Week 1 2025: CFB analyst picks are graded; results are in!
Week 1 of our college football season is in the books, and the picks from our esteemed panel of analysts are graded. As a reminder, these are straight-up picks; not against the spread. I’m also combining week 0 and week 1 for simplicity’s sake.
Winners this week include Danny Kanell (13-2), Richard Johnson (19-4) and Andrea Adelson (13-3). However, this week’s undisputed winner was Tom Fornelli of Cover 3 podcast fame for going 24-2 on his picks this week. Congratulations to Tom on a great winning week.
Lee Corso went 6-0 on his picks this week, including a win in his final headgear selection Ohio State over Texas. He finishes out a wonderful career going 287-144 (66.59%) on his headgear picks and 2383-1243-1 (65.72%) overall. Yes, he tied a game many years ago. Congratulations to Coach Corso on a wonderful career.
| Name | Pct | Win | Loss |
| Lee_Corso | 100 | 6 | 0 |
| Todd_McShay | 100 | 2 | 0 |
| Corso_Headgear | 100 | 1 | 0 |
| Ross_Dellenger | 100 | 1 | 0 |
| Ryan_McGee | 100 | 1 | 0 |
| Urban_Meyer | 100 | 1 | 0 |
| Jordan_Rodgers | 100 | 1 | 0 |
| Ryen_Russillo | 100 | 1 | 0 |
| Tom_Fornelli | 92.31 | 24 | 2 |
| Danny_Kanell | 86.67 | 13 | 2 |
| Richard_Johnson | 82.61 | 19 | 4 |
| Andrea_Adelson | 81.25 | 13 | 3 |
| Chip_Patterson | 79.17 | 19 | 5 |
| Pete_Thamel | 77.78 | 7 | 2 |
| David_Hale | 75 | 12 | 4 |
| Chris_Fallica | 75 | 3 | 1 |
| Brett_McMurphy | 75 | 3 | 1 |
| Shehan_Jeyarajah | 73.91 | 17 | 6 |
| Andy_Staples | 71.43 | 5 | 2 |
| Dan_Wetzel | 70 | 7 | 3 |
| Rick_Neuheisel | 66.67 | 6 | 3 |
| Steve_Coughlin | 66.67 | 2 | 1 |
| Pat_Forde | 66.67 | 2 | 1 |
| Phil_Steele | 66.67 | 2 | 1 |
| David_Pollack | 62.5 | 5 | 3 |
| Kirk_Herbstreit | 60 | 3 | 2 |
| Desmond_Howard | 57.14 | 4 | 3 |
| Rece_Davis | 55.56 | 5 | 4 |
| Brian_Jones | 55.56 | 5 | 4 |
| Greg_McElroy | 50 | 4 | 4 |
| Josh_Pate | 50 | 3 | 3 |
| Dusty_Dvoracek | 50 | 2 | 2 |
| Brady_Quinn | 50 | 1 | 1 |
| JD_Pickell | 45.45 | 5 | 6 |
| Randy_Cross | 44.44 | 4 | 5 |
| Aaron_Taylor | 44.44 | 4 | 5 |
| Pat_McAfee | 42.86 | 3 | 4 |
| Jennifer | 37.5 | 3 | 5 |
| Nick_Saban | 28.57 | 2 | 5 |
| Joel_Klatt | 16.67 | 1 | 5 |
| Colin_Cowherd | 0 | 0 | 3 |
| Paul_Finebaum | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Roman_Harper | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Mark_Ingram | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Matt_Leinart | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Tim_Tebow | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Scott_Van_Pelt | 0 | 0 | 1 |
| Average | 66.67 | 222 | 111 |