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Week 7 2018: #CFB Picks w/ Chris ‘The Bear’ Fallica & Stanford Steve!

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Here’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for.  The biggest day of the week is when Chris Fallica and Stanford Steve Coughlin put out their picks on the Behind the Bets podcast.  It seriously doesn’t get any bigger than these two.  So here’s the picks.

They were all over the road again giving leans and opinions on games but the official picks are below.  Stanford Steve had a lean on the Washington/Oregon over 57.5.  The Bear had Northwestern/Nebraska as his biggest stay-away game this week.  He said this is the biggest differential between the FPI spread and Vegas line, so somebody knows something on this one.

Chris Fallica:

Date Pick
10/13/18 Akron+11.5 vs Buffalo
10/13/18 Ball State+3 vs Central Michigan
10/13/18 Duke+3 vs Georgia Tech
10/13/18 East Carolina+16 vs Houston
10/13/18 Boston College-13.5 vs Louisville
10/13/18 Navy+7 vs Temple

Stanford Steve:

Date Pick
10/13/18 Duke+3 vs Georgia Tech
10/13/18 Boston College-13.5 vs Louisville
10/13/18 Nebraska vs Northwestern over 59
10/13/18 Washington-3 vs Oregon
10/13/18 Iowa State+6.5 vs West Virginia

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Week 6 2018: #CFB Picks are graded; results are in!

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Good evening college football fans.  We are back with the results from all of our expert pickers and prognosticators for week 6 of our 2018 college football season.

Winners this week included David Pollack (4-0), Stanford Steve (4-1 straight up, 4-0-1 ATS), Andrea Adelson (6-3), and Scott Spreitzer (2-1 ATS).  You’re probably wondering how Stanford Steve didn’t win this week, but we had a pretty incredible performance this week.  Phil Steele got off to a rough start on the year, but he absolutely blew the door off of the picks this week.  Phil went 9-3 straight up, but it was his 14-2 record against the spread this week which earns him the top spot.  Congratulations to Phil Steele on a huge week.

Losers this week included Gene Chizik (2-4), Ryan McGee (1-3), Ivan Maisel (1-3), and Rufus Peabody (2-3 ATS), Jeff Ma (2-3 ATS).  However this week’s loss is going to Bruce Feldman, who had a 7-4 week straight up but went 4-7 against the spread.

Lee Corso went 7-6 on his picks this week, including a loss on the Oklahoma headgear pick.  Special guest celebrity Toby Keith also went 7-6 on the week.  Bear’s Bank had a tough week going 0-3 on the Gameday picks. @GamedaJen booked another winner at 9-6 on the week.

Everyone else is somewhere in between, so check out the results below to see how your favorite (or most hated) personality did this week.

Straight up grades:

percent.correct n.correct n.wrong
David.Pollack 100% 4 0
Rece.Davis 100% 2 0
Pat.Forde 100% 3 0
Danny.Kanell 100% 3 0
Steve.Coughlin 80% 4 1
Jesse.Palmer 75% 3 1
Phil.Steele 75% 9 3
Andrea.Adelson 66.67% 6 3
Chris.Doering 66.67% 4 2
Lou.Holtz 66.67% 6 3
Joel.Klatt 66.67% 2 1
Bruce.Feldman 63.64% 7 4
Jennifer 60% 9 6
Desmond.Howard 57.14% 8 6
Chris.Fallica 57.14% 4 3
Paul.Finebaum 55.56% 5 4
Mark.May 55.56% 5 4
Lee.Corso 53.85% 7 6
Celebrity.Guest 53.85% 7 6
Kirk.Herbstreit 50% 6 6
Heather.Dinich 50% 2 2
Joey.Galloway 50% 2 2
Les.Miles 50% 2 2
Dari.Nowkhah 50% 1 1
Marcus.Spears 50% 3 3
Tim.Tebow 50% 3 3
Gene.Chizik 33.33% 2 4
Dusty.Dvoracek 33.33% 1 2
Ivan.Maisel 25% 1 3
Ryan.McGee 25% 1 3
Corso.Headgear 0% 0 1
Colin.Cowherd 0% 0 1
Matt.Leinart 0% 0 1
Robert.Smith 0% 0 1
Dave.Wannstedt 0% 0 1

ATS Grades:

percent.correct.ats n.correct n.wrong n.tie
Steve.Coughlin.ATS.Grade 90% 4 0 1
Phil.Steele.ATS.Grade 87.50% 14 2 0
Pat.Forde.ATS.Grade 83.33% 5 1 0
Scott.Spreitzer.ATS.Grade 66.67% 2 1 0
Dusty.Dvoracek.ATS.Grade 60% 3 2 0
Danny.Kanell.ATS.Grade 58.33% 3 2 1
Scott.Van.Pelt.ATS.Grade 55% 5 4 1
Chris.Fallica.ATS.Grade 50% 3 3 0
Jeff.Ma.ATS.Grade 40% 2 3 0
Rufus.Peabody.ATS.Grade 40% 2 3 0
Bruce.Feldman.ATS.Grade 36.36% 4 7 0
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Week 6 2018: #CFB Picks with Stanford Steve & Chris Fallica!

Posted on by gamedaycole

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen to week 6 of your college football season.  Here’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for.  The picks are in from celebrity superstars Chris ‘The Bear’ Fallica and Stanford Steve Coughlin. Listen to the whole podcast before investing in these please, but enjoy them either way.

The Bear said STAY AWAY from Syracuse/Pitt.  He said it the biggest disparity between the Vegas line and FPI line (FPI had Syracuse-10!!!) and he said it stinks big time, so stay away.  Stanford Steve had a lean on the Syracuse/Pitt over.

Stanford Steve gave a lean on Utah+5.5 but said he wasn’t sure if it was official for his ESPN Chalk article yet.  He wanted to give out Iowa-7 but said he’s scared off by his own rule of never laying more than 6 with Iowa.

Bear wanted to give out Florida but said something worried him about this one.  They gave a few more mentions to some leans but those were the main games discussed.

Chris Fallica:

Date Pick
10/6/18 Arizona State+2.5 vs Colorado
10/6/18 Air Force+3.5 vs Navy
10/6/18 Massachusetts+14 vs South Florida
10/6/18 Utah+5.5 vs Stanford
10/5/18 Utah State+2.5 vs BYU

Steve Coughlin:

Date Pick
10/6/18 Alabama vs Arkansas over 59
10/6/18 Texas A&M-6 vs Kentucky
10/6/18 Northwestern+11 vs Michigan State
10/5/18 Georgia Tech-4 vs Louisville

 

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