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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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

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