2020-21 Season: #NationalChampionship picks and predictions mega-post!

I’d like to congratulate everyone for making it to the national championship of our bizarro 2020-21 college football season. The national championship kicks off tonight and I’ll be posting all of the picks and predictions I can find right here for you. I’ll be updating all day so check back often for the latest picks, predictions, bets, guesses and trends.

Lee Corso’s Headgear:
Ohio State over Alabama

Desmond Howard:
Alabama over Ohio State

@GamedayJen:
Alabama over Ohio State

David Pollack:
Alabama over Ohio State

UNOFFICIAL Picks from the Stanford Steve & The Bear podcast:

Stanford Steve:
Lean Ohio State+8, Under 75
Jahleel Billingsley over receptions and yards
Trey Sermon over receptions

The Bear:
Lean Ohio State+8
Bear said he thinks Ohio State wins outright on Championship Drive 1/11/2021

Daily Wager:
Doug Kezirian: Alabama-8 vs Ohio State
Joe Fortenbaugh: Alabama-5.5 1H vs Ohio State

Joe Fortenbaugh’s picks on Youtube:
Bama TT over 41.5
Bama-5.5 1H
Over 74.5
Najee Harris over 110.5 Rush, 149.5 total yards

Brady Quinn’s picks on CBS Sports HQ:
Ohio State+9 vs Alabama
Alabama vs Ohio State under 74.5

Colin Cowherd:
Ohio State+8.5 vs Alabama

Big Noon Kickoff predictions from Fox Sports:

Matt Leinart:
Alabama over Ohio State 45-34

Urban Meyer:
Ohio State over Alabama 38-35

Reggie Bush:
Ohio State over Alabama 45-42

Brady Quinn:
Alabama over Ohio State 38-32

Joel Klatt:
Alabama over Ohio State 45-42

Emory Hunt:
Ohio State+8 vs Alabama
Alabama-4.5 1H vs Ohio State
Alabama vs Ohio State over 75
Ohio State+250 ML vs Alabama

Bryant McFadden:
Alabama-8 vs Ohio State
Alabama-4.5 1H vs Ohio State
Alabama vs Ohio State under 75
Alabama-300 ML vs Ohio State

Joey Galloway:
Ohio State over Alabama

Jesse Palmer:
Alabama over Ohio State

Tim Tebow:
Alabama over Ohio State

Bruce Feldman:
Alabama over Ohio State

Stewart Mandel:
Ohio State over Alabama

Andy Staples:
Alabama over Ohio State

Phil Steele:
Alabama vs Ohio State over 75

Danny Kanell:
Ohio State+8 vs Alabama
Alabama vs Ohio State over 75

Chip Patterson:
Alabama-8 vs Ohio State
Alabama vs Ohio State under 75

Tom Fornelli:
Ohio State+8 vs Alabama
Alabama vs Ohio State under 75

Greg McElroy:
Alabama over Ohio State

Pat Forde:
Alabama-7.5 vs Ohio State

Pete Thamel:
Alabama-7.5 vs Ohio State

Dan Wetzel:
Alabama-7.5 vs Ohio State

Adam Kramer:
Alabama-7.5 vs Ohio State
Alabama vs Ohio State under 75

Barrett Sallee:
Ohio State+8 vs Alabama

Mark May:
Alabama over Ohio State

Lou Holtz:
Ohio State over Alabama

Tony Barnhart:
Alabama over Ohio State

Scott Spreitzer:
Alabama to lead after 1st quarter (didn’t give a line/price)
Najee Harris more receiving yards than Trey Sermon

Ryan Clark:
Alabama over Ohio State

Dan Orlovsky:
Ohio State over Alabama

Rex Ryan:
Alabama over Ohio State

Mike Greenberg:
Ohio State over Alabama

Norm Hitzges:
Ohio State+8.5 vs Alabama

David Hale:
Alabama-8 vs Ohio State

Bill Connelly:
Ohio State+8 vs Alabama

Shannon Sharpe:
Alabama over Ohio State

Skip Bayless:
Ohio State+8.5 vs Alabama (said he’d take 7.5)

Dan Katz:
Ohio State+9 vs Alabama

Rico Bosco:
Alabama-9
Under 75.5

Matt Youmans:
Alabama-8.5 vs Ohio State

Clay Travis:
Ohio State+8.5 vs Alabama
Over 74.5

Todd Fuhrman:
Ohio State+8.5 vs Alabama

Eric Mac Lain, EJ Manuel and Mark Richt:
Alabama over Ohio State

Laura Rutledge:
Alabama over Ohio State

Tom Luginbill:
Alabama oveR Ohio State

Booger McFarland:
Ohio State over Alabama

Heather Dinich:
Alabama over Ohio State

Trevor Matich:
Alabama over Ohio State

2018-19 Bowl Season: Picks are graded; results are in!

