Pea-Pickin’ Picks Sept. 28

Hillsboro's star Jacques Seward (5)

What a week of prognosticating.
After picking 46 winners and only eight losers in Tennessee preps, 16 winners and two losers in college games and going 8-3 in professional picks last week I started to take a few days off.
But when you’re hot you’re hot and it is the time to move forward and work harder.
I heard an old coach say that once. Or, did he say it twice?
This is going to be a tough week for the Pea-Pickin’ Picks, named appropriately after Tennessee Ernie Ford.
Tennessee Ernie Ford was born in Bristol Tennessee. He went on to become one of the most popular entertainers in Tennessee history.
He reached stardom in the mid 1950’s with a rendition of the song “Sixteen tons.”
I still remember him singing, “You load sixteen tons, what do you get? Another day older and deeper in debt. Saint Peter, don't you call me, 'cause I can't go; I owe my soul to the company store...”
Now guys and gals, if you’re using my picks to wager let me warn you that you too will be like the lyrics of Tennessee Ernie Ford’s song, “another day older and deeper in debt.”
There are some hard to pick games across the Volunteer State this week. And who do you pick in the Alabama and Florida State game?
Plus, you never know who is going to show up in throw back uniforms as ugly as those the Philadelphia Eagles wore last week.
Ouch, those threads were hideous.
OK, enough of the procrastinating on the prognosticating.
Last week, The Great Stumpola, and his crystal ball were able to come up with 71 winners and 13 losers. That brings the season total of the “Round Mound of Profound” to 171-57.

HIGH SCHOOL
Knoxville Catholic over Baylor
Bearden over Knoxville Halls
Brainerd over Austin-East
Grace over Bledsoe County
Oak Ridge over Clinton
Cookeville over Cleveland
Dobyns Bennett over Elizabethton
Knoxville Fulton over Morristown East
Ooltewah over Maplewood
Maryville over William Blount
McMinn County over Rhea County
Polk County over Sweetwater
Red Bank over Boyd Buchanan
East Ridge over Sequoyah
Soddy-Daisy over Hixson
South Pittsburg over Tyner
Father Ryan over CPA
Jo Byrns over Forrest
David Lipscomb over Goodpasture
Hillsboro over Hillwood
Howard over Grundy County
MBA over Ravenwood
McCallie over Ensworth
Pearl Cohn over Stratford
Pope John Paul over BGA
Riverdale over Dickson County
Smyrna over Gallatin
CBHS over Carver
Cordova over Arlington
Ezell-Harding over Bishop Byrne
Melrose over Hamilton
Jackson South Side over Jackson Northside
MUS over Memphis Northside
ECS over St. Benedict
White Station over Fairley



COLLEGE
South Carolina over Mississippi St.
Georgia over Mississippi
Clemson over Georgia Tech
Alabama over Florida St.
Chattanooga over The Citadel
Florida over Auburn
Michigan over Northwestern
Southern Cal over Washington

PRO

Atlanta over Houston
Oakland over Miami
Dallas over St. Louis
Pittsburgh over Arizona
New England over Cincinnati
Green Bay over Minnesota
Philadelphia over New York