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Week 12 2014: Weekday college picks! #cfb #saturdayselections #BamaVsMissSt

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Thursday Friday afternoon means it is once again time for our weekday college picks for week 12 of this glorious football season.  We will plenty more leading up to another big Saturday of college football, so check back often to see how things shake out.

Colin Cowherd:
Ohio St over Minnesota 44-24
Alabama over Miss St 33-26
Arizona over Washington 38-20
Wisconsin over Nebraska 30-27
ND over NW 44-24
Stanford over Utah 23-17
Auburn over Georgia 41-33
FSU over Miami Fl 36-33
LSU over Arkansas 26-23
Oregon St over Ariz St 30-27

Phil Steele:
Alabama over Miss St 34-17 (best bet of the week)
FSU over Miami Fl 38-30
Georgia over Auburn 44-40
Arkansas over LSU 20-16
Wisconsin over Nebraska 31-20
Marshall over Rice
Texas over Okla St
Ohio St over Minnesota 38-20
Stanford over Utah 26-13
Clemson over GaTech 31-24
Idaho over Troy 38-27
Tennessee over Kentucky 31-17
VaTech over Duke 24-23 (upset special)

Trevor Matich:
Alabama over Miss St
FSU over Miami Fl
TCU over Kansas
Ohio st over Minnesota

Todd McShay:
Alabama over Miss St
Ohio St over Minnesota
Miami Fl over FSU

Chris Fallica:
Miami Fl over FSU 34-27
Alabama over Miss St 30-24
Auburn over Georgia 41-31
Oregon St over Ariz St 28-24
VaTech over Duke 23-21
S.Carolina over Florida 31-17

Kirk Herbstreit:
Alabama over Miss St
Marshall over Rice

Desmond Howard:
Ohio St over Minnesota

David Pollack:
Ohio St over Minnesota
FSU over Miami Fl

Skip Bayless:
Miss St over Alabama 30-27

Paul Finebaum:
Arkansas over LSU

Lou Holtz:
Miami Fl over FSU
Ohio St over Minnesota
Georgia over Auburn
Alabama over Miss St

Mark May:
Wisconsin over Nebraska
Auburn over Georgia
Alabama over Miss St
Miami Fl over FSU

Robert Smith:
Alabama over Miss St
Miami Fl over FSU
Ohio St over Minnesota

Greg McElroy:
S.Carolina over Florida 31-28
Tennessee over Kentucky 28-17
TAMU over Mizzou 34-28
Arkansas over LSU 21-17
Auburn over Georgia 42-38
Alabama over Miss St 31-24

Booger McFarland:
Alabama over Miss St 24-21
Auburn over Georgia 31-28
Florida over S.Carolina 28-24
Tennessee over Kentucky 35-31
TAMU over Mizzou 38-35
FSU over Miami Fl
LSU over Arkansas 27-24

Charles Arbuckle:
Alabama over Miss St
Auburn over Georgia
FSU over Miami Fl
Marshall over Rice
Ohio St over Minnesota
Wisconsin over Nebraska
Nebraska over Wisconsin
Ariz St over Oregon St
Clemson over GaTech
Duke over VaTech
TAMU over Mizzou

Jon Berger:
Alabama over Miss St
Georgia over Auburn
FSU over Miami Fl
Ohio St over Minnesota
Wisconsin over Nebraska

Brian Griese:
Miss St over Alabama
FSU over Miami Fl
Wisconsin over Nebraska
Auburn over Georgia

Joey Galloway
FSU over Miami Fl
Miss St over Alabama
Texas over Okla St

Danny Kanell
FSU over Miami Fl
Bama over Miss st
Ohio St over Minnesota

Dari Nowkhah:
Ariz St over Oregon St

Brett McMurphy:
Miami Fl over FSU

Mike Bellotti:
FSU over Miami Fl

Woody Paige:
Alabama over Miss St

Jackie MacMullan:
Miss St over Alabama

Matt Millen
FSU over Miami Fl
Bama over Miss St

Ryen Russillo:
Arkansas over LSU
FSU over Miami Fl

Pat Forde:
Duke over VaTech
Clemson over GaTech
Mich St over Maryland
UNC over Pitt
FSU over Miami Fl
TCU over Kansas
Texas over Okla St
Ohio St over Minnesota
Wisconsin over Nebraska
Arizona over Washington
Ariz St over Oregon St
Stanford over Utah
Florida over S.Carolina
Georgia over Auburn
Tennessee over Kentucky
Miss St over Alabama
LSU over Arkansas
Mizzou over TAMU
ND over NW
Idaho over Troy
Marshall over Rice

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2013-14 Season Awards!

