October 6, 2022
By: Dwayne Page
Ricky Atnip has taken the lead among WJLE’s Fearless Forecasters picking college football winners.
Atnip has the best overall record at 58-17 after the first five weeks of the season followed by Grant James and Jared Davis each at 56-19, Scott Goodwin 52-23, Darrell Gill and John Pryor each at 51-24, and Scott Brown and Chad Kirby each at 50-25.
For the week, Ricky Atnip had the best record at 11-4 followed by Darrell Gill and Jared Davis each at 10-5, Scott Goodwin and John Pryor each at 9-6, Scott Brown and Grant James each at 8-7, and Chad Kirby at 7-8.
Two Fearless Forecasters hit their underdog picks last week. Grant James got on the board with 3.5 points as Kansas defeated Iowa State 14-11 and Scott Brown added 7 points to his total as Wake Forest beat Florida State 31-21.
Overall, Darrell Gill leads in underdog points with 17.5 followed by Scott Brown 17, Jared Davis 11, John Pryor 6.5, and Grant James 3.5
Today (Thursday) the Forecasters will be picking winners in the following games:
Texas at Oklahoma, TCU at Kansas, BYU at Notre Dame, Utah at UCLA, Florida State at NC State, Kansas State at Iowa State, Iowa at Illinois, North Carolina at Miami, Purdue at Maryland, Missouri at Florida, South Carolina at Kentucky, Arkansas at Mississippi State, Ole Miss at Vanderbilt, Tennessee at LSU, and in the NFL the Tennessee Titans at the Washington Commanders.
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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