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Week 1 2020: #CFB Picks from Yahoo College Sports podcast! (Pat Forde, Dan Wetzel, Pete Thamel)

Posted on September 4, 2020September 4, 2020 by gamedaycole

Here are the week 1 picks from the Yahoo Sports College podcast featuring Pat Forde, Dan Wetzel, and Pete Thamel. The picks segment comes in at the end if you’re tuning in to hear it yourself.

https://twitter.com/YahooSportsCFB/status/1301644045094137858?s=20

Pat Forde:

Date	Pick
9/7/20	Navy + 2 vs BYU
9/5/20	SMU -22 vs Texas State
9/5/20	Army -3 vs MTSU
9/5/20	Arkansas State + 19.5 vs Memphis
9/3/20	Southern Miss -13.5 vs South Alabama
9/3/20	UAB -17.5 vs Central Arkansas

Dan Wetzel:

Date	Pick
9/7/20	Navy + 2 vs BYU
9/5/20	SMU -22 vs Texas State
9/5/20	Army -3 vs MTSU
9/5/20	Memphis -19.5 vs Arkansas State
9/3/20	Southern Miss -13.5 vs South Alabama
9/3/20	UAB -17.5 vs Central Arkansas

Pete Thamel:

Date	Pick
9/7/20	BYU -2 vs Navy
9/5/20	Texas State + 22 vs SMU
9/5/20	Army -3 vs MTSU
9/5/20	Memphis -19.5 vs Arkansas State
9/3/20	Southern Miss -13.5 vs South Alabama
9/3/20	UAB -17.5 vs Central Arkansas

Week 0 2020: #CFB Picks from Yahoo Sports College podcast (Pat Forde, Pete Thamel, Dan Wetzel)!

Posted on August 29, 2020August 29, 2020 by gamedaycole

I can’t believe it, but the first official college football picks and predictions are in. Pat Forde, Pete Thamel and Dan Wetzel gave out their week 0 lock of the week for what I guess we are calling week 0. There’s only one game, so take what you can get. Welcome back football!

Pat Forde:
Austin Peay+4.5 vs Central Arkansas

Pete Thamel:
Central Arkansas-4.5 vs Austin Peay

Dan Wetzel:
Central Arkansas-4.5 vs Austin Peay
BONUS PICK FROM DAN WETZEL: Take UAB BIG over Central Arkansas on Thursday

2019-20 Season: Bowl picks are graded; results are in!

Posted on January 17, 2020 by gamedaycole

Our 2019-20 college football season is in the books, and the picks have been graded. First, we always crown a yearly bowl pick’em champion. Below are the competitors who qualified by picking all (or most) of the bowl games:

	percent	n.correct	n.wrong
Stewart.Mandel	75	30	10
Adam.Rittenberg	75	30	10
Bruce.Feldman	72.5	29	11
Pat.Forde	70	28	12
Jennifer	67.5	27	13
Greg.McElroy	55.26	21	17

Stewart Mandel and Adam Rittenberg tied at a whopping 30-10 on bowl picks and will be our co-bowl picking champions.

Our ATS bowl picking went pretty well too. Results are below, and remember, THESE are picking against the spread.

	percent	n.correct	n.wrong	n.tie
Dan.Wetzel.ATS	66.67	26	13	0
Pat.Forde.ATS	58.97	23	16	0
Bruce.Feldman.ATS	51.28	20	19	0
Pete.Thamel.ATS	51.28	20	19	0
Stewart.Mandel.ATS	43.59	17	22	0
Danny.Kanell.ATS	47.37	18	20	0

Dan Wetzel managed to go 26-13 picking all of the bowl games, so he is our ATS champion. That’s pretty impressive against the number for the entirety of bowl season, so congratulations to Dan Wetzel!

We will be back shortly with the yearly results.