Week 1 2014: Saturday morning picks! #saturdayselections

After what I can only describe as the longest offseason in the history of offseasons, we finally made it to another Saturday of College Gameday.  We got up early to stretch and do extensive calisthenics to make sure we are ready for this day.  The picks will be coming in hot and fast all morning, so make sure you’re checking back often to see the latest updates.  We will have a little Dari & Mel, possibly some Sportscenter random picks, possibly some SEC Network picks, and of course the College Gameday crew including Lee Corso’s headgear pick.

Lee Corso:
Bama over WVU
USC over Fresno St
Tennessee over Utah St
Louisville over Miami Fl
Iowa St over NDSU
Ohio St over Navy
LSU over Wisconsin
Georgia over Clemson
EWU over SHSU (headgear pick)
FSU over Okla St (headgear pick)

Kirk Herbstreit:
UCF over Penn St
LSU over Wisconsin
USC over Fresno St
Tennessee over Utah St
Louisville over Miami Fl
NDSU over Iowa St
UCLA over UVA
Ohio St over Navy
Georgia over Clemson
Bama over WVU

Desmond Howard:
Bama over WVU
FSU over Okla St
Michigan over App St
Georgia over Clemson
Auburn over Arkansas
LSU over Wisconsin
Tennessee over Utah St
Louisville over Miami Fl
Iowa St over NDSU
UCLA over Virginia
Ohio St over Navy
LSU over Wisconsin

Stone Cold Steve Austin:
Utah St over Tennessee
Miami Fl over Louisville
Iowa St over NDSU
UCLA over UVA
Ohio St over Navy
Wisconsin over LSU
Georgia over Clemson
Bama over WVU
FSU over Okla St

David Pollack:
FSU over Okla St
Bama over WVU
Michigan over App St
Georgia over Clemson
LSU over Wisconsin

Jennifer’s Picks:
S.Carolina over TAMU
Wisconsin over LSU
USC over Fresno St
Bama over WVU
Tennessee over Utah St
Louisville over Miami Fl
NDSU over Iowa St
UCLA over Virginia
Ohio St over Navy (closer than the experts think)
Clemson over Georgia (upset special)
FSU over Okla St

Tim Tebow:
LSU over Wisconsin
Bama over WVU
Georgia over Clemson
Auburn over Arkansas

Marcus Spears:
Georgia over Clemson
Bama over WVU
LSU over Wisconsin
Auburn over Arkansas

Paul Finebaum:
Bama over WVU
Georgia over Clemson
LSU over Wisconsin
Auburn over Arkansas

Greg McElroy:
Ohio St over Navy
Georgia over Clemson
LSU over Wisconsin
FSU over Okla St

Dari Nowkhah:
FSU over Okla St
Ohio St over Navy
Georgia over Clemson
LSU over Wisconsin

Mel Kiper Jr.:
Ohio St over Navy
Georgia over Clemson
LSU over Wisconsin
FSU over Okla St

Danny Kanell:
FSU over Okla St

Welcome back – Preseason predictions

Check one two.  Does this thing still work?

Good.  We are back for another exciting year of college football, which means an even more exciting year of tracking your favorite (or most hated) personalities on their picks.  For our first post this season, we will be posting all kinds of random preseason picks from random people.  These don’t count for the official record, but they are fun to review after the season is over!  Here we go…

Trevor Matich:
FSU to win championship

Brett McMurphy:
Bama to win championship

David Pollack:
Final Four – Bama, FSU, UGA, Mich St

Kevin carter
Auburn to win SEC west
S.Carolina to win SEC East
Auburn to win SEC
Wisconsin to win Big Ten West
Mich St to win Big Ten East
Mich St to win Big Ten
Texas to beat OU
Bryce Petty Big 12 Player of the year
Charlie Strong Big 12 Coach of the year
Baylor to win Big 12

Jason Sehorn:
Wisconsin to win Big Ten West
Mich St to win Big Ten East
Mich St to win Big Ten

Tom luginbill:
Bama to win SEC West
S.Carolina to win SEC East
Bama to win SEC
Davis Webb Big 12 Player of the Year
Art Bryles Big 12 Coach of the Year
Baylor to win Big 12

Tim Tebow:
Bama to win championship

Paul Finebaum:
Bama to make playoff, only team from sec

Mel Kiper Jr.:
Final Four – FSU, OU, UCLA, Georgia

Dari Nowkhah:
Final Four – FSU, Bama, Mich St, USC

Mack Brown:
FSU in the playoff

2013-14 Season Awards!

