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 |
2018-19 Bowl Season: #BowlMania picks w/ Mark Schlabach!
One of our favorite holiday traditions around here is Mark Schlabach’s yearly bowl picks. Here they are via ESPN.com.
| Date | Picks |
| 1/7/19 | Alabama over Clemson |
| 1/1/19 | LSU over Central Florida |
| 1/1/19 | Georgia over Texas |
| 1/1/19 | Mississippi State over Iowa |
| 1/1/19 | Penn State over Kentucky |
| 1/1/19 | Ohio State over Washington |
| 12/31/18 | Cincinnati over Virginia Tech |
| 12/31/18 | Oregon over Michigan State |
| 12/31/18 | Missouri over Oklahoma State |
| 12/31/18 | Texas A&M over North Carolina State |
| 12/31/18 | Utah over Northwestern |
| 12/31/18 | Stanford over Pittsburgh |
| 12/29/18 | Alabama over Oklahoma |
| 12/29/18 | Arkansas State over Nevada |
| 12/29/18 | Clemson over Notre Dame |
| 12/29/18 | Michigan over Florida |
| 12/29/18 | South Carolina over Virginia |
| 12/28/18 | Purdue over Auburn |
| 12/28/18 | Washington State over Iowa State |
| 12/28/18 | Syracuse over West Virginia |
| 12/27/18 | Vanderbilt over Baylor |
| 12/27/18 | Temple over Duke |
| 12/27/18 | Wisconsin over Miami (FL) |
| 12/26/18 | Boise State over Boston College |
| 12/26/18 | TCU over California |
| 12/26/18 | Georgia Tech over Minnesota |
| 12/22/18 | Army over Houston |
| 12/22/18 | Troy over Buffalo |
| 12/22/18 | Louisiana Tech over Hawaii |
| 12/22/18 | Memphis over Wake Forest |
| 12/21/18 | BYU over Western Michigan |
| 12/21/18 | FIU over Toledo |
| 12/20/18 | Marshall over South Florida |
| 12/19/18 | Ohio over San Diego State |
| 12/18/18 | Alabama-Birmingham over Northern Illinois |
| 12/15/18 | Appalachian State over MTSU |
| 12/15/18 | Fresno State over Arizona State |
| 12/15/18 | Georgia Southern over Eastern Michigan |
| 12/15/18 | Tulane over UL Lafayette |
| 12/15/18 | Utah State over North Texas |
| 12/15/18 | North Carolina A&T over Alcorn State |
