A hearty welcome to the new year with best wishes for you and your favorite team; we recap the major holiday bowl contests including two fantastic CFP semifinals, and preview the upcoming National Championship game where TCU will look to keep the magic going for 4 more quarters, this time against Georgia.
Wishing you all happy holidays, we’re back at it to resurrect picking against the spread for the upcoming New Year’s 6 bowl games, featuring Tennessee v Clemson, Alabama v Kansas State, TCU v Michigan, Georgia v Ohio State, Tulane v USC, and Penn State v Utah.
Let’s take a look at the bowls that will fill the gap between now and the New Year’s 6 - the transfer portal impact is certainly felt but there are still plenty of watchable options, especially for the sickos amongst us. Plenty of coaching news to criticize as well!
Bowl and playoff matchups are set, but first let's look at how we got there & talk some World Cup and coaching carousel along the way.
We’ve finally stumbled back from the Thanksgiving recess and its associated travels/tribulations to recap the final week of the regular season, preview conference championship games, discuss the coaching carousel to this point, and get some culinary takes off of our chests.
Two-man pod tonight as our resident TCU fan attends to college hoops matters; the playoff picture is getting murky, Lane might really be going to Auburn, and a few top teams struggled to put teams away on Saturday. Bonus UVA hoops reporting live from Las Vegas!
We’re back from a bit of a travel-induced break to re-enter the world of college football and lifestyle podcasting; games picked = TCU @ Baylor, Arkansas @ Ole Miss, Oklahoma State @ Oklahoma, USC @ UCLA, and Utah @ Oregon.
Join us as we attempt to bounce back against the spread in a Week 11 slate that could go either way in terms of chaos, plus some bonus college kicker/system QB discussion/debate. Games picked = Louisville @ Clemson, Alabama @ Ole Miss, UCF @ Tulane, Washington @ Oregon, and TCU @ Texas.
Great week of entertainment but it’s time to face the music and apologize for our performance in the picks department; USF is looking for a head coach and for the first time ever we may have a CFP without either of Alabama & Clemson.
Join us as we enter the final third of the season with plenty to discuss including the now-official firing of Brian Harsin - who fills that seat? Games picked = Oregon State @ Washington, Tennessee @ Georgia, Alabama @ LSU, Clemson @ Notre Dame, and Wake Forest @ NC State.
Week 9 didn’t bring many/any notable upsets but still delivered some fireworks including the return of The Old Lane Kiffin in Ole Miss’ win over Texas A&M; Will Levis continues to under-deliver, Tennessee and Georgia avoided look-ahead let downs, and more.
Not the best-looking lineup of games this weekend but we are faithfully back to deliver these takes and winning selections; games picked = Ohio State @ Penn State, Notre Dame @ Syracuse, Florida v Georgia, Oklahoma State @ Kansas State, and Kentucky @ Tennessee.
Lovely weekend of picks for the gang with everyone finishing above .500; Virginia somehow finds the win column on the road, JMU struggles without QB1, Charlotte joins the coaching carousel by dismissing Will Healy, and more.
Hosts on the road this week results in a 2-man show with Jason texting in picks from the tarmac and some bonus coaching musings; games picked = Syracuse @ Clemson, UCLA @ Oregon, Texas @ Oklahoma State, Mississippi State @ Alabama, and Kansas State @ TCU.
While our picks didn’t necessarily deliver this week the on-field action did as we were treated multiple field-stormings, highlighted by Tennessee taking down Alabama.
Plenty of key matchups on the board this week including 6 ranked-on-ranked games, all of which we’ll pick against the spread; bonus Bad Defensive Coordinator discussion! Games picked = Penn State @ Michigan, Alabama @ Tennessee, Oklahoma State @ TCU, NC State @ Syracuse, Mississippi State @ Kentucky, and USC @ Utah.
No disastrous upsets in Week 6 but plenty to discuss include JMU’s breach of the Top 25, Texas and Tennessee being fully back, and Alabama/TAMU getting messy once again.
Fewer true top-25 matchups on the board than this week, in part because several brand names (Texas, Oklahoma, Texas A&M, etc.) have not taken care of business so far this season. Games picked = Tennessee @ LSU, TCU @ Kansas, Utah @ UCLA, Washington State @ USC, and Kansas State @ Iowa State.
Week 5 was much kinder to our picks! Wisconsin and Colorado fired their head coaches, Clemson is back to winning big-ish games so it’s time to pick on Dabo again, and much more.
Week 5’s schedule looks good on paper (five top-25 matchups!) but might not look so great on the actual field - games picked = Kentucky @ Ole Miss, Alabama @ Arkansas, Oklahoma State @ Baylor, Wake Forest @ FSU, and NC State @ Clemson.