November 21, 2024
By: Dwayne Page
Ricky Atnip Is still the leader among WJLE’s Fearless Forecasters picking winners after twelve weeks of the college football season.
Ricky has a record of 124-56 followed by Scott Goodwin and Dewain Hendrixson each at 119-61, Darrell Gill 118-62, John Pryor 115-65, Scott Brown 114-66, Grant James and Alex Woodward each at 113-67, and Chad Kirby 108-72.
For the week, Ricky Atnip had the best record at 12-3 followed by Darrell Gill, Grant James, Scott Brown, Alex Woodward, Chad Kirby, Dewain Hendrixson, and Scott Goodwin each at 11-4 and John Pryor at 10-5.
Three of the forecasters hit their underdog picks last week. Grant James picked up 20.5 points with Stanford’s win over Louisville. Chad Kirby added 9 points to his total as Arizona State beat Kansas State and Scott Goodwin picked up 8.5 points as Syracuse defeated California.
Overall, Darrell Gill has the lead in underdog points with 36. Grant James has 34 points. Dewain Hendrixson 30.5, Chad Kirby 28.5, Scott Goodwin 22, Ricky Atnip and John Pryor each with 20, Alex Woodward 18.5, and Scott Brown 11.
Today (Thursday) the Forecasters will be picking winners in the following games:
Indiana at Ohio State, Army at Notre Dame, Pittsburgh at Louisville, BYU at Arizona State, Penn State at Minnesota, Wisconsin at Nebraska, UCONN at Syracuse, Texas A&M at Auburn, Alabama at Oklahoma, Missouri at Mississippi State, Virginia Tech at Duke, Ole Miss at Florida, Vanderbilt at LSU, UTEP at Tennessee and in the NFL the Tennessee Titans at the Houston Texans.
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.