It’s always interesting to see when unanimous predictions from a pre-game show go wrong. The latest example of that came on College GameDay Saturday, where their panel (Desmond Howard, Nick Saban, Pat McAfee, guest picker Michael Phelps, Lee Corso, and Kirk Herbstreit) all chose Auburn to beat Cal at home and No. 21 Iowa to beat Iowa State at home. Instead, the Golden Bears and Cyclones picked up road wins (21-14 and 21-20 respectively), and that had some thinking back to the GameDay picks:
Both of the picked teams here were favorites, and there was strong fan sentiment in favor of them too (including 94 percent of the fan vote in Cal-Auburn going to the Tigers). But it’s still interesting when the entire panel goes in on one pick and gets it wrong. (And Herbstreit narrowly saved them from having this happen three times, as he was the only one to pick Illinois over Kansas.) This has happened to GameDay several times before, as well as many other shows , but it’s always amusing when it does (and it does add to the questions about the value of these picks segments ).