Tracking college football picks and predictions for YOU
Bill Connelly tweeted the SP+ picks and projections for all of the bowl games. This is great stuff because its great advice for your bowl mania pools, your confidence pools, betting the sides and totals. He mistakenly marked Ohio State-2 instead of Clemson-2, but he said it doesn’t change the SP+ pick. He also projects Alcorn State over NC A&T 26-25, with NC A&T sitting at -2 or -3 so there’s some value there.
Here is the official BIG BOARD from Greg McElroy on this year’s Bowl Mania Special. Please note Greg McElroy is calling the Alabama/Michigan game and the Buffalo/Charlotte game. He is not allowed to make a pick on those games, so Kevin Negandhi made those picks for him. Those two picks are not counted in McElroy’s official record.
Greg McElroy’s picks:
| Week | Date | Picks |
| B | 1/6/20 | Louisiana over Miami (OH) |
| B | 1/4/20 | Tulane over Southern Miss |
| B | 1/3/20 | Nevada over Ohio |
| B | 1/2/20 | Cincinnati over Boston College |
| B | 1/2/20 | Tennessee over Indiana |
| B | 1/1/20 | Auburn over Minnesota |
| B | 1/1/20 | Baylor over Georgia |
| B | 1/1/20 | Wisconsin over Oregon |
| B | 12/31/19 | Arizona State over Florida State |
| B | 12/31/19 | Wyoming over Georgia State |
| B | 12/31/19 | Navy over Kansas State |
| B | 12/31/19 | Virginia Tech over Kentucky |
| B | 12/31/19 | Utah over Texas |
| B | 12/30/19 | California over Illinois |
| B | 12/30/19 | Florida over Virginia |
| B | 12/30/19 | Mississippi State over Louisville |
| B | 12/30/19 | Western Kentucky over Western Michigan |
| B | 12/28/19 | Clemson over Ohio State |
| B | 12/28/19 | Iowa State over Notre Dame |
| B | 12/28/19 | LSU over Oklahoma |
| B | 12/28/19 | Penn State over Memphis |
| B | 12/27/19 | Air Force over Washington State |
| B | 12/27/19 | Southern Cal over Iowa |
| B | 12/27/19 | Wake Forest over Michigan State |
| B | 12/27/19 | North Carolina over Temple |
| B | 12/27/19 | Oklahoma State over Texas A&M |
| B | 12/26/19 | Pittsburgh over Eastern Michigan |
| B | 12/26/19 | Miami (FL) over Louisiana Tech |
| B | 12/24/19 | BYU over Hawaii |
| B | 12/23/19 | UCF over Marshall |
| B | 12/21/19 | Appalachian State over UAB |
| B | 12/21/19 | Arkansas State over FIU |
| B | 12/21/19 | Boise State over Washington |
| B | 12/21/19 | San Diego State over Central Michigan |
| B | 12/21/19 | SMU over Florida Atlantic |
| B | 12/21/19 | Georgia Southern over Liberty |
| B | 12/21/19 | Alcorn State over North Carolina A&T |
| B | 12/20/19 | Utah State over Kent State |
Todd McShay:
| Week | Date | Picks |
| B | 1/2/20 | Tennessee over Indiana |
| B | 1/1/20 | Alabama over Michigan |
| B | 1/1/20 | Auburn over Minnesota |
| B | 1/1/20 | Georgia over Baylor |
| B | 1/1/20 | Oregon over Wisconsin |
| B | 12/31/19 | Arizona State over Florida State |
| B | 12/31/19 | Texas over Utah |
| B | 12/30/19 | Florida over Virginia |
| B | 12/28/19 | Clemson over Ohio State |
| B | 12/28/19 | LSU over Oklahoma |
| B | 12/28/19 | Penn State over Memphis |
| B | 12/27/19 | Southern Cal over Iowa |
Desmond Howard:
| Week | Date | Picks |
| B | 1/2/20 | Indiana over Tennessee |
| B | 1/1/20 | Alabama over Michigan |
| B | 1/1/20 | Auburn over Minnesota |
| B | 1/1/20 | Baylor over Georgia |
| B | 1/1/20 | Oregon over Wisconsin |
| B | 12/31/19 | Arizona State over Florida State |
| B | 12/31/19 | Utah over Texas |
| B | 12/30/19 | Florida over Virginia |
| B | 12/28/19 | Clemson over Ohio State |
| B | 12/28/19 | LSU over Oklahoma |
| B | 12/28/19 | Penn State over Memphis |
| B | 12/27/19 | Air Force over Washington State |
| B | 12/27/19 | Southern Cal over Iowa |
| B | 12/27/19 | Wake Forest over Michigan State |
| B | 12/27/19 | North Carolina over Temple |
| B | 12/27/19 | Texas A&M over Oklahoma State |
| B | 12/26/19 | Miami (FL) over Louisiana Tech |
| B | 12/24/19 | BYU over Hawaii |
| B | 12/21/19 | Appalachian State over UAB |
| B | 12/21/19 | Boise State over Washington |
| B | 12/21/19 | SMU over Florida Atlantic |
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 |