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Month: August 2018

2018-19 Season: #CollegeFootball Futures and season totals with Rufus Peabody!

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Welcome back everyone.  Here are a few quick futures and totals for your informational purposes from Rufus Peabody via the Bet the Process podcast.  These numbers have changed a little since the podcast dropped Thursday night so consult your local bookie for the latest odds.  Listen to the podcast yourself if you want the full details.

Rufus Peabody futures:
He likes Oklahoma at 24:1 (his numbers say 17:1)
He likes Georgia+765 (his numbers say 5.5:1)
He likes Auburn at 30:1 (his numbers say 22:1)

He doesn’t like USC at 45:1 (his numbers say 62:1)
He doesn’t like FSU at 53:1 (his numbers say 122:1)
He doesn’t like Washington at 15:1 (his numbers say 19:1)

Rufus Peabody season totals:
He is loaded up against Alabama going undefeated
He likes Alabama under 11 (-111), he thinks it should be under 11 (-152)
His numbers say Alabama at 10.6 wins this season
He loves Akron under 4.5 wins (his numbers say 2.3 wins)

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2018-19 Season: College Gameday Season Preview!

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Welcome back everyone.  We are officially kicking opening the 2018-19 season around here with the College Gameday Season Preview!  You’ll find the preseason predictions from Lee Corso, Kirk Herbstreit, and Desmond Howard below.  We’ll be bringing you a little more preseason coverage today and tomorrow, but starting this week we will be posting the regular weekly picks until we crown a champion in January.

Lee Corso:
Trace McSorley for early Heisman favorite
Clemson over Miami (FL) in ACC Championship
Wisconsin over Penn State in Big 10 Championship
Texas over Oklahoma in Big 12 Championship
Washington over USC in Pac 12 Championship
Georgia over Alabama in SEC Championship
UCF as best G5 team
CFB Playoff: Clemson vs Washington, Wisconsin vs Georgia
Clemson vs Wisconin in CFB Championship
Wisconsin to win CFB Championship

Kirk Herbstreit:
Trace McSorley for early Heisman favorite
Clemson over Miami (FL) in ACC Championship
Penn State over Wisconsin in Big 10 Championship
Oklahoma over TCU in Big 12 Championship
Washington over Utah in Pac 12 Championship
Alabama over Georgia in SEC Championship
Boise State as best G5 team
CFB Playoff: Alabama vs Washington, Clemson vs Penn State
Clemson vs Alabama in CFB Championship
Alabama to win CFB Championship

Desmond Howard:
Bryce love for early Heisman favorite
Clemson over Miami (FL) in ACC Championship
Michigan over Wisconsin in Big 10 Championship
WVU over Oklahoma in Big 12 Championship
Washington over USC in Pac 12 Championship
Alabama over South Carolina in SEC Championship
UCF as best G5 team
CFB Playoff: Michigan vs WVU, Alabama vs Clemson
Michigan vs Alabama in CFB Championship
Michigan to win CFB Championship

@GamedayJen:
Clemson to win ACC
Penn State to win Big 10
TCU to win Big 12
Washington to win Pac 12
Alabama to win SEC
Alabama vs Penn State, Clemson vs Washington in CFB Playoff (potentially TCU instead of Penn State)
Alabama vs Clemson in CFB Championship
Clemson to win CFB Championship

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2018-19 Season: Big announcement, changes coming!

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Hello everyone and welcome back. It is officially open season here at GamedayCole.com and we will be back in full force providing all of the picks and predictions from your favorite (and most hated) personalities.

I have a very exciting announcement to make. Starting this season, I am teaming up with someone who I will be referring to as Chuck the Stat Guy. Chuck is a professor of statistics at a well-respected school and has his PhD is statistical analysis, and for some reason he is generous enough to help me figure some things out. Aside from his professional duties he has a passion for sports analytics, and this somehow qualifies. He will be helping me sanitize my data, standardize my data, automate various tasks, and eventually we hope to bring you some really cool reports and visualizations of everything I track. For now he chooses to remain anonymous because he can’t risk ruining his career by associating with me, but I am grateful to have him.

In the short-term, not much will change. The posts might be formatted a little different than previous seasons, but that is because we are standardizing and automating some tasks. As the season moves along, the appearance of things might change week to week as we continue to clean up a decade of sloppy work. I literally started this blog almost ten years ago tracking picks on a legal pad, then a text file, then a chaotic Excel spreadsheet, and it is time to join the 21st century.

This partnership with Chuck the Stat Guy is a work in progress, and I hope you are as excited as we are to add him to the ever-growing group of underpaid contributors to this site.

Preseason picks will be coming out soon so stay tuned!

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