Predictions?

FSU Fan - It looks like you and I are up well before the left coasters. Good luck this weekend.

Some of us are still having our coffeee, and some of us never sleep.


I thought FSUfan showed admirable restraint in the comments about Florida, a team clearly in Satan's camp

LOL, thanks fan from afar.

I only wish I were still sleeping...

Geezaldinho - Always best to have coffee to clear the mind BEFORE posting, especially before spelling coffee.

And then there's Aleppiek, who must have his coffee before even I get up here in the East.

If I went to work at 5:30, I probably WOULD be asleep now.

When you haven't had any, it's coffffeeeee.

My point exactly - Coffee first.

Unless, of course, too much coffee gets your finger shaking over the e - coffeeeeeeeee.

We have 13 predictions so far. Here's the consensus:

ND 13, Mn 0
FSU 9, BC 4
Port 13, JMU 0 (surprise)
Stan 11, Rut 2
USC 7, UCLA 6 (hmmmm)
Va 8, Duke 5
Fla 9, TA&M 3 (one abstention)
NC 12, Ill 1

If anyone can tell me how to convert a spreadsheet to a table, I'll put up a detailed table of predictions on Friday morning.

I'll bite, I have been reluctant to predict, for fear of being totally wrong, but here goes.

ND over Minn
FSU over BC
DA PILOTS!
Stanford in a nailbiter
USC over UCLA
UVA over Duke
A&M over FLA
and UNC over Ill

I'll pick JMU over UP. Translation below.





JMU will be overcome with fear at playing UP in front of 5k fans and fold in the first 7 minutes.

It may be me but something got lost in translation.

Auto, I missed that one too...

SoreKnees wrote:

If anyone can tell me how to convert a spreadsheet to a table, I'll put up a detailed table of predictions on Friday morning.

If you are doing a one-off, it's probably not worth the effort. It's much easier to just take a screen shot of a speadsheet, host it, and add it to your response as a picture.

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but here's how you do it. I've added spaces in the bbcode commands so they show up and aren't interpreted as commands.

You have to make you spreadsheet output as a .txt file with the following additional bbcode inserted.

you must enclose the table with the commands [ table border=1] , where the number equals the pixel width of the border.
close the table with [ /table]

the table row command [ tr] must be at the start of every line of your table, with [ /tr] at the end of each line.

the table data command [ td] must be at the start of each cell, with [ /td] at the end of each cell.

You can get an idea of how a table looks in bbcode by clicking on the table button in the reply editor and filling in for, say, a 2 x 3 table, then filling in data between each [ td] [ /td] set.

You'll get:



Which outputs as:

1,1	1,2	1,3
2,1	2,2	2,3

(press the quote button on the post and read the text in the reply window)

After you have saved your new spreadsheet as text , open it in a word processor and cut and paste the outputed text into the reply window of the forum.


Easy, huh?

A good discussion of how to construct a spreadsheet that outputs that text is at http://www.mcgimpsey.com/excel/textfiles.html

decrink wrote:I'll pick JMU over UP. Translation below.





JMU will be overcome with fear at playing UP in front of 5k fans and fold in the first 7 minutes.

Let's see - JMU over UP
JMU overcome by fear at UP

Is that it?

As for the spreadsheet info - Sounds impressive. I got completely lost and gave up after "spaces in the bbcode". He's either a computer genius or he's BS'ing everyone. Does anyone know for sure which it is?

Remember - coffee before posting out there.

Geez, is in fact our resident genius... well that's debatable actually UPSF and Geez are our resident genius'