2023-24 Season: CFB Year end results and awards!

Monday night we finished off our 2023-24 college football season. The time has come to tally up all the numbers, provide some commentary and hand out the awards for our best competitors of the year.

First and foremost I want to thank all of you who follow along with our journey through each college football season. I love doing this and appreciate so many people checking in for whatever reasons you may have.

I always like to highlight some items from College Gameday. Lee Corso went 11-5 on his headgear picks this year, which brings his lifetime record to 275-139 by my unofficial counts. He managed a 101-50 (66.89%) record on the season as a whole. Kirk Herbstreit went 93-60 (60.78%), Desmond Howard went 114-55 (67.46) and Pat McAfee went 104-63 (62.28%). Our celebrity guest pickers combined for a record of 95-57 (62.5%) on the year. The top celebrity picker was a tie between Joel McHale and Nolan Smith who both went 9-2 (despite Gameday crediting Joel McHale with an 11-2 record for reasons unknown). Congratulations to all the Gameday crew on another fun year.

Our award for top analyst of the year is going to be given to Bruce Feldman of the Athletic for going 106-26 (80.3%) while picking games straight up. He barely edged out Tom Fornelli (268-70, 79.29%) for this year’s championship. Congratulations to both on a great year picking games. You can check out the grades page for the full yearly results including all of the analysts we track.

2023-24 Analyst Grades – Cole’s Gameday Blog (gamedaycole.com)

Our top gambler of the year is without a doubt the best dressed man in college football, Emory Hunt. He went 153-122-7 (55.64%) picking games against the spread this year across different platforms and networks. He apparently killed it picking FCS games this year as part of his secret to success. He also had a profitable year on money line picks (8 picks, up 3.68 units), which makes him our undisputed gambling champion this year. The full gambling results are found at the links below.

2023-24 ATS Grades – Cole’s Gameday Blog (gamedaycole.com)

2023-24 Money Line Grades – Cole’s Gameday Blog (gamedaycole.com)

With college football done for the year we will still be posting some NFL picks here and there along with making some exciting new upgrades to the site (hopefully). Keep checking back for NFL picks and more.

Week 14 2022: College football analyst picks are graded; results are in!

Week 14 of our college football season is in the books and the picks from our analysts are graded. Let’s jump right in.

Winners this week include Kirk Herbstreit (7-1, 5.607 GDC) and Stewart Mandel (8-2, 5.606 GDC). However, this week’s biggest winner as Bruce Feldman at 8-2 with a GDC value of 5.768. Congratulations to Bruce on this week’s win.

Lee Corso went 6-3 on the week including a win with his headgear selection of Kansas State over TCU. Celebrity guest LaDainian Tomlinson went 7-2 on the week for a nice win. @GamedayJen went 4-4 on the week. Everyone else is somewhere in the mix so check out the full slate of results below to see how your favorite (or most hated) personality did this week.

NamePctWinLossGDC.Value
Bruce.Feldman80825.768
Kirk.Herbstreit87.5715.607
Stewart.Mandel80825.606
Celebrity.Guest77.78724.51
Randy.Cross75623.793
Rick.Neuheisel75623.623
Rece.Davis75623.58
Danny.Kanell100302.849
Pete.Thamel71.43522.779
Brady.Quinn71.43522.727
Lee.Corso66.67632.674
Desmond.Howard66.67632.646
Chris.Fallica75311.832
Corso.Headgear100101.017
Urban.Meyer100100.986
Phil.Steele100100.976
Brett.McMurphy66.67210.969
Scott.Van.Pelt100100.962
Jon.Berger100100.932
Eric.Mac.Lain100100.932
Mark.Richt100100.932
Paul.Finebaum100100.904
Roman.Harper100100.904
Jordan.Rodgers100100.904
Tim.Tebow100100.904
Aaron.Taylor57.14430.837
Steve.Coughlin60320.79
Lou.Holtz60320.723
Mark.May60320.723
Brian.Jones55.56540.699
Pat.McAfee55.56540.554
Ross.Dellenger5011-0.054
David.Hale5033-0.141
Dennis.Dodd5033-0.168
Dan.Wetzel5033-0.282
Jennifer5044-0.32
Tom.Fornelli5044-0.341
Pat.Forde5055-0.384
EJ.Manuel001-0.932
Reggie.Bush001-0.986
Dusty.Dvoracek001-0.986
Matt.Leinart001-0.986
David.Pollack001-1.017
Chip.Patterson28.5725-3.119
Average64.6213775NA

Week 12 2022: College football picks from Bruce Feldman and Stewart Mandel!

Here are the week 12 picks from Bruce Feldman and Stewart Mandel!

Bruce Feldman:

Maryland + 27.5 vs Ohio State
Minnesota  -2.5 vs Iowa
Michigan  -17.5 vs Illinois
Oklahoma State + 7.5 vs Oklahoma
TCU  -2.5 vs Baylor
Oregon  -3 vs Utah
Kentucky + 22.5 vs Georgia
Arizona + 4.5 vs Washington State
Tennessee  -21.5 vs South Carolina
Southern Cal  -2.5 vs UCLA
Clemson  -19.5 vs Miami (FL)

Stewart Mandel:

Maryland + 27.5 vs Ohio State
Iowa + 2.5 vs Minnesota
Michigan  -17.5 vs Illinois
Oklahoma  -7.5 vs Oklahoma State
TCU  -2.5 vs Baylor
Oregon  -3 vs Utah
Georgia  -22.5 vs Kentucky
Arizona + 4.5 vs Washington State
Tennessee  -21.5 vs South Carolina
UCLA + 2.5 vs Southern Cal
Clemson  -19.5 vs Miami (FL)