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Week 0 2019: First #CFB picks for Saturday morning!

Posted on by gamedaycole

We only have two games starting today, but we couldn’t be more excited.  We have a random spattering of picks since there’s only two games and here are the picks.  We will be back later with College Gameday picks, SEC Nation picks, Bear’s Bank (if applicable) and all that usual stuff you love.

Gene Chizik:

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

Bruce Feldman:

Date Pick
8/24/19 Arizona  -11 vs Hawaii
8/24/19 Florida  -7.5 vs Miami (FL)

Paul Finebaum:

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

Lou Holtz:

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

Brian Jones:

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

Eric Mac Lain:

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

Stewart Mandel:

Date Pick
8/24/19 Hawaii + 11 vs Arizona
8/24/19 Miami (FL) + 7.5 vs Florida

EJ Manuel:

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

Mark May:

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

Aaron Murray:

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

Houston Nutt:

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

Mark Richt:

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

Matt Stinchcomb:

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

Pete Thamel:

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

Clay Travis:

Pick Raw.Pick Line Opponent
Hawaii vs Arizona Over 70 Over 70 Hawaii
Miami (FL) vs Florida Under 48.5 Under 48.5 Miami (FL)
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2018-19 Bowl Season: Picks are graded; results are in!

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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
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2018-19 Bowl Season: #BowlMania picks w/ Lou Holtz & Mark May!

Posted on by gamedaycole

Here are the 2018-19 bowl picks from Lou Holtz and Mark May.  I got them on their weekly Crowd’s Line video on Youtube, so check it out for the full discussion and debate on each game.  YOU WON’T BELIEVE THE LOU HOLTZ NATIONAL CHAMPIONSHIP PREDICTION!  Check it out below.

Lou Holtz:

Date Picks
1/7/19 Notre Dame  over  Alabama
1/1/19 Central Florida  over  LSU
1/1/19 Texas  over  Georgia
1/1/19 Kentucky  over  Penn State
1/1/19 Ohio State  over  Washington
12/29/18 Alabama  over  Oklahoma
12/29/18 Notre Dame  over  Clemson
12/29/18 Michigan  over  Florida
12/28/18 Washington State  over  Iowa State
12/22/18 Army  over  Houston

Mark May:

Date Picks
1/7/19 Alabama  over  Clemson
1/1/19 LSU  over  Central Florida
1/1/19 Georgia  over  Texas
1/1/19 Kentucky  over  Penn State
1/1/19 Ohio State  over  Washington
12/29/18 Alabama  over  Oklahoma
12/29/18 Clemson  over  Notre Dame
12/29/18 Michigan  over  Florida
12/28/18 Washington State  over  Iowa State
12/22/18 Army  over  Houston
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