2019-20 Bowl Season: Bowl stuff from Stanford Steve & The Bear!

Stanford Steve and the Bear are EVERYWHERE this bowl season.  They said they’re doing at least three podcasts, they did a Bowl Special on TV today, they’ll be putting out picks on ESPN Chalk, they’ll be on Daily Wager, they are doing a Bowl Mania confidence pool, and of course the Bear will be on Gameday.  All of that being said, we will do our best to keep this post updated with the latest picks and predictions from Stanford Steve and the Bear throughout bowl season.

As always, the following items should ONLY be considered LEANS and UNOFFICIAL PICKS.  Their official picks are released ONLY on ESPN Chalk.  The information below is for entertainment purposes only.

The following are their picks from the Stanford Steve & The Bear podcast on 12/30/2019 as best as I understood them:

Stanford Steve:
Kentucky+ the points (didn’t give a line)
Alabama-7 vs Michigan
Alabama vs Michigan over (didn’t give a line)
Southern Miss/Tulane Over 56.5

The Bear:
Kansas State+ the points (didn’t give a line)
Oregon wins outright (Oregon+3)
Georgia-5 vs Baylor
BC+ the points (didn’t give a line)


The following are their picks from the Stanford Steve & The Bear podcast on 12/23/2019 as best as I understood them:

Stanford Steve:
North Carolina-4.5/5 vs Temple
Penn State-7 vs Memphis
Louisville+4 vs Miss State
Louisville/Miss St over 63.5
Cal-6.5 vs Illinois
He said he likes Kentucky and Kansas State but didn’t give a line

The Bear:
He said he likes Louisiana Tech but didn’t give a line
Mich St-3.5/4 vs Wake Forest
Texas A&M-6.5 vs Oklahoma St
Iowa St+3.5 vs Notre Dame
He said he likes Kansas State and Oregon but didn’t give lines
Boston College+7 vs Cincinnati


The following are their picks from the Stanford Steve & The Bear Bowl Special on 12/18/2019:

Stanford Steve:
Oklahoma+13.5 vs LSU
Charlotte+6.5 vs Buffalo
Washington-3.5 vs Boise State
SMU-3 vs FAU
North Carolina-5 vs Temple
Notre Dame-4 vs Iowa St
Penn St-6.5 vs Memphis
Baylor+7.5 vs Georgia
Utah-7.5 vs Texas
Wisconsin-3 vs Oregon
Baylor+7.5 vs Georgia
Louisville+4 vs Miss St
Cal-7 vs Illinois

Chris Fallica:
LSU-13.5 vs Oklahoma
Clemson-2 vs Ohio State
Charlotte+6.5 vs Buffalo
FIU+2.5 vs Arkansas St
TAMU-7 vs Okla St
Iowa St+4 vs Notre Dame
BC+7 vs Cinci
Utah-7.5 vs Texas
Oregon+3 vs Wisconsin
Baylor+7.5 vs Georgia
Hawaii+1.5 vs BYU

Brad Edwards:
Air Force/Wash St over 67.5
Wisconsin/Oregon under 51.5
Georgia-7.5 vs Baylor
Georgia/Baylor under 41.5


The following is what I was able to take away from their podcast on 12/18/2019:

Stanford Steve:
Charlotte+6.5 vs Buffalo
SMU-3 vs FAU
Washington-3.5 vs Boise State
He likes Louisville (didn’t give a spread)
He likes Kentucky (didn’t give a spread)

Chris Fallica:
Charlotte+6.5 vs Buffalo
FIU+2.5 vs Arkansas State
Hawaii+1.5/2 vs BYU
He likes La Tech (did’nt give a line)
He likes Iowa State (didn’t give a line)
Texas A&M-7 vs OK State
Maybe Boston College

Jim Donnan Condo Steamer:
Georgia Southern-4 vs Liberty

Stanford Steve Bowl Mania picks (straight up):
Kent State over Utah State
App State over UAB
Florida over Virginia
North Carolina over Temple
LSU over Oklahoma
SMU over FAU
Alabama over Michigan

Chris Fallica Bowl Mania picks (straight up):
Central Michigan over San Diego State
UCF over Marshall
App State over UAB
Florida over Virginia
LSU over Oklahoma

Week 16 2019: Army Navy, GameDay picks, Corso’s headgear, #CFBpicks and more!

We are on the road this week and as such haven’t had time to post anything for week 16. This is always a slow week so luckily we haven’t missed too much. That being said, we are rolling all of our week 16 picks into a single post right here. I will be updating things as best as I can so check back for the latest.

Corso’s headgear: Navy over Army

Bear’s Board:

Lee Corso:
NDSU over Illinois St
SMU over FAU
Boise St over Washington
App St over UAB
Hawaii over BYU
LT over Miami (FL)
North Carolina over Temple
Wake Forest over Michigan St
Oklahoma St over Texas A&M
Southern Cal over Iowa
Wash St over Air Force
Navy over Army

Kirk Herbstreit:
NDSU over Illinois St
SMU over FAU
App St over UAB
Hawaii over BYU
LT over Miami (FL)
Temple over North Carolina
Wake Forest over Michigan St
Texas A&M over Oklahoma St
Southern Cal over Iowa
Air Force over Wash St
Army over Navy

