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Week 1 2016: College football weekday picks! #CFB #CFBPlayoff

Posted on August 31, 2016 by gamedaycole

It is once again time to get weekly picks going for this season. Preseason picks are in the books, and we will be revisiting those in a few months, so in the meantime week 1 picks are starting to come in. We will be updating this post for the next few days with more weekday picks, and as always we will be back Saturday morning for all of those delicious Saturday morning picks from College Gameday, SEC Nation, Dari & Mel, and whoever else shows up.

UPDATED 9/3

Andrea Adelson:
Miami FL over FAMU
Clemson over Auburn
FSU over Ole Miss
UNC over UGA
GT over BC
Louisville over Charlotte
Wake Forest over Tulane
NC St over W&M
Syracuse over Colgate
VT over Liberty
Pitt over Villanova
UVA over Richmond
Duke over UNC Central
Miami FL over FAMU

Charles Arbuckle:
Houston over OU
UCLA over TAMU
Alabama over USC
Clemson over Auburn
Texas over ND
LSU over Wisconsin
FSU over Ole Miss
UNC over Georgia

Mike Bellotti:
Texas over Notre Dame

Lee Corso:
NDSU over Charleston So.
BC over GT

Stanford Steve Coughlin: (Behind the Bets Podcast 8/31)
LSU over Wisconsin
LSU vs Wisconsin over 44.5
OU over Houston
OU vs Houston over 68
OU-11.5 vs Houston (if he had to pick a side)
TAMU-3 vs UCLA
TAMU over UCLA
Notre Dame over Texas
ND vs Texas Under 60
Fordham+26.5 vs Navy
CSU ML vs Colorado
FSU over Ole Miss

Colin Cowherd:
Alabama over USC 31-13
Stanford over KState (closer than 15)
OU over Houston (close)
LSU over Wisconsin
UCLA over TAMU
UNC over Georgia
Clemson over Auburn
Notre Dame over Texas
Ole Miss over FSU

Heather Dinich:
FSU over Ole Miss

Chris Doering:
Mizzou over WVU 31-30
LSU over Wisconsin 27-10
TAMU over UCLA 33-31
Georgia over UNC 34-20
Clemson over Auburn 31-23
Alabama over USC 35-9

Dusty Dvoracek:
Stanford over KState
Notre Dame over Texas
OU over Houston
LSU over Wisconsin
USC+11 vs Alabama
LSU-10.5 vs Wisconsin
UCLA+3 vs TAMU
Texas+3.5 vs ND
OU-11.5 vs Houston

Brad Edwards:
Texas over Notre Dame

Chris “The Bear” Fallica: (Behind the Bets Podcast 8/31)
LSU over Wisconsin 33-17
LSU vs Wisconsin over 44.5
OU over Houston
OU-11.5 vs Houston
UCLA over TAMU
Tx St+21 vs Ohio
UNC over UGA
UNC ML vs UGA

Paul Finebaum: Predicted no upsets in top 10
ND over Texas (CFB Live 8/19)
Alabama over USC
Clemson over Auburn
OU over Houston
LSU over Wisconsin
Ohio St over BGSU
Michigan over Hawaii
Stanford over KState
Tennessee over App St
Vanderbilt over S.Carolina

Pat Forde:
FSU over Ole Miss
UNC over Georgia
Colorado over CSU
Mich St over Furman
Stanford over KState
Baylor over NW St
Georgia over UNC
Virginia over Richmond
GT over BC
WVU over Mizzou
Iowa St over N Iowa
Okla St over SE Louisiana
Iowa over Mia (OH)
Michigan over Hawaii
Ohio St over BGSU
LSU over Wisconsin
Boise St over UL-Lafayette
BYU over Arizona
Oregon over UCD
Washington over Rutgers
Wash St over EWU
Florida over Mass
S.Miss over Kentucky
Alabama over USC
Arkansas over LaTech
Clemson over Auburn
Houston over OU
UCLA over TAMU
TCU over S. Dakota St
NIU over Wyoming
SMU over UNT
Notre Dame over Texas

Joey Galloway:
Clemson over Auburn
Georgia over UNC
OU over Houston
LSU over Wisconsin
Alabama over USC
FSU over Ole Miss
Colorado over CSU

Kirk Herbstreit:
UNC over Georgia (Twitter 8/25)
NDSU over Charleston So.

