January 23, 2025
By: Dwayne Page
A Three-Repeat!
For the third year in a row, Ricky Atnip has claimed the WJLE Fearless Forecaster of the year title!
During the 16-week college football season including play-off and bowl games, Ricky compiled the overall best record picking winners in 267 games at 181-86.
Meanwhile, Dewain Hendrixson snapped Ricky’s three-year winning streak, accumulating the most underdog points during the season at 64 points this year.
Ricky and Dewain will be presented the “WJLE Fearless Forecasters Joe Goodwin Memorial Awards” Thursday, January 23 on the season finale of the Fearless Forecasters Show on WJLE at 4:30 p.m.
Goodwin, a longtime member of the Fearless Forecasters, passed away in February 2019 and the awards are named in tribute to him.
The final standings of the forecasters for the season are as follows:
Ricky Atnip: 181-86
Darrell Gill: 176-91
Scott Goodwin: 173-94
Grant James, Alex Woodward, and John Pryor: 171-96 each
Dewain Hendrixson: 170-97
Scott Brown: 164-103
Chad Kirby: 155-112
Final underdog points standings are as follows:
Dewain Hendrixson: 64 points
Darrell Gill: 54.5 points
Grant James: 52,5 points
Scott Goodwin: 40.5 points
Alex Woodward: 40 points
Chad Kirby: 39 points
Ricky Atnip: 35.5 points
John Pryor: 29 points
Scott Brown: 25.5 points
Best Play-Off/Bowl Season Records
Grant James: 29-13
Alex Woodward: 28-14
Ricky Atnip: 27-15
Dewain Hendrixson: 26-16
Scott Goodwin and John Pryor: 25-17 each
Darrell Gill and Scott Brown: 24-18
Chad Kirby: 21-21
The program is sponsored by the Charles D. Atnip Realty and Auction Company, Middle Tennessee Natural Gas, First Bank, DeKalb County Insurance, DeKalb Ace Hardware, Gill Automotive, Love-Cantrell Funeral Home, Wilson Bank & Trust and Domino’s Pizza.