November 7, 2024
By: Dwayne Page
Ricky Atnip maintains his first place lead among WJLE’s Fearless Forecasters picking winners after ten weeks of the college football season.
Ricky has a record of 101-49 followed by Scott Goodwin at 98-52, Darrell Gill and Dewain Hendrixson each at 97-53, John Pryor 94-56 and Grant James, Scott Brown, and Alex Woodward each at 93-57 and Chad Kirby 89-61.
For the week, Alex Woodward and Scott Goodwin were each at 9-6. Grant James, Ricky Atnip, and Dewain Hendrixson were each at 8-7 and Darrell Gill, Scott Brown, Chad Kirby, and John Pryor were each at 7-8.
Three of the forecasters hit their underdog picks last week. Darrell Gill added 6.5 points to his total with Georgia Southern’s upset win over South Alabama. Scott Goodwin picked up 7 points as Vanderbilt beat Auburn and John Pryor got 10.5 points with Louisville’s win over Clemson.
Overall, Dewain Hendrixson has 30.5 underdog points followed by Darrell Gill with 30, Ricky Atnip and John Pryor each with 20, Chad Kirby 19.5, Alex Woodward 18.5, Scott Goodwin 13.5, Scott Brown 11, and Grant James 10.5.
Today (Thursday) the Forecasters will be picking winners in the following games:
Michigan at Indiana, Colorado at Texas Tech, Washington at Penn State, California at Wake Forest, Duke at N.C. State, Clemson at Virginia Tech, West Virginia at Cincinnati, Miami at Georgia Tech, Florida at Texas, Georgia at Ole Miss, Oklahoma at Missouri, Alabama at LSU, South Carolina at Vanderbilt, Mississippi State at Tennessee and in the NFL the Tennessee Titans at the L.A. Chargers.
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.
The program is sponsored by the Charles D. Atnip Realty and Auction Company, Middle Tennessee Natural Gas, FirstBank, DeKalb County Insurance, DeKalb County Ace Hardware, Gill Automotive, Love-Cantrell Funeral Home, Wilson Bank & Trust, and Domino’s Pizza.