Week 5 2018: #CFB Picks w/ Chris Fallica & Stanford Steve!

Hello everyone.  The moment you’ve all been waiting for has arrived. The picks are in from celebrity superstars Chris Fallica and Stanford Steve Coughlin via their Behind the Bets podcast.  At the end of the podcast the Bear gave out Wyoming “plus the big number” (17ish) vs Boise State, but it wasn’t clear that this was an official pick.  I’ll know later today when their article on ESPN Chalk comes out.

Just a little note because I have been asked about this a lot recently:  I only post the picks from the Behind the Bets podcast; not ESPN Chalk.  Stanford Steve has made it clear on the podcast that his official picks for tracking purposes are in the ESPN Chalk article put out on Thursdays.  Sometimes the guys pick more or less games in the official Chalk article, and sometimes lines move by the time the Chalk article drops.  I grade the official picks on the Chalk article in my records, but I don’t post the Chalk picks because it is their paid content.  So on Sunday if you notice their weekly records don’t add up to these picks below, that is probably why.

Chris Fallica:

Date Pick
9/29/18 Connecticut+17 vs Cincinnati
9/29/18 San Jose State+12.5 vs Hawaii
9/29/18 California+2.5/3 vs Oregon
9/29/18 Fresno State-7.5 vs Toledo

Stanford Steve Coughlin:

Date Pick
9/29/18 Air Force-6.5 vs Nevada
9/29/18 Penn State vs Ohio State under 71.5
9/29/18 Purdue vs Nebraska over 57.5
9/29/18 Southern California-3.5 vs Arizona
9/29/18 Syracuse+25 vs Clemson
9/29/18 Temple+13.5 vs Boston College

Week 5 2018: #CFB Picks from Lou Holtz & Mark May!

Welcome back everyone.  We are starting things off this week with week 5 picks from Lou Holtz & Mark May courtesy of the Crowd’s Line channel on the Youtubes.  Enjoy them.

Lou Holtz:

Date Picks
9/29/18 Army  over  Buffalo
9/29/18 Washington  over  BYU
9/29/18 Ohio State  over  Penn State
9/29/18 Oregon  over  California
9/29/18 South Carolina  over  Kentucky
9/29/18 Notre Dame  over  Stanford
9/29/18 Clemson  over  Syracuse
9/29/18 Virginia Tech  over  Duke
9/29/18 West Virginia  over  Texas Tech

Mark May:

Date Picks
9/29/18 Buffalo  over  Army
9/29/18 Washington  over  BYU
9/29/18 Penn State  over  Ohio State
9/29/18 Oregon  over  California
9/29/18 Kentucky  over  South Carolina
9/29/18 Stanford  over  Notre Dame
9/29/18 Clemson  over  Syracuse
9/29/18 Duke  over  Virginia Tech
9/29/18 West Virginia  over  Texas Tech

Week 4 2018: CFB picks are graded; results are in!

Welcome back from an exciting Saturday of college football action.  We’ve got the week 4 picks graded and the results are in.

Winners this week include Chris Doering (5-1), Phil Steele (12-2 straight up, but only 4-4-1 ATS), Chris Fallica (6-0 straight up, 4-2 ATS) and Lou Holtz (7-3).  Our undisputed winner this week was definitely Kirk Herbstreit, who posted a 12-3 record on the Gameday show this week.  They picked a ton of games this week, so I salute Herbie on this performance.

Losers this week were in short supply this week.  Nobody had a losing record of note, so let’s just award an official loss.  Our official loss goes to Bruce Feldman, who posted a 6-5 straight up record but had a disastrous 2-8 record against the spread.  Tough break Bruce.

Lee Corso posted a 10-6 record on the week but missed out on his headgear pick going with Oregon over Stanford.  Our special guest celebrity Tim Matheson had a nice week at 11-5, picking the biggest slate of games in Gameday celebrity history.  Bear’s Bank went 2-1 on the week.  @GamedayJen posted another winner at 14-5.  The full slate of results are below so check it out to see how your favorite (or most hated) personality did this week.

percent.correct n.correct n.wrong
Chris.Fallica 100% 6 0
Rece.Davis 100% 2 0
Matt.Leinart 100% 1 0
Les.Miles 100% 4 0
Robert.Smith 100% 1 0
Phil.Steele 85.71% 12 2
Chris.Doering 83.33% 5 1
Kirk.Herbstreit 80% 12 3
Pat.Forde 80% 4 1
Tim.Tebow 80% 4 1
Heather.Dinich 75% 3 1
Dusty.Dvoracek 75% 3 1
Joel.Klatt 75% 3 1
Ivan.Maisel 75% 3 1
Ryan.McGee 75% 3 1
Mark.Schlabach 75% 3 1
Jennifer 73.68% 14 5
Lou.Holtz 70% 7 3
Celebrity.Guest 68.75% 11 5
Andrea.Adelson 66.67% 10 5
Paul.Finebaum 66.67% 6 3
Lee.Corso 62.50% 10 6
Desmond.Howard 61.11% 11 7
David.Pollack 60% 3 2
Marcus.Spears 60% 3 2
Bruce.Feldman 54.55% 6 5
Colin.Cowherd 50% 1 1
Mark.May 50% 5 5
Brett.McMurphy 50% 1 1
Steve.Coughlin 40% 2 3
Danny.Kanell 40% 2 3
Corso.Headgear 0% 0 1
Dari.Nowkhah 0% 0 1

ATS Results:

percent.correct.ats n.correct n.wrong n.tie
Dusty.Dvoracek.ATS.Grade 66.67% 4 2 0
Chris.Fallica.ATS.Grade 66.67% 4 2 0
Pat.Forde.ATS.Grade 66.67% 4 2 0
Danny.Kanell.ATS.Grade 66.67% 4 2 0
Scott.Spreitzer.ATS.Grade 66.67% 2 1 0
Rufus.Peabody.ATS.Grade 60% 3 2 0
Phil.Steele.ATS.Grade 50% 4 4 1
Scott.Van.Pelt.ATS.Grade 50% 4 4 0
Steve.Coughlin.ATS.Grade 40% 2 3 0
Jeff.Ma.ATS.Grade 40% 2 3 0
Bruce.Feldman.ATS.Grade 22.73% 2 8 1
Dari.Nowkhah.ATS.Grade 0% 0 3 0