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College Gameday: Week 7 (Saturday picks)

Posted on October 15, 2011 by gamedaycole

Here’s the Saturday morning picks. Also my girlfriend Jennifer has put out her upset special of the week as Ole Miss over Alabama so lock it up.

David Pollack:
TAMU over Baylor
Florida over Auburn
KState over Texas Tech
Mich St over Michigan
Oregon over Ariz St

Robert Smith:
TAMU over Baylor
Florida over Auburn
KState over Texas Tech
Ohio St over Illinois
Mich St over Michigan
Oregon over Ariz St

Skip BaylesS:
Oregon over Ariz St
Michigan over Mich St
TAMU over Baylor
Auburn over Florida
Illinois over Ohio St
Ok St over Texas
LSU over Tennessee
KState over Texas Tech
VaTech over Wake Foreset
Miss St over S.Carolina

Lou Holtz:
Michigan over Mich St
TAMU over Baylor
Auburn over Florida
Oregon over Ariz St
Ok St over Texas
Texas Tech over KState

Mark May:
Michigan over Mich St
Baylor over TAMU
Florida over Auburn
Oregon over Ariz St
Ok St over Texas
KState over TTU
OU over Kansas

Colin Cowherd:
Mich St over Michigan
TAMU over Baylor
LSU over Tennessee
Ok St over Texas
Illinois over Ohio St
Stanford over Wash St
Oregon over Ariz St

Desmond Howard:
Ok St over Texas
Baylor over TAMU
Michigan over Mich St
Auburn over Florida
Oregon over Ariz St
Rutgers over Navy
BYU over Oreg St
Illinois over Ohio St
UNC over Miami
KState over Texas Tech
S.Carolina over Miss St

Kirk Herbstreit:
Rutgers over Navy
BYU over Oreg St
Ohio St over Illinois
Georgia over Vanderbilt
Ok St over Texas
KState over Texas Tech
Michigan over Mich St
UNC over Miami
Baylor over TAMU
S.Carolina over Miss St
Auburn over Florida

Lee Corso:
Rutgers over Navy
BYU over Oreg St
Illinois over Ohio St
Ok St over Texas
KState over Texas Tech
Michigan over Mich St
UNC over Miami
TAMU over Baylor
Miss St over S.Carolina
Auburn over Florida
Oregon over Ariz St(Headgear picks 5-1)

Howie Schwab:
Mich St over Michigan
Ohio St over Illinois
Texas Tech over KState

Trevor Matich:
Mich St over Michigan

Todd McShay:
LSU over Tennessee
Mich St over Michigan
Bama over Ole Miss

Week 7 (Thursday night edition)

Posted on October 13, 2011 by gamedaycole

Here’s a few early picks from the week since I’ll be working most of Friday. Mike Bellotti pulled a Lou Holtz and picked A&M over Baylor early this week, then took Baylor over Texas A&M the next day. Baylor it is. Also on College Football Final last week, Lou Holtz said he thinks Wisconsin will go undefeated. I assume he that means he thinks they will beat Indiana. Book it.

David Pollack:
OkSt over Texas
Wisconsin over Indiana
LSU over Tennessee
Illinois over Ohio St
VaTech over Wake Forest
Georgia over Vanderbilt

Jesse Palmer:
OkSt over Texas
Wisconsin over Indiana
LSU over Tennessee

Colin Cowherd:
Illinois over Ohio St

Lou Holtz:
Wisconsin over Indiana

Mike Bellotti:
Florida over Auburn
VaTech over Wake Forest
Kansas State over Texas Tech
OkSt over Texas
Michigan over Michigan St
Oregon over Ariz St
Clemson over Maryland
LSU over Tennessee
Baylor over TAMU

Tom Luginbill:
Illinois over Ohio St
Florida over Auburn
Wake Forest over VaTech
TAMU over Baylor
Kansas State over Texas Tech
OkSt over Texas
Michigan over Mich St
Oregon over Ariz St
Clemson over Maryland
LSU over Tennessee

Also, courtesy of Deadspin, if you are a fan of college football humor like I am, then you should get a kick out of “Occupy Herbstreit”, the new website dedicated to people showing up at that Wallstreet protest with College Gameday signs.

Lou Holtz flip-flopping around

Posted on October 10, 2011 by gamedaycole

So if you haven’t noticed, Lou Holtz and Mark May do four or five “take your pick” segments throughout Friday evenings and Saturdays most weeks. They’ll be on Friday night Sportscenter with a segment, then soon after they might have a segment on the Friday night pregame show. Some Fridays they’ll do a segment at halftime of the game. Saturday morning they’ll do a quick segment during College Gameday, and sometimes they’ll have a random segment on College Football Scoreboard with a prediction or two. If you’re like me (and watch too much college football), then you might seem to remember Lou Holtz picking a different team to win a game than he previously said. He did this several times leading up to Oregon/Auburn in the championship last year, and I thought I’d post about his Texas/Oklahoma pick where he did the same thing.

This is Lou Holtz on Saturday morning boldly picking the upset of Texas over Oklahoma. What a pick right?

Wait, the next picture was his Friday night pick from the Boise St/Fresno St pregame show.

Those are the only two pictures I took because I had both of those left on my DVR, but I’m fairly certain Lou picked Oklahoma over Texas on Friday evening Sportscenter and the Boise/Fresno pregame. At HALFTIME of the game I believe his pick had changed to Texas over Oklahoma, and carried that over to Gameday on Saturday morning (This was likely recorded Friday night since they are wearing the same suits). What does this mean? Hell I don’t know. Lou Holtz either forgot who he previously picked, changed his mind after careful consideration, is playing both sides of the debate, or is flat out senile. Mark May very briefly called him out for flip-flopping, but it didn’t last long before he had to get the spotlight on himself.

All I can say is that this really causes stress for everyone out there who runs a blog about college football predictions. However I have decided that I will always use the most recent prediction for my official record because there could have been some late breaking news that affects an analysts’ opinion on the outcome.

But I just wanted to put Lou Holtz on alert (since I assume he reads this blog): I’m on to you.