Yeah so it is a little bit delayed, but here are the awards for our 2013-14 season of Cole’s Gameday Blog Football Championship Stuff Edition!!!

2013-14 Bowl Co-Champions:
Phil Steele/Robert Smith (21-14).  It was a down year in the Bowl Pick’em leagues, but our two champs this year include multiple Bowl Pick’em winner Robert Smith, and newcomer (to this blog) Phil Steele.

Best preseason pick of the year: Colin Cowherd, Ole Miss over Texas.  It was supposed to be a bounce-back year for Mack Brown and the Texas Longhorns, and nobody was predicting big things for the Ole Miss Rebels.  However, Colin went out on a limb and called this one week before the season started, and was amazingly right!

Best Weeks of the Year:
Colin Cowherd, Week 9 (11-0)
Bubba Watson, Week 5 (10-0)
Jennifer’s Picks, Week 5 (13-1)
Pat Forde, Week 4 (30-3)

Worst Week of the Year:
Robert Smith, Week 8 (0-9)

Best Picks of the Year:
Lou Holtz, Week 1: NDSU over KState
Lou Holtz, Fiest Bowl: UCF over Baylor
Nobody on earth would have picked either of these upsets.  Somehow Lou Holtz picked both.  What does this mean?  I don’t know, but it is impressive.

Upset Specialists:
Jennifer’s upset specials: 10-5, 66.67%
Mark Schlabach: 7-5, 58.33%
Todd McShay: 8-10, 44.44%
Brad Edwards: 6-8, 42.86%
Lee Corso: 2-3, 40%
Kirk Herbstreit: 1-4, 20%

2013-14 Cole’s Gameday Blog SEASON CHAMPION!!!
Pat Forde: 301-95, 76.01%
This year’s champion, Pat Forde, is unusual in the sense that not only did he finish with the strongest record amongst our competitors, but he also had the most picks of anyone this year.  I would say that is strong to quite strong.  The full slate of results is below, but let’s take a minute to congratulate Pat Forde for a historic season.

The first section is our true competitors this season, and the second section are those who didn’t have enough picks to qualify for the yearly awards.

Pat Forde: 301-95, 76.01%
Phil Steele: 102-36, 73.91%
Colin Cowherd: 115-43, 72.78%
Desmond Howard: 71-30, 70.30%
Jennifer’s Picks: 149-63, 70.28%
Mel Kiper Jr.: 54-27, 66.67%
Lee Corso: 128-50, 66.07%
Mike Bellotti: 26-14, 65.00%
Mark May: 46-25, 64.79%
Kirk Herbstreit: 114-63, 64.41%
Dari Nowkhah: 117-66, 63.93%
Jason Sehorn: 72-43, 62.61%
Brad Edwards: 31-19, 62.00%
Celebrity Guests: 95-60, 61.29%
Todd McShay: 65-44, 59.63%
David Pollack: 32-22, 59.26%
Mark Schlabach: 31-24, 56.36%
Robert Smith: 70-55, 56.00%
Lou Holtz: 38-31, 55.07%

Tim Cowlishaw: 3-0, 100.00%
Tim Tebow: 1-0, 100.00%
Kevin Blackistone: 1-0, 100.00%
Charles Arbuckle: 26-5, 83.87%
Ivan Maisel: 16-5, 76.19%
Chris Fowler: 12-4, 75.00%
Trevor Matich: 29-10, 74.36%
Tom Luginbill: 24-10, 70.59%
Paul Finebaum: 15-7, 68.18%
Bill Plaschke: 4-2, 66.67%
Matt Millen: 5-3, 62.50%
Ryen Russillo: 23-14, 62.16%
Danny Kanell: 12-8, 60.00%
Joey Galloway: 3-2, 60.00%
Andre Ware: 3-2, 60.00^
Jesse Palmer: 14-10, 58.33%
Skip Bayless: 9-7, 56.25%
Brian Griese: 21-18, 53.85%
Ed Cunningham: 18-17, 51.43%
Chris Fallia: 11-11, 50.00%
Kevin Carter: 4-4, 50.00%
Scott Van Pelt: 3-3, 50.00%
Woody Paige: 2-2, 50.00%
JA Adande: 1-1, 50.00%
Mike Golic: 1-1, 50.00%
Stephen A. Smith: 1-1, 50.00%
Matt Stinchcomb: 7-8, 46.67%
Brock Huard: 2-3, 40.00%
Jackie MacMullen: 0-1, 0.00%
Mike Greenberg: 0-2, 0.00%
Rod Gilmore: 0-4, 0.00%