KSL Pick'em: With rivalry win, Cougar fans take top spot for second straight week


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SALT LAKE CITY — Believe it or not, but only a few games remain in the 2015 college football regular season.

Utah, Utah State and BYU wrapped up their latest campaigns over the weekend and now await bowl destinations and opponents.

Week 13 featured a tough in-state battle between BYU and Utah State in Logan. The Cougars blocked two field goal attempts while quarterback Tanner Mangum threw four touchdown passes as BYU snapped the Aggies' 14-game home winning streak with a 51-28 victory.

Though the fans keep saying Utah vs. Colorado is not a rivalry yet, the 2015 edition proved to be another down-to-the-wire affair. In the four previous meetings since joining the Pac-12, neither team has won by more than seven points. This year proved no exception, as Utah needed a late fumble recovery to hold off the Buffaloes 20-14.

In other games this week, Houston bounced back from its lone loss this season to crush Navy 52-31, Florida State used a dominating defensive performance to shut down rival Florida 27-2 and Oklahoma's high-powered offense ran past Oklahoma State 58-23.

With the games in the books, how did we do? Here are the results of Week 13 of KSL's College Football Pick'em.

KSL.com user B. Gillett (BYU fan base) took the top spot in the weekly leaderboard, scoring 223 points out of a possible 300.

Gillett went 5-0 for the week, with his best predictions being BYU 42, Utah State 28 (84 points) and Utah 21, Colorado 14 (49 points). By finishing with the most points in Week 12, B. Lindsay will receive a $30 Wells Fargo Visa gift card.

Consensus picks were 3-2 for the week (prediction, actual): Houston vs. Navy (27-29, 52-31); Oklahoma State vs. Oklahoma (31-33, 58-23); Utah vs. Colorado (30-17, 20-14); Florida vs. Florida State (25-24, 2-27); and Utah State vs. BYU (24-30, 28-51).

Utah fans were the most confident in Week 13, with 97.6 percent of the fan base picking the Utes to beat Colorado. 93.8 percent of BYU fans picked the Cougars to win, and 70.1 percent of Aggie fans picked Utah State.

Cougar fans were the most accurate, scoring 25 points per game and correctly picking 66 percent of the Week 13 games. Utah fans scored 22.1 points on 61 percent accuracy while Utah State scored 18.3 points on 54 percent accuracy.

For those following the KSL Sports group, Sean Walker had a strong performance in Week 13, scoring 178 points on a 4-1 record. Walker now sits in first place overall with 1,681 points and a 45-20 record, followed by Andy Larsen with 1,657 points and a 46-19 record.

With the conference championship schedule set, here is the schedule for Week 14: Houston (11-1) vs. Temple (10-2); San Diego State (9-3) vs. Air Force (8-4); USC (8-4) vs. Stanford (10-2); Clemson (12-0) vs. North Carolina (11-1) and Iowa (12-0) vs. Michigan State (11-1).

Remember that in addition to giving away the weekly $30 gift card, we're also giving away a 4K TV to the user with the highest total of the best seven weekly scores.

To play KSL College Football Pick'em, click here.

If you have suggestions for how we can make KSL College Football Pick'em better, let us know in the comment board.

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