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Year: 2018

Week 13 2018: #CFB Picks w/ Stanford Steve & Chris ‘The Bear’ Fallica! #RivalryWeek

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Welcome back everyone.  It is now the time you’ve been waiting all week for.  Stanford Steve & The Bear have released their weekly podcast with the picks you have been needing.  The picks they gave out at the end on the Big Mike Happy Recap are below, but as always I grade them based on their official ESPN Chalk picks.  Listen to the full podcast below for the full breakdown on a ton of games on top of these picks.

Week 13 Bear’s Bank:

Date Pick
11/24/18 Arizona + 2 vs Arizona State
11/24/18 Florida State + 8 vs Florida
11/24/18 Utah State + 2.5 vs Boise State

Chris Fallica:

Date Pick
11/24/18 Florida State + 6.5 vs Florida
11/24/18 Maryland + 13 vs Penn State
11/24/18 Indiana + 4 vs Purdue
11/24/18 Utah State + 3 vs Boise State
11/24/18 Louisiana Tech  -10.5 vs Western Kentucky

Stanford Steve:

Note: Steve tacked on Arizona State at the end of the Big Mike Happy Recap, then said Ohio State/Michigan under and Ohio State in the game “for ha-has”.  Do what you’d like with that.

Date Pick
11/24/18 Arizona State  -2 vs Arizona
11/24/18 Ohio State vs Michigan Under 56.5
11/24/18 Ohio State + 4 vs Michigan
11/24/18 Notre Dame  -10.5 vs Southern California
11/24/18 Vanderbilt  -3.5 vs Tennessee
11/23/18 Cincinnati vs East Carolina Over 50.5
11/23/18 Oklahoma  -2.5 vs West Virginia
11/23/18 Virginia  -4 vs Virginia Tech
11/23/18 Washington + 2.5 vs Washington State
11/22/18 Mississippi vs Mississippi State Over 59

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Week 13 2018: #CFB Picks w/ Phil Steele (and Doug Kezirian)!

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Week 13 rolls along with Phil Steele’s picks via the Behind the Bets podcast with Doug Kezirian.  His five official picks were BYU, Texas A&M, TCU, Memphis and Virginia.  He explicitly agreed with Doug Kezirian about Michigan, Notre Dame, Miss State, and then said his computer projects the WVU/OU total around 92 so he likes the over.  I’m counting them all for the record.

As always I will be updating with any other picks Phil gives out on podcasts, radio shows, Phil Steele Plus preview, or anywhere else I find him.

Phil Steele on Behind the Bets:

Date Pick
11/24/18 BYU + 13.5 vs Utah
11/24/18 Texas A&M  -2.5 vs LSU
11/24/18 Michigan  -4 vs Ohio State
11/24/18 Notre Dame  -10.5 vs Southern California
11/24/18 TCU + 5 vs Oklahoma State
11/23/18 Memphis  -7 vs Houston
11/23/18 West Virginia vs Oklahoma Over 83.5
11/23/18 Virginia  -3.5 vs Virginia Tech
11/22/18 Mississippi State  -10.5 vs Mississippi

Doug Kezirian talked some games and said he’s definitely giving out Mississippi State-10.5 in the Egg bowl, but is deciding on his other official picks.  He said he likes Notre Dame-10.5, Michigan-4, and Kentucky but didn’t give a line.

The following two picks have been added from this week’s Campus Conversation podcast:

Date Pick
11/24/18 Boston College  -7 vs Syracuse
11/23/18 Central Florida  -14 vs South Florida

The following two picks have been added from his Phil Steele Plus week 13 preview.

Date Pick
11/24/18 Georgia Southern  -10.5 vs Georgia State
11/24/18 Nicholls State  -14 vs San Diego
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Week 13 2018: #CFB Picks from Barstool Sports!

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We are starting week 13 off with RIVALRY WEEK picks from those guys at Barstool Sports.  These are from their Barstool Pick’em podcast released earlier today.

Dave Portnoy:

Date Pick
11/24/18 Alabama  -24 vs Auburn
11/24/18 BYU + 13 vs Utah
11/24/18 California  -12.5 vs Colorado
11/24/18 Florida  -5.5 vs Florida State
11/24/18 Georgia  -17 vs Georgia Tech
11/24/18 Northwestern  -18 vs Illinois
11/24/18 Kentucky  -17 vs Louisville
11/24/18 LSU  -2.5 vs Texas A&M
11/24/18 Michigan  -4 vs Ohio State
11/24/18 Wisconsin  -10 vs Minnesota
11/24/18 Notre Dame  -10.5 vs Southern California
11/24/18 Stanford  -6.5 vs UCLA
11/24/18 UCLA vs Stanford Over 57.5
11/24/18 Connecticut vs Temple Over 67
11/24/18 Boise State + 3 vs Utah State
11/23/18 Nebraska + 10 vs Iowa
11/23/18 West Virginia + 1.5 vs Oklahoma
11/23/18 Washington State  -3 vs Washington

Dan Katz:

Date Pick
11/24/18 Alabama  -24 vs Auburn
11/24/18 Florida  -5.5 vs Florida State
11/24/18 Northwestern  -18 vs Illinois
11/24/18 Kentucky  -17 vs Louisville
11/24/18 Michigan  -4 vs Ohio State
11/24/18 Wisconsin  -10 vs Minnesota
11/23/18 Nebraska + 10 vs Iowa
11/23/18 West Virginia vs Oklahoma Over 81.5
11/23/18 Texas  -15 vs Kansas
11/23/18 Washington State  -2.5 vs Washington
11/22/18 Mississippi + 10.5 vs Mississippi State

Rico Bosco:

Date Pick
11/24/18 Arizona vs Arizona State Over 64.5
11/24/18 Alabama vs Auburn Over 52.5
11/24/18 Georgia Tech + 17 vs Georgia
11/24/18 North Carolina State  -6.5 vs North Carolina
11/24/18 Troy + 11 vs Appalachian State
11/24/18 Boise State vs Utah State Over 67.5
11/24/18 Louisiana Tech  -11 vs Western Kentucky
11/23/18 Toledo  -18.5 vs Central Michigan
11/23/18 West Virginia vs Oklahoma Over 81
11/23/18 Washington State  -3.5 vs Washington
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