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Week 6 2018: #CFB Picks with Stanford Steve & Chris Fallica!

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Welcome back ladies and gentlemen to week 6 of your college football season.  Here’s the moment you’ve all been waiting for.  The picks are in from celebrity superstars Chris ‘The Bear’ Fallica and Stanford Steve Coughlin. Listen to the whole podcast before investing in these please, but enjoy them either way.

The Bear said STAY AWAY from Syracuse/Pitt.  He said it the biggest disparity between the Vegas line and FPI line (FPI had Syracuse-10!!!) and he said it stinks big time, so stay away.  Stanford Steve had a lean on the Syracuse/Pitt over.

Stanford Steve gave a lean on Utah+5.5 but said he wasn’t sure if it was official for his ESPN Chalk article yet.  He wanted to give out Iowa-7 but said he’s scared off by his own rule of never laying more than 6 with Iowa.

Bear wanted to give out Florida but said something worried him about this one.  They gave a few more mentions to some leans but those were the main games discussed.

Chris Fallica:

Date Pick
10/6/18 Arizona State+2.5 vs Colorado
10/6/18 Air Force+3.5 vs Navy
10/6/18 Massachusetts+14 vs South Florida
10/6/18 Utah+5.5 vs Stanford
10/5/18 Utah State+2.5 vs BYU

Steve Coughlin:

Date Pick
10/6/18 Alabama vs Arkansas over 59
10/6/18 Texas A&M-6 vs Kentucky
10/6/18 Northwestern+11 vs Michigan State
10/5/18 Georgia Tech-4 vs Louisville

 

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Week 5 2018: #CFB Picks are graded; results are in!

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Welcome back everyone.  We had some big games last night and some big results from our expert panel of predictors and prognosticators.  Let’s get right to it.

Winners this week included Andrea Adelson (11-2), Paul Finebaum (9-2), Kirk Herbstreit (12-4), Phil Steele (6-2 straight up, 5-3 ATS), Stanford Steve (5-1 ATS), Pat Forde (4-2 ATS), SVP (6-3 ATS), and Desmond Howard (12-5).  Scott Spreitzer, after a horrendous start to the year, booked a 3-0 week ATS on Dari & Mel picking games.  However, this week’s official win will go to Lou Holtz at 8-1 on his weekly picks.  Congratulations to Dr. Lou for smashing Mark May this week on the Crowd’s Line.

Losers this week included Chris Fallica (3-4 ATS) and Mark May (5-4), but our undisputed loss this week goes to Rufus Peabody, who after an incredible start to the season booked a 1-4 record against the spread yesterday.  He’s still way up on the year picking 65% against the spread, but that’s a tough week by anybody’s standards.

Lee Corso booked a great week at 14-3 but missed out on his headgear pick of Penn State over Ohio State.  Bear’s Bank went 1-2 this week as part of Fallica’s tough 3-4 week against the spread.  Special guest celebrity Keegan-Michael Key went 8-8, which continues the new trend of picking significantly more games than celebrities in the past.  @GamedayJen went 12-4 on the wek continuing to quietly book winners.  Everyone else is somewhere else in between so check out the results below to see how your favorite (or most hated) personality did this week.

percent.correct n.correct n.wrong
Colin.Cowherd 100% 2 0
Heather.Dinich 100% 4 0
Chris.Doering 100% 5 0
Matt.Leinart 100% 1 0
Robert.Smith 100% 1 0
Dave.Wannstedt 100% 1 0
Lou.Holtz 88.89% 8 1
Andrea.Adelson 84.62% 11 2
Lee.Corso 82.35% 14 3
Paul.Finebaum 81.82% 9 2
Pat.Forde 80% 4 1
Joey.Galloway 80% 4 1
Jesse.Palmer 80% 4 1
Marcus.Spears 80% 4 1
Tim.Tebow 80% 4 1
Kirk.Herbstreit 75% 12 4
Jennifer 75% 12 4
Dusty.Dvoracek 75% 3 1
Ryan.McGee 75% 3 1
Les.Miles 75% 3 1
Mark.Schlabach 75% 3 1
Phil.Steele 75% 6 2
Desmond.Howard 70.59% 12 5
Bruce.Feldman 70% 7 3
Chris.Fallica 63.64% 7 4
Steve.Coughlin 60% 3 2
Danny.Kanell 60% 3 2
Mark.May 55.56% 5 4
Celebrity.Guest 50% 8 8
Ivan.Maisel 50% 2 2
David.Pollack 33.33% 1 2

ATS Results:

percent.correct.ats n.correct n.wrong n.tie
Scott.Spreitzer.ATS.Grade 100% 3 0 0
Steve.Coughlin.ATS.Grade 83.33% 5 1 0
Dusty.Dvoracek.ATS.Grade 80% 4 1 0
Pat.Forde.ATS.Grade 66.67% 4 2 0
Scott.Van.Pelt.ATS.Grade 66.67% 6 3 0
Phil.Steele.ATS.Grade 62.50% 5 3 0
Bruce.Feldman.ATS.Grade 60% 6 4 0
Jeff.Ma.ATS.Grade 60% 3 2 0
Danny.Kanell.ATS.Grade 50% 4 4 0
Chris.Fallica.ATS.Grade 42.86% 3 4 0
Rufus.Peabody.ATS.Grade 20% 1 4 0
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Week 5 2018: #CFB Picks w/ Chris Fallica & Stanford Steve!

Posted on by gamedaycole

Hello everyone.  The moment you’ve all been waiting for has arrived. The picks are in from celebrity superstars Chris Fallica and Stanford Steve Coughlin via their Behind the Bets podcast.  At the end of the podcast the Bear gave out Wyoming “plus the big number” (17ish) vs Boise State, but it wasn’t clear that this was an official pick.  I’ll know later today when their article on ESPN Chalk comes out.

Just a little note because I have been asked about this a lot recently:  I only post the picks from the Behind the Bets podcast; not ESPN Chalk.  Stanford Steve has made it clear on the podcast that his official picks for tracking purposes are in the ESPN Chalk article put out on Thursdays.  Sometimes the guys pick more or less games in the official Chalk article, and sometimes lines move by the time the Chalk article drops.  I grade the official picks on the Chalk article in my records, but I don’t post the Chalk picks because it is their paid content.  So on Sunday if you notice their weekly records don’t add up to these picks below, that is probably why.

Chris Fallica:

Date Pick
9/29/18 Connecticut+17 vs Cincinnati
9/29/18 San Jose State+12.5 vs Hawaii
9/29/18 California+2.5/3 vs Oregon
9/29/18 Fresno State-7.5 vs Toledo

Stanford Steve Coughlin:

Date Pick
9/29/18 Air Force-6.5 vs Nevada
9/29/18 Penn State vs Ohio State under 71.5
9/29/18 Purdue vs Nebraska over 57.5
9/29/18 Southern California-3.5 vs Arizona
9/29/18 Syracuse+25 vs Clemson
9/29/18 Temple+13.5 vs Boston College

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