Week 5 2018: #CFB Picks are graded; results are in!

Welcome back everyone.  We had some big games last night and some big results from our expert panel of predictors and prognosticators.  Let’s get right to it.

Winners this week included Andrea Adelson (11-2), Paul Finebaum (9-2), Kirk Herbstreit (12-4), Phil Steele (6-2 straight up, 5-3 ATS), Stanford Steve (5-1 ATS), Pat Forde (4-2 ATS), SVP (6-3 ATS), and Desmond Howard (12-5).  Scott Spreitzer, after a horrendous start to the year, booked a 3-0 week ATS on Dari & Mel picking games.  However, this week’s official win will go to Lou Holtz at 8-1 on his weekly picks.  Congratulations to Dr. Lou for smashing Mark May this week on the Crowd’s Line.

Losers this week included Chris Fallica (3-4 ATS) and Mark May (5-4), but our undisputed loss this week goes to Rufus Peabody, who after an incredible start to the season booked a 1-4 record against the spread yesterday.  He’s still way up on the year picking 65% against the spread, but that’s a tough week by anybody’s standards.

Lee Corso booked a great week at 14-3 but missed out on his headgear pick of Penn State over Ohio State.  Bear’s Bank went 1-2 this week as part of Fallica’s tough 3-4 week against the spread.  Special guest celebrity Keegan-Michael Key went 8-8, which continues the new trend of picking significantly more games than celebrities in the past.  @GamedayJen went 12-4 on the wek continuing to quietly book winners.  Everyone else is somewhere else in between so check out the results below to see how your favorite (or most hated) personality did this week.

percent.correct n.correct n.wrong
Colin.Cowherd 100% 2 0
Heather.Dinich 100% 4 0
Chris.Doering 100% 5 0
Matt.Leinart 100% 1 0
Robert.Smith 100% 1 0
Dave.Wannstedt 100% 1 0
Lou.Holtz 88.89% 8 1
Andrea.Adelson 84.62% 11 2
Lee.Corso 82.35% 14 3
Paul.Finebaum 81.82% 9 2
Pat.Forde 80% 4 1
Joey.Galloway 80% 4 1
Jesse.Palmer 80% 4 1
Marcus.Spears 80% 4 1
Tim.Tebow 80% 4 1
Kirk.Herbstreit 75% 12 4
Jennifer 75% 12 4
Dusty.Dvoracek 75% 3 1
Ryan.McGee 75% 3 1
Les.Miles 75% 3 1
Mark.Schlabach 75% 3 1
Phil.Steele 75% 6 2
Desmond.Howard 70.59% 12 5
Bruce.Feldman 70% 7 3
Chris.Fallica 63.64% 7 4
Steve.Coughlin 60% 3 2
Danny.Kanell 60% 3 2
Mark.May 55.56% 5 4
Celebrity.Guest 50% 8 8
Ivan.Maisel 50% 2 2
David.Pollack 33.33% 1 2

ATS Results:

percent.correct.ats n.correct n.wrong n.tie
Scott.Spreitzer.ATS.Grade 100% 3 0 0
Steve.Coughlin.ATS.Grade 83.33% 5 1 0
Dusty.Dvoracek.ATS.Grade 80% 4 1 0
Pat.Forde.ATS.Grade 66.67% 4 2 0
Scott.Van.Pelt.ATS.Grade 66.67% 6 3 0
Phil.Steele.ATS.Grade 62.50% 5 3 0
Bruce.Feldman.ATS.Grade 60% 6 4 0
Jeff.Ma.ATS.Grade 60% 3 2 0
Danny.Kanell.ATS.Grade 50% 4 4 0
Chris.Fallica.ATS.Grade 42.86% 3 4 0
Rufus.Peabody.ATS.Grade 20% 1 4 0

Week 5 2018: Saturday morning #CFB Picks!

Good morning ladies and gentlemen.  We will be posting later on with the official Gameday picks, Bear’s Bank, SEC Nation, celebrity guests, Corso’s headgear, and all the usual business.  Right now here’s all the picks we’ve accumulated during the week from various people here and there, so enjoy.