Desmond Howard:
NDSU over Illinois St
SMU over FAU
Boise St over Washington
App St over UAB
BYU over Hawaii
Miami (FL) over LT
North Carolina over Temple
Wake Forest over Michigan St
Texas A&M over Oklahoma St
Southern Cal over Iowa
Air Force over Wash St
Navy over Army

Charles Barkley:
NDSU over Illinois St
FAU over SMU
Washington over Boise St
UAB over App St
BYU over Hawaii
Miami (FL) over LT
Temple over North Carolina
Michigan St over Wake Forest
Oklahoma St over Texas A&M
Southern Cal over Iowa
Wash St over Air Force
America wins the Army/Navy game

@GamedayJen:
NDSU over Illinois St
Navy over Army

David Pollack: Army over Navy

Chris Fallica: Navy over Army (straight up)

Scott Van Pelt:

Daily Wager:

Rufus Peabody: Army+10.5 vs Navy

Jeff Ma: Army+10.5 vs Navy

Dusty Dvoracek: Navy-10 vs Army

Lou Holtz: Navy over Army

Mark May: Navy over Army

Inside CFB: All took Navy

Week 15 2019: #CFBpicks are graded; results are in!

Week 15 picks from our panel of expert predictors and prognosticators are graded and the results are in.

Winners this week were Desmond Howard with an impressive 9-0 record picking straight up on College Gameday, and Dave Portnoy of Barstool Sports going 6-2 against the number this week.  Congratulations to both.

Lee Corso had a very nice 8-1 week himself including winning his headgear pick LSU over Georgia AND his super dog pick.  Super Dogs went a collective 2-2 on the week with Herbstreit being the other winner.  Celebrity guest picker Zac Brown went 6-3 on Gameday.  The Bear went 1-2 on the board this week.  @GamedayJen went 7-2 on the week.

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

Straight up results:

percent n.correct n.wrong
Corso.Headgear 100 1 0
Desmond.Howard 100 9 0
Skip.Bayless 100 1 0
Reggie.Bush 100 1 0
Gene.Chizik 100 1 0
Tim.Cowlishaw 100 3 0
Heather.Dinich 100 4 0
Chris.Doering 100 1 0
Dusty.Dvoracek 100 3 0
Chris.Fallica 100 1 0
Paul.Finebaum 100 4 0
Joel.Klatt 100 2 0
Matt.Leinart 100 1 0
Eric.Mac.Lain 100 1 0
EJ.Manuel 100 1 0
Urban.Meyer 100 1 0
Dari.Nowkhah 100 1 0
Houston.Nutt 100 1 0
Brady.Quinn 100 1 0
Mark.Richt 100 1 0
Jordan.Rodgers 100 1 0
Stephen.A.Smith 100 1 0
Marcus.Spears 100 1 0
Tim.Tebow 100 1 0
Lee.Corso 88.89 8 1
Bruce.Feldman 87.5 7 1
Dan.Wetzel 83.33 5 1
Stewart.Mandel 80 8 2
Kirk.Herbstreit 77.78 7 2
Jennifer 77.78 7 2
Aaron.Taylor 77.78 7 2
Steve.Coughlin 75 3 1
Lou.Holtz 75 3 1
Mark.May 75 3 1
Phil.Steele 75 3 1
Rick.Neuheisel 70 7 3
David.Pollack 66.67 4 2
Celebrity.Guest 66.67 6 3
Emmanuel.Acho 66.67 2 1
Colin.Cowherd 66.67 2 1
Pete.Thamel 66.67 4 2
Pat.Forde 60 6 4
Brian.Jones 60 6 4
Randy.Cross 50 5 5
Jonathan.Vilma 50 1 1

ATS results:

percent n.correct n.wrong n.tie
Lee.Corso.ATS 100 1 0 0
Colin.Cowherd.ATS 100 3 0 0
Kirk.Herbstreit.ATS 100 1 0 0
Doug.Kezirian.ATS 100 1 0 0
Rufus.Peabody.ATS 100 1 0 0
Scott.Spreitzer.ATS 100 1 0 0
Steve.Coughlin.ATS 75 3 1 0
Joe.Fortenbaugh.ATS 75 3 1 0
Dave.Portnoy.ATS 75 6 2 0
Phil.Steele.ATS 75 3 1 0
Pat.Forde.ATS 66.67 4 2 0
Pete.Thamel.ATS 66.67 4 2 0
Dan.Wetzel.ATS 66.67 4 2 0
Matt.Youmans.ATS 66.67 2 1 0
Tim.Cowlishaw.ATS 60 3 2 0
Dusty.Dvoracek.ATS 50 2 2 0
Bruce.Feldman.ATS 50 4 4 0
FPI.ATS 50 1 1 0
Stewart.Mandel.ATS 50 5 5 0
Scott.Van.Pelt.ATS 50 1 1 0
Clay.Travis.ATS 44.44 4 5 0
Norm.Hitzges.ATS 42.86 3 4 0
Chris.Fallica.ATS 40 2 3 0
Dan.Katz.ATS 40 4 6 0
Rico.Bosco.ATS 33.33 2 4 0
Jeff.Ma.ATS 33.33 1 2 0
Todd.Fuhrman.ATS 16.67 1 5 0
Bill.Connelly.ATS 0 0 2 0
Rece.Davis.ATS 0 0 1 0
Jim.Donnan.ATS 0 0 1 0
Desmond.Howard.ATS 0 0 1 0
Preston.Johnson.ATS 0 0 2 0