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Week 2 2016: Weekday college picks! #CFB #CFBPicks

Posted on September 8, 2016 by gamedaycole

Welcome back for week 2. This week’s schedule isn’t quite as inspired as week 1 but that doesn’t mean we don’t have some decent games and a few surprises likely to come this weekend. We will be updating this post all the way through Saturday morning, when we will be back with our Saturday morning picks as always. Enjoy.

Updated 9/9

Andrea Adelson:
Miami FL over FAU
Pitt over Penn St
Tennessee over VT
Duke over Wake Forest
Louisville over Syracause
BC over UMass
NC St over ECU
FSU over Charleseton So
Clemson over Troy
Georgia Tech over Mercer
UNC over Illinois
Oregon over Virginia

Charles Arbuckle:
Pitt over Penn St
Iowa over Iowa St
BYU over Utah
Boise St over Wash St
UNC over Illinois

Stanford Steve Coughlin:
TTU over Ariz St
Utah over BYU
Iowa over Iowa St
TTU+3 vs Ariz St
TCU vs Arkansas over 58.5
VT+11 vs Tennessee
Utah-3.5 vs BYU
UConn+4 vs Navy
Penn St+6 vs Pitt
Iowa-15 vs Iowa St
Purdue+200ish ML vs Cinci

Chris Doering:
LSU over Jacksonville St (by one score)
Florida over Kentucky 31-20
S.Carolina over Miss St 24-23
Arkansas over TCU 34-30
Tennessee over VT 26-17

Dusty Dvoracek:
Iowa over Iowa St
TTT over Ariz St
TCU over Arkansas
C.Michigan+21 vs Okla St
ULM+47
TCU-7.5 vs Arkansas
Pitt-3 vs Penn St
TTU+3 vs Ariz St

Chris “The Bear” Fallica:
Tennessee over VT
SDSU over Cal
WKU+28 vs Alabama
TCU-7.5 vs Arkansas
VT+11 vs Tennessee
ECU+150ish ML vs NC St
SDSU-7.5 vs Cal
Wake Forest+5 vs Duke

Pat Forde:
Iowa over Iowa St
Pitt over Penn St
UNC over Illinois
Purdue over Cinci

Joey Galloway:
Louisville over Syracuse
Clemson over Troy

Kirk Herbstreit:
Michigan over UCF

Danny Kanell:
Michigan over UCF
Tennessee over VT
Louisville over Syracuse
Arkansas+8 vs TCU
Tennessee-11 vs VT

Greg McElroy:
Alabama over WKU
TCU over Arkansas
Auburn over Ark St
Georgia over Nicholls
Tennessee over VT

Booger McFarland:
Florida over Kentucky 31-17
Miss St over S.Carolina 28-14
TCU over Arkansas 35-17
Tennessee over VT 24-21

Dari Nowkhah:
FSU over Charleston So

Jordan Rodgers:
Florida over Kentucky
Ole Miss over Wofford
Mizzou over E. Michigan

Ryen Russillo:
Tennessee over VT
Arkansas+8 vs TCU
Tennessee-11 vs VT

Mark Schlabach:
SDSU over Cal

Robert Smith:
Iowa over Iowa State

Marcus Spears:
Florida over Kentucky
Georgia over Nicholls

Matt Stinchcomb:
Mizzou over E. Michigan
Tennessee over VT

Clint Stoerner:
Alabama over WKU
TCU over Arkansas
Auburn over Ark St
Ole Miss over Wofford

Phil Steele:
Michigan over UCF
Vanderbilt over MTSU (close)
Tennessee over VT by 2 TD
Pitt over Penn St (by 3)
Texas over UTEP
TCU over Arkansas
Louisville over Syracuse
Florida over Kentucky
Okla St over C. Michigan
Penn St+5 vs Pitt
Kentucky+17 vs Florida
Tennessee-11 vs VT
C. Michigan+21 vs Okla St

Scott Van Pelt:
FIU+10.5 vs Maryland
Rice+9 vs Army
WKU+28.5 vs Alabama
Tulsa+29 vs Ohio St
Illinois+7.5 vs UNC

