September 19, 2024
By: Dwayne Page
Alex Woodward is the front runner among WJLE’s Fearless Forecasters with the best record picking winners for the first three weeks of the college football season.
Alex has compiled a record of 30-15 followed by Scott Goodwin at 29-16, Dewain Hendrixson 28-17, Darrell Gill, Ricky Atnip, Scott Brown, Chad Kirby, and John Pryor each at 27-18, and Grant James at 25-20.
For the week, Alex Woodward was 13-2 followed by Chad Kirby and Scott Goodwin each at 12-3, Dewain Hendrixson 11-4, Ricky Atnip and Scott Brown each at 10-5, and Darrell Gill, Grant James, and John Pryor each at 9-6.
Two of the forecasters hit their underdog picks last week including Ricky Atnip who got on the board with 8 points as Memphis knocked off Florida State and Alex Woodward got 4.5 points with Washington State’s upset of Washington.
Overall, Darrell Gill leads in underdog points with 23.5 followed by Dewain Hendrixson 15, Ricky Atnip 8, Grant James and Alex Woodward each with 4.5, and Scott Brown with 4 points.
Today (Thursday) the Forecasters will be picking winners in the following games:
Utah at Oklahoma State, Kansas State at BYU, USC at Michigan, California at Florida State, Baylor at Colorado, Virginia at Coastal Carolina, Arizona State at Texas Tech, Illinois at Nebraska, Michigan State at Boston College, Florida at Mississippi State, Iowa at Minnesota, Arkansas at Auburn, Vanderbilt at Missouri, Tennessee at Oklahoma and in the NFL the Green Bay Packers 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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