December 13, 2018
By: Dwayne Page
The 2018 College Football Bowl Game Edition of WJLE’s Fearless Forecasters will air today (Thursday) starting at 4:30 p.m.
The Forecasters will be picking winners in all 40 college football bowl games as well as predicting the eventual national champion
Dewain Hendrixson maintains his lead going into the bowl season.
Hendrixson has an overall record of 138-70.
Grant James of the James Gang is in second place at 128-80, ten games back. Darrell Gill and Will Graham are tied for third place at 127-81, eleven games out followed by Ricky Atnip and Chad Kirby each at 125-83, thirteen games back. Scott Brown’s record is 122-86, sixteen games out. John Pryor is 118-90, twenty games back and the guests are 116-92, twenty two games out of first place.
Meanwhile Ricky Atnip and Will Graham each had the best record for the week (two weeks ago) at 13-2 followed by Chad Kirby and Dewain Hendrixson each at 12-3. Grant James of the James Gang and the guest Tom Duggin each went 11-4. Darrell Gill and John Pryor each went 10-5 and Scott Brown went 9-6.
One forecaster hit his underdog pick two weeks ago. Dewain Hendrixson picked up one point with UAB’s upset of MTSU.
Overall Will Graham has the most underdog points at 45. Grant James of the James Gang has 42. Scott Brown is next with 41. Ricky Atnip and the guests have 24.5, John Pryor 21.5, Darrell Gill 14, Dewain Hendrixson 12, and Chad Kirby 5.
Today’s special guest is Jim Hodges of Middle Tennessee Natural Gas.
This year’s guests have been local minister Larry Green, Rhea County High School Girls Basketball Coach Darvin Gill, TWRA Officer Tony Cross, County Mayor Tim Stribling, local minister Isaac Gray, County Fire Chief and Farm Service Agency Director Donny Green, Attorney Luke Willoughby, County Clerk James L. (Jimmy) Poss, Dan Delacruz of Smithville Computer, Ronnie Goodwin formerly of Liberty State Bank, DCHS Football Coach Steve Trapp, DCHS Lady Tiger Basketball Coach and Tigerette Softball Coach Danny Fish, DeKalb Administrator of Elections Dennis Stanley, Tom Duggin of DTC Communications/MyDTC3.
Catch the Fearless Forecasters on WJLE today (Thursday) at 4:30 p.m. on AM 1480/FM 101.7 and LIVE streaming at www.wjle.com.
The program is sponsored by the Charles D. Atnip Realty and Auction Company, Middle Tennessee Natural Gas, Liberty State Bank, DeKalb County Insurance, Gill Automotive, Love-Cantrell Funeral Home, and DeKalb County Ace Hardware.