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Week 2 2018: Various weekday #CFB Picks!

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I’ve put out the regular posts so far this week, so here’s all the delicious leftovers.  All of those random picks I picked up here and there this week can be found below.  I’ll update with some more as the day goes along.

Andea Adelson:

Date Picks
9/8/18 Clemson  over  Texas A&M
9/8/18 Duke  over  Northwestern
9/8/18 Georgia  over  South Carolina
9/8/18 North Carolina State  over  Georgia State
9/8/18 Georgia Tech  over  South Florida
9/8/18 Boston College  over  Holy Cross
9/8/18 Louisville  over  Indiana State
9/8/18 Arizona State  over  Michigan State
9/8/18 North Carolina  over  East Carolina
9/8/18 Pittsburgh  over  Penn State
9/8/18 Florida State  over  Samford
9/8/18 Miami (FL)  over  Savannah State
9/8/18 Stanford  over  Southern California
9/8/18 Wake Forest  over  Towson
9/8/18 Virginia  over  Indiana
9/8/18 Syracuse  over  Wagner
9/8/18 Virginia Tech  over  William & Mary

Colin Cowherd:

Year Date Picks
2018 9/8/18 Stanford  over  Southern California

Heather Dinich:

Year Date Picks
2018 9/8/18 Clemson  over  Texas A&M
2018 9/8/18 Georgia  over  South Carolina
2018 9/8/18 Arizona State  over  Michigan State
2018 9/8/18 Stanford  over  Southern California

Dusty Dvoracek:

Date Pick
9/7/18 TCU-22.5 vs SMU
9/8/18 Oklahoma State-32.5 vs South Alabama
9/8/18 Texas-23 vs Tulsa
9/8/18 UCLA+30 vs Oklahoma

Pat Forde:

Date Pick
9/8/18 Texas A&M+12.5 vs Clemson
9/8/18 Georgia-10 vs South Carolina
9/8/18 Arizona State+6 vs Michigan State
9/8/18 Pittsburgh+9 vs Penn State
9/8/18 Stanford-5 vs Southern California
9/8/18 Virginia+6.5 vs Indiana

Danny Kanell:

Date Pick
9/8/18 Texas A&M+12 vs Clemson
9/8/18 Michigan State-6 vs Arizona State
9/8/18 Southern California+6 vs Stanford

Ivan Maisel:

Year Date Picks
2018 9/8/18 Clemson  over  Texas A&M
2018 9/8/18 Georgia  over  South Carolina
2018 9/8/18 Michigan State  over  Arizona State
2018 9/8/18 Stanford  over  Southern California

Les Miles:

Date Picks
9/8/18 Clemson  over  Texas A&M
9/8/18 Nebraska  over  Colorado
9/8/18 Georgia  over  South Carolina
9/8/18 Penn State  over  Pittsburgh

Mark Schlabach:

Year Date Picks
2018 9/8/18 Clemson  over  Texas A&M
2018 9/8/18 Georgia  over  South Carolina
2018 9/8/18 Arizona State  over  Michigan State
2018 9/8/18 Stanford  over  Southern California
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Week 1 2018: #CFB Picks are graded; results are in!

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Welcome back everyone for the week 1 results.  Starting today this is where you are going to notice some big differences from last year.  You’ll have to reference the weekly pick posts if you want to see the picks themselves, because this is the new grading format.  Thanks to Chuck the Stat Guy we are running automated grading on our experts to bring you faster results and total accuracy.  We’re working on the grades against the spread but I’ve added the manual tallies below.  Now let’s get to the results.

Big winners this week include Paul Finebaum, Chris Fallica, and Andrea Adelson.  However our undisputed co-champions this week are Dr. Lou Holtz and special celebrity guest Luke Bryan.  If you had Lou Holtz and Luke Bryan splitting a weekly title at some point this year in your pool let me know so I can tell you how to collect your prize.  I’m actually very pleased with Lou Holtz because he came out of retirement and won the first week straight out of the gate.  Congratulations to both.

Losers this week include Desmond Howard, Danny Kanell and Mark May.  However our undisputed loss this week gets credited to Kirk Herbstreit with a disastrous 2-9 record this week.  Its ok Kirk, we’ve got a long season ahead of us.

