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Week 10 2022: CFB Analyst picks are graded; results are in!

Posted on November 7, 2022November 7, 2022 by gamedaycole

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

Winners this week include Dennis Dodd (14-6, 6.799 GDC) and David Hale (10-3, 6.529 GDC). However, this week’s biggest winner was Tom Fornelli at 16-6 (8.625 GDC). Not a lot of big winners out there this week so congratulations to these three for good results on a Saturday with some unexpected results.

Lee Corso was out again this week with a medical situation so no picks or headgear selection from the coach. Celebrity guest Luke Bryan went 7-3 on the week. @GamedayJen went 7-4 on the week. Everyone else is somewhere in between so check out the full slate of results below to see how your favorite (or most hated) personality did this week.

Name	Pct	Win	Loss	Tie	GDC.Value
Tom.Fornelli	72.73	16	6	0	8.625
Dennis.Dodd	70	14	6	0	6.799
David.Hale	76.92	10	3	0	6.529
Celebrity.Guest	70	7	3	0	3.804
Steve.Coughlin	100	3	0	0	2.849
Jennifer	63.64	7	4	0	2.782
Urban.Meyer	100	2	0	0	1.939
Chris.Fallica	75	3	1	0	1.936
David.Pollack	100	2	0	0	1.893
Andrea.Adelson	62.5	5	3	0	1.876
Rick.Neuheisel	62.5	5	3	0	1.871
Kirk.Herbstreit	60	6	4	0	1.86
Chip.Patterson	57.14	12	9	0	1.84
Eric.Mac.Lain	75	3	1	0	1.82
EJ.Manuel	75	3	1	0	1.82
Aaron.Taylor	62.5	5	3	0	1.78
Dusty.Dvoracek	75	3	1	0	1.77
Bruce.Feldman	60	6	4	0	1.532
Colin.Cowherd	100	1	0	0	0.99
Scott.Van.Pelt	100	1	0	0	0.949
Mark.May	60	3	2	0	0.853
Joey.Galloway	100	1	0	0	0.785
Stewart.Mandel	54.55	6	5	0	0.765
Brady.Quinn	54.55	6	5	0	0.589
Danny.Kanell	54.55	6	5	0	0.364
Phil.Steele	50	1	1	0	-0.052
Trevor.Matich	50	2	2	0	-0.069
Reggie.Bush	50	1	1	0	-0.075
Paul.Finebaum	50	1	1	0	-0.097
Tim.Tebow	50	1	1	0	-0.097
Matt.Leinart	50	1	1	0	-0.106
Brett.McMurphy	50	2	2	0	-0.131
Rece.Davis	50	3	3	0	-0.174
Mark.Richt	50	2	2	0	-0.222
Pat.Forde	50	9	9	0	-0.38
Lou.Holtz	40	2	3	0	-1.047
Pete.Thamel	40	2	3	0	-1.08
Pat.McAfee	45.45	5	6	0	-1.086
Randy.Cross	44.44	4	5	0	-1.131
Dan.Wetzel	40	2	3	0	-1.142
Desmond.Howard	45.45	5	6	0	-1.246
Roman.Harper	0	0	2	0	-1.995
Jordan.Rodgers	0	0	2	0	-1.995
Ross.Dellenger	44.44	8	10	0	-2.262
Brian.Jones	33.33	3	6	0	-3.118
Average	57.93	190	138	0	NA

Week 2 2022: CFB Analyst picks are graded; results are in!

Posted on September 12, 2022September 12, 2022 by gamedaycole

Week 2 is in the books and the picks from our college football analysts have been graded. Let’s dive right in.

Winners this week included Chip Patterson (19-4), Dennis Dodd (17-5), and Tom Fornelli (17-7). However this week’s undisputed winner was David Hale at 14-0 with a GDC value of 12.619. Congratulations to David on this week’s win.

Lee Corso went 9-3 on the week including a headgear win with his pick of Alabama over Texas. Special celebrity guest Glen Powell went 7-5 on the week but had a pretty cool wig. @GamedayJen booked a nice win at 10-3 on the week. Pat McAfee officially joined the show and gave us a 5-6 performance on the week to match his attire.

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

Straight up grades:

