DougP1
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Finance, food, cocktails, and college 🏈, not financial advice, #factbasedscience
My #collegefootball picks are up for the CFP first round. 🏈https://dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/ncaa-bowl-game-picks-2025-2026-part-2-19-dec-to-26-dec-25/
NCAA Bowl Game Picks 2025-2026, Part 2 – 19-Dec to 26-Dec-25
My second set of bowl game picks, below, starting with the first round of the CFP. I haven’t filled in the ones after the CFP first round yet but plan to do so prior to the games. College Football …
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December 19, 2025 at 5:47 AM
My #collegefootball picks are up for the CFP first round. 🏈https://dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/12/18/ncaa-bowl-game-picks-2025-2026-part-2-19-dec-to-26-dec-25/
The first 3 of my #collegefootball bowl picks are up, with more to come. NCAA Bowl Game Picks 2025-2026, Part I – 13-Dec to 19-Dec-24 dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/n...
NCAA Bowl Game Picks 2025-2026, Part I – 13-Dec to 19-Dec-24
To start this year’s bowl and playoff season, I will quote something Nick Saban said last year when the 12-team College Football Playoff bracket was enacted, “no matter how many teams you have, som…
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December 13, 2025 at 12:34 AM
The first 3 of my #collegefootball bowl picks are up, with more to come. NCAA Bowl Game Picks 2025-2026, Part I – 13-Dec to 19-Dec-24 dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/12/12/n...
It's #CollegeFootball Championship, a few of my picks for the games tomorrow and Saturday. dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/c...
Championship Week, 2025, College Football Picks
The last week of regular season play was anticlimactic, with vast majority of higher ranked teams beating their lower ranked opponents. There were a couple of exceptions where the underdogs won, in…
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December 5, 2025 at 5:17 AM
It's #CollegeFootball Championship, a few of my picks for the games tomorrow and Saturday. dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/12/04/c...
It's #collegefootball rivalry week and the last week of the regular season. Here are my Week 14 college football picks and my thoughts on some of the games. dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/w...
Week 14, 2025, College Football Picks
Well, it’s the final week of regular season play and rivalry week, with a number of the rivalry games having playoff implications. There are a number of games with conference championship and playo…
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November 27, 2025 at 5:40 AM
It's #collegefootball rivalry week and the last week of the regular season. Here are my Week 14 college football picks and my thoughts on some of the games. dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/11/26/w...
Had to take last week off. One Friday night #collegefootball pick, Saturday picks to come 🏈. dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/w...
Week 13, 2025, College Football Picks
Due to higher priority personal commitments, didn’t have time to put up any picks last week. I will update with some additional thoughts on where we are currently and playoff prospects but for now,…
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November 22, 2025 at 12:32 AM
Had to take last week off. One Friday night #collegefootball pick, Saturday picks to come 🏈. dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/11/21/w...
My Week 11, 2025, #CollegeFootball Picks 🏈 dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/w...
Week 11 2025, College Football Picks
The CFP Committee has release their first rankings, which breaks from the AP rankings in that it has no G6 teams. Presumably that’s a temporary situation, as they’ll have to pull in an At Large tea…
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November 8, 2025 at 2:46 AM
My Week 11, 2025, #CollegeFootball Picks 🏈 dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/11/07/w...
My Week 10, 2025, #CollegeFootball Picks 🏈 dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/w...
Week 10 2025, College Football Picks
We’re into the first weekend in November with a number of impactful games for the playoffs still ahead of us. Week 9 saw one more major opening for the coaching carousel with LSU coach Jim Kelly lo…
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October 31, 2025 at 4:47 AM
My Week 10, 2025, #CollegeFootball Picks 🏈 dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/10/30/w...
We're well into the latter half of the #collegefootball season when the rubber really meets the road for teams with playoff aspirations. Some surprises last week, My Week 9 College Football Picks 🏈. dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/w...
