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Week 1 2019: #CFB Picks w/ Stanford Steve and the Bear Chris Fallica!

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Stanford Steve and the Bear put out their week 1 podcast with means all your favorite gambling coverage for this week.  Stanford Steve’s Wake Forest/Utah State over 59.5 was in the Big Mike Happy Recap at the end of the podcast, but I’m not sure if it was official because he kind of threw it on there at the last second.  I will grade his picks against his ESPN Chalk column for official records as always.

Also, the Bear gave out Nevada+10.5 on Daily Wager earlier this week, so that pick cannot be found in the podcast.

Bear’s Bank for week 1:

Listen to the full thing for all the juicy details and extra leans.

Stanford Steve:

Date Pick
8/30/19 Wake Forest  -3.5 vs Utah State
8/30/19 Wake Forest vs Utah State Over 59.5
8/31/19 Ohio State vs Florida Atlantic Over 63.5
8/31/19 Northwestern + 6.5 vs Stanford
8/31/19 Kentucky vs Toledo Under 61.5
8/31/19 Boston College + 5 vs Virginia Tech

Chris Fallica:

Date Pick
8/29/19 BYU + 6.5 vs Utah
8/30/19 Nevada + 10.5 vs Purdue
8/30/19 Wake Forest  -3.5 vs Utah State
8/31/19 Coastal Carolina + 6.5 vs Eastern Michigan
8/31/19 Georgia Southern + 27.5 vs LSU
8/31/19 Liberty + 18 vs Syracuse
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Week 1 2019: ATS College Picks from Clay Travis!

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I’ve decided to start tracking Clay Travis this year, so love him or hate him here are his week 1 picks.

The full write-ups can be found HERE so check it out if you want it.

Date Pick
8/29/19 Clemson  -35 vs Georgia Tech
8/29/19 Cincinnati  -2.5 vs UCLA
8/29/19 BYU vs Utah Under 48.5
8/30/19 Oklahoma State  -15 vs Oregon State
8/30/19 Oregon State vs Oklahoma State Over 72
8/30/19 Tulsa + 22.5 vs Michigan State
8/31/19 Alabama  -33.5 vs Duke
8/31/19 Auburn  -3 vs Oregon
8/31/19 Ohio State vs Florida Atlantic Over 63.5
8/31/19 Vanderbilt vs Georgia Over 57.5
8/31/19 Memphis vs Ole Miss Over 67.5
8/31/19 Missouri  -17 vs Wyoming
8/31/19 South Carolina vs North Carolina Under 63
8/31/19 Stanford vs Northwestern Under 49
8/31/19 Liberty vs Syracuse Over 66
8/31/19 Toledo + 12.5 vs Kentucky
9/1/19 Oklahoma vs Houston Over 82
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Week 1 2018: #CFB Picks are graded; results are in!

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Welcome back everyone for the week 1 results.  Starting today this is where you are going to notice some big differences from last year.  You’ll have to reference the weekly pick posts if you want to see the picks themselves, because this is the new grading format.  Thanks to Chuck the Stat Guy we are running automated grading on our experts to bring you faster results and total accuracy.  We’re working on the grades against the spread but I’ve added the manual tallies below.  Now let’s get to the results.

Big winners this week include Paul Finebaum, Chris Fallica, and Andrea Adelson.  However our undisputed co-champions this week are Dr. Lou Holtz and special celebrity guest Luke Bryan.  If you had Lou Holtz and Luke Bryan splitting a weekly title at some point this year in your pool let me know so I can tell you how to collect your prize.  I’m actually very pleased with Lou Holtz because he came out of retirement and won the first week straight out of the gate.  Congratulations to both.

Losers this week include Desmond Howard, Danny Kanell and Mark May.  However our undisputed loss this week gets credited to Kirk Herbstreit with a disastrous 2-9 record this week.  Its ok Kirk, we’ve got a long season ahead of us.

Coach Corso got off to a good start with a win on his first headgear selection this week (Notre Dame).  As mentioned, special celebrity guest Luke Bryan went 9-3 on the week, and this trend needs to stop before it ever gets off to a start.  The man with no ties to Notre Dame or Michigan was invited onto College Gameday for no other reason than the fact that he was playing a concert in town Saturday night.  If ESPN is telling me they couldn’t get a single notable alumni of Michigan or Notre Dame to pick this thing then they must really think I’m a fool.  I digress…

ATS grades: Dusty Dvoracek (3-2), Chris Fallica (2-3), Pat Forde (1-4), Bruce Feldman (3-8), Danny Kanell (1-2), Scott Spreitzer (0-3), Phil Steele (6-3), Scott Van Pelt’s WINNERS (2-3).  The newly rebranded Bear’s Board went 1-2 on the week.

Everyone else finished the week somewhere in between all of this, so check out the grades below to see how your favorite (or most hated) personality did this week.

person.name percent.correct n.correct n.wrong n.games.predicted
Tim.Cowlishaw 100% 1 0 1
Chris.Doering 100% 4 0 4
Paul.Finebaum 100% 5 0 5
Trevor.Matich 100% 3 0 3
Marcus.Spears 100% 4 0 4
Celebrity.Guest 75% 9 3 12
Dusty.Dvoracek 75% 3 1 4
Lou.Holtz 75% 9 3 12
Tim.Tebow 75% 3 1 4
Chris.Fallica 71.43% 5 2 7
Andrea.Adelson 69.23% 9 4 13
Steve.Coughlin 66.67% 4 2 6
Joey.Galloway 66.67% 2 1 3
Phil.Steele 66.67% 8 4 12
Jennifer 60% 9 6 15
Dari.Nowkhah 60% 3 2 5
Lee.Corso 53.85% 7 6 13
David.Pollack 50% 2 2 4
Mack.Brown 50% 1 1 2
Bruce.Feldman 50% 6 6 12
Jesse.Palmer 50% 1 1 2
Jonathan.Vilma 50% 1 1 2
Mark.May 45.45% 5 6 11
Danny.Kanell 40% 2 3 5
Colin.Cowherd 33.33% 1 2 3
Desmond.Howard 30.77% 4 9 13
Kirk.Herbstreit 18.18% 2 9 11
Skip.Bayless 0% 0 1 1
Pat.Forde 0% 0 4 4
Joel.Klatt 0% 0 1 1
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