Week 1 2025: CFB analyst picks are graded; results are in!

Week 1 of our college football season is in the books, and the picks from our esteemed panel of analysts are graded. As a reminder, these are straight-up picks; not against the spread. I’m also combining week 0 and week 1 for simplicity’s sake.

Winners this week include Danny Kanell (13-2), Richard Johnson (19-4) and Andrea Adelson (13-3). However, this week’s undisputed winner was Tom Fornelli of Cover 3 podcast fame for going 24-2 on his picks this week. Congratulations to Tom on a great winning week.

Lee Corso went 6-0 on his picks this week, including a win in his final headgear selection Ohio State over Texas. He finishes out a wonderful career going 287-144 (66.59%) on his headgear picks and 2383-1243-1 (65.72%) overall. Yes, he tied a game many years ago. Congratulations to Coach Corso on a wonderful career.

NamePctWinLoss
Lee_Corso10060
Todd_McShay10020
Corso_Headgear10010
Ross_Dellenger10010
Ryan_McGee10010
Urban_Meyer10010
Jordan_Rodgers10010
Ryen_Russillo10010
Tom_Fornelli92.31242
Danny_Kanell86.67132
Richard_Johnson82.61194
Andrea_Adelson81.25133
Chip_Patterson79.17195
Pete_Thamel77.7872
David_Hale75124
Chris_Fallica7531
Brett_McMurphy7531
Shehan_Jeyarajah73.91176
Andy_Staples71.4352
Dan_Wetzel7073
Rick_Neuheisel66.6763
Steve_Coughlin66.6721
Pat_Forde66.6721
Phil_Steele66.6721
David_Pollack62.553
Kirk_Herbstreit6032
Desmond_Howard57.1443
Rece_Davis55.5654
Brian_Jones55.5654
Greg_McElroy5044
Josh_Pate5033
Dusty_Dvoracek5022
Brady_Quinn5011
JD_Pickell45.4556
Randy_Cross44.4445
Aaron_Taylor44.4445
Pat_McAfee42.8634
Jennifer37.535
Nick_Saban28.5725
Joel_Klatt16.6715
Colin_Cowherd003
Paul_Finebaum001
Roman_Harper001
Mark_Ingram001
Matt_Leinart001
Tim_Tebow001
Scott_Van_Pelt001
Average66.67222111