Week 1 2016: College football weekday picks! #CFB #CFBPlayoff

It is once again time to get weekly picks going for this season.  Preseason picks are in the books, and we will be revisiting those in a few months, so in the meantime week 1 picks are starting to come in.  We will be updating this post for the next few days with more weekday picks, and as always we will be back Saturday morning for all of those delicious Saturday morning picks from College Gameday, SEC Nation, Dari & Mel, and whoever else shows up.

UPDATED 9/3

Andrea Adelson:
Miami FL over FAMU
Clemson over Auburn
FSU over Ole Miss
UNC over UGA
GT over BC
Louisville over Charlotte
Wake Forest over Tulane
NC St over W&M
Syracuse over Colgate
VT over Liberty
Pitt over Villanova
UVA over Richmond
Duke over UNC Central
Miami FL over FAMU

Charles Arbuckle:
Houston over OU
UCLA over TAMU
Alabama over USC
Clemson over Auburn
Texas over ND
LSU over Wisconsin
FSU over Ole Miss
UNC over Georgia

Mike Bellotti:
Texas over Notre Dame

Lee Corso:
NDSU over Charleston So.
BC over GT

Stanford Steve Coughlin: (Behind the Bets Podcast 8/31)
LSU over Wisconsin
LSU vs Wisconsin over 44.5
OU over Houston
OU vs Houston over 68
OU-11.5 vs Houston (if he had to pick a side)
TAMU-3 vs UCLA
TAMU over UCLA
Notre Dame over Texas
ND vs Texas Under 60
Fordham+26.5 vs Navy
CSU ML vs Colorado
FSU over Ole Miss

Colin Cowherd:
Alabama over USC 31-13
Stanford over KState (closer than 15)
OU over Houston (close)
LSU over Wisconsin
UCLA over TAMU
UNC over Georgia
Clemson over Auburn
Notre Dame over Texas
Ole Miss over FSU

Heather Dinich:
FSU over Ole Miss

Chris Doering:
Mizzou over WVU 31-30
LSU over Wisconsin 27-10
TAMU over UCLA 33-31
Georgia over UNC 34-20
Clemson over Auburn 31-23
Alabama over USC 35-9

Dusty Dvoracek:
Stanford over KState
Notre Dame over Texas
OU over Houston
LSU over Wisconsin
USC+11 vs Alabama
LSU-10.5 vs Wisconsin
UCLA+3 vs TAMU
Texas+3.5 vs ND
OU-11.5 vs Houston

Brad Edwards:
Texas over Notre Dame

Chris “The Bear” Fallica: (Behind the Bets Podcast 8/31)
LSU over Wisconsin 33-17
LSU vs Wisconsin over 44.5
OU over Houston
OU-11.5 vs Houston
UCLA over TAMU
Tx St+21 vs Ohio
UNC over UGA
UNC ML vs UGA

Paul Finebaum: Predicted no upsets in top 10
ND over Texas (CFB Live 8/19)
Alabama over USC
Clemson over Auburn
OU over Houston
LSU over Wisconsin
Ohio St over BGSU
Michigan over Hawaii
Stanford over KState
Tennessee over App St
Vanderbilt over S.Carolina

Pat Forde:
FSU over Ole Miss
UNC over Georgia
Colorado over CSU
Mich St over Furman
Stanford over KState
Baylor over NW St
Georgia over UNC
Virginia over Richmond
GT over BC
WVU over Mizzou
Iowa St over N Iowa
Okla St over SE Louisiana
Iowa over Mia (OH)
Michigan over Hawaii
Ohio St over BGSU
LSU over Wisconsin
Boise St over UL-Lafayette
BYU over Arizona
Oregon over UCD
Washington over Rutgers
Wash St over EWU
Florida over Mass
S.Miss over Kentucky
Alabama over USC
Arkansas over LaTech
Clemson over Auburn
Houston over OU
UCLA over TAMU
TCU over S. Dakota St
NIU over Wyoming
SMU over UNT
Notre Dame over Texas

Joey Galloway:
Clemson over Auburn
Georgia over UNC
OU over Houston
LSU over Wisconsin
Alabama over USC
FSU over Ole Miss
Colorado over CSU

Kirk Herbstreit:
UNC over Georgia (Twitter 8/25)
NDSU over Charleston So.

