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Week 6 2018: #CFB Picks with Stanford Steve & Chris Fallica!

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Welcome back ladies and gentlemen to week 6 of your college football season.  Here’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for.  The picks are in from celebrity superstars Chris ‘The Bear’ Fallica and Stanford Steve Coughlin. Listen to the whole podcast before investing in these please, but enjoy them either way.

The Bear said STAY AWAY from Syracuse/Pitt.  He said it the biggest disparity between the Vegas line and FPI line (FPI had Syracuse-10!!!) and he said it stinks big time, so stay away.  Stanford Steve had a lean on the Syracuse/Pitt over.

Stanford Steve gave a lean on Utah+5.5 but said he wasn’t sure if it was official for his ESPN Chalk article yet.  He wanted to give out Iowa-7 but said he’s scared off by his own rule of never laying more than 6 with Iowa.

Bear wanted to give out Florida but said something worried him about this one.  They gave a few more mentions to some leans but those were the main games discussed.

Chris Fallica:

Date Pick
10/6/18 Arizona State+2.5 vs Colorado
10/6/18 Air Force+3.5 vs Navy
10/6/18 Massachusetts+14 vs South Florida
10/6/18 Utah+5.5 vs Stanford
10/5/18 Utah State+2.5 vs BYU

Steve Coughlin:

Date Pick
10/6/18 Alabama vs Arkansas over 59
10/6/18 Texas A&M-6 vs Kentucky
10/6/18 Northwestern+11 vs Michigan State
10/5/18 Georgia Tech-4 vs Louisville

 

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Week 5 2018: #CFB Picks are graded; results are in!

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Welcome back everyone.  We had some big games last night and some big results from our expert panel of predictors and prognosticators.  Let’s get right to it.

Winners this week included Andrea Adelson (11-2), Paul Finebaum (9-2), Kirk Herbstreit (12-4), Phil Steele (6-2 straight up, 5-3 ATS), Stanford Steve (5-1 ATS), Pat Forde (4-2 ATS), SVP (6-3 ATS), and Desmond Howard (12-5).  Scott Spreitzer, after a horrendous start to the year, booked a 3-0 week ATS on Dari & Mel picking games.  However, this week’s official win will go to Lou Holtz at 8-1 on his weekly picks.  Congratulations to Dr. Lou for smashing Mark May this week on the Crowd’s Line.

Losers this week included Chris Fallica (3-4 ATS) and Mark May (5-4), but our undisputed loss this week goes to Rufus Peabody, who after an incredible start to the season booked a 1-4 record against the spread yesterday.  He’s still way up on the year picking 65% against the spread, but that’s a tough week by anybody’s standards.

Lee Corso booked a great week at 14-3 but missed out on his headgear pick of Penn State over Ohio State.  Bear’s Bank went 1-2 this week as part of Fallica’s tough 3-4 week against the spread.  Special guest celebrity Keegan-Michael Key went 8-8, which continues the new trend of picking significantly more games than celebrities in the past.  @GamedayJen went 12-4 on the wek continuing to quietly book winners.  Everyone else is somewhere else in between so check out the results below to see how your favorite (or most hated) personality did this week.

percent.correct n.correct n.wrong
Colin.Cowherd 100% 2 0
Heather.Dinich 100% 4 0
Chris.Doering 100% 5 0
Matt.Leinart 100% 1 0
Robert.Smith 100% 1 0
Dave.Wannstedt 100% 1 0
Lou.Holtz 88.89% 8 1
Andrea.Adelson 84.62% 11 2
Lee.Corso 82.35% 14 3
Paul.Finebaum 81.82% 9 2
Pat.Forde 80% 4 1
Joey.Galloway 80% 4 1
Jesse.Palmer 80% 4 1
Marcus.Spears 80% 4 1
Tim.Tebow 80% 4 1
Kirk.Herbstreit 75% 12 4
Jennifer 75% 12 4
Dusty.Dvoracek 75% 3 1
Ryan.McGee 75% 3 1
Les.Miles 75% 3 1
Mark.Schlabach 75% 3 1
Phil.Steele 75% 6 2
Desmond.Howard 70.59% 12 5
Bruce.Feldman 70% 7 3
Chris.Fallica 63.64% 7 4
Steve.Coughlin 60% 3 2
Danny.Kanell 60% 3 2
Mark.May 55.56% 5 4
Celebrity.Guest 50% 8 8
Ivan.Maisel 50% 2 2
David.Pollack 33.33% 1 2

ATS Results:

percent.correct.ats n.correct n.wrong n.tie
Scott.Spreitzer.ATS.Grade 100% 3 0 0
Steve.Coughlin.ATS.Grade 83.33% 5 1 0
Dusty.Dvoracek.ATS.Grade 80% 4 1 0
Pat.Forde.ATS.Grade 66.67% 4 2 0
Scott.Van.Pelt.ATS.Grade 66.67% 6 3 0
Phil.Steele.ATS.Grade 62.50% 5 3 0
Bruce.Feldman.ATS.Grade 60% 6 4 0
Jeff.Ma.ATS.Grade 60% 3 2 0
Danny.Kanell.ATS.Grade 50% 4 4 0
Chris.Fallica.ATS.Grade 42.86% 3 4 0
Rufus.Peabody.ATS.Grade 20% 1 4 0
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Week 5 2018: Saturday morning #CFB Picks!

