September 7, 2023
By: Dwayne Page
John Pryor is the leader among WJLE’s Fearless Forecasters picking college football winners after the first week of the season.
Pryor has the best record at 13-2 followed by a five-way tie for second place between Grant James of the James Gang, Ricky Atnip, Jared Davis, Scott Goodwin, and Dewain Hendrixson each with a record of 12-3. Chad Kirby and Darrell Gill of the Gill Gang each went 11-4 after the first week and Scott Brown was 10-5.
Two Fearless Forecasters hit their underdog picks last week. Jared Davis got on the board with 20.5 points as Colorado upset TCU 45 to 42 and John Pryor picked up 2.5 points with Florida State’s 45 to 24 win over LSU.
Today (Thursday) the Forecasters will be picking winners in the following games:
Nebraska at Colorado, Oregon at Texas Tech, Wisconsin at Washington State, Notre Dame at N.C. State, Utah at Baylor, Ole Miss at Tulane, Texas A&M at Miami, Iowa at Iowa State, UCF at Boise State, Texas at Alabama, Arizona at Mississippi State, Auburn at California, Vanderbilt at Wake Forest, Austin Peay at Tennessee, and in the NFL the Tennessee Titans at the New Orleans Saints.
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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