Desmond Howard:
NDSU over Charleston So.

Jennifer’s Picks:
NDSU over Charleston So.

Danny Kanell:
Michigan over Hawaii
Vanderbilt over S.Carolina
Alabama over USC
OU over Houston
UNC over Georgia
LSU over Wiscsonsin
Ole Miss over FSU
OU-11.5 vs Houston
UCLA+3 vs TAMU
Wisconsin+11 vs LSU
UNC+3 vs Geoergia
USC+11.5 vs Alabama
Auburn+7.5 vs Clemson

Joel Klatt:
Colorado over CSU

Greg McElroy:
Texas over ND (CFB Live 8/19)
Alabama over USC
Arkansas over LT
Clemson over Auburn
UNC over Georgia
Vanderbilt over S.Carolina
Tennessee over App St

Booger McFarland:
LSU over Wisconsin 31-13
Vanderbilt over S.Carolina
Alabama over USC 24-3
Clemson over Auburn 45-21
Georgia over UNC 17-14
Ole Miss over FSU
Mizzou over WVU 21-17
TAMU over UCLA 35-28

Brett McMurphy:
Alabama over USC
Clemson over Auburn

Todd McShay:
Texas over Notre Dame

Dari Nowkhah:
FSU over Ole Miss

David Pollack:
NDSU over Charleston So.
LSU over Wisconsin

Jordan Rodgers:
Florida over UMass
Kentucky over S.Miss
FSU over Ole Miss
WVU over Mizzou
Vanderbilt over S.Carolina

Ryen Russillo:
OU over Houston
TAMU over UCLA
Clemson over Auburn
OU-11.5 vs Houston
TAMU-3 vs UCLA
Wisconsin+11 vs LSU
UNC+3 vs Georgia
USC+11.5 vs Alabama
Clemson-7.5 vs Auburn

Mark Schlabach:
SDSU over New Hampshire

Jason Sehorn:
OU over Houston
Georgia over UNC
Alabama over USC
Texas over ND
FSU over Ole Miss

Robert Smith:
Stanford over KState

Marcus Spears:
Florida over UMass
Georgia over UNC
LSU over Wisconsin
Miss St over S.Alabama
Vanderbilt over S.Carolina
Tennessee over App St

Phil Steele:
Texas over Notre Dame
Cal over Hawaii 46-26 (High scoring game of the week)
Alabama over USC (by two touchdowns)
LSU over Wisconsin (by two touchdowns)
OU over Houston
Georgia over UNC
Clemson over Auburn
UCLA over TAMU
FSU over Ole Miss
Michigan over Hawaii

Matt Stinchcomb:
WVU over Mizzou
Tennessee over App St
Vanderbilt over S.Carolina

Clint Stoerner:
Alabama over USC
Arkansas over LT
Clemson over Auburn
Kentucky over S.Miss
FSU over Ole Miss
Miss St over S.Alabama

Tim Tebow:
S.Carolina over Vanderbilt
Tennessee over App St

Scott Van Pelt:
W.Michigan+5 vs NW
Auburn+7.5 vs Clemson
Houston+11.5 vs OU
SJSU+5 vs Tulsa
Texas+3.5 vs ND

Dave Wannstedt:
Stanford over KState

 

 

 

2015-16 Bowl season results! #CFBPlayoff #BowlMania

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen.  With the fantastic CFB Playoff championship game in the books last night, that means the bowl season has ended.  It is now time that we look back and review how all of our competitors did playing a little bit of Bowl Mania pick’em.