Desmond Howard:
NDSU over Charleston So.

Jennifer’s Picks:
NDSU over Charleston So.

Danny Kanell:
Michigan over Hawaii
Vanderbilt over S.Carolina
Alabama over USC
OU over Houston
UNC over Georgia
LSU over Wiscsonsin
Ole Miss over FSU
OU-11.5 vs Houston
UCLA+3 vs TAMU
Wisconsin+11 vs LSU
UNC+3 vs Geoergia
USC+11.5 vs Alabama
Auburn+7.5 vs Clemson

Joel Klatt:
Colorado over CSU

Greg McElroy:
Texas over ND (CFB Live 8/19)
Alabama over USC
Arkansas over LT
Clemson over Auburn
UNC over Georgia
Vanderbilt over S.Carolina
Tennessee over App St

Booger McFarland:
LSU over Wisconsin 31-13
Vanderbilt over S.Carolina
Alabama over USC 24-3
Clemson over Auburn 45-21
Georgia over UNC 17-14
Ole Miss over FSU
Mizzou over WVU 21-17
TAMU over UCLA 35-28

Brett McMurphy:
Alabama over USC
Clemson over Auburn

Todd McShay:
Texas over Notre Dame

Dari Nowkhah:
FSU over Ole Miss

David Pollack:
NDSU over Charleston So.
LSU over Wisconsin

Jordan Rodgers:
Florida over UMass
Kentucky over S.Miss
FSU over Ole Miss
WVU over Mizzou
Vanderbilt over S.Carolina

Ryen Russillo:
OU over Houston
TAMU over UCLA
Clemson over Auburn
OU-11.5 vs Houston
TAMU-3 vs UCLA
Wisconsin+11 vs LSU
UNC+3 vs Georgia
USC+11.5 vs Alabama
Clemson-7.5 vs Auburn

Mark Schlabach:
SDSU over New Hampshire

Jason Sehorn:
OU over Houston
Georgia over UNC
Alabama over USC
Texas over ND
FSU over Ole Miss

Robert Smith:
Stanford over KState

Marcus Spears:
Florida over UMass
Georgia over UNC
LSU over Wisconsin
Miss St over S.Alabama
Vanderbilt over S.Carolina
Tennessee over App St

Phil Steele:
Texas over Notre Dame
Cal over Hawaii 46-26 (High scoring game of the week)
Alabama over USC (by two touchdowns)
LSU over Wisconsin (by two touchdowns)
OU over Houston
Georgia over UNC
Clemson over Auburn
UCLA over TAMU
FSU over Ole Miss
Michigan over Hawaii

Matt Stinchcomb:
WVU over Mizzou
Tennessee over App St
Vanderbilt over S.Carolina

Clint Stoerner:
Alabama over USC
Arkansas over LT
Clemson over Auburn
Kentucky over S.Miss
FSU over Ole Miss
Miss St over S.Alabama

Tim Tebow:
S.Carolina over Vanderbilt
Tennessee over App St

Scott Van Pelt:
W.Michigan+5 vs NW
Auburn+7.5 vs Clemson
Houston+11.5 vs OU
SJSU+5 vs Tulsa
Texas+3.5 vs ND

Dave Wannstedt:
Stanford over KState

2015-16 Season results and champion Phil Steele! #cfb

Posted on January 13, 2016 by gamedaycole

The 2015-16 season of college football brought excitement and many hours wasted in front of the television, and it is with great sadness that we now enter the offseason. However, that also means that it is time to crown the 2015-16 GAMEDAYCOLE.COM SEASON CHAMPION!!! Competition was fierce this year, with 4,271 picks tracked this year and an average correct pick rate of 70.03% on the season. We had 33 competitors eligible for this year’s championship, and it is without further adieu that I present to you our 2015-16 season champion, Mr. Phil Steele!

