November 1, 2018
By: Dwayne Page
Dewain Hendrixson remains out front of his fellow WJLE Fearless Forecasters for picking winners after nine weeks of the college football season.
Hendrixson has an overall record of 86-48.
Darrell Gill and Will Graham remain in a tie for second place at 82-52, four games back. Scott Brown is 78-56, 8 games behind. Grant James of the James Gang is 9 games out of first place at 77-57. Chad Kirby is 10 games back at 76-58. Ricky Atnip is at 74-60, 12 games out of first place while John Pryor and the Guests are 13 games back at 73-61.
Meanwhile Chad Kirby had the best record for the week at 9-6 followed by Dewain Hendrixson 8-7, Darrell Gill and Will Graham each at 7-8, Grant James of the James Gang, John Pryor and the guest Tim Stribling each at 6-9. Scott Brown and Ricky Atnip each went 5-10.
Two forecasters hit their underdog picks last week. Grant James of the James Gang picked Northern Illinois to upset BYU and got 7 points. The guest, County Mayor Tim Stribling picked Kentucky to beat Missouri and got 7 points.
Overall Will Graham at 41 has the most underdog points followed by Grant James of the James Gang with 38 points. Scott Brown has 35 points while Ricky Atnip has 15, Darrell Gill 14, the guests 14, John Pryor 11.5, Dewain Hendrixson 11, and Chad Kirby 5.
Today (Thursday) the Forecasters will be picking winners in the following games:
Penn State at Michigan, Notre Dame at Northwestern, West Virginia at Texas, Ohio at Western Michigan, Stanford at Washington, Boston College at Virginia Tech, Iowa at Purdue, Florida State at N.C. State, Alabama at LSU, Missouri at Florida, Texas A&M at Auburn, South Carolina at Ole Miss, Georgia at Kentucky, Charlotte at Tennessee and in the NFL the Tennessee Titans at Dallas.
Today’s special guest is County Clerk James L. (Jimmy) Poss.
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.