Coach Corso got off to a good start with a win on his first headgear selection this week (Notre Dame).  As mentioned, special celebrity guest Luke Bryan went 9-3 on the week, and this trend needs to stop before it ever gets off to a start.  The man with no ties to Notre Dame or Michigan was invited onto College Gameday for no other reason than the fact that he was playing a concert in town Saturday night.  If ESPN is telling me they couldn’t get a single notable alumni of Michigan or Notre Dame to pick this thing then they must really think I’m a fool.  I digress…

ATS grades: Dusty Dvoracek (3-2), Chris Fallica (2-3), Pat Forde (1-4), Bruce Feldman (3-8), Danny Kanell (1-2), Scott Spreitzer (0-3), Phil Steele (6-3), Scott Van Pelt’s WINNERS (2-3).  The newly rebranded Bear’s Board went 1-2 on the week.

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

person.name percent.correct n.correct n.wrong n.games.predicted
Tim.Cowlishaw 100% 1 0 1
Chris.Doering 100% 4 0 4
Paul.Finebaum 100% 5 0 5
Trevor.Matich 100% 3 0 3
Marcus.Spears 100% 4 0 4
Celebrity.Guest 75% 9 3 12
Dusty.Dvoracek 75% 3 1 4
Lou.Holtz 75% 9 3 12
Tim.Tebow 75% 3 1 4
Chris.Fallica 71.43% 5 2 7
Andrea.Adelson 69.23% 9 4 13
Steve.Coughlin 66.67% 4 2 6
Joey.Galloway 66.67% 2 1 3
Phil.Steele 66.67% 8 4 12
Jennifer 60% 9 6 15
Dari.Nowkhah 60% 3 2 5
Lee.Corso 53.85% 7 6 13
David.Pollack 50% 2 2 4
Mack.Brown 50% 1 1 2
Bruce.Feldman 50% 6 6 12
Jesse.Palmer 50% 1 1 2
Jonathan.Vilma 50% 1 1 2
Mark.May 45.45% 5 6 11
Danny.Kanell 40% 2 3 5
Colin.Cowherd 33.33% 1 2 3
Desmond.Howard 30.77% 4 9 13
Kirk.Herbstreit 18.18% 2 9 11
Skip.Bayless 0% 0 1 1
Pat.Forde 0% 0 4 4
Joel.Klatt 0% 0 1 1
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Week 1 2018: Assorted College Football picks and predictions!

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We’ve got a little sampler platter of weekday college football picks for you to enjoy tonight.  We’ll be updating if anyone picks more games tonight (hopefully some halftime pick’em with Jesse Palmer and Joey Galloway).  Otherwise check back in the morning for SVP’s Winners and whoever else puts out picks tomorrow.

Pat Forde picks ATS:

Year Week Date Pick
2018 2 8/30/18 Purdue-1.5 vs Northwestern
2018 2 9/1/18 Washington+1.5 vs Auburn
2018 2 9/1/18 Michigan+1 vs Notre Dame
2018 2 9/1/18 Wyoming+7.5 vs Washington State
2018 2 9/2/18 LSU+3.5 vs Miami (FL)
2018 2 9/3/18 Florida State-7.5 vs Virginia Tech

Pat Forde picks straight up:

Year Week Date Picks
2018 2 8/30/18 Purdue  over  Northwestern
2018 2 9/1/18 Washington  over  Auburn
2018 2 9/1/18 Michigan  over  Notre Dame
2018 2 9/3/18 Florida State  over  Virginia Tech

Trevor Matich:

Year Week Date Picks
2018 2 9/1/18 Auburn  over  Washington
2018 2 9/1/18 Notre Dame  over  Michigan
2018 2 9/2/18 LSU  over  Miami (FL)

Andrea Adelson:

Year Week Date Picks
2018 2 8/30/18 Wake Forest  over  Tulane
2018 2 8/31/18 Duke  over  Army
2018 2 8/31/18 Western Michigan  over  Syracuse
2018 2 9/1/18 Alabama  over  Louisville
2018 2 9/1/18 Pittsburgh  over  Albany
2018 2 9/1/18 Georgia Tech  over  Alcorn State
2018 2 9/1/18 Clemson  over  Furman
2018 2 9/1/18 North Carolina State  over  James Madison
2018 2 9/1/18 Boston College  over  Massachusetts
2018 2 9/1/18 California over North Carolina  over  California
2018 2 9/1/18 Virginia  over  Richmond
2018 2 9/2/18 Miami (FL)  over  LSU
2018 2 9/3/18 Florida State  over  Virginia Tech

Dusty Dvoracek ATS picks:

Year Week Date Pick
2018 2 8/30/18 Oklahoma State-40 vs Missouri State
2018 2 9/1/18 Oklahoma-21 vs Florida Atlantic
2018 2 9/1/18 Michigan+1 vs Notre Dame
2018 2 9/1/18 West Virginia-9.5 vs Tennessee
2018 2 9/2/18 Miami (FL)-3.5 vs LSU
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