Dave Wannstedt:
Purdue over Cincinnati

2015-16 Season results and champion Phil Steele! #cfb

Posted on January 13, 2016 by gamedaycole

The 2015-16 season of college football brought excitement and many hours wasted in front of the television, and it is with great sadness that we now enter the offseason. However, that also means that it is time to crown the 2015-16 GAMEDAYCOLE.COM SEASON CHAMPION!!! Competition was fierce this year, with 4,271 picks tracked this year and an average correct pick rate of 70.03% on the season. We had 33 competitors eligible for this year’s championship, and it is without further adieu that I present to you our 2015-16 season champion, Mr. Phil Steele!

Mr. Steele finished off this season with a record of 597-174 straight up and 121-105-2 against the spread, which comes out to 77.03% straight up and 53.54% against the spread. I don’t know what his secret is to picking games. Maybe it is his computer. Maybe it is the mustache. Maybe it is the fact that he hasn’t slept since June due to football. Whatever it is, it works. Congratulations Phil. You can now add this to your long and impressive resume, and no doubt impress acquaintances at cocktail parties with this accolade.

There are plenty of other notes to get to for this season’s wrap up. As you may notice, Greg McElroy topped the straight up percentages on the year at 84.54% with a record of 82-15 on the year. While this is impressive and deserving of congratulations, he was hurt by the limited number of games he picked, and the fact that his picks are almost entirely SEC conference picks. Phil Steele had a much larger body of work, and combined with his win rate against the spread that was enough to vault him over McElroy on the season. Next year we will probably have a separate award for the experts focusing on a single conference, but it is too late to be starting that nonsense right now.

Lee Corso’s headgear picks on the year were his worst year on record. He went 6-12 on the year in the headgear picks due to some tough breaks and close losses on underdogs. Charley the Cat had a season on par with Coach Corso, and ended up squeezing out a 7-11 season to beat Corso on the year picking games. Gameday Jen had her best season on record, going 153-59 (72.17%) on the year, so watch out Phil; she is coming for you! Maybe next year we’ll have her pick against the spread and make us some money. Our Gameday guest celebrities had an abysmal year at 56.39% picking games straight up this year. Maybe you shouldn’t be trusting Rick Ross, the Philly Phanatic, or Eric Church for your betting advice after all.

You can see the full rankings below to see how everyone else did on the year. We will be putting together a recap of preseason predictions this week to see how great everyone’s preseason picks surely went, so keep an eye out for that and much more to come.

	Straight Up	SU %	ATS	ATS %
Greg McElroy	82-15	84.54%
Phil Steele	597-174	77.03%	121-105-2	53.54%
Paul Finebaum	78-27	74.29%
Pat Forde	256-89	73.99%
Andrea Adelson	84-30	73.68%
Booger McFarland	80-32	72.73%
Tim Tebow	45-17	72.58%
Trevor Matich	68-26	72.34%	14-21-1	40.00%
Jennifer	153-59	72.17%
Jason Sehorn	82-33	71.30%
Kirk Herbstreit	120-49	71.01%
Marcus Spears	55-23	70.51%
Brad Edwards	89-38	70.08%	22-20-1	52.38%
Colin Cowherd	73-32	69.52%
David Pollack	71-32	68.93%
Joey Galloway	93-43	68.38%
Robert Smith	49-23	68.06%	10-17-0	37.04%
Mark May	23-11	67.65%
Kevin Carter	38-19	66.67%
Jon Berger	32-16	66.67%
Todd McShay	33-17	66.00%
Danny Kanell	88-47	65.19%	20-23-0	46.51%
Desmond Howard	111-60	64.91%
Chris Fallica	77-42	64.71%	71-67-3	51.45%
Lee Corso	101-56	64.33%
Ryen Russillo	46-27	63.01%	23-19-0	54.76%
Scott Van Pelt	5-3	62.50%	34-35	49.28%
Joel Klatt	105-64	62.13%
Celebrity Guests	75-58	56.39%
Dari Nowhkah	46-36	56.10%	10-8-0	55.56%
Lou Holtz	13-11	54.17%
Stanford Steve Coughlin	42-37	53.16%	40-44-3	48.19%

Season Average	2925-1250	70.06%	365-359-10	50.41%

2015-16 Bowl season results! #CFBPlayoff #BowlMania

Posted on January 12, 2016 by gamedaycole

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen. With the fantastic CFB Playoff championship game in the books last night, that means the bowl season has ended. It is now time that we look back and review how all of our competitors did playing a little bit of Bowl Mania pick’em.

