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The Harmon Football Forecast is one of the most highly regarded and widely read sports features in the country, published in over 200 newspapers.
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Wild-card games: 4 picks
Right: 3 Wrong: 1 Pct: .75 |
YTD: 252 picks
Right: 159 Wrong: 93 Pct: .631 |
| Harmon's archive | |
It all began when Bob Harmon began predicting college and NFL games in 1957. He devised a mathematical formula that picked winners correctly between 72 and 78 percent of the time; most seasons getting almost 75 percent of his picks right.
Today, Jim Harmon and his staff are the only forecasters who predict exact scores and chart every college and pro team.
Saturday's games (1/19/2002):
| Philadelphia 24, *Chicago 18 |
| Eagles QB Donovan McNabb tore up the Tampa Bay defense last week, and the Bears have no pass defense to speak of. Last season's 13-9 Philly win over Chicago was its second in a row in the series. |
| Oakland 21, *New England 20 |
| The Raiders' air attack is superior to the Patriots' pass defense, but can Oakland's D step up and neutralize N.E.'s ground game? The Raiders were 21-17 winners the last time they met, in 1994. |
Sunday's games (1/20/2002):
| *Pittsburgh 19, Baltimore 17 |
| Six straight games in this series have been won by the visitor -- the Ravens, 13-10, then the Steelers, 26-21, this season -- but we're going against the weird trend. Pittsburgh's defense will win it. |
| *St. Louis 33, Green Bay 24 |
| Unless the Packers get every big break, they'll spend all afternoon playing catchup. G.B. beat St. Louis last, in '97, but it's been 34 years since the Packers and Rams last met in the playoffs. |
* Denotes Home Team
* Note: Picks are straight up.
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