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2018-19 Bowl Season: Bowl picks from CBS Sports/Inside College Football!

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Here are the 2018-19 bowl picks from the CBS Sports crew via Inside College Football.

Randy Cross:

Date Picks
1/7/19 Clemson  over  Alabama
1/1/19 Central Florida  over  LSU
1/1/19 Georgia  over  Texas
1/1/19 Penn State  over  Kentucky
1/1/19 Ohio State  over  Washington
12/31/18 Northwestern  over  Utah
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
12/28/18 Syracuse  over  West Virginia

Brian Jones:

Date Picks
1/7/19 Alabama  over  Clemson
1/1/19 LSU  over  Central Florida
1/1/19 Georgia  over  Texas
1/1/19 Penn State  over  Kentucky
1/1/19 Washington  over  Ohio State
12/31/18 Utah  over  Northwestern
12/29/18 Alabama  over  Oklahoma
12/29/18 Clemson  over  Notre Dame
12/29/18 Florida  over  Michigan
12/28/18 Iowa State  over  Washington State
12/28/18 Syracuse  over  West Virginia

Rick Neuheisel:

Date Picks
1/7/19 Alabama  over  Clemson
1/1/19 LSU  over  Central Florida
1/1/19 Georgia  over  Texas
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

Aaron Taylor:

Date Picks
1/7/19 Alabama  over  TBD
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
12/31/18 Utah  over  Northwestern
12/29/18 Alabama  over  Oklahoma
12/29/18 Notre Dame  over  Clemson
12/29/18 Florida  over  Michigan
12/28/18 Washington State  over  Iowa State
12/28/18 Syracuse  over  West Virginia
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2018-19 Regular season standings!

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We have concluded the regular season with the Army/Navy game on Saturday, so I always like to review the standings heading into bowl season.  Here are the current 2018-19 regular season grades on all of the experts, and we look forward to an exciting bowl season to see who will be crowned our 2018-19 champion.

Straight up grades:

percent.correct n.correct n.wrong
Charles.Arbuckle 100% 2 0
Brad.Edwards 100% 5 0
Mike.Golic 100% 2 0
Israel.Gutierrez 100% 1 0
Mel.Kiper.Jr 100% 2 0
Woody.Paige 100% 1 0
Jordan.Rodgers 100% 16 0
Kevin.Carter 88.89% 8 1
Jonathan.Vilma 83.33% 5 1
Brett.McMurphy 79.31% 23 6
Greg.McElroy 78.95% 15 4
Steve.Coughlin 78.67% 59 16
Joey.Galloway 77.14% 27 8
Paul.Finebaum 76.85% 83 25
Chris.Doering 75.81% 47 15
Tim.Tebow 75.81% 47 15
Colin.Cowherd 75% 18 6
Trevor.Matich 75% 9 3
Phil.Steele 73.68% 140 50
Rece.Davis 73.33% 11 4
Matt.Leinart 73.33% 11 4
Les.Miles 73.33% 33 12
Lou.Holtz 73.28% 96 35
Jennifer 72.57% 164 62
Heather.Dinich 71.93% 41 16
Andrea.Adelson 70.89% 112 46
Marcus.Spears 70.15% 47 20
Pat.Forde 70.11% 61 26
Tim.Cowlishaw 69.70% 23 10
David.Pollack 69.39% 34 15
Joel.Klatt 69.05% 29 13
Rick.Neuheisel 68.33% 41 19
Mark.Schlabach 67.92% 36 17
Chris.Low 67.86% 19 9
Chris.Fallica 66.97% 73 36
Dari.Nowkhah 66.67% 14 7
Jesse.Palmer 66.67% 22 11
Adam.Rittenberg 66.67% 22 11
Dave.Wannstedt 66.67% 8 4
Lee.Corso 65.82% 129 67
Kirk.Herbstreit 65.28% 126 67
Celebrity.Guest 65.05% 121 65
Brian.Jones 64.71% 44 24
Dusty.Dvoracek 64.58% 31 17
Pete.Thamel 64.06% 41 23
Bruce.Feldman 62.89% 100 59
Desmond.Howard 62.44% 133 80
Robert.Smith 61.54% 8 5
Aaron.Taylor 61.02% 36 23
Randy.Cross 60.94% 39 25
Houston.Nutt 60.87% 14 9
Mack.Brown 60% 3 2
Scott.Van.Pelt 60% 3 2
Ryan.McGee 59.65% 34 23
Mark.May 58.65% 78 55
Ivan.Maisel 57.89% 33 24
Corso.Headgear 57.14% 8 6
Stewart.Mandel 56.99% 53 40
Gene.Chizik 54.55% 6 5
Danny.Kanell 52.63% 20 18
Skip.Bayless 33.33% 1 2
Bob.Ryan 0% 0 1

