September 5, 2024
By: Dwayne Page
John Pryor and Alex Woodward are co-leaders of the pack among WJLE’s Fearless Forecasters for the best record picking winners on opening week of the college football season.
Pryor and Woodward each had the best record last week at 11-4 followed by Darrell Gill, Ricky Atnip, Scott Brown, and Scott Goodwin each at 10-5. Grant James and Dewain Hendrixson were each at 9-6 and Chad Kirby was 8-7.
Three of the forecasters hit their underdog picks last week including Darrell Gill who got 13 points with Vanderbilt’s upset win over Virginia Tech. Dewain Hendrixson has 5 points as North Texas defeated South Alabama and Grant James got on the board with 4.5 points with USC’s victory over LSU.
Today (Thursday) the Forecasters will be picking winners in the following games:
Arkansas at Oklahoma State, Texas at Michigan, Pittsburgh at Cincinnati, California at Auburn, Iowa State at Iowa, South Carolina at Kentucky, Mississippi State at Arizona State, Texas Tech at Washington State, Kansas at Illinois, Colorado at Nebraska, Virginia at Wake Forest, Georgia Tech at Syracuse, Alcorn State at Vanderbilt, Tennessee at N.C. State, and in the NFL the Tennessee Titans at the Chicago Bears.
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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