Week 9 2025, College Football Picks
We’re at the point of the season where conference championship races really start forming and so far, it’s still pretty wide open in all of the Power-4, especially in the SEC where there are 8 team…
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October 24, 2025 at 4:30 AM
We're well into the latter half of the #collegefootball season when the rubber really meets the road for teams with playoff aspirations. Some surprises last week, My Week 9 College Football Picks 🏈. dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/10/23/w...
My Week 8 #collegefootball picks 🏈 dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/w...
Week 8 2025, College Football Picks
The 2025 college football season continues to be full of surprises. Other than Indiana homer Pat McAfee, and probably former coach Lee Corso, I’m not sure who had #3 Oregon losing at home by double…
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October 17, 2025 at 4:57 PM
My Week 8 #collegefootball picks 🏈 dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/10/17/w...
Week 7, 2025, #CollegeFootball Picks 🏈 dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/w...
Week 7 2025, College Football Picks
Week 6 continued to deliver some surprises. I can’t remember when a preseason #1 and #2 are unranked midway through the season but with former #1 Texas and #2 Penn State getting bounced out this we…
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October 10, 2025 at 2:42 PM
Week 7, 2025, #CollegeFootball Picks 🏈 dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/10/09/w...
This week's against the spread #collegefootball picks. I'm continuing my focus on underdog picks. 🏈 dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/w...
Week 6 2025, College Football Picks
As the schedule settles into conference play, Week 5 had a number of games that shifted the rankings, with perhaps the biggest surprise being Virginia taking out #8 Florida State in double overtime…
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October 3, 2025 at 1:53 AM
This week's against the spread #collegefootball picks. I'm continuing my focus on underdog picks. 🏈 dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/10/02/w...
My Week 5 #collegefootball picks 🏈https://dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/week-5-2025-college-football-picks/
Week 5 2025, College Football Picks
The big highlight from Week 4 was the Miami Hurricanes’ dominant 26-7 win over in-state SEC foe Florida, good for moving the ‘Canes two places up to #2 in the AP poll, although the coaches are clea…
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September 26, 2025 at 4:23 AM
My Week 5 #collegefootball picks 🏈https://dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/09/25/week-5-2025-college-football-picks/
Saturday's Week 4 #CollegeFootball picks are now, continuing my focus on underdog picks. dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/w...
Week 4 2025, College Football Picks
Due to being out-of-town taking care of some personal business, I didn’t post any picks for Week 3. While I was away, although not confirmed yet, it appears the ACC are following suit with the othe…
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September 20, 2025 at 1:41 AM
Saturday's Week 4 #CollegeFootball picks are now, continuing my focus on underdog picks. dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/09/19/w...
#CFB fans, I haven't posted picks on the app since I left the old place, instead relying on my blog but we've got a couple of interesting Friday night games so let's do this. First, given algorithm will send this to people who don't know me, some introduction... 1/x
September 19, 2025 at 4:44 AM
#CFB fans, I haven't posted picks on the app since I left the old place, instead relying on my blog but we've got a couple of interesting Friday night games so let's do this. First, given algorithm will send this to people who don't know me, some introduction... 1/x
With #CollegeFootball Week 1 behind us, caveat emptor, buyer beware when it comes to preseason rankings. Of games involving ranked teams, there were 6 games where higher ranked team either lost to lower ranked team or unranked team. My Week 2 picks here 🏈 dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/09/05/w...
Week 2 2025, College Football Picks
With Week 1 behind us, we were reminded, caveat emptor, let the buyer beware when it comes to preseason rankings. Of the games involving ranked teams, there were six games where the higher ranked t…
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September 6, 2025 at 5:11 AM
With #CollegeFootball Week 1 behind us, caveat emptor, buyer beware when it comes to preseason rankings. Of games involving ranked teams, there were 6 games where higher ranked team either lost to lower ranked team or unranked team. My Week 2 picks here 🏈 dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/09/05/w...
#CollegeFootball Week 1 is here, a few against the spread underdog picks 🏈🐶 dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/w...
