I know it is a little early for this (the games don't start for another 11 days, on December 19th), but with the holidays and inevitable quirkiness with work schedules and the like, i wanted everybody to get the chance to participate.

I've set up a "College Bowl Mania" private group on ESPN.com for BCBers. The group name is "Bleed Cubbie Blue" and the password is "soto". You can access the group here:

http://games.espn.go.com/bowlmania/en/group?groupID=14982

I've elected to make this group's picks confidence based, meaning you must not only choose a winner for each game, but rank them 1 - 34 based on how sure you are of that particular outcome. If anybody wishes to participate but needs help registering for the group (or ESPN) or with making their picks in ESPN's system, just let me know and i'd be happy to help.