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Year: 2025

2025-26 Bowl Season: Friday night College Gameday picks! Playoff picks, celebrity guests and more!

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Tonight’s celebrity guest picker is Brian Bosworth. This is Bosworth’s second appearance as the College Gameday celebrity picker. In his first appearance in 2018 he went 5-6 on his picks.

Stanford Steve:
Alabama over Oklahoma

Celebrity guest Brian Bosworth:
Oklahoma over Alabama

Kirk Herbstreit:
No pick; calling the game

Desmond Howard:
Oklahoma over Alabama

Pat McAfee:
Oklahoma over Alabama

Nick Saban:
Alabama over Oklahoma

When Kirk Herbstreit, Desmond Howard, Pat McAfee, Nick Saban and the celebrity guest all make the same selection they are 61-21 (74.39%) all-time! #SavingTheGraphic

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2025-26 Bowl Season: Playoff LOCKS from the Cover 3 Podcast!

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Here are the LOCKS from the Cover 3 Podcast for the first round of the college football playoffs. Enjoy.

ATS picks:

PickName
Miami (FL)+3.5 vs Texas A&M (-110)Bud Elliott
James Madison 1H TT under 6.5 (-110)Bud Elliott
Ole Miss vs Tulane 1H Over 29 (-110)Bud Elliott
Oklahoma vs Alabama 1H Over 19.5 (-110)Bud Elliott
Miami (FL) TT over 22.5 (-110)Chip Patterson
James Madison 1H TT over 6.5 (-110)Chip Patterson
Alabama 1H+0.5 vs Oklahoma (-110)Chip Patterson
Miami (FL)+3.5 vs Texas A&M (-110)Danny Kanell
Oregon-20.5 vs James Madison (-110)Danny Kanell
Ole Miss-17.5 vs Tulane (-110)Danny Kanell
Oklahoma PK vs Alabama (-110)Danny Kanell
Oklahoma vs Alabama Under 40 (-110)Danny Kanell
Texas A&M vs Miami (FL) Over 48 (-110)Tom Fornelli
Oregon vs James Madison Under 47.5 (-110)Tom Fornelli
Ole Miss TT over 36.5 (-110)Tom Fornelli
Oklahoma PK vs Alabama (-110)Tom Fornelli

Money line sprinkles:

PicksName
Alabama+102 vs OklahomaBud_Elliott_ML
Miami (FL)+150 vs Texas A&MChip_Patterson_ML
Tulane+700 vs Ole MissChip_Patterson_ML
Miami (FL)+150 vs Texas A&MDanny_Kanell_ML
James Madison+1200 vs OregonTom_Fornelli_ML
Tulane+700 vs Ole MissTom_Fornelli_ML
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Week 15/16 2025 Season: CFB analyst picks are graded; results are in!

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We did a combination of week 15 and week 16 because the most recent episode of Gameday combined week 15 with Army/Navy. The picks are graded so let’s jump right in.

Celebrity guest picker Ernie Johnson went 4-2 across both weeks. Kirk Herbstreit went 3-2. Desmond Howard went 4-2. Nick Saban went 3-3. However, Pat McAfee managed to go 6-0 across weeks 15 and 16 for the biggest win.

Everyone else is in the mix so check out the full slate of results below to see how your favorite (or most hated) personality did this week!

Week 15:

NamePctWinLoss
Pat_McAfee10050
Phil_Steele10020
Danny_Kanell10010
Jennifer8041
Bruce_Feldman77.7872
Brian_Jones77.7872
Rece_Davis71.4352
Aaron_Taylor66.6763
Josh_Pate66.6721
Greg_McElroy62.553
Desmond_Howard6032
Celebrity_Guest6032
Andy_Staples6032
Pete_Thamel57.1443
Dan_Wetzel57.1443
Randy_Cross55.5654
Shehan_Jeyarajah55.5654
Richard_Johnson55.5654
Stewart_Mandel55.5654
Rick_Neuheisel55.5654
Chip_Patterson55.5654
Dusty_Dvoracek5033
Kirk_Herbstreit5022
Joel_Klatt5022
JD_Pickell5022
Colin_Cowherd5011
Tom_Fornelli44.4445
Ralph_Russo44.4445
Nick_Saban4023
David_Pollack37.535
Pat_Forde33.3312
Chris_Fallica001
Mark_Ingram001
Matt_Leinart001
Urban_Meyer001
Brady_Quinn001
Average57.511585

Week 16 (Army/Navy):

NamePctWinLoss
Kirk_Herbstreit10010
Desmond_Howard10010
Nick_Saban10010
Pat_McAfee10010
Jennifer10010
Celebrity_Guest10010
Randy_Cross10010
Shehan_Jeyarajah10010
Brian_Jones10010
Chip_Patterson10010
Tom_Fornelli001
Richard_Johnson001
Rick_Neuheisel001
Aaron_Taylor001
Average71.43104
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