We had 12 of our expert predictors and prognosticators who picked enough of the bowl games to qualify for our championship competition this year. As with most things around here, it is all subjective and up to my judgment as to what to make of all of this mess. Not everyone picked the Celebration Bowl between NC A&T and Alcorn State. Some of us picked it, and it ended up being quite profitable. Not everyone had a qualifying CFB Playoff Championship pick, because some of them picked before the playoff and had Oklahoma playing in the championship game. And for some reason, Pat Forde refused to pick any bowl games involving 5-7 teams, but since he still picked most of them I have granted him a waiver. Without further adieu, I present to you this year’s Gamedaycole.com official bowl championship rankings.

Cole’s Picks: 32-10
Joey Galloway: 31-11
Chris Doering: 29-13
Phil Steele: 29-12 SU, 14-9 ATS
Jennifer’s Picks: 27-14
Todd McShay: 27-15
Pat Forde: 26-12
Ryen Russillo: 25-17
Danny Kanell: 24-18
Joel Klatt: 24-17
Mark Schlabach: 23-18
Dari Nowkhah: 22-20

As you can see, Cole’s picks came out on top this year coming in at 32-10. Not to toot my own too much, but I’m pretty good at picking bowl games. Pay no attention to last year’s results behind the curtain where I went 20-18 in Bowl Mania. Anyways, since I can’t very well give myself an award for picking bowl games (I guess I could since it is my site), we are proud to announce that Joey Galloway has won the 2015-16 Gamedaycole.com Bowl Season Championship at 31-11!

We had a grand total of 59 experts who participated in bowl season this year, and for the full results you can check out the list below to see how your favorite (or most hated) personality did during bowl season. Since my full list of bowl picks for all of these people is over 30 pages long, you’ll just have to take my word on it for now. Congratulations to everyone who participated this year.

Andrea Adelson: 1-1
Charles Arbuckle: 1-2
Skip Bayless: 1-2 SU, 1-0 ATS
Mike Bellotti: 3-2
Jon Berger: 7-1
Kevin Blackstone: 1-0
Mack Brown: 2-2
Kevin Carter: 15-10
Lee Corso: 2-4 (1-2 headgear picks)
Stanford Steve Coughlin: 2-6 SU, 3-9 ATS
Colin Cowherd: 7-1 SU, 0-1 ATS
Tim Cowlishaw: 7-1 SU, 8-5 ATS
Ed Cunningham: 5-9
Butch Davis: 2-2
Rece Davis: 1-0
Heather Dinich: 14-6
Brad Edwards: 7-0 SU, 4-1 ATS
Chris “The Bear” Fallica: 7-7 SU, 10-9 ATS
Paul Finebaum: 10-3
Mike Golic: 3-0 SU, 2-0 ATS
Mike Greenberg: 3-0 SU, 1-0 ATS
Brian Griese: 2-0
Israel Gutierrez: 1-0
Kirk Herbstreit: 6-4
Lou Holtz: 1-2
Desmond Howard: 8-4
Mel Kiper Jr.: 2-0
Matt Leinart: 2-1
Tom Luginbill: 4-0
Trevor Matich: 4-0
Mark May: 3-1
Greg McElroy: 13-3
Booger McFarland: 9-5
Ryan McGee: 1-0
Urban Meyer: 1-0
Woody Paige: 0-1
Jesse Palmer: 1-0
Petros Papadakis: 2-1
Brady Quinn: 1-2
David Pollack: 6-5
Jason Sehorn: 7-2
Robert Smith: 2-2
Marcus Spears: 10-2
Clint Stoerner: 1-0
Tim Tebow: 2-1
Scott Van Pelt: 2-1 SU, 0-1 ATS
Andre Ware: 1-0