August 31, 2022
By: Dwayne Page
If you love DeKalb County High School and UT football, WJLE will offer you both Thursday night, September 1.
The Vols will open the season against Ball State in a special Thursday contest on Thursday, September 1 at 7 p.m. ET in Neyland Stadium. That is 6 p.m. Smithville Time. WJLE AM 1480 will have LIVE coverage of the game on the VOL Network beginning with the Big Orange Countdown Show at 4 p.m.
Meanwhile WJLE FM 101.7 will bring you DeKalb County High School football as the Tigers (2-0) host Macon County (2-0) in the region opener for both teams Thursday night, September 1. Coverage on WJLE FM 101.7 begins with Coach to Coach at 5 p.m. followed by Murphy’s Matchups at 6 p.m. and Tiger Talk at 6:30 p.m. featuring Tiger Coach Steve Trapp and three Tiger Football Players. Kick-off will be at 7 p.m. in Smithville.
WJLE will also be debuting the Fearless Forecasters on Wednesday, August 31 at 4:30 p.m.
This season’s regulars are Scott Brown, Jared Davis, Chad Kirby, the James Gang (Grant and Jeff James), Ricky Atnip, John Pryor, The Gill Gang (Darrell, Eli or Noah Gill), and Scott Goodwin.
The “Fearless Forecasters” pick who they believe will win in fourteen of the biggest or most interesting college football games of the week along with the Tennessee Titans games.
They also make an underdog selection each week.
The first show will be on Wednesday, August 31 but after this week the Fearless Forecasters program will be on Thursdays at 4:30 p.m. on WJLE.