September 13, 2018
By: Dwayne Page
Chad Kirby has pulled ahead of the pack among WJLE’s Fearless Forecasters for the best record picking winners during the second week of the college football season.
Kirby had the best record last week at 11-4 and he is 22-8 overall for the first two weeks of the season. Also last week, Darrell Gill and Scott Brown were each at 10-5 while Will Graham, Ricky Atnip, Dewain Hendrixson, Grant James, John Pryor, and our special guest Rhea County Girls Basketball Coach Darvin Gill each went 9-6.
After the first two weeks, Chad Kirby is in the lead at 22-8 followed by Scott Brown, Ricky Atnip, and the guests (Larry Green and Darvin Gill) tied for second place at 20-10. Darrell Gill, John Pryor, and Dewain Hendrixson are each at 18-12. Will Graham is 17-13 and Grant James is 16-14.
Four of the forecasters hit their underdog picks last week. Scott Brown grabbed the lead with 14 points picking Colorado State to upset Arkansas. Will Graham got on the board with 13 points picking Kentucky to upend Florida. John Pryor is in third place with 11.5 points although he picked up no extra points last week. Chad Kirby now has 5 points after his upset pick of Arizona State over Michigan State, and Dewain Hendrixson picked up 3 points with Duke’s win over Northwestern. He now has a total of 4 points for the first two weeks.
Today (Thursday) the Forecasters will be picking winners in the following games:
Florida State at Syracuse, West Virginia at N.C. State, Boise State at Oklahoma State, Washington at Utah, Georgia Tech at Pittsburgh, Boston College at Wake Forest, Ohio State at TCU, USC at Texas, Duke at Baylor, Missouri at Purdue, North Texas at Arkansas, LSU at Auburn, UTEP at Tennessee, Vanderbilt at Notre Dame, and in the NFL the Tennessee Titans at Houston.
Today’s special guest is Isaac Gray, Minister at the Smithville Cumberland Presbyterian Church.
Catch the Fearless Forecasters on WJLE today (Thursday) at 4:30 p.m. on AM 1480/FM 101.7 and LIVE streaming at www.wjle.com.
The program is sponsored by the Charles D. Atnip Realty and Auction Company, Middle Tennessee Natural Gas, Liberty State Bank, DeKalb County Insurance, Gill Automotive, Love-Cantrell Funeral Home, and DeKalb County Ace Hardware.