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Week 7 2012: Saturday morning picks!

Posted on October 13, 2012 by gamedaycole

Ladies and gents, you’re looking live at another exciting Saturday morning of college football. The caffeine is flowing, the televisions are fired up, and Gameday is already going live from South Bend, Indiana for the big matchup between Stanford and the Notre Dame Fighting Irish. The avalanche of picks is starting, so if you need to know who is going to be winning what game, this is your place to find out. Updates will be coming in all day, so check back often.

Friday night’s picks can be found HERE!
Early week picks can be found HERE!

Mel Kiper Jr.:
Notre Dame over Stanford
FSU over BC
S.Carolina over LSU
Texas over OU

Todd McShay:
OU over Texas
S.Carolina over LSU
ND over Stanford
BYU over Oregon St (5-2 final apparently)
Wisconsin over Purdue

David Pollack:
TAMU over LaTech
Oregon St over BYU
S.Carolina over LSU
Tennessee over Miss St
Wisconsin over Purdue
OU over Texas
Notre Dame over Stanford

Desmond Howard:
BYU over Oregon St
LSU over S.Carolina
Miss St over Tennessee
Purdue over Wisconsin
OU over Texas
Stanford over Notre Dame
Florida over Vanderbilt
Bama over Mizzou
USC over Washington
TAMU over LaTech
KState over Iowa St
WVU over TTU

Kirk Herbstreit:
Tennessee over Miss ST
UNC over Miami
Florida over Vanderbilt
BYU over Oregon St
UCLA over Utah
USC over Washington
TAMU over LaTech
KSTate over Iowa St
TTU over WVU
Ole Miss over Auburn
Purdue over Wisconsin
OU over Texas
Notre Dame over Stanford

Lee Corso:
Florida over Vanderbilt
Bama over Mizzou
Oregon St over BYU
USC over Washington
S.Carolina over LSU
TAMU over LaTech
KState over Iowa St
WVU over TTU
OU over Texas
Ole Miss over Auburn
Wisconsin over Purdue
Miss St over Tennessee
Notre Dame over Stanford (headgear pick)

Vince Vaughn:
Purdue over Wisconsin
Iowa St over Kansas St
WVU over TTU
OU over Texas
Oregon St over BYU
Miss St over Tennessee
S.Carolina over LSU
LaTech over TAMU
Florida over Vanderbilt
Notre Dame over Stanford

Jennifer’s Picks:
WVU over TTU
Boise St over Fresno St
Bama over Mizzou
Oregon St over BYU
USC over Washington
TAMU over LaTech
S.Carolina over LSU
KState over Iowa St
Texas over OU
Ole Miss over Auburn
Wisconsin over Purdue
Miss St over Tennessee
Florida over Vanderbilt
ND over Stanford

Lou Holtz flip-flopping around

Posted on October 10, 2011 by gamedaycole

So if you haven’t noticed, Lou Holtz and Mark May do four or five “take your pick” segments throughout Friday evenings and Saturdays most weeks. They’ll be on Friday night Sportscenter with a segment, then soon after they might have a segment on the Friday night pregame show. Some Fridays they’ll do a segment at halftime of the game. Saturday morning they’ll do a quick segment during College Gameday, and sometimes they’ll have a random segment on College Football Scoreboard with a prediction or two. If you’re like me (and watch too much college football), then you might seem to remember Lou Holtz picking a different team to win a game than he previously said. He did this several times leading up to Oregon/Auburn in the championship last year, and I thought I’d post about his Texas/Oklahoma pick where he did the same thing.

This is Lou Holtz on Saturday morning boldly picking the upset of Texas over Oklahoma. What a pick right?

Wait, the next picture was his Friday night pick from the Boise St/Fresno St pregame show.

Those are the only two pictures I took because I had both of those left on my DVR, but I’m fairly certain Lou picked Oklahoma over Texas on Friday evening Sportscenter and the Boise/Fresno pregame. At HALFTIME of the game I believe his pick had changed to Texas over Oklahoma, and carried that over to Gameday on Saturday morning (This was likely recorded Friday night since they are wearing the same suits). What does this mean? Hell I don’t know. Lou Holtz either forgot who he previously picked, changed his mind after careful consideration, is playing both sides of the debate, or is flat out senile. Mark May very briefly called him out for flip-flopping, but it didn’t last long before he had to get the spotlight on himself.

All I can say is that this really causes stress for everyone out there who runs a blog about college football predictions. However I have decided that I will always use the most recent prediction for my official record because there could have been some late breaking news that affects an analysts’ opinion on the outcome.

But I just wanted to put Lou Holtz on alert (since I assume he reads this blog): I’m on to you.

Week 6 2011 (Saturday Morning)

Posted on October 8, 2011 by gamedaycole

Here’s the picks for Saturday morning!

Lou Holtz:
Michigan over Northwestern
LSU over Florida
Nebraska over Ohio St
Texas over OU

Mark May:
Michigan over Northwestern
LSU over Florida
Nebraska over Ohio St

David Pollack:
Mizzou over KState
Michigan over Northwestern
Georgia over Tennessee

Desmond Howard:
Gerogia over Tennessee
Arkansas over Auburn
LSU over Florida
Michigan Northwestern
Nebraska over Ohio St
OU over Texas
TAMU over TTU
KState over Mizzou
VaTech over Miami

Kirk Herbstreit:
TAMU over TTU
Nebraska over Ohio St
Michigan over Northwestern
LSU over Florida
VaTech over Miami
Georgia over Tennessee
KState over Mizzou
Iowa over Penn St
Arkansas over Auburn

Lee Corso:
Arkansas over Auburn
TTU over TAMU
Mizzou over KState
Nebraska over Ohio St
Michigan over Northwestern
LSU over Florida
Miami over VaTech
Georgia over Tennessee
Iowa over Penn St
OU over Texas (Headgear picks 4-1)

Blake Griffin:
Mizzou over KState
TAMU over TTU
Penn St over Iowa
Nebraska over Ohio St
Michigan over Northwestern
VaTech over Miami
Arkansas over Auburn
Georiga over Tennessee
LSU over Florida
OU over Texas