On a packed day of convention championships, faculty soccer followers have already confronted what is likely to be the largest shock of the day: Timothée Chalamet is aware of ball.
Chalamet joined the desk of ESPN’s “College GameDay” in Atlanta on Saturday forward of the SEC title sport between Texas and Georgia. The Oscar-nominated actor then proceeded to make a sequence of well-researched, well-informed picks, a lot to the shock of followers and analysts.
During his spot, Chalamet rattled off particular statistics and referenced groups’ progress in relation to earlier seasons. He name-checked lesser-known gamers like Ohio quarterback Parker Navarro and SMU quarterback Kevin Jennings.
“I wanna go 6-0,” Chalamet stated earlier than making his sixth decide, of seven whole.
Chalamet’s choice as visitor picker, which was introduced earlier this week, had raised some eyebrows: The Hollywood A-Lister seemingly had no connection to both Texas or Georgia, and has not beforehand proven a public curiosity in faculty soccer. His look on the present appeared largely set to advertise his upcoming film, “A Complete Unknown.” (ESPN and the film’s distributor each have the identical mum or dad firm, Disney.)
But Chalamet proved the entire haters incorrect with a profitable visitor picker spot, displaying off the in-depth information and analysis he had finished to organize for it.
Chalamet’s picks for the day included: Jackson State over Southern (SWAC championship), Louisiana over Marshall (Sun Bet championship), Arizona State over Iowa State (Big 12 championship), SMU over Clemson (ACC championship) and Oregon over Penn State within the (Big Ten championship). He was the one individual on the present to choose underdog Ohio over Miami (OH) within the MAC championship; Ohio ended up destroying Miami, 38-3.
So far immediately, Chalamet is three-for-three, with wins from Ohio and Jackson State and with Arizona State getting a dominant win of its personal. We’ll must see how the remainder of his picks work out.