Mr. Steele finished off this season with a record of 597-174 straight up and 121-105-2 against the spread, which comes out to 77.03% straight up and 53.54% against the spread. I don’t know what his secret is to picking games. Maybe it is his computer. Maybe it is the mustache. Maybe it is the fact that he hasn’t slept since June due to football. Whatever it is, it works. Congratulations Phil. You can now add this to your long and impressive resume, and no doubt impress acquaintances at cocktail parties with this accolade.

There are plenty of other notes to get to for this season’s wrap up. As you may notice, Greg McElroy topped the straight up percentages on the year at 84.54% with a record of 82-15 on the year. While this is impressive and deserving of congratulations, he was hurt by the limited number of games he picked, and the fact that his picks are almost entirely SEC conference picks. Phil Steele had a much larger body of work, and combined with his win rate against the spread that was enough to vault him over McElroy on the season. Next year we will probably have a separate award for the experts focusing on a single conference, but it is too late to be starting that nonsense right now.

Lee Corso’s headgear picks on the year were his worst year on record. He went 6-12 on the year in the headgear picks due to some tough breaks and close losses on underdogs. Charley the Cat had a season on par with Coach Corso, and ended up squeezing out a 7-11 season to beat Corso on the year picking games. Gameday Jen had her best season on record, going 153-59 (72.17%) on the year, so watch out Phil; she is coming for you! Maybe next year we’ll have her pick against the spread and make us some money. Our Gameday guest celebrities had an abysmal year at 56.39% picking games straight up this year. Maybe you shouldn’t be trusting Rick Ross, the Philly Phanatic, or Eric Church for your betting advice after all.

You can see the full rankings below to see how everyone else did on the year. We will be putting together a recap of preseason predictions this week to see how great everyone’s preseason picks surely went, so keep an eye out for that and much more to come.

	Straight Up	SU %	ATS	ATS %
Greg McElroy	82-15	84.54%
Phil Steele	597-174	77.03%	121-105-2	53.54%
Paul Finebaum	78-27	74.29%
Pat Forde	256-89	73.99%
Andrea Adelson	84-30	73.68%
Booger McFarland	80-32	72.73%
Tim Tebow	45-17	72.58%
Trevor Matich	68-26	72.34%	14-21-1	40.00%
Jennifer	153-59	72.17%
Jason Sehorn	82-33	71.30%
Kirk Herbstreit	120-49	71.01%
Marcus Spears	55-23	70.51%
Brad Edwards	89-38	70.08%	22-20-1	52.38%
Colin Cowherd	73-32	69.52%
David Pollack	71-32	68.93%
Joey Galloway	93-43	68.38%
Robert Smith	49-23	68.06%	10-17-0	37.04%
Mark May	23-11	67.65%
Kevin Carter	38-19	66.67%
Jon Berger	32-16	66.67%
Todd McShay	33-17	66.00%
Danny Kanell	88-47	65.19%	20-23-0	46.51%
Desmond Howard	111-60	64.91%
Chris Fallica	77-42	64.71%	71-67-3	51.45%
Lee Corso	101-56	64.33%
Ryen Russillo	46-27	63.01%	23-19-0	54.76%
Scott Van Pelt	5-3	62.50%	34-35	49.28%
Joel Klatt	105-64	62.13%
Celebrity Guests	75-58	56.39%
Dari Nowhkah	46-36	56.10%	10-8-0	55.56%
Lou Holtz	13-11	54.17%
Stanford Steve Coughlin	42-37	53.16%	40-44-3	48.19%

Season Average	2925-1250	70.06%	365-359-10	50.41%

2015-16 Bowl season results! #CFBPlayoff #BowlMania

Posted on January 12, 2016 by gamedaycole

Welcome back ladies and gentlemen. With the fantastic CFB Playoff championship game in the books last night, that means the bowl season has ended. It is now time that we look back and review how all of our competitors did playing a little bit of Bowl Mania pick’em.

