Thursday's BEST BETS: New Year's Day College Football Playoff Picks
The Early Edge: A Daily Sports Betting Podcast
CBS Sports, Sports Betting, Sports Gambling, Picks
4.5 • 778 Ratings
🗓️ 1 January 2026
⏱️ 36 minutes
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Summary
Happy New Year, EE Fam! Ring in 2026 with Sia Nejad and the crew, as he's joined by Eric Cohen, Mike McClure, Emory Hunt, and Bob Konarski giving out their BEST BETS for New Year's Day Bowl Games, College basketball, and MORE!
(0:00) Intro + Welcome Back, EC!
(5:18) Mike's Orange Bowl Bet
(9:47) EC's New Year's Day CFB Picks
(12:38) Emory's Rose Bowl Bet
(14:54) Ben's Indiana Thoughts
(18:55) Free Sportsline Picks
(20:19) Bob's CBB Pick
(23:28) Emory's New Year's Day CFB Picks
(25:30) Bonus Bets
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Transcript
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| 0:00.0 | What's up, everyone, happy 2026. Happy New Year. |
| 0:13.1 | Glad you're with us this morning. |
| 0:14.5 | I know there's a lot to do. |
| 0:15.6 | There's a lot to cover. |
| 0:16.8 | We've got football games all day, other sports to cover as well. |
| 0:20.3 | Let's see how we did yesterday on the recap screen before we bring in the stars of the show. |
| 0:25.4 | Wow, a lot going on here. |
| 0:26.4 | Looks like three wins, three losses. |
| 0:29.0 | The parlay that Mike put out, now Mike's on the show with a nice pick today, but that |
| 0:33.1 | parlay ends up losing. |
| 0:35.1 | Ohio State goes down, obviously Derek Queen didn't get there. But we hit three here. |
| 0:39.6 | We go three and three. Probably lose you a little bit of juice, although Mike's play was |
| 0:44.5 | greater than plus 200. But ladies and gentlemen, this is going to be a great day because not only do |
| 0:50.2 | we have picks and we got college football all day, some college basketball, NBA, among other things. But ladies and gentlemen, it's a new year, a new chapter, and we've got |
| 0:59.6 | EC back on the show. What a crew we have today. We've got Berg Betts. We've got Emery Hunt. We've got |
| 1:07.1 | Mike McClure and EC is back. Everybody's already shouting you out in the chat, EC. |
| 1:11.8 | They love to see you. |
| 1:13.0 | I got to start with you. |
| 1:13.9 | How you doing today, buddy? |
| 1:15.1 | See ya. |
| 1:15.6 | It's so great to be back. |
| 1:17.0 | I can't wait to do early wed shows with you all year. |
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