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Colin Cowherd is an American sports media personality who began his broadcasting career as a sports director at Las Vegas television station KVBC before moving through several other stations and joining ESPN in 2003. At ESPN, he hosted a radio show on the ESPN Radio network and became one of the original hosts of SportsNation, as well as Colin's New Football Show. He currently hosts The Herd with Colin Cowherd on Fox Sports Radio and Fox Sports 1. Cowherd covers the NFL with particular attention to franchises like the Kansas City Chiefs, Buffalo Bills, Detroit Lions, and Philadelphia Eagles. His predictions range from individual game outcomes to playoff berths, draft positioning, and season win totals — the full spectrum of NFL forecasting.
Writes at The Herd with Colin Cowherd (podcast)
Every take from Colin Cowherd, including the ones still waiting →
Is Colin Cowherd accurate? Across 465 graded calls in 75 articles, Colin Cowherd scores 55.97% accuracy and a MissedTakes Score of 10.8, which means their calls were better than a naive guess on the same claims. That is an established record: thirty or more graded articles.
96.44% of their claims were specific enough to check. Most of what they said committed to something.
Every number here is computed from the published methodology, and every call below shows its own arithmetic.
8 of 82 graded articles on this page, newest first — page 3 of 14.
New England Patriots to beat Houston Texans
“I think the Pats are gonna take care of business. I think it's Drake May's time.”
Seattle Seahawks 24 — San Francisco forty nine ers 20
“I think the Seattle Seahawks are gonna win this game... I'm gonna call it twenty four to twenty Seattle.”
Los Angeles Rams to beat Chicago Bears
“I think the luck is eventually going to run out for Chicago, and I think it's going to happen this weekend.”
Buffalo Bills to beat Denver Broncos
“Okay, I'm rolling with the Buffalo Bills”
Philadelphia Eagles 28 — 49ers 20
“I'm gonna take the Eagles to win and the Eagles to cover twenty eight to twenty.”
Jacksonville Jaguars 27 — Bills 13
“I like the Jags to win. Superman or not at quarterback for Buffalo thirteen to twenty seven”
Detroit Lions to finish with 13 wins
“McDaniel goes to the Lions. That's back to that thirteen five, thirteen four.”
Fernando Mendoza to be 1st quarterback off the board
“you're going to see the two best college quarterbacks that both would be if they came out, it'd be one and two in the draft... I like Mendos a little bit more”
Trinidad Chambliss to be picked “fifth round” (picks 141–181)
“I would draft him in the fifth round if he was available”
Chicago Bears 27 — Packers 24
“I like the Bears take the points to win. Twenty seven twenty. Four”
Los Angeles Rams 33 — Panthers 20
“Rams win it, Rams cover final score thirty three to twenty.”
San Francisco 49ers to beat eagles
“Taking forty nine flying with. The hat i'm gonna take the forty nine is”
Los Angeles Rams to beat panthers
“About the rams And, THE panthers ... i'm Taking, the rams”
Los Angeles Rams to win the Super Bowl
“who do you like to? Win it? ALL five i like Either the patriots Or. The rams”
New England Patriots to win the Super Bowl
“who do you like to? Win it? ALL five i like Either the patriots Or. The rams”
Houston Texans to beat Steelers
“monday night game Is the Texans. Versus Steelers ... monday texas getting this ass out. Of there”
New England Patriots to beat chargers
“chargers At Their patriots I'm Taking. Drake may patriots ... i'm Taking the Patriots”
Baltimore Ravens to win the division
“I think we'll see highly effective eleven and six can win the division.”
“So I go McVeigh, Jim Harbaugh, Shanahan, Peyton Vrabel, and Mike McDonald... I would go Ben Johnson seven and then Demiko Ryans eight”
Pittsburgh Steelers to beat Houston
“I think they can beat Houston. I honestly do.”
Jacksonville Jaguars to beat Chargers
“in the last twelve hours, I'm like Big Jacksonville, Big Chicago”
Baltimore Ravens to finish with 11 wins
“I think we'll see highly effective eleven and six can win the division.”
Chicago Bears to beat Packers
“I think the Bears are completely built for you... Big Jacksonville, Big Chicago”
“The top ten NFL teams according to College number ten, I would put Chicago... I think they're GM's the best personnel guy in the league.”
Philadelphia Eagles to beat Niners
“Philadelphia is going to win this game. The numbers leading me to this”
Los Angeles Rams to beat Carolina
“I think the Rams win this game.”
Chicago Bears to beat Green Bay
“So I like Chicago in this spot... I think they're both going to win their opening games.”
Jacksonville Jaguars to beat Bills
“I think I would take Jacksonville by a touchdown, what say you?”
New England Patriots to beat Chargers
“I think I would take New England in a very low scoring game.”
Seattle Seahawks to win the Super Bowl
“IF i had to pick a team to win The Super bowl, today it would Be Seattle”
New York Giants to beat Raiders
“Who you got in this one? ... Probably the Giants.”
San Francisco 49ers 34 — Colts 24
“I like the Niners to win and cover thirty four to twenty four”
Josh Allen to win MVP
“I would give Josh Allen the MVP over Stafford”
New York Giants 28 — Vikings 27
“I'll take the points. Giants win twenty eight twenty seven.”
New England Patriots 28 — Ravens 27
“I think the Patriots went outright twenty eight twenty seven.”
Chicago Bears 27 — Packers 23
“I like the Bears at home minus one and a half... I like the Bears to win and cover twenty seven to twenty three.”
Cincinnati Bengals 30 — Miami 20
“I'm going to take Burrow in Cincinnati to win thirty to twenty in cover”