After one week with the new picks format, it’s clear that Travis has been the weak link in the groupthink of previous picks.  A horrendous 2-8 against the spread for him.  At least he is keeping the Jacknife Sports mantra …

2017 – Week 7 Picks Read more »

We went 6-4 straight up and 4-6 against the spread last week.  Those are ok numbers.  We did nail the upset of the week.  Oklahoma looked awesome going into the Horseshoe and beating up Ohio State.  The game wasn’t even …

2017 – Week 3 Picks Read more »

We are back!  The weekly picks column where you are guaranteed to make money if you use this and go to Vegas.  That is, go against what we say.  Last year we did pretty good straight up.  We went 93-58 …

2017 – Week 1 Picks Read more »

 An unexpected good week.  We went 7-4 straight up and 8-3 against the spread.  That might be the first time ever we went better against the spread than straight up.  But that upset of the week was a big miss. …

2016 – Week 13 Picks Read more »

We did it!  We went perfect with our picks!  Straight up at least.  Going 6-4 against the spread feels just as good going 10-0 straight up.  Also nailed the upset of the week again.  On a roll now!Nothing much to …

2016 – Week 11 Picks Read more »

 That’s how you are supposed to pick games.  We went 9-1 straight up and 7-3 against the spread.  The Upset of the Week was also a winner in picking Penn State to upend Ohio State.  We are sorry that we …

2016 – Week 9 Picks Read more »

Last week was ok.  6-4 straight up and 3-7 ATS.  Those darn point spreads again.  We forgot to designate a game as the upset of the week.  It probably would have been a loss anyway.  So we’ll mark that in …

2016 – Week 6 Picks Read more »

The short and sweet approach worked a little better last week as we went 7-3 straight up and actually didn’t finish below .500 against the spread going 5-5.  The Upset of the Week was wrong again bringing us to an 0-4 …

2016 – Week 5 Picks Read more »

It felt good to get some picks correct last week, going 7-3 straight up.  It’s those darn point spreads that get us.  4-6 against them last week.  And we keep picking the wrong upset so far.  If we make every …

2016 – Week 3 Picks Read more »

We are back!  The weekly picks column where you are guaranteed to make money if you use this and go to Vegas.  That is, go against what we say.  Last year we did pretty good straight up.  We went 93-58 …

2016 – Week 1 Picks Read more »