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2021-22 Season: Full season grades are finalized! Results are in!

Posted on January 15, 2022January 17, 2022 by gamedaycole

The 2021-22 season is in the books and the picks have been graded. It is now time to crown our yearly champions. We will be crowning two champions again this year; one champion being analysts picking games straight up and the other champion being our gambling champion. Our analyst champion will be graded on our experimental GDC grading system for the first time ever.

Without further adieu, I present to you our analyst champion for the 2021-22 season: Dennis Dodd from CBS Sports went 226-81 straight up for a percentage of 73.62% with a GDC value of 127.083! Runners up were Tom Fornelli (111.37 GDC) and Chip Patterson (100.883 GDC). That’s an all CBS Sports podium for the first time ever.

Our gambling champion for the 2021-22 season is Bud Elliott of 247 and Cover 3 podcast fame. He went 272-198-9 on the season for a win percentage of 57.87%! Several others had a higher win rate, but assuming -110 lines on average Bud Elliott absolutely crushed the competition for 49.28 units of profit this season.

Honorable mention goes to Kelly Stewart for winning our money line picks this year. She was up 25.14 units over 41 picks on the year.

Congratulations to all competitors. I hope you’ll all be back next season

Analyst grades:

Name	Pct	Win	Loss	GDC.Value
Average	64.49	3373	1857	NA
Dennis.Dodd	73.62	226	81	127.083
Tom.Fornelli	70.19	226	96	111.37
Chip.Patterson	68.55	218	100	100.883
Brady.Quinn	75.57	133	43	79.736
Jennifer	63.96	142	80	54.307
David.Hale	66.49	125	63	54.097
Lee.Corso	64.52	120	66	48.671
Danny.Kanell	69.34	95	42	45.857
Andrea.Adelson	70.43	81	34	41.533
Pat.Forde	59.3	153	105	41.386
Pete.Thamel	74.44	67	23	40.607
Desmond.Howard	60.78	124	80	37.962
Mark.May	66.67	74	37	33.202
Celebrity.Guest	59.77	104	70	30.655
Jon.Berger	75	48	16	28.377
Stewart.Mandel	59.17	100	69	27.603
Joey.Galloway	67.42	60	29	26.949
Aaron.Taylor	62.96	68	40	25.757
Brian.Jones	60.94	78	50	25.614
Steve.Coughlin	68.92	51	23	25.035
Dan.Wetzel	64.44	58	32	22.24
Lou.Holtz	61.26	68	43	21.588
Bruce.Feldman	58.99	82	57	20.846
Phil.Steele	68.97	40	18	18.956
Chris.Fallica	64.18	43	24	16.121
Colin.Cowherd	77.42	24	7	16.058
Mark.Richt	62.03	49	30	15.921
Paul.Finebaum	70.73	29	12	15.062
Eric.Mac.Lain	59.14	55	38	13.853
Rick.Neuheisel	55.64	74	59	12.508
Scott.Van.Pelt	84.21	16	3	12.282
Chris.Doering	76.92	20	6	12.103
Kevin.Carter	65.85	27	14	11.43
Roman.Harper	64.29	27	15	10.587
Jordan.Rodgers	66.67	22	11	10.094
Kirk.Herbstreit	53.8	99	85	9.325
Reggie.Bush	77.78	14	4	9.251
Tim.Tebow	63.41	26	15	9.212
Corso.Headgear	73.68	14	5	8.49
Bob.Stoops	75	12	4	7.59
Randy.Cross	53.54	68	59	7.326
Houston.Nutt	63.33	19	11	7.115
Brett.McMurphy	59.09	26	18	6.33
Dusty.Dvoracek	66.67	14	7	5.894
David.Pollack	57.58	19	14	4.442
EJ.Manuel	52.44	43	39	1.845
Adam.Rittenberg	48.65	18	19	-1.486
Matt.Leinart	47.62	10	11	-1.493
Greg.McElroy	49.09	27	28	-2.834

Grambling grades:

