Week 0 2019: CFB picks are graded; results are in!

We only had two FBS games this week, and Gameday picked two FCS games to go along with it, so picks are very few but I’m here to grade them anyways.  I guess Corso wins it with a 3-1 record this week, and special guest celebrity picker Michael Irvin lost the week at 1-3.  He also predicted Miami will make the CFB Playoff so let’s all remember that in January.

Straight up picks:

people.to.score percent.correct n.correct n.wrong
Corso.Headgear 100 1 0
David.Pollack 100 1 0
Gene.Chizik 100 1 0
Chris.Fallica 100 1 0
Eric.Mac.Lain 100 1 0
Stewart.Mandel 100 1 0
Mark.May 100 2 0
Aaron.Murray 100 2 0
Marcus.Spears 100 1 0
Matt.Stinchcomb 100 1 0
Pete.Thamel 100 2 0
Tim.Tebow 100 1 0
Lee.Corso 75 3 1
Desmond.Howard 50 2 2
Jennifer 50 2 2
Bruce.Feldman 50 1 1
Paul.Finebaum 50 1 1
Pat.Forde 50 1 1
Lou.Holtz 50 1 1
Brian.Jones 50 1 1
Houston.Nutt 50 1 1
Kirk.Herbstreit 33.33 1 2
Celebrity.Guest 25 1 3
Rece.Davis 0 0 1
EJ.Manuel 0 0 1
Mark.Richt 0 0 1

ATS picks:

people.to.score percent.correct.ats n.correct n.wrong n.tie
Stewart.Mandel.ATS 100 2 0 0
Clay.Travis.ATS 100 2 0 0
Bruce.Feldman.ATS 0 0 2 0
Joe.Fortenbaugh.ATS 0 0 1 0
Danny.Kanell.ATS 0 0 1 0

Week 0 2019: College Gameday picks!

Here are the official first picks from the College Gameday crew for Week 0!

Corso’s Headgear: Florida over Miami (FL)

Bear’s Bank:

Lee Corso:

Week Date Picks
0 8/24/19 Arizona  over  Hawaii
0 8/24/19 Florida  over  Miami (FL)
0 8/24/19 Youngstown State  over  Samford
0 8/24/19 Villanova  over  Colgate

Kirk Herbstreit:

Week Date Picks
0 8/24/19 Arizona  over  Hawaii
0 8/24/19 Youngstown State  over  Samford
0 8/24/19 Colgate  over  Villanova

Desmond Howard:

Week Date Picks
0 8/24/19 Arizona  over  Hawaii
0 8/24/19 Miami (FL)  over  Florida
0 8/24/19 Youngstown State  over  Samford
0 8/24/19 Villanova  over  Colgate

Chris Fallica (straight up pick):

Week Date Picks
0 8/24/19 Florida  over  Miami (FL)

David Pollack:

Week Date Picks
0 8/24/19 Florida  over  Miami (FL)

Special guest Michael Irvin:

Week Date Picks
0 8/24/19 Arizona  over  Hawaii
0 8/24/19 Miami (FL)  over  Florida
0 8/24/19 Youngstown State  over  Samford
0 8/24/19 Colgate  over  Villanova

@GamedayJen:

Week Date Picks
0 8/24/19 Arizona  over  Hawaii
0 8/24/19 Florida  over  Miami (FL)
0 8/24/19 Youngstown State  over  Samford
0 8/24/19 Colgate  over  Villanova

Rece Davis:

Date Picks
8/24/19 Samford  over  Youngstown State

2018-19 Bowl Season: Picks are graded; results are in!

The 2018-19 college football season is in the books.  Here are the bowl grades to tie you over until we determine our yearly champion.  Obviously not everyone qualifies for our made-up bowl competition, so our panel of scientists has made the following determinations.

Our 2018-19 bowl season will award a straight-up champion and a gambling champion since it is hard to separate the two.  Our straight-up picking champion for this bowl season is actually a tie.  @GamedayJen and Mark Schlabach both went 26-15 on the bowl picks this year and topped all of our experts who picked a full slate of games.  Our ATS gambling champion is going to be Dusty Dvoracek at 9-3 ATS.  Nobody picked the full slate of games ATS, but nobody really had a good bowl season picking ATS, so he wins.

