The game is OVER and the results are in!

It was a disappointing bowl season for me in terms of picks, but I was very pleased to see 58 entrants in there trying to win or at least beat me – and 42 of you did!

Mike Merrick won the iPod – indeed, he is already trying to figure out how to make it work – and came in 16th nationally out of some 300,000 entrants. Mike refused to share his secret method of making picks, but it appears to involve taking the experts’ prognostications and turning them upside down.

Fred Heggi (I-Exam) tied Jacob Becklund for second place, but gets the cookies because his tiebreaker was closer to the final score than Jacob’s. Jacob and the other 39 Kim-beaters will receive chocolate bars.

In addition to Mike and Fred, 9 others were somehow able to get 20 or more picks correct:  Chris Hannemann, Richard Shore, Beverly Gerstner, Biff Deems, Jess Jackson, Dave Gerstner, Pat Hayes, Scott Breunig and Ben Pietrzyk.

Many thanks and I hope you will join us for our March Madness Big Johnson in, uh, March.