Name	Pct	Win	Loss	Tie	Profit
Bud.Elliott.ATS	57.87	272	198	9	49.28
Kelly.Stewart.ATS	64.29	63	35	1	22.27
Scott.Van.Pelt.ATS	62.26	66	40	1	20
Colin.Cowherd.ATS	69.77	30	13	1	14.27
Pete.Thamel.ATS	58.27	74	53	4	14.27
Tom.Fornelli.ATS	57.34	82	61	5	13.55
Norm.Hitzges.ATS	56.17	91	71	1	11.73
David.Hale.ATS	55.26	105	85	2	10.46
Brandon.Walker.ATS	55.29	94	76	1	9.46
Brady.Quinn.ATS	53.26	245	215	4	7.73
Pamela.Maldonado.ATS	54.6	95	79	3	7.36
Steve.Coughlin.ATS	56.41	44	34	1	6
Danny.Kanell.ATS	53.06	217	192	5	5.27
Jon.Berger.ATS	54.01	74	63	3	4.27
Desmond.Howard.ATS	69.23	9	4	0	4.18
Matt.Youmans.ATS	55.26	42	34	4	4.18
Lee.Corso.ATS	66.67	8	4	1	3.27
Kirk.Herbstreit.ATS	66.67	8	4	1	3.27
Greg.McElroy.ATS	56.41	22	17	0	3
Bill.Connelly.ATS	54.17	39	33	1	2.45
Rece.Davis.ATS	61.54	8	5	0	2.27
Wes.Reynolds.ATS	53.95	41	35	0	2.27
Tony.Barnhart.ATS	53.57	45	39	0	1.91
Bryant.McFadden.ATS	53.73	36	31	2	1.73
Erin.Kate.Dolan.ATS	66.67	4	2	0	1.64
Tyler.Fulghum.ATS	54.29	19	16	0	1.27
Tim.Doyle.ATS	55	11	9	0	1
Jeff.Ma.ATS	66.67	2	1	0	0.82
David.Pollack.ATS	53.85	7	6	0	0.36
Pat.Forde.ATS	52.34	67	61	4	-0.09
Trevor.Matich.ATS	50	2	2	0	-0.18
Mark.May.ATS	52.29	57	52	2	-0.18
Anita.Marks.ATS	50	3	3	0	-0.27
Scott.Spreitzer.ATS	52.08	25	23	0	-0.27
Bruce.Feldman.ATS	52.24	70	64	4	-0.36
Minty.Bets.ATS	50	8	8	0	-0.73
Emory.Hunt.ATS	52.12	86	79	1	-0.82
Dan.Wetzel.ATS	51.97	66	61	5	-1
Rufus.Peabody.ATS	50	19	19	1	-1.73
Phil.Steele.ATS	51.35	57	54	0	-2.18
Kenny.White.ATS	50	24	24	0	-2.18
Megan.Makin.Money.ATS	51	51	49	3	-2.64
Chris.Doering.ATS	48.72	19	20	0	-2.73
Clay.Travis.ATS	51.52	85	80	1	-2.73
Dusty.Dvoracek.ATS	45.95	17	20	1	-4.55
Blaine.Brown.ATS	47.54	29	32	3	-5.64
Chris.Fallica.ATS	50	64	64	2	-5.82
Kayce.Smith.ATS	46.67	28	32	0	-6.55
Matt.Barrie.ATS	37.5	9	15	0	-6.82
Stewart.Mandel.ATS	49.69	80	81	6	-8.27
Dave.Portnoy.ATS	50.75	135	131	9	-8.27
Joey.Galloway.ATS	48.78	60	63	3	-8.45
Todd.Fuhrman.ATS	49.33	74	76	3	-8.73
Joe.Fortenbaugh.ATS	47.57	49	54	2	-9.45
Doug.Kezirian.ATS	45.33	34	41	2	-10.09
Chip.Patterson.ATS	47.33	62	69	7	-12.64
Brett.McMurphy.ATS	44.21	42	53	4	-14.82
Rico.Bosco.ATS	48.61	105	111	5	-15.54
Adam.Kramer.ATS	47.06	72	81	3	-15.54
Katie.Pondiscio.ATS	45.7	69	82	4	-19.27
Barrett.Sallee.ATS	47.39	145	161	3	-29.18
Dennis.Dodd.ATS	47.02	142	160	3	-30.91
Dan.Katz.ATS	48.58	256	271	9	-38.27

Money line results:

Name	ROI.Pct	Units.Up.Down	N.Picks
Kelly.Stewart.ML	61.32	25.14	41
Pamela.Maldonado.ML	20.16	10.68	53
Chip.Patterson.ML	20.25	8.91	44
Tom.Fornelli.ML	7.98	3.99	50
Bud.Elliott.ML	7.21	3.03	42
Tyler.Fulghum.ML	62.5	2.5	4
Rico.Bosco.ML	195	1.95	1
Megan.ML	23.29	1.63	7
Anita.Marks.ML	145	1.45	1
Dave.Portnoy.ML	120	1.2	1
Chris.Fallica.ML	0.96	0.7	73
Kayce.Smith.ML	10	0.2	2
Emory.Hunt.ML	-18.33	-0.55	3
Doug.Kezirian.ML	-23.75	-0.95	4
Phil.Steele.ML	-100	-1	1
Bryant.McFadden.ML	-31.25	-1.25	4
Tim.Doyle.ML	-32.5	-1.3	4
Bruce.Feldman.ML	-100	-2	2
Katie.Pondiscio.ML	-100	-2	2
Joe.Fortenbaugh.ML	-43.75	-3.5	8
Todd.Fuhrman.ML	-37.81	-4.16	11
Jon.Berger.ML	-40.75	-6.93	17
Brandon.Walker.ML	-50.57	-7.08	14
Danny.Kanell.ML	-14.22	-7.11	50