Congratulations to all of our competitors this year.

Straight up grades:

percent.correct n.correct n.wrong
Corso.Headgear 100% 3 0
Charles.Arbuckle 100% 1 0
Danny.Kanell 100% 1 0
Matt.Leinart 100% 2 0
Brett.McMurphy 100% 2 0
Houston.Nutt 100% 2 0
Dusty.Dvoracek 80% 4 1
Jake.Trotter 75% 3 1
David.Pollack 71.43% 5 2
Mark.May 70% 7 3
Lee.Corso 66.67% 16 8
Andrea.Adelson 66.67% 2 1
Colin.Cowherd 66.67% 2 1
Tim.Cowlishaw 66.67% 4 2
Heather.Dinich 66.67% 2 1
Mike.Greenberg 66.67% 2 1
Lou.Holtz 66.67% 6 3
Chris.Low 66.67% 2 1
Ivan.Maisel 66.67% 2 1
Ryan.McGee 66.67% 2 1
Marcus.Spears 66.67% 6 3
Tim.Tebow 66.67% 4 2
Randy.Cross 63.64% 7 4
Aaron.Taylor 63.64% 7 4
Jennifer 63.41% 26 15
Mark.Schlabach 63.41% 26 15
Paul.Finebaum 62.50% 5 3
Pete.Thamel 60% 21 14
Emmanuel.Acho 58.82% 10 7
Greg.McElroy 58.54% 24 17
Jonathan.Vilma 58.33% 7 5
Phil.Steele 57.50% 23 17
Joel.Klatt 57.14% 4 3
Rick.Neuheisel 57.14% 4 3
Stewart.Mandel 55% 22 18
Adam.Rittenberg 53.66% 22 19
Kirk.Herbstreit 52.38% 11 10
Pat.Forde 51.22% 21 20
Desmond.Howard 50% 12 12
Skip.Bayless 50% 1 1
Steve.Coughlin 50% 6 6
Chris.Fallica 50% 8 8
Bruce.Feldman 50% 20 20
Joey.Galloway 50% 2 2
Tom.Luginbill 50% 1 1
Booger.McFarland 50% 1 1
Todd.McShay 50% 1 1
Dari.Nowkhah 50% 1 1
Jesse.Palmer 50% 2 2
Robert.Smith 50% 1 1
Dave.Wannstedt 50% 1 1
Celebrity.Guest 47.37% 9 10
Andy.Staples 46.34% 19 22
Brian.Jones 45.45% 5 6
Jim.Mora.Jr 42.86% 3 4
Trevor.Matich 40% 2 3
Dan.Orlovsky 29.41% 5 12
Jordan.Rodgers 25% 1 3
Gene.Chizik 0% 0 1
Chris.Doering 0% 0 1
Mike.Golic 0% 0 1
Chip.Kelly 0% 0 1
Stephen.A.Smith 0% 0 1
Dan.Wetzel 0% 0 1
Trey.Wingo 0% 0 1

ATS grades:

% Correct n.correct n.wrong n.tie
danny.kanell.ats 100% 3 0 0
dari.nowkhah.ats 100% 1 0 0
dusty.dvoracek.ats 75% 9 3 0
dave.portnoy.ats 72.22% 13 5 0
adam.kramer.ats 71.43% 5 2 0
dan.katz.ats 64.71% 11 6 0
steve.coughlin.ats 61.54% 8 5 0
jake.trotter.ats 60% 3 2 0
todd.fuhrman.ats 53.85% 7 6 0
rufus.peabody.ats 53.85% 7 6 0
chris.fallica.ats 52.63% 10 9 0
colin.cowherd.ats 50% 1 1 0
will.harris.ats 50% 1 1 0
doug.kezirian.ats 50% 4 4 0
scott.spreitzer.ats 50% 7 7 0
phil.steele.ats 50% 11 11 0
pete.thamel.ats 46.15% 18 21 0
jeff.ma.ats 42.86% 3 4 0
rico.bosco.ats 40% 6 9 0
pat.forde.ats 30.77% 12 27 0
tim.cowlishaw.ats 30% 3 7 0
scott.van.pelt.ats 0% 0 2 0