Week 1 2025, College Football Picks
The first full week of college football starts this weekend. Before we jump into this week’s picks, I left out a couple of new things related to the revised CFP rules, which last Saturday’s ESPN Co…
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August 29, 2025 at 11:43 PM
#CollegeFootball Week 1 is here, a few against the spread underdog picks 🏈🐶 dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/08/29/w...
#CollegeFootball season starts tomorrow, with a couple of Week 0 conference games between potential contenders. My picks here. #CFB dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/w...
Week 0 2025, College Football Picks
We’re still a little over a week away from Labor Day weekend but college football season is here. After a long off-season, college football season is back! This will be my 16th season posting picks…
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August 22, 2025 at 10:44 PM
#CollegeFootball season starts tomorrow, with a couple of Week 0 conference games between potential contenders. My picks here. #CFB dougp1.wordpress.com/2025/08/22/w...
Exactly right. It’s a consumption tax that hits lower and middle income earners the hardest.
No matter WHAT he says today, it’s a tax increase. He’s enacting a HUGE tax increase on the American people. It’s a tax increase. Period.
April 2, 2025 at 7:42 PM
Exactly right. It’s a consumption tax that hits lower and middle income earners the hardest.
I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦.
March 2, 2025 at 6:13 AM
I stand with Ukraine 🇺🇦.
NCAA Bowl Game Picks 2024-25, 31-Dec-24 - 20-Jan-25 dougp1.wordpress.com/2024/12/30/n...
NCAA Bowl Game Picks 2024-2025, Part 4 – 31-Dec-24 to 20-Jan-25
With 30 bowl games now behind us as of this writing, there are some interesting trends. The American and MAC have overperformed while the ACC has fizzled, and the SEC may not be as elite as the spo…
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December 30, 2024 at 9:37 PM
NCAA Bowl Game Picks 2024-25, 31-Dec-24 - 20-Jan-25 dougp1.wordpress.com/2024/12/30/n...
NCAA Bowl Game Picks 2024-25, 21-Dec - 27-Dec-24 dougp1.wordpress.com/2024/12/20/n...
NCAA Bowl Game Picks 2024-2025, Part 2 – 21-Dec to 27-Dec-24
Sadly, a part of the new transfer portal and NIL era is a conference champion opting out of a bowl game, with Sun Belt Champion Marshall bailing on the 900-mile trip to Shreveport LA to play in Ind…
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December 21, 2024 at 1:37 AM
NCAA Bowl Game Picks 2024-25, 21-Dec - 27-Dec-24 dougp1.wordpress.com/2024/12/20/n...
#Collegefootball bowl season starts tomorrow, the first one in the new 12-team playoff era. I’ve put up my picks for the early games. dougp1.wordpress.com/2024/12/13/n...
NCAA Bowl Game Picks 2024-2025, Part I – 14-Dec to 20-Dec-24
This is the first season with the twelve-team playoff bracket. With it comes seeding for the first time in the FBS, where a team’s seeding will be different than its ranking. The CFP had their work…
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December 14, 2024 at 2:27 AM
#Collegefootball bowl season starts tomorrow, the first one in the new 12-team playoff era. I’ve put up my picks for the early games. dougp1.wordpress.com/2024/12/13/n...
We’re going into the last week of #collegefootball regular season play and, like earlier weeks, Week 13 had a number of upsets, shifting the potential playoff picture. My Week 14 picks. dougp1.wordpress.com/2024/11/27/w...
Week 14 2024, College Football Picks
Well, we’re into the last week of regular season play, rivalry week for most. In a season with more than its fair share of upsets, we saw a few more, the most notable being Oklahoma completely shut…
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November 28, 2024 at 5:43 AM
We’re going into the last week of #collegefootball regular season play and, like earlier weeks, Week 13 had a number of upsets, shifting the potential playoff picture. My Week 14 picks. dougp1.wordpress.com/2024/11/27/w...