September 29, 2022
By: Dwayne Page
Grant James of the James Gang remains the leader of WJLE’s Fearless Forecasters picking college football winners.
James has the best overall record at 48-12 after the first four weeks of the season followed by Ricky Atnip at 47-13, Jared Davis at 46-14, Chad Kirby and Scott Goodwin each at 43-17, John Pryor and Scott Brown each at 42-18, and Darrell Gill of the Gill Gang at 41-19.
For the week, Ricky Atnip and Scott Brown tied for the best record at 13-2 followed by Darrell Gill and Scott Goodwin each at 11-4, Grant James and Jared Davis each at 10-5 and Chad Kirby and John Pryor each at 9-6.
Two Fearless Forecasters hit their underdog picks last week. Darrell Gill of the Gill Gang got 2.5 points added to his total as Baylor defeated Iowa State 31-24 and Jared Davis picked up another 3.5 points as Troy upset Marshall 16-7.
Overall, Gill leads in underdog points with 17.5 followed by Jared Davis 11, Scott Brown 10, and John Pryor 6.5.
Today (Thursday) the Forecasters will be picking winners in the following games:
Washington at UCLA, Wake Forest at Florida State, N.C. State at Clemson, California at Washington State, Iowa State at Kansas, Indiana at Nebraska, Michigan State at Maryland, Oklahoma at TCU, Oklahoma State at Baylor, Michigan at Iowa, Texas A&M at Mississippi State, Alabama at Arkansas, Kentucky at Ole Miss, LSU at Auburn and in the NFL the Tennessee Titans at the Indianapolis Colts.
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.
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