[Gauss]

Wow, 20 participants, that's excellent. Thank you guys.
It is very interesting to read how everyone thinks the game will go, and to separate the optimist from the realistic souls ;o)

And Gauss, can we please put the order in a way that favors Stanford?  We shouldn't be penalizing the people who are picking Stanford by putting them at the bottom of the list should we?  At the vary least, shouldn't the point differentials be in favor of Stanford?

Hey, we're not penalizing anyone, it's just a convention! You should appreciate that I didn't decide to list the results along the 30 degree axis in the complex plane.
More seriously, I can see where you're coming from. I also feel it's aesthetically awkward to consider as positive results the Oregon wins.

But this is the convention used in betting lines (away team gets negative differentials), so I thought it'd be educational to follow it. At least for me, every time I see a line I have to think twice about what a negative number means.

[Gauss]

Wow, 20 participants, that's excellent. Thank you guys.
It is very interesting to read how everyone thinks the game will go, and to separate the optimist from the realistic souls ;o)

And Gauss, can we please put the order in a way that favors Stanford?  We shouldn't be penalizing the people who are picking Stanford by putting them at the bottom of the list should we?  At the vary least, shouldn't the point differentials be in favor of Stanford?

Hey, we're not penalizing anyone, it's just a convention! You should appreciate that I didn't decide to list the results along the 30 degree axis in the complex plane.
More seriously, I can see where you're coming from. I also feel it's aesthetically awkward to consider as positive results the Oregon wins.

But this is the convention used in betting lines (away team gets negative differentials), so I thought it'd be educational to follow it. At least for me, every time I see a line I have to think twice about what a negative number means.