October 31, 2024
By: Dwayne Page
Ricky Atnip remains alone in first place among WJLE’s Fearless Forecasters picking winners after nine weeks of the college football season.
Ricky has a record of 93-42 followed by Darrell Gill at 90-45, Dewain Hendrixson and Scott Goodwin each at 89-46, John Pryor 87-48, Scott Brown 86-49, Grant James 85-50, Alex Woodward 84-51, and Chad Kirby 82-53.
For the week, Ricky Atnip and Scott Goodwin were each at 14-1, Darrell Gill, Grant James, Scott Brown, John Pryor, and Dewain Hendrixson each at 13-2, and Alex Woodward and Chad Kirby each at 11-4.
One of the forecasters hit his underdog pick last week. Dewain Hendrixson picked up 2.5 points with Auburn’s upset win over Kentucky.
Overall, Dewain Hendrixson has 30.5 underdog points followed by Darrell Gill with 23.5, Ricky Atnip 20, Chad Kirby 19.5, Alex Woodward 18.5, Scott Brown 11, Grant James 10.5, John Pryor 9.5, and Scott Goodwin 6.5.
Today (Thursday) the Forecasters will be picking winners in the following games:
Minnesota at Illinois, Pittsburgh at SMU, Louisville at Clemson, Oregon at Michigan, Ohio State at Penn State, Texas Tech at Iowa State, Virginia Tech at Syracuse, Wisconsin at Iowa, USC at Washington, Florida vs Georgia, Texas A&M at South Carolina, Ole Miss at Arkansas, Vanderbilt at Auburn, Kentucky at Tennessee and in the NFL the New England Patriots at the Tennessee Titans.
Catch the Fearless Forecasters on WJLE today (Thursday) at 4:30 p.m. on AM 1480/FM 101.7 and the LIVE stream at www.wjle.com.
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