We had 12 of our expert predictors and prognosticators who picked enough of the bowl games to qualify for our championship competition this year.  As with most things around here, it is all subjective and up to my judgment as to what to make of all of this mess.  Not everyone picked the Celebration Bowl between NC A&T and Alcorn State.  Some of us picked it, and it ended up being quite profitable.  Not everyone had a qualifying CFB Playoff Championship pick, because some of them picked before the playoff and had Oklahoma playing in the championship game.  And for some reason, Pat Forde refused to pick any bowl games involving 5-7 teams, but since he still picked most of them I have granted him a waiver.  Without further adieu, I present to you this year’s Gamedaycole.com official bowl championship rankings.

Cole’s Picks: 32-10
Joey Galloway: 31-11
Chris Doering: 29-13
Phil Steele: 29-12 SU, 14-9 ATS
Jennifer’s Picks: 27-14
Todd McShay: 27-15
Pat Forde: 26-12
Ryen Russillo: 25-17
Danny Kanell: 24-18
Joel Klatt: 24-17
Mark Schlabach: 23-18
Dari Nowkhah: 22-20

As you can see, Cole’s picks came out on top this year coming in at 32-10.  Not to toot my own too much, but I’m pretty good at picking bowl games.  Pay no attention to last year’s results behind the curtain where I went 20-18 in Bowl Mania.  Anyways, since I can’t very well give myself an award for picking bowl games (I guess I could since it is my site), we are proud to announce that Joey Galloway has won the 2015-16 Gamedaycole.com Bowl Season Championship at 31-11!

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We had a grand total of 59 experts who participated in bowl season this year, and for the full results you can check out the list below to see how your favorite (or most hated) personality did during bowl season.  Since my full list of bowl picks for all of these people is over 30 pages long, you’ll just have to take my word on it for now.  Congratulations to everyone who participated this year.

Andrea Adelson: 1-1
Charles Arbuckle: 1-2
Skip Bayless: 1-2 SU, 1-0 ATS
Mike Bellotti: 3-2
Jon Berger: 7-1
Kevin Blackstone: 1-0
Mack Brown: 2-2
Kevin Carter: 15-10
Lee Corso: 2-4 (1-2 headgear picks)
Stanford Steve Coughlin: 2-6 SU, 3-9 ATS
Colin Cowherd: 7-1 SU, 0-1 ATS
Tim Cowlishaw: 7-1 SU, 8-5 ATS
Ed Cunningham: 5-9
Butch Davis: 2-2
Rece Davis: 1-0
Heather Dinich: 14-6
Brad Edwards: 7-0 SU, 4-1 ATS
Chris “The Bear” Fallica: 7-7 SU, 10-9 ATS
Paul Finebaum: 10-3
Mike Golic: 3-0 SU, 2-0 ATS
Mike Greenberg: 3-0 SU, 1-0 ATS
Brian Griese: 2-0
Israel Gutierrez: 1-0
Kirk Herbstreit: 6-4
Lou Holtz: 1-2
Desmond Howard: 8-4
Mel Kiper Jr.: 2-0
Matt Leinart: 2-1
Tom Luginbill: 4-0
Trevor Matich: 4-0
Mark May: 3-1
Greg McElroy: 13-3
Booger McFarland: 9-5
Ryan McGee: 1-0
Urban Meyer: 1-0
Woody Paige: 0-1
Jesse Palmer: 1-0
Petros Papadakis: 2-1
Brady Quinn: 1-2
David Pollack: 6-5
Jason Sehorn: 7-2
Robert Smith: 2-2
Marcus Spears: 10-2
Clint Stoerner: 1-0
Tim Tebow: 2-1
Scott Van Pelt: 2-1 SU, 0-1 ATS
Andre Ware: 1-0

2015-16 #CFBPlayoff Championship picks! #BowlMania #Clemson #Alabama

Here we are with one game left in the season, so it is about that time to start paying attention to who is picking whom (and in some cases, BY HOW MUCH).  Undefeated Clemson is taking on Nick Saban’s Alabama, and our expert panel of predictors and prognosticators is sitting at 32 to 13 in favor of Alabama winning the game, with five experts laying the 7, two experts liking the under, one expert taking the points, and one Chris Fallica who is on the Clemson moneyline.