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Good morning ladies and gentlemen.  We will be posting later on with the official Gameday picks, Bear’s Bank, SEC Nation, celebrity guests, Corso’s headgear, and all the usual business.  Right now here’s all the picks we’ve accumulated during the week from various people here and there, so enjoy.

Andrea Adelson:

Date Picks
9/29/18 Georgia Tech  over  Bowling Green State
9/29/18 Florida State  over  Louisville
9/29/18 Ohio State  over  Penn State
9/29/18 Oregon  over  California
9/29/18 Central Florida  over  Pittsburgh
9/29/18 Wake Forest  over  Rice
9/29/18 Stanford  over  Notre Dame
9/29/18 Clemson  over  Syracuse
9/29/18 Boston College  over  Temple
9/29/18 North Carolina State  over  Virginia
9/29/18 Duke  over  Virginia Tech
9/29/18 West Virginia  over  Texas Tech
9/27/18 Miami (FL)  over  North Carolina

Colin Cowherd:

Date Picks
9/29/18 Ohio State  over  Penn State 43-26
9/29/18 Notre Dame  over  Stanford 31-20

Heather Dinich:

Date Picks
9/29/18 Ohio State  over  Penn State
9/29/18 Oregon  over  California
9/29/18 Notre Dame  over  Stanford
9/29/18 West Virginia  over  Texas Tech

Chris Doering:

Date Picks
9/29/18 Texas A&M  over  Arkansas
9/29/18 Florida  over  Mississippi State
9/29/18 LSU  over  Mississippi
9/29/18 Kentucky  over  South Carolina
9/29/18 Georgia  over  Tennessee

Dusty Dvoracek:

Date Pick
9/29/18 North Texas-7 vs Louisiana Tech
9/29/18 Oklahoma State-16.5 vs Kansas
9/29/18 Purdue-3.5 vs Nebraska
9/29/18 Notre Dame-5.5 vs Stanford
9/29/18 Syracuse+25.5 vs Clemson

Bruce Feldman: Straight up picks

Date Picks
9/29/18 Mississippi State  over  Florida
9/29/18 LSU  over  Mississippi
9/29/18 Ohio State  over  Penn State
9/29/18 Oregon  over  California
9/29/18 Kentucky  over  South Carolina
9/29/18 Arizona  over  Southern California
9/29/18 Notre Dame  over  Stanford
9/29/18 Clemson  over  Syracuse
9/29/18 Duke  over  Virginia Tech
9/29/18 West Virginia  over  Texas Tech

Pat Forde:

Date Pick
9/29/18 Florida+7.5 vs Mississippi State
9/29/18 Ohio State-3.5 vs Penn State
9/29/18 California+3 vs Oregon
9/29/18 Kentucky-1.5 vs South Carolina
9/29/18 Notre Dame-4.5 vs Stanford
9/29/18 West Virginia-3.5 vs Texas Tech

Joey Galloway:

Date Picks
9/29/18 Mississippi State  over  Florida
9/29/18 Ohio State  over  Penn State
9/29/18 Notre Dame  over  Stanford
9/29/18 West Virginia  over  Texas Tech
9/27/18 Miami (FL)  over  North Carolina

Danny Kanell:

Date Pick
9/29/18 Ohio State-3.5 vs Penn State
9/29/18 Stanford+5.5 vs Notre Dame
9/29/18 West Virginia-3.5 vs Texas Tech

Ivan Maisel:

Date Picks
9/29/18 Ohio State  over  Penn State
9/29/18 California  over  Oregon
9/29/18 Notre Dame  over  Stanford
9/29/18 Texas Tech  over  West Virginia

Ryan McGee:

Date Picks
9/29/18 Penn State  over  Ohio State
9/29/18 Oregon  over  California
9/29/18 Notre Dame  over  Stanford
9/29/18 West Virginia  over  Texas Tech

Les Miles:

Date Picks
9/29/18 Washington  over  BYU
9/29/18 LSU  over  Mississippi
9/29/18 Ohio State  over  Penn State
9/29/18 Stanford  over  Notre Dame

Jesse Palmer:

Date Picks
9/29/18 Mississippi State  over  Florida
9/29/18 Ohio State  over  Penn State
9/29/18 Notre Dame  over  Stanford
9/29/18 West Virginia  over  Texas Tech
9/27/18 Miami (FL)  over  North Carolina

Mark Schlabach:

Date Picks
9/29/18 Ohio State  over  Penn State
9/29/18 Oregon  over  California
9/29/18 Stanford  over  Notre Dame
9/29/18 West Virginia  over  Texas Tech

Scott Spreitzer:

Date Pick
9/29/18 Oklahoma-23 vs Baylor
9/29/18 Ohio State vs Penn State under 70
9/29/18 Temple+13 vs Boston College
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