The 2018-19 college football season is in the books.  Here are the bowl grades to tie you over until we determine our yearly champion.  Obviously not everyone qualifies for our made-up bowl competition, so our panel of scientists has made the following determinations.

Our 2018-19 bowl season will award a straight-up champion and a gambling champion since it is hard to separate the two.  Our straight-up picking champion for this bowl season is actually a tie.  @GamedayJen and Mark Schlabach both went 26-15 on the bowl picks this year and topped all of our experts who picked a full slate of games.  Our ATS gambling champion is going to be Dusty Dvoracek at 9-3 ATS.  Nobody picked the full slate of games ATS, but nobody really had a good bowl season picking ATS, so he wins.

Congratulations to all of our competitors this year.

Straight up grades:

percent.correct n.correct n.wrong
Corso.Headgear 100% 3 0
Charles.Arbuckle 100% 1 0
Danny.Kanell 100% 1 0
Matt.Leinart 100% 2 0
Brett.McMurphy 100% 2 0
Houston.Nutt 100% 2 0
Dusty.Dvoracek 80% 4 1
Jake.Trotter 75% 3 1
David.Pollack 71.43% 5 2
Mark.May 70% 7 3
Lee.Corso 66.67% 16 8
Andrea.Adelson 66.67% 2 1
Colin.Cowherd 66.67% 2 1
Tim.Cowlishaw 66.67% 4 2
Heather.Dinich 66.67% 2 1
Mike.Greenberg 66.67% 2 1
Lou.Holtz 66.67% 6 3
Chris.Low 66.67% 2 1
Ivan.Maisel 66.67% 2 1
Ryan.McGee 66.67% 2 1
Marcus.Spears 66.67% 6 3
Tim.Tebow 66.67% 4 2
Randy.Cross 63.64% 7 4
Aaron.Taylor 63.64% 7 4
Jennifer 63.41% 26 15
Mark.Schlabach 63.41% 26 15
Paul.Finebaum 62.50% 5 3
Pete.Thamel 60% 21 14
Emmanuel.Acho 58.82% 10 7
Greg.McElroy 58.54% 24 17
Jonathan.Vilma 58.33% 7 5
Phil.Steele 57.50% 23 17
Joel.Klatt 57.14% 4 3
Rick.Neuheisel 57.14% 4 3
Stewart.Mandel 55% 22 18
Adam.Rittenberg 53.66% 22 19
Kirk.Herbstreit 52.38% 11 10
Pat.Forde 51.22% 21 20
Desmond.Howard 50% 12 12
Skip.Bayless 50% 1 1
Steve.Coughlin 50% 6 6
Chris.Fallica 50% 8 8
Bruce.Feldman 50% 20 20
Joey.Galloway 50% 2 2
Tom.Luginbill 50% 1 1
Booger.McFarland 50% 1 1
Todd.McShay 50% 1 1
Dari.Nowkhah 50% 1 1
Jesse.Palmer 50% 2 2
Robert.Smith 50% 1 1
Dave.Wannstedt 50% 1 1
Celebrity.Guest 47.37% 9 10
Andy.Staples 46.34% 19 22
Brian.Jones 45.45% 5 6
Jim.Mora.Jr 42.86% 3 4
Trevor.Matich 40% 2 3
Dan.Orlovsky 29.41% 5 12
Jordan.Rodgers 25% 1 3
Gene.Chizik 0% 0 1
Chris.Doering 0% 0 1
Mike.Golic 0% 0 1
Chip.Kelly 0% 0 1
Stephen.A.Smith 0% 0 1
Dan.Wetzel 0% 0 1
Trey.Wingo 0% 0 1

ATS grades:

% Correct n.correct n.wrong n.tie
danny.kanell.ats 100% 3 0 0
dari.nowkhah.ats 100% 1 0 0
dusty.dvoracek.ats 75% 9 3 0
dave.portnoy.ats 72.22% 13 5 0
adam.kramer.ats 71.43% 5 2 0
dan.katz.ats 64.71% 11 6 0
steve.coughlin.ats 61.54% 8 5 0
jake.trotter.ats 60% 3 2 0
todd.fuhrman.ats 53.85% 7 6 0
rufus.peabody.ats 53.85% 7 6 0
chris.fallica.ats 52.63% 10 9 0
colin.cowherd.ats 50% 1 1 0
will.harris.ats 50% 1 1 0
doug.kezirian.ats 50% 4 4 0
scott.spreitzer.ats 50% 7 7 0
phil.steele.ats 50% 11 11 0
pete.thamel.ats 46.15% 18 21 0
jeff.ma.ats 42.86% 3 4 0
rico.bosco.ats 40% 6 9 0
pat.forde.ats 30.77% 12 27 0
tim.cowlishaw.ats 30% 3 7 0
scott.van.pelt.ats 0% 0 2 0

2017-18 #CFBPlayoff National Championship picks!