Check back often over the next few days because we will be updating anytime someone wants to give a pick on this game.  As always, I’ll be putting the place and date I got the pick from, so if you see someone picking the opposite way more recently, go with the more recent pick.

Lee Corso:
Clemson over Alabama (Headgear pick)

Andrea Adelson:
Clemson over Alabama (epsn.com 1/7)

Charles Arbuckle: Film Room 1/6
Clemson over Alabama

Skip Bayless: First Take 1/11
Clemson over Alabama 28-27
Clemson+7 vs Alabama

Mike Bellotti: Film Room 1/6
Alabama over Clemson (Close)

Jon Berger: Big 12 Weekly 1/6
Alabama over Clemson

Kevin Blackstone: ATH 1/11
Alabama over Clemson

Mack Brown:
Clemson over Alabama (Champ Drive 1/10)

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Kevin Carter: Film Room 1/6
Alabama over Clemson

Cole’s Pick:
Alabama over Clemson

Stanford Steve Coughlin: Behind the Bets podcast 1/6
Alabama over Clemson
Alabama-7 vs Clemson
Alabama vs Clemson under 50.5 (if he had to bet it)

Colin Cowherd:
Alabama over Clemson (The Herd 1/8)
Alabama-7 vs Clemson (The Herd 1/8)

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Tim Cowlishaw:
Alabama over Clemson (103.3 ESPNRadio 1/11)

Ed Cunningham:
Clemson over Alabama (Bowl Mania 12/13)

Butch Davis:
Alabama over Clemson (Champ Drive 1/10)

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Heather Dinich:
Alabama over Clemson (Twitter 1/9)

Chris “The Bear” Fallica: Behind the Bets podcast 1/6
Clemson over Alabama 24-21
Clemson+220ish over Alabama
Clemson+7 vs Alabama
Alabama vs Clemson under 50.5 (lean only)

Paul Finebaum:
Alabama over Clemson (Champ Drive 1/10)

Pat Forde: Bowl Dash 12/17
Alabama over Clemson 28-21

Joey Galloway:
Clemson over Alabama (Champ Drive 1/10)

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Mike Greenberg:
Alabama over Clemson

Israel Gutierrez: ATH 1/11
Alabama over Clemson

Desmond Howard:
Alabama over Clemson

Jennifer’s Pick:
Clemson over Alabama

Danny Kanell:
Clemson over Alabama (Halftime show ½, CFB Live 1/4)

Joel Klatt:
Alabama over Clemson (WJOX podcdast 1/5)

Matt Leinart:
Alabama over Clemson (FS1 12/31)

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Tom Luginbill: Film Room 1/6
Alabama over Clemson

Mark May:
Alabama over Clemson (Championship Drive 12/6)

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Greg McElroy:
Alabama over Clemson (SEC Nation 1/11)

Booger McFarland:
Alabama over Clemson 34-17 (M&M 1/11)

Todd McShay:
Alabama over Clemson 28-20 (Champ Drive 1/10)

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Urban Meyer:
Alabama over Clemson

Woody Paige: ATH 1/11
Clemson over Alabama

Jesse Palmer:
Alabama over Clemson (CFB Live 1/11)

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Petros Papadakis:
Alabama over Clemson (FS1 12/31)

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Brady Quinn:
Clemson over Alabama (FS1 12/31)

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Ryen Russillo:
Alabama over Clemson (Champ Drive 1/10)

Robert Smith:
Clemson over Alabama (Championship Drive 12/6)

Stephen A. Smith: First Take 1/11
Alabama over Clemson 33-20
Alabama-7 vs Clemson

Marcus Spears:
Alabama over Clemson (SEC Nation 1/11)

Phil Steele:
Alabama over Clemson (by 10) (Champ Drive 1/7)
Alabama-7 vs Clemson

Clint Stoerner:
Alabama over Clemson (Twitter 1/11)

Tim Tebow:
Alabama over Clemson 24-17 (R&K 1/11)

Scott Van Pelt:
Alabama over Clemson
Alabama-7 vs Clemson (Winners 1/7)

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