Tanner Hall of Sylva is the winner of The Sylva
Herald’s second football contest of the season.
His guess of 38 points in the East Henderson vs Smoky Mountain
tie-breaker game gave him the win as four entrants correctly
predicted the outcome of 15 of the 20 games.
SM won the game 28-10 for a total of 38 points.
Other entrants with five misses had tie-breaker guesses of 42,
42 and 62 points. Overall, guesses ranged from 31-63.
Like 85 percent of the 104 who entered this week’s contest,
Hall went with Notre Dame, a 22-16 loser to Michigan State.
He was among the 63 percent of entrants who failed to predict
Stanford’s 18-14 win over BYU.
His other misses were picking Duke, a 28-10 loser to Northwestern;
Georgia Tech, a 39-3 loser to Clemson; and Florida, a 24-10
loser to Tennessee.
Western Carolina, a 28-21 winner over The Citadel, was the choice
of 30 percent of those entering.
Results of other games in last week’s contest included:
Appalachian State over Morehead State (24-21); Elon over East
Tennessee (14-0); Gardner-Webb over Chattanooga (22-12); Furman
over Richmond (31-17); Wofford over Georgia Southern (20-18);
Wisconsin over UNC (38-27); N.C. State over Texas Tech (49-21);
FSU over Colorado (47-7); Maryland over West Virginia (34-7);
Wake Forest over East Carolina (34-16); LSU over Georgia (17-10);
Oklahoma over UCLA (59-24); Iowa over Arizona (21-2); and Oregon
over Michigan (31-27).
