October 18, 2018
By: Dwayne Page
Dewain Hendrixson has taken sole possession of first place among WJLE’s Fearless Forecasters for picking winners after seven weeks of the college football season. It’s the fourth lead change so far this year.
Hendrixson has an overall record of 64-40.
Scott Brown is in second place at 63-41. Will Graham and Darrell Gill are tied for third place at 62-42 each. Grant James of the James Gang is 4 games out of first place at 60-44. Ricky Atnip and John Pryor are each 5 games back at 59-45. Chad Kirby is at 58-46, 6 games back and the guests are 56-48, 8 games out of first place. Our guests this season have been Larry Green, Darvin Gill, Isaac Gray, Luke Willoughby, Ronnie Goodwin, Tony Cross, and Dan Delacruz
Meanwhile Dewain Hendrixson, Scott Brown, and Ricky Atnip tied at 10-5 for the best record of the week followed by Darrell Gill, Grant James of the James Gang and Chad Kirby each at 9-6. Will Graham and John Pryor were each at 8-7, and last week’s guest, Dan Delacruz went 7-8.
Two forecasters hit their underdog picks last week. Scott Brown picked the VOLS to beat Auburn and picked up 15 points to take over first place with a total of 35 points. Grant James of the James Gang got 7 points as Texas Tech knocked off TCU.
Will Graham has slipped to second place in total underdog points with 34 behind Scott Brown’s 35. Grant James of the James Gang is now in third place with 31 points followed by Ricky Atnip 15, Darrell Gill 14, John Pryor 11.5, Dewain Hendrixson 11, the guests 7 points, and Chad Kirby 5.
Today (Thursday) the Forecasters will be picking winners in the following games:
Stanford at Arizona State, USC at Utah, Oklahoma at TCU, Michigan at Michigan State, Cincinnati at Temple, Oregon at Washington State, North Texas at UAB, Virginia at Duke, Minnesota at Nebraska, Memphis at Missouri, Auburn at Ole Miss, Mississippi State at LSU, Vanderbilt at Kentucky, Alabama at Tennessee and in the NFL the Tennessee Titans at the L.A. Chargers.
Today’s special guest is Donny Green, DeKalb County Fire Chief and Farm Services Agency Director.
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.