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Year: 2018

Week 7 2018: #CFB Picks w/ Chris ‘The Bear’ Fallica & Stanford Steve!

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Here’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for.  The biggest day of the week is when Chris Fallica and Stanford Steve Coughlin put out their picks on the Behind the Bets podcast.  It seriously doesn’t get any bigger than these two.  So here’s the picks.

They were all over the road again giving leans and opinions on games but the official picks are below.  Stanford Steve had a lean on the Washington/Oregon over 57.5.  The Bear had Northwestern/Nebraska as his biggest stay-away game this week.  He said this is the biggest differential between the FPI spread and Vegas line, so somebody knows something on this one.

Chris Fallica:

Date Pick
10/13/18 Akron+11.5 vs Buffalo
10/13/18 Ball State+3 vs Central Michigan
10/13/18 Duke+3 vs Georgia Tech
10/13/18 East Carolina+16 vs Houston
10/13/18 Boston College-13.5 vs Louisville
10/13/18 Navy+7 vs Temple

Stanford Steve:

Date Pick
10/13/18 Duke+3 vs Georgia Tech
10/13/18 Boston College-13.5 vs Louisville
10/13/18 Nebraska vs Northwestern over 59
10/13/18 Washington-3 vs Oregon
10/13/18 Iowa State+6.5 vs West Virginia

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Week 6 2018: #CFB Picks are graded; results are in!

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Good evening college football fans.  We are back with the results from all of our expert pickers and prognosticators for week 6 of our 2018 college football season.

Winners this week included David Pollack (4-0), Stanford Steve (4-1 straight up, 4-0-1 ATS), Andrea Adelson (6-3), and Scott Spreitzer (2-1 ATS).  You’re probably wondering how Stanford Steve didn’t win this week, but we had a pretty incredible performance this week.  Phil Steele got off to a rough start on the year, but he absolutely blew the door off of the picks this week.  Phil went 9-3 straight up, but it was his 14-2 record against the spread this week which earns him the top spot.  Congratulations to Phil Steele on a huge week.

Losers this week included Gene Chizik (2-4), Ryan McGee (1-3), Ivan Maisel (1-3), and Rufus Peabody (2-3 ATS), Jeff Ma (2-3 ATS).  However this week’s loss is going to Bruce Feldman, who had a 7-4 week straight up but went 4-7 against the spread.

Lee Corso went 7-6 on his picks this week, including a loss on the Oklahoma headgear pick.  Special guest celebrity Toby Keith also went 7-6 on the week.  Bear’s Bank had a tough week going 0-3 on the Gameday picks. @GamedaJen booked another winner at 9-6 on the week.

Everyone else is somewhere in between, so check out the results below to see how your favorite (or most hated) personality did this week.

Straight up grades:

percent.correct n.correct n.wrong
David.Pollack 100% 4 0
Rece.Davis 100% 2 0
Pat.Forde 100% 3 0
Danny.Kanell 100% 3 0
Steve.Coughlin 80% 4 1
Jesse.Palmer 75% 3 1
Phil.Steele 75% 9 3
Andrea.Adelson 66.67% 6 3
Chris.Doering 66.67% 4 2
Lou.Holtz 66.67% 6 3
Joel.Klatt 66.67% 2 1
Bruce.Feldman 63.64% 7 4
Jennifer 60% 9 6
Desmond.Howard 57.14% 8 6
Chris.Fallica 57.14% 4 3
Paul.Finebaum 55.56% 5 4
Mark.May 55.56% 5 4
Lee.Corso 53.85% 7 6
Celebrity.Guest 53.85% 7 6
Kirk.Herbstreit 50% 6 6
Heather.Dinich 50% 2 2
Joey.Galloway 50% 2 2
Les.Miles 50% 2 2
Dari.Nowkhah 50% 1 1
Marcus.Spears 50% 3 3
Tim.Tebow 50% 3 3
Gene.Chizik 33.33% 2 4
Dusty.Dvoracek 33.33% 1 2
Ivan.Maisel 25% 1 3
Ryan.McGee 25% 1 3
Corso.Headgear 0% 0 1
Colin.Cowherd 0% 0 1
Matt.Leinart 0% 0 1
Robert.Smith 0% 0 1
Dave.Wannstedt 0% 0 1

ATS Grades:

percent.correct.ats n.correct n.wrong n.tie
Steve.Coughlin.ATS.Grade 90% 4 0 1
Phil.Steele.ATS.Grade 87.50% 14 2 0
Pat.Forde.ATS.Grade 83.33% 5 1 0
Scott.Spreitzer.ATS.Grade 66.67% 2 1 0
Dusty.Dvoracek.ATS.Grade 60% 3 2 0
Danny.Kanell.ATS.Grade 58.33% 3 2 1
Scott.Van.Pelt.ATS.Grade 55% 5 4 1
Chris.Fallica.ATS.Grade 50% 3 3 0
Jeff.Ma.ATS.Grade 40% 2 3 0
Rufus.Peabody.ATS.Grade 40% 2 3 0
Bruce.Feldman.ATS.Grade 36.36% 4 7 0
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Week 6 2018: Saturday morning #CollegeGameday Picks!

Posted on by gamedaycole

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen.  We are up and running live with College Gameday, and we will be updating this post as all of the picks come in.  On the way we have the picks from the Gameday crew, SEC Nation, Toby Keith, Bear’s Bank, Superdogs, and of course Corso’s Headgear.