We had 12 of our expert predictors and prognosticators who picked enough of the bowl games to qualify for our championship competition this year. As with most things around here, it is all subjective and up to my judgment as to what to make of all of this mess. Not everyone picked the Celebration Bowl between NC A&T and Alcorn State. Some of us picked it, and it ended up being quite profitable. Not everyone had a qualifying CFB Playoff Championship pick, because some of them picked before the playoff and had Oklahoma playing in the championship game. And for some reason, Pat Forde refused to pick any bowl games involving 5-7 teams, but since he still picked most of them I have granted him a waiver. Without further adieu, I present to you this year’s Gamedaycole.com official bowl championship rankings.

Cole’s Picks: 32-10
Joey Galloway: 31-11
Chris Doering: 29-13
Phil Steele: 29-12 SU, 14-9 ATS
Jennifer’s Picks: 27-14
Todd McShay: 27-15
Pat Forde: 26-12
Ryen Russillo: 25-17
Danny Kanell: 24-18
Joel Klatt: 24-17
Mark Schlabach: 23-18
Dari Nowkhah: 22-20

As you can see, Cole’s picks came out on top this year coming in at 32-10. Not to toot my own too much, but I’m pretty good at picking bowl games. Pay no attention to last year’s results behind the curtain where I went 20-18 in Bowl Mania. Anyways, since I can’t very well give myself an award for picking bowl games (I guess I could since it is my site), we are proud to announce that Joey Galloway has won the 2015-16 Gamedaycole.com Bowl Season Championship at 31-11!

We had a grand total of 59 experts who participated in bowl season this year, and for the full results you can check out the list below to see how your favorite (or most hated) personality did during bowl season. Since my full list of bowl picks for all of these people is over 30 pages long, you’ll just have to take my word on it for now. Congratulations to everyone who participated this year.

Andrea Adelson: 1-1
Charles Arbuckle: 1-2
Skip Bayless: 1-2 SU, 1-0 ATS
Mike Bellotti: 3-2
Jon Berger: 7-1
Kevin Blackstone: 1-0
Mack Brown: 2-2
Kevin Carter: 15-10
Lee Corso: 2-4 (1-2 headgear picks)
Stanford Steve Coughlin: 2-6 SU, 3-9 ATS
Colin Cowherd: 7-1 SU, 0-1 ATS
Tim Cowlishaw: 7-1 SU, 8-5 ATS
Ed Cunningham: 5-9
Butch Davis: 2-2
Rece Davis: 1-0
Heather Dinich: 14-6
Brad Edwards: 7-0 SU, 4-1 ATS
Chris “The Bear” Fallica: 7-7 SU, 10-9 ATS
Paul Finebaum: 10-3
Mike Golic: 3-0 SU, 2-0 ATS
Mike Greenberg: 3-0 SU, 1-0 ATS
Brian Griese: 2-0
Israel Gutierrez: 1-0
Kirk Herbstreit: 6-4
Lou Holtz: 1-2
Desmond Howard: 8-4
Mel Kiper Jr.: 2-0
Matt Leinart: 2-1
Tom Luginbill: 4-0
Trevor Matich: 4-0
Mark May: 3-1
Greg McElroy: 13-3
Booger McFarland: 9-5
Ryan McGee: 1-0
Urban Meyer: 1-0
Woody Paige: 0-1
Jesse Palmer: 1-0
Petros Papadakis: 2-1
Brady Quinn: 1-2
David Pollack: 6-5
Jason Sehorn: 7-2
Robert Smith: 2-2
Marcus Spears: 10-2
Clint Stoerner: 1-0
Tim Tebow: 2-1
Scott Van Pelt: 2-1 SU, 0-1 ATS
Andre Ware: 1-0