2014 Mid-season standings update! #cfb #cfbplayoff #secbias

Posted on October 29, 2014 by gamedaycole

As we sit here heading into week 10 of our 2014 college football season, the first ever College Football Playoff Committee rankings came out last night. Since the playoff committee has decided this is a good time to put out rankings, we here at Cole’s Gameday Blog have decided this is also a good time to put out the mid-season standings. We have put together a crack team of experts for the first ever COLE’S GAMEDAY BLOG RANKING COMMITTEE!!! Our committee members consist of myself, my wife Jennifer, a cat, two jugs of sangria wine, one copy of “The Waterboy” on DVD, a taco ten pack from Taco Bell, and a shrine dedicated to Tim Tebow. Keep in mind that our conclusions are unofficial (as opposed to whatever else we do here) and will certainly change as the season nears completion.

What you may notice is that, just like the playoff committee, our rankings also include SEC BIAS!!! Three of our top four competitors are from the SEC Network, which made me wonder if it is easier to pick SEC games, but Greg McElroy also picks games on the Dari & Mel show, where he not only picks other conferences, but is absolutely killing both Dari Nowkhah and Mel Kiper Jr. this season. With so many tough games coming up in the SEC (plus bowl season), I can only imagine that the winning percentages may fall for these newcomers, but only time will tell.

So without further adieu, I present to you the rankings from our major competitors though 9 weeks of competition.

2014-15 Season	Right-Wrong	% Correct
Greg McElroy	43-10	81.13%
Tim Tebow	31-8	79.49%
Marcus Spears	31-8	79.49%
Pat Forde	174-81	79.09%
Booger McFarland	25-7	78.13%
Phil Steele	97-29	76.98%
Brett McMurphy	28-9	75.68%
Colin Cowherd	65-21	75.58%
Paul Finebaum	32-11	74.42%
David Pollack	37-14	72.55%
Robert Smith	32-14	69.57%
Kevin Carter	44-20	68.75%
Lee Corso	69-32	68.32%
Jason Sehorn	30-14	68.18%
Desmond Howard	71-34	67.62%
Dari Nowhkah	25-12	67.57%
Lou Holtz	22-11	66.67%
Mel Kiper Jr.	23-13	63.89%
Jennifer	61-38	61.62%
Chris Fallica	33-21	61.11%
Jon Berger	23-15	60.53%
Celebrity Guests	55-38	59.14%
Danny Kanell	18-13	58.06%
Kirk Herbstreit	55-41	57.29%
Todd McShay	12-9	57.14%
Trevor Matich	17-16	51.52%
Mark May	15-15	50.00%

2011 Regular Season Standings

Posted on December 6, 2011 by gamedaycole

Well after 14 weeks we are through the regular season and I thought I’d stop by and post a quick update with the 2011 standings. Lee Corso is the only expert to top the century mark with 100 correct picks on the year. On a comical note, Desmond Howard and Kirk Herbstreit are right behind him with 91 and 90 correct picks respectively… except that Herby has twice as many wrong picks. Ooops. David Pollack had a solid regular season on his first year on Gameday. Jesse Palmer went a sharp 39-7 on the year. Matt Stinchcomb decided to pick upsets the entire year and is the only one aside from the Schwab that I tracked with a losing record on the season. The Celebrity Guests were pretty mediocre this year. In past years they’ve been pretty sharp (or whoever tells them who to pick is pretty sharp) but they went 62-42. And of course my girlfriend Jennifer was neck and neck with both David Pollack and Skip Bayless. Not bad Jennifer.

BUT HOLD ON. We can have big shakeups in bowl season. I’ll be updating as the picks roll in. Don’t be surprised to see me post an expert picking Team A over Team B, and then see me post a week later with the reverse, because everyone flip flops during bowl season as things develop. However I’ll still post it as I see it, and as always, the last decision they make is the one going in the official record.

Lee Corso: 100-65
Kirk Herbstreit: 90-61
Desmond Howard: 91-35
Lou Holtz: 56-27
Mark May: 52-29
David Pollack: 82-41
Robert Smith: 42-28
Jesse Palmer: 39-7
Pat Forde: 31-14
Trevor Matich: 4-2
Skip Bayless: 83-45
Todd McShay: 25-12
Colin Cowherd: 51-33
Tom Luginbill: 67-31
Mike Bellotti: 25-8
Charlie Arbuckle: 7-2
Matt Stinchcomb: 6-11
Danny Kanell: 21-8
Jason Sehorn: 12-12
Howie Schwab: 14-17
Michael Smith: 2-2
Woody Paige: 7-4
Tim Cowlishaw: 7-2
Kevin Blackistone: 3-3
Mark Schlabach: 5-4
Matt Millen: 6-1
Bob Davie: 3-4
Brock Huard: 6-3
Chris Fowler: 3-1
Randy Shannon: 1-3
Bill Plaschke: 1-3
Jennifer: 83-44
Celebrity Guests Overall: 62-42