2026 Staff Pick’em Week 1 – Anchor Of Gold

Only 1 player showed much rust in Week 0…
Week 0 was a decent start. Overall, the staff was 25-23. Tom, off a horrific 2025 started strong at 6-2. He was matched by Import to represent the staff alumni. Andrew and I both split it all at 4-4 while Cole was just behind at 3-5. Christian rounded off Import’s success by doing the inverse at 2-6.
With the sportsbook’s eager to disposses the college football public of their money, every game had a line. SEC vs FCS games rarely are open to bet. With no SEC-SEC games on opening weekend, it leaves us with a slate of 17 games to pick. We somehow managed to not have any unanimous picks in the bunch. Beyond that, I am not figuring out the split stats.
Feel free to use this as an open thread for tonight’s action.
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Rivalry Week can be wild, so we did a pretty good job getting this many picks right.
The staff could not quite match the team’s dominance over Kentucky, but Import did individually as he runs away with this year’s contest.
We could not quite match the dominance the Dores showed over Kentucky.
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