installed it behaves like any other app — swipe between games, tap to pick, and it remembers you're signed in. Nothing to download from an app store.
Leagues
A league is your group. Someone creates one, shares the invite link, and everyone who joins picks the same games and competes on the same leaderboard.
You can be in as many leagues as you want, and they're completely separate — different games, different standings, different friends. Anyone in a league can invite anyone else. The person who created it can remove members if they need to.
The person who creates a league is the commissioner. For most league types that just means they can rename it and manage members. For custom leagues it means a bit more — see below.
League types
When you create a league you pick which games everyone will be choosing from. This can't be changed once the league starts, so it's worth thinking about.
Top 25
Ten games each week featuring ranked teams — the biggest matchups on the schedule. Good if your group follows college football generally rather than one particular conference. Always exactly ten games.
A conference (SEC, Big Ten, ACC, and so on)
Every game that week involving a team from that conference. If your friends all went to Big Ten schools, this is the one. The number of games varies — a busy SEC week might have sixteen, a quiet one might have eight. You pick all of them.
Custom
The commissioner hand-picks exactly ten games each week from the entire national schedule. Most flexible, but it needs someone willing to set the slate every week. If the commissioner doesn't set games before the deadline, the league falls back to that week's Top 25 slate automatically so nobody misses out.
Deadlines and locking
Each game locks individually when it kicks off. A Thursday night game locks Thursday night; Saturday games stay open until Saturday. You can change a pick as many times as you want right up until that game starts.
A game you don't pick counts as a loss. If your league has twelve games and you only pick eight, the four you skipped go in the loss column. Set a reminder.
Custom league commissioners have their own deadline for setting the week's games, shown on the league page. It's earlier than kickoff so members have time to make picks.
Tiebreakers
Some leagues turn on a weekly tiebreaker. One game each week is designated, and you guess the combined final score of both teams — if Ohio State beats Michigan 31–24, the answer is 55.
It only matters if you tie. Two people finish the week 7–3 and whoever guessed closest takes the higher spot. Guess nothing and you lose any tie automatically.
Where to find it
On the My picks tab, above your games. It also shows up as the last card when you swipe through the slate on the league page. The game is marked with a scale icon.
When it locks
When that specific game kicks off, same as any pick. You can change your guess as many times as you want until then.
Who picks the game
The commissioner chooses it. If they don't, the app picks the closest matchup of the week automatically — the game oddsmakers think is hardest to call.
Season standings break ties differently — on your average weekly finish rather than any single guess. Someone who consistently places higher week to week edges out someone with the same record but choppier results.
Making picks
The My pickstab shows every game in your league's slate for the week. Tap a team to pick them. Tap them again to undo it. A green check means your pick is in.
Once a game finishes, the card shows the final score. Your pick turns green if you got it right, red if you didn't. Teams you didn't pick fade out.
What the numbers mean
Each game card shows betting information from sportsbooks. You don't need any of it to play, but it's useful context for who's expected to win and by how much.
The spread
Shown as something like Notre Dame -20.5. That means oddsmakers expect Notre Dame to win by more than 20 and a half points. The team listed is the favorite; the number is how much they're favored by. A small spread means a close game is expected.
O/U (over/under)
Shown as O/U 47.5. That's the total points oddsmakers expect both teams to score combined. A high number suggests a shootout, a low one suggests a defensive slog.
Moneyline
The number on each team's card, like -850 or +575. Negative means favorite, positive means underdog, and the size tells you how lopsided it is. -850 is a heavy favorite; -110 is close to a coin flip.
The stats panel
The chart icon on each game card opens a deeper look at the matchup. Four tabs:
H2H
Head to head — the last several times these two teams played each other, with the score and each team's record going into that game. Useful for rivalries. Empty if they haven't met recently.
Common
Opponents both teams have played this season, and how each fared. If one team beat Wisconsin by 30 and the other squeaked by, that tells you something. Fills in as the season goes.
Each team's tab
Recent games, scoring margin, turnover margin, and their record against the spread. Against the spreadmeans whether they beat the oddsmakers' expectations, not just whether they won — a team favored by 20 that wins by 3 didn't cover. A team with a good ATS record is outperforming what people expect of them.
The league tab
A grid of every game and every member's pick. Before a game kicks off you can only see your own pick — everyone else's shows a padlock. Once it starts, everything is visible.
After a game finishes, correct picks show a check and wrong ones get crossed out. Anyone who didn't pick shows “No pick,” which counts as a loss.
Standings
Season standings rank everyone by total correct picks. The top three get medals. Weekly standings show just that week, so you can see who's hot right now even if they're behind overall.
A flame icon next to someone's name means they're on a streak of three or more correct picks in a row.
Still stuck?
Found a bug, got an idea, or something isn't working? Email me and I'll take a look.
bgibbons1132@gmail.com