Jacob Ramer, who was in sixth place last week, moved into first place in the local standings this week. He picked seven out of 10 games correctly last Saturday, and has a three-point lead over the group.
Johnny Davis remained in second place, and Aaron Albritton was in third place. Hunter Norris was in fourth place, and Mark Peacock was in fifth place when the dust settled on Saturday.
Jeff Gunn was in sixth place, and I was in seventh place. David Price finished the weekend in eighth place, and Bill Bolton was in ninth place. Rod Sims remained in tenth place.
For those of you out there not in the Top 10, take heart. We’ve got 10 more weeks to go in the contest, so the contest is far from over. We’ve been playing this contest for over 10 years now, and if anything is true it’s that this contest is a marathon, not a sprint. If you don’t do well one week, don’t worry, because the standings will be sure to change a lot as we move through the rest of the season. Only time will tell as to who will win this year’s local “Mr. Football” crown.
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There are several good SEC football games on tap for this coming week, including Alabama and Ole Miss, Arkansas and Texas A&M and Georgia and Tennessee. This week is sort of unusual though in that four of the conference’s 14 teams are off this week, including Auburn, Mississippi State, Florida and Vanderbilt.
Here are my picks in those games as well as the other SEC games that are on tap for this week. I like South Carolina over Kentucky, Texas A&M over Arkansas, Georgia over Tennessee, Alabama over Ole Miss, Central Florida over Missouri and LSU over Towson.
Last week: 9-1. So far this season: 40-6.
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Last week, the NFL released its breakdown of opening week rosters according to what high schools and colleges the players attended. According to that report, 49 former Alabama high school players were on NFL opening week rosters, including a number from Southwest Alabama.
Players from our part of the state in the NFL this year include Kansas City’s Rodney Hudson of Mobile’s B.C. Rain High School, Tampa Bay’s Wallace Gilberry of Baldwin County High School, Atlanta’s Julio Jones of Foley High School, Carolina’s Captain Munnerlyn of Mobile’s Murphy High School, Buffalo’s Spencer Johnson of Southern Choctaw High School in Silas, Tampa Bay’s Mark Barron of St. Paul’s Episcopal School in Mobile, the New York Jets’ Ellis Lankster of Prichard’s Vigor High School, Tennessee’s Sen’Derrick Marks of Vigor High School and Detroit’s Nick Fairley of Williamson High School in Mobile.
There were 71 players from colleges in Alabama on opening day rosters, including 26 former University of Alabama players, 22 Auburn players, 10 Troy players, two former Alabama A&M players, two Alabama State players, two North Alabama players, two Samford players, two from Tuskegee and two from UAB.
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