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College Football Enquirer

Race for the Case: Week 1 ATS predictions + Mike Norvell of Memphis

College Football Enquirer

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4.31.2K Ratings

🗓️ 30 August 2018

⏱️ 31 minutes

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Summary

Are you one of Pat Forde and Pete Thamel's "Friday Friends?" If not, you're about to be.Ladies and gentlemen, we'd like to introduce the "Race for the Case," a weekly feature here on the Yahoo Sports College Podcast. Each week, Pat and Pete will tape a short and fun prediction podcast geared toward their "Friday Friends" — the group of pals that pops up at the end of each week to seek the advice of our college gridiron experts.But what are football picks without a little action at stake? Pat and Pete will be competing throughout the season to see who can fill their case with correct picks the fastest. First man to 24 gets a case of beer from the other. Along the way they'll be trading stories and favorite brews from their travels across this great country. This week's slate of picks:Northwestern @ Purdue (-1.5) (Thursday night game!)Washington vs Auburn (-1.5)Michigan @ Notre Dame (-1)LSU vs Miami (-3.5)Virginia Tech @ Florida St (-7.5)After the knowledge, stick around to hear Pete interview Mike Norvell of Memphis.Have a beer you'd like to recommend or a game you want them to pick in a future podcast? Leave either in a review and we'll try to get to as many as we can. Thanks for listening! See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

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0:00.0

Hey everybody welcome to the Yahoo Sports College Podcast I'm Pat 40 joined by Pete

0:11.6

Fammel and you're gonna like this segment we're going to do it every

0:15.0

week it's the Race for the Case episode a good mix of two of our favorite things making

0:21.5

college football picks against the spread, and talking about our favorite

0:25.8

beverages, specifically beer.

0:27.8

So what we're going to have to do, he's going to be the rules for the race for the case.

0:31.4

Each week, we're going to pick six games against the spread. We'll have

0:34.9

five common games that we likely will be watching and then we'll have a sixth game

0:40.2

that'll be our personal choice of a game and that's going to make a

0:43.0

perfect six-pack of picks. We're going to score this like cornhole, like washers,

0:48.1

like horseshoes. If I get full right, Pete gets two, then I get two cans in my case.

0:53.5

And the first person to reach 24 cans,

0:56.3

what else, of course, gets a case of beer

0:59.1

from the other guy, conveniently stashed

1:01.3

in an aspirational yeti cooler.

1:03.4

Pete, what do you think?

1:05.0

Well, Pat, I feel like this segment we're going to do is a, uh, it answers something

1:11.6

that that has sort of hounded me for years and it's something that a symptom I think you found as as you've gone on and covered college football now

1:18.1

We're both have done this nationally probably for 15 years I had a I had something called Friday Friends so I wouldn't hear from a lot in like

1:25.0

April, May, June, but come the fall on Fridays they'd all be checking in to see how I'm doing.

1:31.5

Usually I'd be like flying to a game and they'd usually say,

1:34.8

hey, how are you different things like that? But they'd really just want to know who do you think is going to win. And then there's some

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