Andrea Adelson:

Date Picks
9/29/18 Georgia Tech  over  Bowling Green State
9/29/18 Florida State  over  Louisville
9/29/18 Ohio State  over  Penn State
9/29/18 Oregon  over  California
9/29/18 Central Florida  over  Pittsburgh
9/29/18 Wake Forest  over  Rice
9/29/18 Stanford  over  Notre Dame
9/29/18 Clemson  over  Syracuse
9/29/18 Boston College  over  Temple
9/29/18 North Carolina State  over  Virginia
9/29/18 Duke  over  Virginia Tech
9/29/18 West Virginia  over  Texas Tech
9/27/18 Miami (FL)  over  North Carolina

Colin Cowherd:

Date Picks
9/29/18 Ohio State  over  Penn State 43-26
9/29/18 Notre Dame  over  Stanford 31-20

Heather Dinich:

Date Picks
9/29/18 Ohio State  over  Penn State
9/29/18 Oregon  over  California
9/29/18 Notre Dame  over  Stanford
9/29/18 West Virginia  over  Texas Tech

Chris Doering:

Date Picks
9/29/18 Texas A&M  over  Arkansas
9/29/18 Florida  over  Mississippi State
9/29/18 LSU  over  Mississippi
9/29/18 Kentucky  over  South Carolina
9/29/18 Georgia  over  Tennessee

Dusty Dvoracek:

Date Pick
9/29/18 North Texas-7 vs Louisiana Tech
9/29/18 Oklahoma State-16.5 vs Kansas
9/29/18 Purdue-3.5 vs Nebraska
9/29/18 Notre Dame-5.5 vs Stanford
9/29/18 Syracuse+25.5 vs Clemson

Bruce Feldman: Straight up picks

Date Picks
9/29/18 Mississippi State  over  Florida
9/29/18 LSU  over  Mississippi
9/29/18 Ohio State  over  Penn State
9/29/18 Oregon  over  California
9/29/18 Kentucky  over  South Carolina
9/29/18 Arizona  over  Southern California
9/29/18 Notre Dame  over  Stanford
9/29/18 Clemson  over  Syracuse
9/29/18 Duke  over  Virginia Tech
9/29/18 West Virginia  over  Texas Tech

Pat Forde:

Date Pick
9/29/18 Florida+7.5 vs Mississippi State
9/29/18 Ohio State-3.5 vs Penn State
9/29/18 California+3 vs Oregon
9/29/18 Kentucky-1.5 vs South Carolina
9/29/18 Notre Dame-4.5 vs Stanford
9/29/18 West Virginia-3.5 vs Texas Tech

Joey Galloway:

Date Picks
9/29/18 Mississippi State  over  Florida
9/29/18 Ohio State  over  Penn State
9/29/18 Notre Dame  over  Stanford
9/29/18 West Virginia  over  Texas Tech
9/27/18 Miami (FL)  over  North Carolina

Danny Kanell:

Date Pick
9/29/18 Ohio State-3.5 vs Penn State
9/29/18 Stanford+5.5 vs Notre Dame
9/29/18 West Virginia-3.5 vs Texas Tech

Ivan Maisel:

Date Picks
9/29/18 Ohio State  over  Penn State
9/29/18 California  over  Oregon
9/29/18 Notre Dame  over  Stanford
9/29/18 Texas Tech  over  West Virginia

Ryan McGee:

Date Picks
9/29/18 Penn State  over  Ohio State
9/29/18 Oregon  over  California
9/29/18 Notre Dame  over  Stanford
9/29/18 West Virginia  over  Texas Tech

Les Miles:

Date Picks
9/29/18 Washington  over  BYU
9/29/18 LSU  over  Mississippi
9/29/18 Ohio State  over  Penn State
9/29/18 Stanford  over  Notre Dame

Jesse Palmer:

Date Picks
9/29/18 Mississippi State  over  Florida
9/29/18 Ohio State  over  Penn State
9/29/18 Notre Dame  over  Stanford
9/29/18 West Virginia  over  Texas Tech
9/27/18 Miami (FL)  over  North Carolina

Mark Schlabach:

Date Picks
9/29/18 Ohio State  over  Penn State
9/29/18 Oregon  over  California
9/29/18 Stanford  over  Notre Dame
9/29/18 West Virginia  over  Texas Tech

Scott Spreitzer:

Date Pick
9/29/18 Oklahoma-23 vs Baylor
9/29/18 Ohio State vs Penn State under 70
9/29/18 Temple+13 vs Boston College

Week 1 2018: #CFB Picks are graded; results are in!

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