Good morning football fans and welcome back.  The time has come for the official GamedayCole.com National Championship megapost of picks and predictions for your review.  I will be updating all day all the way through kickoff with the Gameday crew, SEC Nation, Corso’s headgear, celebrity guests, talking heads, blowhards, trolls and anyone else we can find along the way.  Check back often for the latest picks, predictions and bets!

 

 

 

 

 

 

 

Lee Corso:
Alabama over Georgia (headgear pick)

Desmond Howard:
Alabama over Georgia

David Pollack:
Georgia over Alabama

@GamedayJen:
Alabama over Georgia

Tim Tebow:
Alabama over Georgia

Marcus Spears:
Georgia over Alabama

Paul Finebaum:
Alabama over Georgia

Andrea Adelson: espn.com 1/8/2018
Alabama over Georgia

Charles Arbuckle :Mac Attack 1/4/2018
Alabama over Georgia

Skip Bayless: Undisputed 1/8/2018
Alabama over Georgia 20-10

Mack Brown: ESPNU radio on SiriusXM 1/7/2018
Alabama over Georgia

Gene Chizik:
Alabama to win championship

Stanford Steve Coughlin: Chad & Scooch podcast 1/4/2018
Alabama-4.5 vs Georgia
“Lay the 4.5, throw a ton on the moneyline”, said he got the moneyline at -200
Alabama-3.5 vs Georgia
Alabama-175 vs Georgia
Alabama-4 vs Georgia (BTB 1/5/2017)

Colin Cowherd: Twitter 1/6/2017
Alabama-3 vs Georgia (by a touchdown)

Tim Cowlishaw: dallasnews.com 1/8/2018
Georgia over Alabama 28-24

Heather Dinich: Twitter 1/2/2018
Alabama over Georgia

Chris Doering: espn.com 1/8/2018
Georgia over Alabama

Dusty Dvoracek: espn.com 1/8/2018
Alabama over Georgia

Chris Fallica: Chad & Schooch podcast 1/4/2018
Georgia+4.5 vs Alabama (early lean only, no official pick)
Georgia+3.5 vs Alabama (Georgia outright)
Georgia+4 vs Alabama (Bear’s Bank)

Bruce Feldman: si.com
Alabama over Georgia 27-23

Jimbo Fisher:
Georgia over Alabama

Pat Forde: Yahoo.com 1/7/201
Alabama over Georgia 21-20

Joey Galloway: CFB Live 1/8/2018
Georgia over Alabama

Rod Gilmore: espn.com 1/8/2018
Alabama over Georgia

Mike Golic: Golic & Wingo 1/8/2018
Alabama over Georgia

Brock Huard: espn.com 1/8/2018
Alabama over Georgia

Danny Kanell: Off the bench 1/8/2018
Alabama over Georgia
Alabama-4 vs Georgia

Mel Kiper Jr.: Twitter 1/8/2018
Georgia+4 vs Alabama

Joel Klatt: Bad Radio 1/4/2018
Alabama over Georgia

Jen Lada: espn.com 1/8/2018
Georgia over Alabama

Tom Luginbill: espn.com 1/8/2018
Alabama over Georgia

Ivan Maisel: espn.com 1/8/2018
Alabama over Georgia

Gus Malzahn:
Alabama over Georgia

Trevor Matich: CFB Live 1/4
Alabama over Georgia 24-17

Greg McElroy: espn.com 1/8/2018
Alabama over Georgia

Booger McFarland: CFB Live 1/8/2018
Alabama over Georgia 21-17

Todd McShay: Championship Drive 1/7/2018
Alabama over Georgia

Brent Musburger: Podcast 1/8/2018
Alabama over Georgia 30-17

Dari Nowkhah: espn.com 1/8/2018
Alabama over Georgia

Jesse Palmer: Championship Drive 1/7/2018
Alabama over Georgia 28-17

Jordan Rodgers: WWLS 1/8/2018
Georgia over Alabama

Mark Schlabach: espn.com 1/8/2018
Georgia over Alabama

Howie Schwab: the Schwab Speak’s podcast
Alabama over Georgia

Stephen A. Smith: Sportscenter 1/8/2018
Alabama over Georgia

Andy Staples: si.com
Alabama over Georgia 17-13

Phil Steele:
Alabama-3.5 vs Georgia

Clint Stoerner: Twitter 1/4
Alabama over Georgia

Jonathan Vilma: espn.com 1/8/2018
Alabama over Georgia 20-10

Trey Wingo: Golic & Wingo 1/8/2018
Alabama over Georgia