Kyle Miller

Texas football might be on Hold this week, but the Mayo isn't. Congrats to @SueVide for winning Week 4 with a record of 7-2! Honorable mention to jasonwason who also went 7-2, but SueVide's picks were in first. Week 5 of Hold the Mayo is open. Six SEC games, each one picked against the spread. Person with the best record Holds the Mayo next week. Tiebreaker to first one to submit their picks. Alabama (-6) @ Mississippi State Vanderbilt @ Georgia (-24.5) Auburn @ Tennessee (-7) Florida (-5) @ Missouri Kentucky @ South Carolina (-3) Arkansas @ Texas A&M (-14) McNeese @ LSU was supposed to be on here, but no lines were available when this week's picks opened on Monday. The board also now has a Season tab with everyone's running record since Week 3: stance.fm/mayo?week=season Below are some highlights from Week 4: stance.fm/mayo 🤘

Season standings are now live: https://stance.fm/mayo?week=season There are 2 views: Win % - ranked once you've played 2+ weeks (newer players are listed underneath until then) Record - most wins, regardless of weeks played jasonwason currently leads both views at 13-6. The top of the page also lists each week's Spreadwinner, and every past week now has its own tab, so you can pull up any week's results. If anyone has suggestions for improvements I'm happy to discuss. I appreciate everyone who has played so far! 🤘

Absolutely! I will add Season Standings this week so everyone can track how they're doing across the whole season. Also, McNeese @ LSU doesn't have a line out yet (at least none I could find), so I took it off this week's board. Week 5 is 6 games.

Congrats to @SueVide, you Hold the Mayo for Week 5 after going 7-2! Honorable mention to @jasonwason, who also went 7-2 but finished their board after SueVide. Full leaderboard is up at stance.fm/mayo. Week 5's board opens tomorrow morning at 7am. Happy to move that if another day works better for everyone.

Right there with you. That's why I prefer to play with Schrute Bucks instead of real human dollars.

True story. Closest score prediction 2 weeks in a row, including an exact score prediction for OSU. Crushing it!

Yep! Each week's leaderboard will stay visible on stance.fm/mayo and I'm even happy to start a "season" leaderboard that sums the records from each week if anyone wants to see that. If you have any ideas for improvement I'm all ears, happy to make any tweaks that would make it more fun for everyone.

Week 4 Hold the Mayo picks are open as of this morning. Nine SEC games this week, all graded against the spread. Underdogs covered 8 of 11 last week. @Budtexas called it best at 8-2-1 and holds the Mayo this week. Week 3 results thread is here. Enter your Hold the Mayo picks at stance.fm/mayo Each game locks at its own kickoff, and you can update your picks at any point between now and then. Best record Saturday night Holds the Mayo next week.

83 OTF fans filled out a board for week 3. Nine finished above .500. Here's how it went. @Budtexas wins it at 8-2 and Holds the Mayo going into Week 4. Nobody else finished within a game of them, and their board was one of a kind. No other board of the 83 had the same eleven picks. What they did that almost nobody else did was take six underdogs. The favorites got wrecked. Take the favorite in every game and you finish 2-8. Four boards did exactly that. Take the underdog in every game and you finish 8-2. The boards agreed with each other a lot. 83 boards produced 44 different slates. The most popular one, turned in by 15 people, went 4-6. Take the most popular pick in all eleven games and you also go 4-6. Where the boards were surest, the boards were most wrong: 96% took Tennessee to win by more than 34.5. They won by 33. 96% took Texas to win by more than 29.5. They won by 24. 92% took Oklahoma to win by more than 23.5. They won by 8. 84% took Missouri to win by more than 27.5. They won by 10. Three people took UTSA to stay within 29.5, and all three were right: @NCHorn, @Longhornfrenzy, and @TravelingHorn. Two of them finished 7-3, tied for second. Nobody could win Vanderbilt. They were favored by 4 and won by exactly 4. That game pushed for all 83 boards, no win and no loss, which is why the records read out of ten. The full spread: one board at 8-2, three at 7-3, five at 6-4, eighteen at 5-5, and 56 below .500. The Week 3 leaderboard is also now published at stance.fm/mayo if you want to check it out. Week 4 picks open at 7 AM Monday. Nine SEC games, same rules: every game against the spread, best record takes it, ties go to whoever finished first. Win it and you Hold the Mayo going into Week 5.

Congrats to @Budtexas, you Hold the Mayo this week! Full results will be posted tomorrow.

The forum thread is here: And you can get to the game board here: https://stance.fm/mayo

Thank you for your service 🫡

I think that last image got compressed. Here's a full resolution version: https://drive.google.com/file/d/15gR5mnO1eFzqCQSVBoPgSLrjLJ-QhBaY/view?usp=sharing

For anyone interested in the full board, a couple highlights: Rod Babers had the closest prediction of OTF's official picks, 27-23, off by 3. 8 OTF fans were off by 3 or better, tying or beating Rod.

Morning update: 53 boards are in for Hold the Mayo. Without giving any spoilers, a few things the boards say so far: There are 34 different slates across 53 boards. The most popular one is shared by 8 people. Only 1 game is a coin flip. Bobby, Gerry, Hank and CJ have all played, and they only agree on 6 of the 11 games. Good stuff!

31 users have submitted their picks for this week so far. Y'all rock 🤘

I could accommodate both if people want to pick both straight up and against the spread.

Apologies for the confusion. Your picks can be updated any time between now and when each game kicks off.

I will grade against the spread to make it more interesting.

I will grade the picks against the spread instead of outright winners. If anyone already put your picks in against outright winners you've got plenty of time to pick against the spread.

On Friday's Coffee & Football Gerry floated an idea from the chat (55:22): So I built a board for it: stance.fm/mayo How it works: Pick the winner of every SEC game this week. 11 games on Saturday, starting with Georgia @ Arkansas at 11 AM. Each game locks at its own kickoff, so you can come back and finish before the later games. Best record wins the week. Ties go to whoever finished their picks first. The winner Holds the Mayo until next week. When you finish, it asks to save your picks. Do that (guest works, no account needed) or they only live on your device and can't be graded. If the guys want to bring a guest picker on, this gives them a way to pick one from the OTF community. That part is their call. Post your picks or trash talk here too, I'm here for it. 🍿

Last week's winner has spoken!

28-21 Texas

My thought exactly. It was the best of times, it was the worst of times...

52-10 Texas. Hook 'em! 🤘