My brother Mark Peacock, who was in fifth place last week, jumped all the way into second place by correctly picking the outcome of all 10 games on Saturday.
Johnny Davis dropped from second to third place, and Hunter Norris retained his spot in fourth place. Aaron Albritton, Rod Sims and Bill Bolton were all tied for fifth place.
Jeff Gunn dropped from sixth place to eighth place. I dropped from seventh place to ninth place. David Price, Justin Jensen and Jonathan Turberville were all tied for tenth place overall.
I know that there are a number of you out there in the reading audience who didn’t crack the Top 10 this week. If you didn’t, don’t sweat it. We’ve got nine more weeks to go, so you’ve got plenty of time to predict your way into that coveted No. 1 spot. Some of us have been playing this contest for over a decade, and if anything is true, it’s that the contest isn’t a sprint, it’s a marathon. Hang in there.
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SEC football action is heating up and every team in the league that has a game this weekend is playing a conference opponent. For football fans, does it really get any better than that?
For what it’s worth, here are my picks for this weekend’s slate of games. I like Auburn over Arkansas, LSU over Florida, Texas A&M over Ole Miss, Mississippi State over Kentucky, South Carolina over Georgia and Missouri over Vanderbilt. Alabama and Tennessee are off this week.
Last week: 5-1. So far this season: 45-7.
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Hillcrest and Sparta will both play their annual homecoming football games tomorrow (Friday) night in their respective football stadiums. Hillcrest and Sparta usually fair well on homecoming night, and I see no reason why this year should be any different.
Hillcrest will face Wilcox Central High School of Camden, and tomorrow night’s game will be the ninth all-time meeting between the two schools in football. They haven’t met on the football field since the 2001 season, and the last time Hillcrest beat Wilcox in football was in 1993, before any of the current players on Hillcrest’s roster were even born. In other words, Hillcrest is due for a big win.
Sparta will take on Jackson Academy tomorrow night for homecoming, and that game will be the 17th all-time football game between the two schools. These two long-running rivals have played every year since 2000, and Sparta’s last win against Jackson came in 2010. Last season, Jackson won by 46 points, so the Warriors have good reason to seek some revenge tomorrow night in front of the homecoming crowd.
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