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2018-19 Season: College Gameday Season Preview!

Posted on August 25, 2018 by gamedaycole

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

2018-19 Season: Big announcement, changes coming!

Posted on August 9, 2018 by gamedaycole

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!

2017-18 #MarchMadness Picks! #NCAATournament #Bracketology

Posted on March 12, 2018 by gamedaycole

Welcome back everyone to the FIRST EVER GAMEDAYCOLE.COM NCAA MARCH MADNESS PICK EXTRAVAGANZA! At the request of @WesReynolds1 I decided to see what I could put together in one single hour for NCAA hoops tournament picks. I don’t generally watch much NCAA basketball, so I don’t know who half of these people are but I assume they are experts. Take a look at all of the picks and make sure you credit me when you win your pool!

Charles Barkley:
New Mexico State over Clemson
Villanova over LIU Brooklyn/Radford
VT over Alabama
WVU over Murray St
Wichita St over Marshall
Florida over St. Bon/UCLA
TTU over SFA
Arkansas over Butler
Purdue over Cal St. Fullerton
Kansas over Penn
Seton Hall over NC St
Auburn over Charleston
Mich St over Bucknell
Final Four: Arizona, Villanova, UNC, ?

Jay Bilas:
Elite Eight: Virginia, Cinci, Villanova, Purdue, Gonzaga, Michigan, Kansas, Michigan State
Final four: Virginia, Michigan, Villanova, Michigan State
Virginia to make the Finals
Michigan State ot make the Finals
Michigan State over Virginia in Finals

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Kyle Boone:
Final Four: Cinci, UNC, Villanova, Mich St
Mich St over UNC in Finals

Colin Cowherd:
Nine teams who can win it: Villanova, Duke, Virginia, Michigan St, Michigan, Arizona, Gonzaga, Kansas, UNC
Dark Horse team: Florida

Rece Davis:
Final Four: Villanova, Arizona, Michigan, Mich St
Villanova over Arizona in Finals

Dennis Dodd:
Final Four: Arizona, UNC, Villanova, Mich St
UNC over Villanova in Finals

Pat Forde:
Final Four: Arizona, Michigan, Villanova, Michigan State
Michigan vs Villanova in Finals
Villanova over Michigan in Finals

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Reid Forgrave:
Final Four: Virginia, UNC, Villanova, Duke
Villanova over Virginia in Finals

Mike Greenberg:
Final Four: Mich St, Villanova, Michigan, Winner of Arizona/Kentucky

First glance Final Four:
Michigan State
Villanova
Michigan
Winner of Arizona/Kentucky#MarchMadness #KOD

— Mike Greenberg (@Espngreeny) March 11, 2018

Seth Greenberg:
Final Four: Michigan St, Virginia, Michigan, Villanova
Michigan State over Virginia in Finals

Andy Katz:
Final Four: Villanova, Michigan, Virginia, Michigan St
Villanova over Michigan in Finals

Josh Nagel:
Final Four: Arizona, Michigan, Villanova, Duke
Duke over Michigan in Finals

Matt Norlander:
Final Four: Virginia, Gonzaga, Purdue, Mich St
Virginia over Mich St in Finals

Jerry Palm:
Final Four: Arizona, UNC, Purdue, Duke
Duke over Arizona in Finals

Gary Parrish:
Final Four: Duke, Virginia, Gonzaga, Villanova
Duke over Virginia in Finals

Chip Patterson:
Final Four: Arizona, UNC, Villanova, Duke
Villanova over Arizona in Finals

Dick Vitale:
Final Four: Michigan St, Virginia, Villanova, Gonzaga
Michigan State over Virginia in Finals

My @marchmadness bracket ! @MSU_Basketball @mattcharboneau @bobwojnowski @chrissolari @leefitting @chrisfallica pic.twitter.com/mgeQgtkz9w

— Dick Vitale (@DickieV) March 12, 2018

Jay Williams:
Final Four: Arizona, Michigan St, Gonzaga, Villanova
Arizona over Michigan State in Finals