Name	Pct	Win	Loss	GDC.Value
David.Hale	100	14	0	12.619
Chip.Patterson	82.61	19	4	12.173
Dennis.Dodd	77.27	17	5	9.362
Tom.Fornelli	70.83	17	7	7.413
Jennifer	76.92	10	3	6.363
Lee.Corso	75	9	3	5.508
Brady.Quinn	75	9	3	4.825
Randy.Cross	77.78	7	2	4.761
Kirk.Herbstreit	72.73	8	3	4.541
Andrea.Adelson	72.73	8	3	4.144
Lou.Holtz	80	4	1	2.808
Pete.Thamel	80	4	1	2.802
Dan.Wetzel	80	4	1	2.604
Pat.Forde	60	9	6	2.528
Phil.Steele	100	3	0	2.235
Colin.Cowherd	100	2	0	1.87
Dusty.Dvoracek	100	2	0	1.865
Greg.McElroy	100	2	0	1.86
Rece.Davis	66.67	4	2	1.855
Chris.Doering	100	2	0	1.851
Danny.Kanell	75	3	1	1.851
Reggie.Bush	100	2	0	1.823
Clint.Stoerner	58.33	7	5	1.728
Celebrity.Guest	58.33	7	5	1.698
Desmond.Howard	58.33	7	5	1.682
Scott.Van.Pelt	100	1	0	0.991
Jordan.Rodgers	66.67	2	1	0.976
Corso.Headgear	100	1	0	0.914
David.Pollack	100	1	0	0.914
Joey.Galloway	100	1	0	0.914
Steve.Coughlin	100	1	0	0.909
Paul.Finebaum	66.67	2	1	0.898
Tim.Tebow	66.67	2	1	0.898
Mark.May	60	3	2	0.896
Stewart.Mandel	54.55	6	5	0.73
Eric.Mac.Lain	50	2	2	0.019
EJ.Manuel	50	2	2	0.019
Roman.Harper	50	1	1	-0.025
Jon.Berger	50	2	2	-0.055
Urban.Meyer	50	1	1	-0.076
Matt.Leinart	50	1	1	-0.089
Chris.Fallica	50	1	1	-0.117
Aaron.Taylor	44.44	4	5	-0.952
Brian.Jones	44.44	4	5	-0.977
Pat.McAfee	45.45	5	6	-1.198
Bruce.Feldman	45.45	5	6	-1.238
Ross.Dellenger	46.67	7	8	-1.274
Mark.Richt	25	1	3	-1.987
Rick.Neuheisel	33.33	3	6	-2.955
Average	66.76	239	119	NA

Week 8 2021: CFB Analyst picks are graded; results are in!

Posted on October 25, 2021October 24, 2021 by gamedaycole

Week 8 is in the books and the picks from our expert panel of college football analysts are graded. Once again we will be using our experimental GDC Value (Game Day Cole Value) to weight picks.

Lee Corso went 6-5 on the week but missed on his headgear pick of UCLA over Oregon. Celebrity guest picker Bill Walton went 5-6 but put on an amazing performance on the show itself. Winners this week included Tom Fornelli (14-5, 7.755 GDC), Brady Quinn (11-3, 6.886 GDC) and Lou Holtz/Mark May (both 7-0, 6.763 GDC). This week’s winner is David Hale for going 11-2 with a GDC value of 8.471.

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

***GDC is an aggregate computer rating applied to each team, whereby any specific pick can be assigned a positive/negative value based on the ratio of team ratings.

Name	Pct	Win	Loss	Tie	GDC.Value
Average	64.83	223	121	0	NA
David.Hale	84.62	11	2	0	8.471
Tom.Fornelli	73.68	14	5	0	7.755
Brady.Quinn	78.57	11	3	0	6.886
Lou.Holtz	100	7	0	0	6.763
Mark.May	100	7	0	0	6.763
Chip.Patterson	68.42	13	6	0	5.899
Pete.Thamel	100	6	0	0	5.82
Danny.Kanell	71.43	10	4	0	5.015
Dan.Wetzel	100	5	0	0	4.758
Dennis.Dodd	63.16	12	7	0	3.955
Eric.Mac.Lain	83.33	5	1	0	3.887
Mark.Richt	83.33	5	1	0	3.887
Joey.Galloway	83.33	5	1	0	3.777
Bruce.Feldman	70	7	3	0	3.766
Colin.Cowherd	100	3	0	0	2.836
Stewart.Mandel	63.64	7	4	0	2.815
Andrea.Adelson	71.43	5	2	0	2.711
EJ.Manuel	66.67	4	2	0	1.955
Dusty.Dvoracek	75	3	1	0	1.939
Brett.McMurphy	75	3	1	0	1.936
Sam.Acho	100	2	0	0	1.916
Chris.Doering	100	2	0	0	1.883
Houston.Nutt	75	3	1	0	1.794
Jennifer	58.33	7	5	0	1.68
Reggie.Bush	100	1	0	0	0.974
Scott.Van.Pelt	100	1	0	0	0.974
Paul.Finebaum	100	1	0	0	0.965
Roman.Harper	100	1	0	0	0.965
Jordan.Rodgers	100	1	0	0	0.965
Tim.Tebow	100	1	0	0	0.965
Bob.Stoops	100	1	0	0	0.953
Brian.Jones	55.56	5	4	0	0.908
Jon.Berger	66.67	2	1	0	0.82
Steve.Coughlin	57.14	4	3	0	0.803
Kirk.Herbstreit	53.85	7	6	0	0.774
Lee.Corso	54.55	6	5	0	0.722
Kevin.Carter	50	3	3	0	-0.076
Pat.Forde	50	8	8	0	-0.209
David.Pollack	33.33	1	2	0	-0.978
Corso.Headgear	0	0	1	0	-0.981
Matt.Leinart	0	0	1	0	-0.981
Greg.McElroy	0	0	1	0	-0.981
Chris.Fallica	33.33	1	2	0	-0.994
Aaron.Taylor	42.86	3	4	0	-1.02
Randy.Cross	44.44	4	5	0	-1.034
Celebrity.Guest	45.45	5	6	0	-1.14
Rece.Davis	0	0	2	0	-1.911
Phil.Steele	25	1	3	0	-2.062
Desmond.Howard	42.86	6	8	0	-2.221
Rick.Neuheisel	30	3	7	0	-3.858