The college football season begins properly this week, and that means it's time to make your picks and enter our $3,000 prize contest for 2022.

The rules are simple and just like our other contests this season: Make the most profit on your predictions as you can using our simple coin stakes.

There are no balances to keep track of, so if you want to wager 100 coins on every game, you can, but a word of warning: That comes with more risk than you may imagine. Read below for our top tips.

How can I win?

To win the season long contest, you must make the most virtual profit on your picks.

As you may know if you've followed through the Summer, we have improved the way that coins work on Pickwatch after 2 years of assessing the performance of players in the initial version.

You no longer need to manage a balance, instead you can now place $0, $25, $50, $75 or $100 on any game you like using the real odds, regardless of how you have performed previously, and the best players across the season will have proven they can pick well consistently.

The winners will be the players who make the most profit in each category - Moneyline, ATS, and points total over/under picks over the course of the season, including bowl games in January, ending with the National Championship game.

How to enter

Make your Moneyline, Spread and Points Total CFB picks via the new Pickwatch app or on the Pickwatch website.
Select the amount you want to wager on each game from $0-$100, with $100 being most confident and $0 being least.
When the game starts, your picks are locked in. When it ends, you will receive a profit if you won, and a loss if you did not. The profit will be based on the real life odds, so underdogs will yield a bigger profit than favorites.
For example, if you wager $75 on a +110 underdog, you will make $82.50 in profit if they win. If they lose, you will get a loss of $75 (the amount you staked).
At the end of the season (after the National Championship game), the player with the most cumulative profit will win $1,000 in each category.

Tips

We know it can be hard to work out a strategy to win pick'em contests, that's why we exist! Here are our top tips to perform better:

Don't place the maximum amount on every game!

You may have some good weeks doing this, but over a season, every game you lose, you will lose $100, whereas the games you win, you will likely make substantially less than this in profit due to the lower odds of favorites.
Use Pickwatch Pro!

Some users may prefer to know which underdogs have a good chance of yielding profit which they can find on our new underdog ranking for experts and fans, coming next week. Others might reserve their bigger wagers for dead cert favorites chosen from our CPU algorithm. Pro gives you the best options for both strategies.
Remember, you can make picks for every game, but you do not need to place a wager amount on them all.

Be clever about the games you avoid, and go harder towards the games you love.
Follow the best experts and fans!

Again, Pro users always perform well in our contests because they can see the strategies of the best players in our tables.
Check who is hot recently

Did you know that last December we introduced the 'custom date range' feature for Pro members - meaning you can check who has the best performance over the last 5 weeks, or over your own timeframe. Don't just follow the overall leader who is in a slump, check who is best right now!

That's it for the basic rules. Good luck, we can't wait to watch this contest play out, as we think it is the most fun game we've ever designed on Pickwatch, and offers the most chance for everyone to prove themselves.

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