With football starting, odds are you may want to wager with a friend over a college football game. If you need advice, who you gonna call?
Fortunately, the JerryRatcliffe.Com Pigskin Prophets are here to help. Often wrong, but never doubting for confidence, these experts will pick who they believe the winners will be every week in 15 matchups, which will include all ACC contests and selected games in the Top 25.
Each week there will also be not one, but two guest pickers. This week, one is legendary former UVA quarterback Shawn Moore (some would argue the greatest QB in UVA history) and the other is legendary CEO Michael Guthrie of Roy Wheeler Realty in Charlottesville.
Regulars on the panel will be the staff of JerryRatcliffe.Com: Jerry Ratcliffe, Dave Scarangella and Scott Ratcliffe. There is a comment section with this weekly feature, so trash talking is encouraged if you do not agree with any of the picks you see. As first-week matchups generally are not all that competitive, the panel agrees on 11 of the 15 games, including UVA over Richmond. They do differ on Syracuse-Western Michigan, Shawn seems to be in a West Coast frame of mind on the Auburn-Washington matchup, and there’s a 3-2 split on the two big ACC matchups of Miami-LSU and Virginia Tech-Florida State.
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| Jerry | Dave | Scott | Shawn Moore | Michael Guthrie | |
| 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | 0-0 | |
| Richmond at UVA | UVA | UVA | UVA | UVA | UVA |
| Wake at Tulane | Wake | Wake | Wake | Wake | Wake |
| Syracuse at WMU | Syracuse | Syracuse | W. Michigan | W.Michigan | W.Michigan |
| Army at Duke | Duke | Duke | Duke | Duke | Duke |
| JMU at NC State | N.C. State | N.C. State | N.C. State | N.C. State | N.C. State |
| Furman at Clemson | Clemson | Clemson | Clemson | Clemson | Clemson |
| Alcorn St. at GT | Ga. Tech | Ga. Tech | Ga. Tech | Ga. Tech | Ga. Tech |
| UMass at BC | BC | BC | BC | BC | BC |
| Albany at Pitt | Pitt | Pitt | Pitt | Pitt | Pitt |
| UNC at Cal | Cal | Cal | Cal | Cal | Cal |
| Lville at Alabama | Alabama | Alabama | Alabama | Alabama | Alabama |
| Wash. at Auburn | Auburn | Auburn | Auburn | Washington | Auburn |
| Michigan at Notre Dame | Notre Dame | Notre Dame | Notre Dame | Notre Dame | Notre Dame |
| Miami at LSU | Miami | LSU | LSU | Miami | Miami |
| VT at FSU | Fla. State | Va. Tech | Fla. State | Fla. State | Va. Tech |






