UPDATE: 2020 GRT picks: Week 6

UPDATE: 10.9.20, 5:29 p.m. Coding error was pulling 2019 comps on some games when it should have been pulling 2020 comps, so I’ve re-run the numbers. What’s in the table below now is correct.

First of all, apologies for the sudden silence from me. A family emergency pressed pause on my world for five days. We are out of the woods now, so I’m spending much of the day jumping back on the moving train and filling in as many gaps as I’m able, starting with the TV schedule and the standings in the weekend games.

The GRT Statsy Preview Machine went 15-12 (55.56%) overall against the opening lines last week. It went 4-5 (44.44%) in Category 2 and 2-2 (50%) in Category 3. For the season, it is now 46-42 (52.27%) in Category 1, 22-17 (56.41%) in Category 2, and 10-8 (55.56%) in Category 3.

Using the same spreads as SP+, our machine went 19-8 (70.37%) overall last week while SP+ went 17-10 (62.96%). SP+’s official results for the week: 17-11 (61%).

Below are the GRT Statsy Preview Machine’s picks for Week 6 of the 2020 college football season. As always, if you’re wondering why we do this or what I mean when I refer to “confidence” and when I place game predictions into different categories, check out this post.

GRT SPM 2020 Week 6 Picks

We are beginning to settle in as most teams now have at least two games on their resumes. That will change, of course, when the Big 10 and Pac-12 start playing, but for now, we’re beginning to get our legs. Here’s what the machine is thinking this week:

There are five six Category 3 games that the SPM likes particularly well this week. Let’s see if it can get its groove back on those.

What are you favorite games this week?