ATS Grades:

percent.correct.ats n.correct n.wrong n.tie
doug.kezirian.binary 75% 12 4 0
steve.coughlin.binary 66.89% 49 24 1
dusty.dvoracek.binary 60.56% 43 28 0
brett.mcmurphy.binary 60.19% 32 21 1
phil.steele.binary 59.75% 118 79 3
rufus.peabody.binary 59.52% 37 25 1
jeff.ma.binary 56.45% 35 27 0
rico.bosco.binary 56.25% 35 27 2
scott.spreitzer.binary 55.56% 35 28 0
danny.kanell.binary 54.61% 40 33 3
chris.fallica.binary 52.20% 47 43 1
dave.portnoy.binary 51.72% 44 41 2
pat.forde.binary 50.60% 41 40 2
scott.van.pelt.binary 50% 58 58 2
stewart.mandel.binary 47.83% 43 47 2
dan.katz.binary 46.25% 36 42 2
tim.cowlishaw.binary 45.61% 25 30 2
dari.nowkhah.binary 42.86% 6 8 0
bruce.feldman.binary 41.46% 64 91 3
pete.thamel.binary 40.36% 33 49 1
colin.cowherd.binary 25% 1 3 0
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Week 14 2018: #CFB Picks are graded; results are in!

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Week 14 of our college football season brought us a shorter slate of games due to conference championships, so let’s get to it.

Winners this week included Rufus Peabody (3-0 ATS), Stanford Steve (2-1 ATS), Jeff Ma (2-1 ATS), Phil Steele (14-2 straight up), Lou Holtz (6-2), Rick Neuheisel  & Houston Nutt (7-3).  This week’s win is going to Brian Jones at 8-2 on the week.

Losers this week included Stewart Mandel (3-8 ATS), Dave Portnoy (3-7 ATS), Bruce Feldman (3-7 ATS), Pete Thamel (2-4 ATS), with a lot of small losers against the spread this week.  The official loss is going to be shared by Tim Cowlishaw and Dusty Dvoracek at 1-4 ATS.

Lee Corso had a good week at 8-3, including his headgear pick Alabama over Georgia.  Special celebritiy guest Quavo (?) went had a tough week at 6-5.  @GamedayJen marches on with another win at 9-3.  Bear’s Bank went 2-1 on the week.  Everyone else is somewhere in between, so check out the full grades below to see how your favorite (or most hated) personality did this week.

Straight up grades:

percent.correct n.correct n.wrong
Corso.Headgear 100% 1 0
David.Pollack 100% 1 0
Andrea.Adelson 100% 5 0
Gene.Chizik 100% 1 0
Colin.Cowherd 100% 4 0
Heather.Dinich 100% 5 0
Dusty.Dvoracek 100% 2 0
Chris.Fallica 100% 5 0
Paul.Finebaum 100% 4 0
Joel.Klatt 100% 4 0
Matt.Leinart 100% 2 0
Greg.McElroy 100% 1 0
Ryan.McGee 100% 5 0
Jordan.Rodgers 100% 1 0
Robert.Smith 100% 2 0
Tim.Tebow 100% 1 0
Dave.Wannstedt 100% 2 0
Phil.Steele 87.50% 14 2
Pat.Forde 85.71% 6 1
Brian.Jones 80% 8 2
Ivan.Maisel 80% 4 1
Adam.Rittenberg 80% 4 1
Mark.Schlabach 80% 4 1
Jennifer 75% 9 3
Steve.Coughlin 75% 3 1
Lou.Holtz 75% 6 2
Lee.Corso 72.73% 8 3
Desmond.Howard 72.73% 8 3
Randy.Cross 72.73% 8 3
Rick.Neuheisel 70% 7 3
Houston.Nutt 70% 7 3
Tim.Cowlishaw 66.67% 2 1
Aaron.Taylor 66.67% 6 3
Pete.Thamel 66.67% 4 2
Mark.May 62.50% 5 3
Bruce.Feldman 60% 6 4
Kirk.Herbstreit 54.55% 6 5
Celebrity.Guest 54.55% 6 5
Stewart.Mandel 54.55% 6 5
Chris.Doering 0% 0 1
Marcus.Spears 0% 0 1

ATS Grades:

% Correct n.correct n.wrong n.tie
doug.kezirian.grade 100% 1 0 0
rufus.peabody.grade 100% 3 0 0
steve.coughlin.grade 66.67% 2 1 0
jeff.ma.grade 66.67% 2 1 0
rico.bosco.grade 50% 2 2 0
chris.fallica.grade 50% 2 2 0
phil.steele.grade 50% 5 5 0
pat.forde.grade 40% 2 3 0
scott.van.pelt.grade 37.50% 3 5 0
dan.katz.grade 33.33% 2 4 0
scott.spreitzer.grade 33.33% 1 2 0
pete.thamel.grade 33.33% 2 4 0
bruce.feldman.grade 30% 3 7 0
dave.portnoy.grade 30% 3 7 0
stewart.mandel.grade 27.27% 3 8 0
tim.cowlishaw.grade 20% 1 4 0
dusty.dvoracek.grade 20% 1 4 0
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