October 25, 2018
By: Dwayne Page
Dewain Hendrixson maintains his lead among WJLE’s Fearless Forecasters for picking winners after eight weeks of the college football season.
Hendrixson has an overall record of 78-41.
Darrell Gill and Will Graham are in a tie for second place at 75-44 each, 3 games back. Scott Brown is 73-46, 5 games behind. Grant James of the James Gang is 7 games out of first place at 71-48. Ricky Atnip is 9 games back at 69-50. Chad Kirby, John Pryor, and the guests are each at 67-52, 11 games out of first place. Our guests this season have been Larry Green, Darvin Gill, Isaac Gray, Luke Willoughby, Ronnie Goodwin, Tony Cross, Dan Delacruz, and Donny Green.
Meanwhile Dewain Hendrixson had the best record for the week at 14-1 followed by Darrell Gill and Will Graham each at 13-2, Grant James of the James Gang and the guest Donny Green each at 11-4. Scott Brown and Ricky Atnip each went 10-5. Chad Kirby 9-6 and John Pryor 8-7.
Only one forecaster hit his underdog pick last week. Will Graham picked up 7 points with Virginia’s upset win over Duke and retakes first place with a total of 41 points. He is followed by Scott Brown with 35 points. Grant James of the James Gang has 31 points, 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:
Purdue at Michigan State, Texas at Oklahoma State, Iowa at Penn State, South Florida at Houston, Washington State at Stanford, Wisconsin at Northwestern, Texas Tech at Iowa State, N.C. State at Syracuse, Miami at Boston College, Duke at Pittsburgh, Texas A&M at Mississippi State, Kentucky at Missouri, Florida vs Georgia, Vanderbilt at Arkansas, and Tennessee at South Carolina.
Today’s special guest is County Mayor Tim Stribling.
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.