Last night was quite a performance by the Ohio State Buckeyes, and while they were the underdog in Vegas it should be no surprise to our panel of experts we tracked here. Our expert panel picked Ohio State to beat Oregon by a margin of 30 to 21. So let us all join in and congratulate the following 30 experts for being such geniuses in predicting the first College Football Playoff champion!
Picked Ohio State:
Steve Addazio
Skip Bayless
Kevin Blackistone
Todd Blackledge
Charley the Cat
Lee Corso (headgear pick)
Stanford Steve Coughlin
Colin Cowherd
Tim Cowlishaw
Brad Edwards
Chris Fallica
Joey Galloway
Mike Greenberg
Brady Hoke
Lou Holtz
Brian Kelly
Mel Kiper Jr.
Tom Luginbill
Booger McFarland
Todd McShay
Matt Millen
Brent Musberger
Woody Paige
David Pollack
Bob Ryan
Mark Schlabach
Robert Smith
Stephen A. Smith
Marcus Spears
Scott Van Pelt
And with all wins, there must be losses. Let us hang our heads in shame for all of the experts who took the favorite.
Picked Oregon:
Charles Arbuckle
Mike Bellotti
Mack Brown
Kevin Carter
Butch Davis
Heather Dinich
Paul Finebaum
Pat Forde
Mike Golic
Brian Griese
Desmond Howard
Jennifer
Danny Kanell
Ivan Maisel
Trevor Matich
Mark May
Brett McMurphy
Dari Nowkhah
Jesse Palmer
Bill Plaschke
Ryen Russillo
Good game ladies and gentlemen. We will be tallying up bowl season records shortly, and then we will be crowning the 2014-15 GamedayCole.com season champion!
It seems like yesterday we were just starting this 2014-15 season of college football, and yet here we are with one game left. The first ever FBS college football playoff champion will be crowned in Arlington, Tx Monday night in the matchup between Oregon and Ohio State. Along with a game of this magnitude comes more picks than you could possibly handle (or at least a lot). Anyone and everyone ESPN can trot out there on one of their networks wants to get a pick in on this game, so we will be tracking them and updating this post with the most up to date picks available.
Our current group of picks from our experts are standing at 28 to 20 in favor of the UNDERDOG Ohio State, including a final parting shot from Brady Hoke who predicted “Ohio” to beat Oregon Monday night. Check back over the next 48 hours leading up to the game for the latest updates to see who your favorite (or most hated) personality picked in the biggest game in college football history.
Steve Addazio:
Ohio St over Oregon (Championship Drive 1/11)
Charles Arbuckle:
Oregon over Ohio St (Twitter 1/7)
Charles Arbuckle’s pick
Skip Bayless:
Oregon over Ohio St 30-28 (First Take 1/12)
Skip Bayless’ pick
Mike Bellotti:
Oregon over Ohio St (CFB Daily 1/6)
Kevin Blackistone:
Ohio St over Oregon (ATH 1/12)
Todd Blackledge:
Ohio St over Oregon (Championship Drive 1/11)
Todd Blackledge’s pick
Mack Brown:
Oregon over Ohio St (Championship Drive 1/11)
Mack Brown’s pick
Kevin Carter:
Oregon over Ohio St (Film Room 1/12)
Charley the Cat:
Ohio St over Oregon (Twitter 1/12)
Charley’s pick!
Lee Corso:
Ohio St over Oregon (Headgear pick, Gameday 1/12)
Corso’s headgear pick!
“Stanford” Steve Coughlin:
Ohio St over Oregon 38-32 (espn.com 1/9)
Colin Cowherd:
Ohio St over Oregon 38-34 (The Herd 1/12)
Tim Cowlishaw:
Ohio St over Oregon 38-30 (ESPN Radio 103.3 1/12)
Butch Davis:
Oregon over Ohio St (Championship Drive 1/11)