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Yeah so it is a little bit delayed, but here are the awards for our 2013-14 season of Cole’s Gameday Blog Football Championship Stuff Edition!!!

2013-14 Bowl Co-Champions:
Phil Steele/Robert Smith (21-14).  It was a down year in the Bowl Pick’em leagues, but our two champs this year include multiple Bowl Pick’em winner Robert Smith, and newcomer (to this blog) Phil Steele.

Best preseason pick of the year: Colin Cowherd, Ole Miss over Texas.  It was supposed to be a bounce-back year for Mack Brown and the Texas Longhorns, and nobody was predicting big things for the Ole Miss Rebels.  However, Colin went out on a limb and called this one week before the season started, and was amazingly right!

Best Weeks of the Year:
Colin Cowherd, Week 9 (11-0)
Bubba Watson, Week 5 (10-0)
Jennifer’s Picks, Week 5 (13-1)
Pat Forde, Week 4 (30-3)

Worst Week of the Year:
Robert Smith, Week 8 (0-9)

Best Picks of the Year:
Lou Holtz, Week 1: NDSU over KState
Lou Holtz, Fiest Bowl: UCF over Baylor
Nobody on earth would have picked either of these upsets.  Somehow Lou Holtz picked both.  What does this mean?  I don’t know, but it is impressive.

Upset Specialists:
Jennifer’s upset specials: 10-5, 66.67%
Mark Schlabach: 7-5, 58.33%
Todd McShay: 8-10, 44.44%
Brad Edwards: 6-8, 42.86%
Lee Corso: 2-3, 40%
Kirk Herbstreit: 1-4, 20%

2013-14 Cole’s Gameday Blog SEASON CHAMPION!!!
Pat Forde: 301-95, 76.01%
This year’s champion, Pat Forde, is unusual in the sense that not only did he finish with the strongest record amongst our competitors, but he also had the most picks of anyone this year.  I would say that is strong to quite strong.  The full slate of results is below, but let’s take a minute to congratulate Pat Forde for a historic season.

The first section is our true competitors this season, and the second section are those who didn’t have enough picks to qualify for the yearly awards.

Pat Forde: 301-95, 76.01%
Phil Steele: 102-36, 73.91%
Colin Cowherd: 115-43, 72.78%
Desmond Howard: 71-30, 70.30%
Jennifer’s Picks: 149-63, 70.28%
Mel Kiper Jr.: 54-27, 66.67%
Lee Corso: 128-50, 66.07%
Mike Bellotti: 26-14, 65.00%
Mark May: 46-25, 64.79%
Kirk Herbstreit: 114-63, 64.41%
Dari Nowkhah: 117-66, 63.93%
Jason Sehorn: 72-43, 62.61%
Brad Edwards: 31-19, 62.00%
Celebrity Guests: 95-60, 61.29%
Todd McShay: 65-44, 59.63%
David Pollack: 32-22, 59.26%
Mark Schlabach: 31-24, 56.36%
Robert Smith: 70-55, 56.00%
Lou Holtz: 38-31, 55.07%