CORSO’S HEADGEAR: Oklahoma over Texas

Super Dogs:
Lee Corso: Central Michigan+7.5 vs Buffalo
Kirk Herbstreit: Northwestern+10 vs Michigan State
Desmond Howard: Old Dominion+13.5 vs FAU
Rece Davis: Iowa St+9.5 vs Okla St

Lee Corso:

Date Picks
10/6/18 Arizona State  over  Colorado
10/6/18 North Carolina State  over  Boston College
10/6/18 Clemson  over  Wake Forest
10/6/18 Miami (FL)  over  Florida State
10/6/18 Iowa  over  Minnesota
10/6/18 Texas A&M  over  Kentucky
10/6/18 LSU  over  Florida
10/6/18 Michigan  over  Maryland
10/6/18 Navy  over  Air Force
10/6/18 Michigan State  over  Northwestern
10/6/18 Notre Dame  over  Virginia Tech
10/6/18 Oklahoma  over  Texas
10/6/18 Stanford  over  Utah

Kirk Herbstreit:

Date Picks
10/6/18 Colorado  over  Arizona State
10/6/18 North Carolina State  over  Boston College
10/6/18 Clemson  over  Wake Forest
10/6/18 Miami (FL)  over  Florida State
10/6/18 Iowa  over  Minnesota
10/6/18 Kentucky  over  Texas A&M
10/6/18 LSU  over  Florida
10/6/18 Michigan  over  Maryland
10/6/18 Navy  over  Air Force
10/6/18 Michigan State  over  Northwestern
10/6/18 Oklahoma  over  Texas
10/6/18 Stanford  over  Utah

Desmond Howard:

Date Picks
10/6/18 Colorado  over  Arizona State
10/6/18 North Carolina State  over  Boston College
10/6/18 Clemson  over  Wake Forest
10/6/18 Miami (FL)  over  Florida State
10/6/18 Iowa  over  Minnesota
10/6/18 Oklahoma State  over  Iowa State
10/6/18 Texas A&M  over  Kentucky
10/6/18 LSU  over  Florida
10/6/18 Michigan  over  Maryland
10/6/18 Air Force  over  Navy
10/6/18 Michigan State  over  Northwestern
10/6/18 Virginia Tech  over  Notre Dame
10/6/18 Oklahoma  over  Texas
10/6/18 Stanford  over  Utah

Toby Keith:

Date Picks
10/6/18 Colorado  over  Arizona State
10/6/18 North Carolina State  over  Boston College
10/6/18 Clemson  over  Wake Forest
10/6/18 Miami (FL)  over  Florida State
10/6/18 Iowa  over  Minnesota
10/6/18 Kentucky  over  Texas A&M
10/6/18 LSU  over  Florida
10/6/18 Michigan  over  Maryland
10/6/18 Air Force  over  Navy
10/6/18 Michigan State  over  Northwestern
10/6/18 Virginia Tech  over  Notre Dame
10/6/18 Oklahoma  over  Texas
10/6/18 Stanford  over  Utah

Bear’s Bank:

Date Pick
10/6/18 Arizona State+2.5 vs Colorado
10/6/18 Michigan State-10 vs Northwestern
10/6/18 Massachusetts+15 vs South Florida

David Pollack:

Date Picks
10/6/18 North Carolina State  over  Boston College
10/6/18 Miami (FL)  over  Florida State
10/6/18 Texas A&M  over  Kentucky
10/6/18 Texas  over  Oklahoma

@GamedayJen:

Date Picks
10/6/18 Colorado  over  Arizona State
10/6/18 North Carolina State  over  Boston College
10/6/18 Clemson  over  Wake Forest
10/6/18 Miami (FL)  over  Florida State
10/6/18 Iowa  over  Minnesota
10/6/18 Texas A&M  over  Kentucky
10/6/18 LSU  over  Florida
10/6/18 Michigan  over  Maryland
10/6/18 Navy  over  Air Force
10/6/18 Michigan State  over  Northwestern
10/6/18 Notre Dame  over  Virginia Tech
10/6/18 Oklahoma  over  Texas
10/6/18 Boise State  over  San Diego State
10/6/18 Stanford  over  Utah

Paul Finebaum:

Date Picks
10/6/18 Alabama  over  Arkansas
10/6/18 Auburn  over  Mississippi State
10/6/18 Clemson  over  Wake Forest
10/6/18 Kentucky  over  Texas A&M
10/6/18 Florida  over  LSU
10/6/18 Missouri  over  South Carolina
10/6/18 Notre Dame  over  Virginia Tech
10/6/18 Oklahoma  over  Texas
10/6/18 Georgia  over  Vanderbilt

Marcus Spears:

Date Picks
10/6/18 Alabama  over  Arkansas
10/6/18 Auburn  over  Mississippi State
10/6/18 Texas A&M  over  Kentucky
10/6/18 LSU  over  Florida
10/6/18 Missouri  over  South Carolina
10/6/18 Georgia  over  Vanderbilt

Tim Tebow:

Date Picks
10/6/18 Alabama  over  Arkansas
10/6/18 Auburn  over  Mississippi State
10/6/18 Kentucky  over  Texas A&M
10/6/18 Florida  over  LSU
10/6/18 Missouri  over  South Carolina
10/6/18 Georgia  over  Vanderbilt
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