{"id":4,"date":"2018-08-30T17:03:09","date_gmt":"2018-08-30T17:03:09","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/ralphsmith.org\/byu\/?page_id=4"},"modified":"2025-08-21T21:37:16","modified_gmt":"2025-08-22T01:37:16","slug":"welcome","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/byupredictioncontest.com\/","title":{"rendered":"Welcome"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p>The BYU Football Prediction Contest is now in its 29<sup>th<\/sup> year. Several years ago Al Harris took a well-deserved break from his BYU Football prediction contest. Not wanting to discontinue a 21-year tradition on CougarNet, I took over running the contest, with identical rules as set up by Al.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>This contest, for members and friends of the Cougar-Net mailing list (and a few others that are BYU fans that wish to join us in this contest), is in its twenty-seventh year.&nbsp; The participants of this contest predict the score for the BYU Cougar football game each week that BYU plays.&nbsp; The winner each week is determined by a formula that takes into account how close each pick is from the actual team scores,&nbsp;<b>and especially the point spread<\/b>.&nbsp; For more information on the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ralphsmith.org\/byu\/index.php\/contest-rules\/\">contest submissions<\/a>&nbsp;and the&nbsp;<a href=\"http:\/\/ralphsmith.org\/byu\/index.php\/contest-formula\/\">scoring formula<\/a>, click on the appropriate link.&nbsp; For information about Cougar Net, or to subscribe, visit the&nbsp;<a href=\"https:\/\/groups.io\/g\/CougarNet\/\">Cougar Net home<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>The BYU Football Prediction Contest is now in its 29th year. Several years ago Al Harris took a well-deserved break from his BYU Football prediction contest. Not wanting to discontinue a 21-year tradition on CougarNet, I took over running the contest, with identical rules as set up by Al. This contest, for members and friends &hellip; <\/p>\n<p class=\"link-more\"><a href=\"https:\/\/byupredictioncontest.com\/\" class=\"more-link\">Continue reading<span class=\"screen-reader-text\"> &#8220;Welcome&#8221;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"parent":0,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-4","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/byupredictioncontest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/byupredictioncontest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/byupredictioncontest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/byupredictioncontest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/byupredictioncontest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=4"}],"version-history":[{"count":14,"href":"https:\/\/byupredictioncontest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1273,"href":"https:\/\/byupredictioncontest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/4\/revisions\/1273"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/byupredictioncontest.com\/index.php\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=4"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}