September 12, 2024
By: Dwayne Page
John Pryor and Darrell Gill are co-leaders among WJLE’s Fearless Forecasters with the best record picking winners for the first two weeks of the college football season.
Pryor and Gill each have compiled records of 18-12 followed by Ricky Atnip, Scott Brown, Alex Woodward, Scott Goodwin, and Dewain Hendrixson each at 17-13. Grant James is 16-14 and Chad Kirby’s record is 15-15.
For the week, Darrell Gill and Dewain Hendrixson were each at 8-7. Grant James, Ricky Atnip, Chad Kirby, Scott Brown, Scott Goodwin, and John Pryor were each at 7-8 and Alex Woodward at 6-9.
Three of the forecasters hit their underdog picks last week including Darrell Gill who got 10.5 points with BYU’s win over SMU. Scott Brown got on the board with 4 points as Army defeated FAU and Dewain Hendrixson picked up 10 points with South Carolina’s victory over Kentucky.
Overall, Darrell Gill leads in underdog points with 23.5 followed by Dewain Hendrixson 15, Grant James 4.5 and Scott Brown with 4 points.
Today (Thursday) the Forecasters will be picking winners in the following games:
Arizona at Kansas State, Washington State at Washington, Appalachian State at East Carolina, Memphis at Florida State, Western Kentucky at MTSU, UCF at TCU, Indiana at UCLA, Maryland at Virginia, Notre Dame at Purdue, Alabama at Wisconsin, Texas A&M at Florida, LSU at South Carolina, Vanderbilt at Georgia State, Kent State at Tennessee and in the NFL the New York Jets 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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