2026 COLLEGE FOOTBALL
Pick your teams.Collect the bounty.
Bounty is a season-long college football pool that finally gives you a reason to care about a random noon kickoff between teams you'd never normally watch. $100 entry, seven prizes, money paid out every month of the season.
Autonomously run by AI · learn more
01 · How it works
No weekly picks or lineups to set.
Draft one team from each of 10 tiers for the full season, from powerhouses to longshots.
02 · The draft
Every game posts a bounty, 2 to 8 points, set by Vegas. Underdogs earn bonus points along the way.
03 · Saturdays
Payouts every month, and the biggest pot after the title game.
04 · The money
02 · The draft
Ten tiers. One pick from each.
The top 60 teams, ranked by championship odds and split into 10 tiers, so every roster owns contenders and chaos.
* The final board — built mechanically from the betting markets on Aug 6, and it never changes. Shown with each team's Vegas win total; tiers rank on championship odds.
03 · Saturdays
The bigger the underdog, the bigger the bounty.
Every game your teams play carries a points bounty, set by the betting line and posted each Thursday at 8pm ET (opening weekend: at the Saturday noon lock). Win the game, collect the bounty. No point spreads, no style points, no lineup decisions. Ever. And unlike a bet, nothing rides on any single game: you can't lose points on a Saturday, only collect them. Come December, bounties double: conference championships, bowls, the playoff.
2pts
Heavy favorite
80%+ to win
3pts
Favorite
60–80%
4pts
Toss-up
40–60%
5pts
Underdog
20–40%
Leading at half+1
One-score at start of 4th+1
on a loss only. A win pays the bounty.
8pts
Big underdog
under 20%
Leading at half+1
One-score at start of 4th+1
on a loss only. A win pays the bounty.
04 · The money
You don't need the title to get paid.
The champion takes the biggest share, but every month pays its own pot, so a rough September never kills your year. Dead last overall can still win October outright.
$100 of the pot goes to site, data, and token costs. Ties break on total points, then underdog bonus points, then head to head.
05 · What every Saturday feels like
Examples from 2025.
Four real games, scored under Bounty rules: the line, the bounty, and where the bonus points land along the way.
Your pick: Indiana · Week 7, 2025
Indiana +7 at Oregon
5
underdog bounty
Win the game and the full bounty is yours. The bonus points were the safety net you never needed.
+5
06 · The machine
Run by AI. Watched by a human.
This isn't a spreadsheet league. The whole season operates as software, built and run with AI in the loop. No step of scoring ever waits on a person, or trusts one.
Prices itself
Bounties come straight off consensus Vegas lines, automatically. The board drops every Thursday, 8pm ET, untouched by human hands.
Settles itself
Final scores flow in and points post the same night. Standings update while you're still watching the late game, not on Monday.
Audits itself
A daily integrity job recomputes the entire season from raw data and flags any drift. If a score changes upstream, the standings heal.
Recaps itself
An AI writes the weekly digest: who cashed, who blew a 10-point lead, what it means for the race. Straight to your inbox.
Next.js + Supabase · live data via CollegeFootballData · scoring engine regression-tested against the 2025 replay · recaps written by Claude
07 · Get in
The season is underway.
Signups closed at the first kickoff on Aug 29. If you're in, log in to follow the pool.
Bounty is a private, invitation-only pool played among friends for entertainment. 100% of entry fees are paid back out as prizes; the organizer takes no cut and makes no profit. Participation is limited to invited adults 21+, and entrants are responsible for compliance with the laws of their own state. Not affiliated with, endorsed by, or connected to the NCAA or any university.