Finally!

Considering how much we like college football and cheering for our teams, the past 10 years or so, the Barrett extended family has participated in a bowl pick-em contest (similar to a bracket for March Madness)- and just so everything's clear, we started our annual contest at least 5 years before ESPN and other sports groups marketed their own pick-em contests. Rebecca and I set it up each year, and each year I start off with hopes of my picks doing well, only to watch them falter at the end. Until this year, where I was steadily in the middle-back of the family until New Year's Eve, then a string of good picks (coupled with some fortuitously bad picks from my competition!) catapulted me in front, where I hung on the last week of the season. Here are screen grabs of my picks and the final results. I edged out my mom by only 2 points!