Maryland Gov. Wes Moore capped off a stellar month of picking NFL and College Football Playoff games for WTOP by nailing his Super Bowl pick.<\/p>\n
Maryland Gov. Wes Moore capped off a stellar month of picking NFL and College Football Playoff games for WTOP by nailing his Super Bowl pick.<\/p>\n
Not only did he predict Seattle would win (they were 4.5 point favorites over New England), he told WTOP on Friday, \u201cI think it\u2019s probably going to be closer to 10 \u2026 I don\u2019t think this game is going to be close.\u201d<\/p>\n
The Seattle Seahawks won by 16 beating the New England Patriots 29-13 in Super Bowl LX in Santa Clara, California, on Sunday night.<\/p>\n
Moore predicted results for 16 games in all, going 11-2 in picking games in the NFL Wild Card round, divisional round, conference championship games and Super Bowl LX.<\/p>\n
For his college picks, he went 3-0, picking the two semifinal games and the championship game.<\/p>\n
Overall, he went 14-2.<\/p>\n
On Friday, Moore acknowledged his prognosticating prowess was part luck and part skill.<\/p>\n
\u201cI study this stuff. I follow this stuff,\u201d Moore said. \u201cThere are definitely analytics that I will put into it.\u201d<\/p>\n
The combination of luck, skill and analytics seemed to work very well, to say the least. Here\u2019s a breakdown of all Moore\u2019s picks:<\/p>\n
NFL Playoffs<\/p>\n
Wild card round (5-1):<\/p>\n
Rams over Panthers
\nBears over Packers
\nSan Francisco over Philadelphia
\nNew England over Los Angeles Chargers
\nTexans over Steelers
\nJacksonville over Buffalo (wrong)<\/p>\n
Divisional round (3-1):<\/p>\n
Denver over Buffalo
\nSeattle over San Francisco
\nNew England over Houston
\nBears over Rams (wrong)<\/p>\n
Championship games (2-0):<\/p>\n
AFC: New England over Denver
\nNFC: Seattle over Los Angeles Rams<\/p>\n
Super Bowl (1-0):<\/p>\n
College Football Playoffs<\/p>\n
Semifinal games (2-0):<\/p>\n
Miami over Ole Miss
\nIndiana over Oregon<\/p>\n
National Championship game (1-0):<\/p>\n
When asked for his reaction to his amazing month making picks, Moore enjoyed his mic drop moment, simply telling WTOP, \u201cY\u2019all heard it here first. Gov. Moore knows ball.\u201d<\/p>\n