Tracking college football picks and predictions for YOU
Thursday night of week 1 is already in the books, which means your boy SVP was on after the late game giving out #WINNERS!
Scott Van Pelt’s WINNERS:
| Date | Pick |
| 8/30/19 | Nevada + 11 vs Purdue |
| 8/31/19 | East Carolina + 17 vs NC State |
| 8/31/19 | Georgia Southern + 27.5 vs LSU |
| 8/31/19 | Ole Miss + 5.5 vs Memphis |
| 8/31/19 | Liberty + 18 vs Syracuse |
Bonus pick w/ Stanford Steve:
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 |
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 |