Tim Cowlishaw: 3-0, 100.00%
Tim Tebow: 1-0, 100.00%
Kevin Blackistone: 1-0, 100.00%
Charles Arbuckle: 26-5, 83.87%
Ivan Maisel: 16-5, 76.19%
Chris Fowler: 12-4, 75.00%
Trevor Matich: 29-10, 74.36%
Tom Luginbill: 24-10, 70.59%
Paul Finebaum: 15-7, 68.18%
Bill Plaschke: 4-2, 66.67%
Matt Millen: 5-3, 62.50%
Ryen Russillo: 23-14, 62.16%
Danny Kanell: 12-8, 60.00%
Joey Galloway: 3-2, 60.00%
Andre Ware: 3-2, 60.00^
Jesse Palmer: 14-10, 58.33%
Skip Bayless: 9-7, 56.25%
Brian Griese: 21-18, 53.85%
Ed Cunningham: 18-17, 51.43%
Chris Fallia: 11-11, 50.00%
Kevin Carter: 4-4, 50.00%
Scott Van Pelt: 3-3, 50.00%
Woody Paige: 2-2, 50.00%
JA Adande: 1-1, 50.00%
Mike Golic: 1-1, 50.00%
Stephen A. Smith: 1-1, 50.00%
Matt Stinchcomb: 7-8, 46.67%
Brock Huard: 2-3, 40.00%
Jackie MacMullen: 0-1, 0.00%
Mike Greenberg: 0-2, 0.00%
Rod Gilmore: 0-4, 0.00%

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2013-14 Bowl Season: Results are in! #bowlmania

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In this reporter’s opinion, the 2013-14 Bowl Season was one that upfront looked like a disapointing schedule, yet turned out to be one of the more exciting bowl seasons I can remember.  The BCS era definitely went out with a bang thanks to four of five major upsets, and a championship game which will be remembered for a long time.  However, our panel of experts struggled this year with the bowl picks.  For reference, the previous bowl season champions are:

2006-2007 Bowl Season Champion: Howie Schwab @ 24-8, 75%
2007-2008 Bowl Season Champion: Colin Cowherd @ 25-7, 78.1%
2008-2009 Bowl Season Champion: Pat Forde @ 17-10, 63%
2009-2010 Bowl Season Champion: Jesse Palmer @ 18-16, 52.9%
2010-2011 Bowl Season Champion: Todd McShay @ 20-11, 64.52%
2011-2012 Bowl Season Champion: Tony Reali @ 25-10, 71.43%
2012-13 Bowl Season Co-Champions: Robert Smith & Jennifer, 25-10, 71.43%

So some years are up and others are down.  This wasn’t quite as bad as the 2009-10 season when Jesse Palmer won the championship basically because I already ordered the trophy and had to send it to somebody.  However, this year I would like to present to you a set of co-champions for the second year in a row.  This year’s winners are last year’s co-champion Robert Smith and newcomer Phil Steele.  They went 21-14 this season, which is low for a champion, but this is also a year in which none of our main competitors (defined as those who picked all 35 games) finished with a losing record.  It was a very tight group.  Check out the records below to see how your favorite (or most hated) personality did this year in the bowl games.

Qualifying Competitors:
Phil Steele: 21-14
Robert Smith: 21-14
Dari Nowkhah: 20-15
Jennifer’s Picks: 20-15
Pat Forde: 20-15
Todd McShay: 19-16
Mark Schlabach: 18-17
Ed Cunningham: 18-17

Others receiving votes:
Mel Kiper Jr.: 1-0
Mike Golic: 1-0
Chris Fowler: 1-0
Trevor Matich: 1-0
Tim Tebow: 1-0
Brad Edwards: 1-0
Scott Van Pelt: 1-0
Bill Plaschke: 1-0
Ivan Maisel: 1-0
Stephen A Smith: 1-0
Andre Ware: 3-2
Joey Galloway: 3-2
Matt Millen: 3-2
David Pollack: 7-7
Brian Griese: 3-3
Magic Johnson: 3-3
Ryen Russillo: 2-2
Kirk Herbstreit: 6-7
Lee Corso: 4-5
Desmond Howard: 2-3
Kevin Carter: 2-3
Brock Huard: 2-3
Danny Kanell: 3-4
Jesse Palmer: 3-5
Mark May: 2-4
Lou Holtz: 2-4
Mike Bellotti: 1-4
Tom Luginbill: 1-4
Matt Stinchcomb: 1-4
Colin Cowherd: 1-5
Mike Greenberg: 0-1
Paul Finebaum: 0-1
Skip Bayless: 0-1
Woody Paige: 0-1
Jackie MacMullen: 0-1
Rod Gilmore: 0-4

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