Yes, I think we all agree that the score predictions are a huge part of this game

and everyone likes the idea of that. After talking to Ryan and Brent about it and explaining it to them I think they really like it. It will influence us to make wiser choices when we attempt to predict the scores of the games. It will make me think twice before I make that Clem 38 - SC St 37 score prediction that I previously had in place for next week lol. No one said it was going to be easy to predict the scores bro. It's going to be pure luck for all of us. Then again, will predicting the wins and losses not be pure luck as well?

Subtracting points for a loss wasn't going to be smart. It was too brutal of a punishment. I think we are still going to have some negative scores but it won't be as bad as it would have been before. If anything we need to boost the points awarded to like 50 if you pick the correct team to win. I would be all for that. It would make the predicting the right team to win far more important. The person that chooses the wrong winner is going to come out far worse than the person that chooses the right one even if we leave it at 20 points rewarded for picking the right team to win. For example, with your scenario of Clem 40 - UGA 20:

Rich's prediction: UGA 41 - Clem 36
41 - 20 = 21 points deducted 
40- 36 = 4 points deducted
That's negative 25 points for Rich

Vance's prediction: UGA 43 - Clem 48
20 points awarded for picking the right team
43 - 20 = 23 points deducted
48 - 40 = 8 points deducted
That's negative 31 points + the 20 awarded which leaves Vance with negative 11 points

If we changed it to 50 points awarded for picking correct team Rich's score would remain the same at negative 25. Yours would be 50 - 31 = 19 points.

This may be the way to do it. Let me know if you like it and I will talk to Rich and Brent about it.