ETB POWER PICKS, WEEK TWO! | Standings after one week, and then this week’s games — harder than it looks!

It’s the 32nd annual Power Picks.

Now, it’s shifted over the years, depending on where I was. For the first few years, it was at The Commercial Dispatch in Columbus, Mississippi. Then it was at The Vicksburg Post (Vicksburg, Mississippi) and at The Meridian Star (in I-20 city Meridian, Mississippi).

The picks relocated with me to Kilgore, Texas, to the Kilgore News Herald, for the 2002 season and remained there, with me, until 2023.

ETBlitz.com launched in fall, 2023, and we’ve done them here ever since.

Keep in mind, guys: this is JUST FOR FUN. We don’t bet on these (now I can’t help what YOU do in your own home, but I hope you’re not betting on what we say!) and we don’t have an agenda. We don’t pick for or against teams because we don’t “like” them, or etcetera. We do our best to pick who will win each game. There’s an odd number of games — 21 — because we don’t want to have people going 8-8, or 10-10, and so on.

You can see our panel above, and here are the standings after just one week of picks.

Prognosticator	Wins	Losses
Ronnie Sartors	14	3
Eric Bell	14	3
Billy Chrisman	13	4
Mitch Lucas	13	4
Dennis Jacobs	13	4
Joe Bradford	12	5
Joe Hale	12	5
Dereck Borders	12	5
Ashtyn Lucas	12	5
Alex Nabor	12	5
Clayton Fletcher	12	5
Havon Russell	12	5
Jenna Lucas	12	5
Jeremy Newlin	12	5
Tim Capps	11	6
Jacob Lucas	10	7

This week’s picks list — to be clear, the second week of picks — is a good one, a lot of challenging games.

Here we go…

ETBLITZ.COM PICKS WEEK TWO

(Sept. 3-7, 2026)

HIGH SCHOOL GAMES

Thursday, Sept. 3

Tatum at Daingerfield, 7 p.m.

Friday’s games

Winona at Overton, 7 p.m.

Pittsburg at Gladewater, 7 p.m.

White Oak at Winnsboro, 7 p.m.

Elysian Fields at Sabine, 7 p.m.

Diboll at West Rusk, 7 p.m.

Beckville at Frankston, 7 p. m.

Pine Tree at Carthage, 7:30 p.m.

Henderson at Athens, 7:30 p.m.

Gilmer at Chapel Hill, 7:30 p.m.

Troup at Edgewood, 7:30 p.m.

Garrison at Arp, 7:30 p.m.

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COLLEGE GAMES

Saturday’s games

Trinity Valley at Kilgore College, 3 p.m.

Tyler Junior College at Blinn, 3 p.m.

Texas State at Texas, 2:30 p.m., ESPN

Missouri State at Texas A&M, 6 p.m., ESPN

Abilene Christian at Texas Tech, 6 p.m., FS1

Baylor vs. Auburn (in Atlanta), 2:30 p.m., ABC

Oregon State at Houston, 11 a.m., ESPN

Sunday’s games

Wisconsin vs. Notre Dame (at Lambeau Field), 6:30 p.m., NBC

Louisville vs. Ole Miss (Nissan Stadium, Nashville), 6:45 p.m., ABC

And here’s how our “pickers” see the outcomes. I need a better word than “pickers” or “prognosticators.” Why don’t one of y’all think of a better one?

Send your ideas to me at mlucas@etblitz.com.

If you submit a name, and it’s not stupid and we pick it, there’s a prize with your name on it coming from ETBlitz.com.

On to the picks.

Games	Mitch	Dennis	Joe Hale	Jenna	Dereck	Jacob	Ashtyn	Clayton
Tatum at Daingerfield	Tatum	Tatum	DHS	Tatum	Tatum	Tatum	Tatum	Tatum
Winona at Overton	Overton	Overton	Overton	Overton	Overton	Overton	Overton	Overton
Pine Tree at Carthage	CHS	CHS	CHS	CHS	CHS	CHS	CHS	CHS
Henderson at Athens	Athens	Hendo	Athens	Hendo	Athens	Athens	Hendo	Hendo
Gilmer at Chapel Hill	CHHS	CHHS	GHS	GHS	CHHS	GHS	GHS	GHS
Pittsburg at Gladewater	G’water	G’water	G’water	G’water	G’water	G’water	G’water	G’water
White Oak at Winnsboro	Winns.	Winns.	Winns.	WO	Winns.	Winns.	WO	WO
Elysian Fields at Sabine	EF	EF	EF	EF	EF	EF	Sabine	EF
Troup at Edgewood	Troup	Troup	Troup	Troup	Troup	Troup	Troup	Troup
Garrison at Arp	Arp	Arp	Arp	Arp	Arp	Arp	Arp	Arp
Diboll at West Rusk	WR	WR	WR	WR	WR	WR	WR	WR
Beckville at Frankston	B’ville	B’ville	FHS	B’ville	FHS	FHS	B’ville	FHS
Trinity Valley at KC	KC	KC	TVCC	KC	KC	KC	KC	KC
TJC at Blinn	TJC	TJC	TJC	TJC	TJC	TJC	TJC	TJC
Texas State at Texas	UT	UT	UT	UT	UT	UT	UT	UT
Missouri St. at Texas A&M	A&M	A&M	A&M	A&M	A&M	A&M	A&M	A&M
Abilene Chr. at Texas Tech	Tech	Tech	Tech	Tech	Tech	Tech	Tech	Tech
Baylor vs. Auburn	Auburn	BU	Auburn	BU	Auburn	Auburn	Auburn	BU
Oregon St. at Houston	UH	UH	UH	UH	Ore. St.	UH	UH	UH
Wisconsin at Notre Dame	ND	ND	ND	Wisc.	ND	ND	ND	ND
Louisville vs. Ole Miss	Ole Miss	Ole Miss	Ole Miss	Ole Miss	Ole Miss	Ole Miss	Ole Miss	UL

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Games	Alex	Jeremy	Ronnie	Havon	Billy	Tim	Joe B.	Eric
Tatum at Daingerfield	Tatum	DHS	DHS	DHS	Tatum	DHS	Tatum	DHS
Winona at Overton	Overton	Overton	Overton	Overton	Overton	Overton	Overton	Overton
Pine Tree at Carthage	CHS	CHS	CHS	CHS	CHS	CHS	CHS	CHS
Henderson at Athens	Hendo	Athens	Athens	Hendo	Athens	Hendo	Athens	Athens
Gilmer at Chapel Hill	CHHS	CHHS	GHS	GHS	GHS	GHS	GHS	GHS
Pittsburg at Gladewater	G’water	Pitt.	G’water	G’water	G’water	G’water	G’water	G’water
White Oak at Winnsboro	Winns.	Winns.	Winns.	WO	Winns.	Winns.	Winns.	Winns.
Elysian Fields at Sabine	EF	Sabine	EF	Sabine	EF	EF	EF	EF
Troup at Edgewood	Troup	Troup	Troup	Troup	Troup	Troup	Troup	Troup
Garrison at Arp	Arp	Arp	Arp	Arp	Arp	GHS	Arp	Arp
Diboll at West Rusk	WR	Diboll	WR	WR	WR	WR	WR	WR
Beckville at Frankston	B’ville	B’ville	B’ville	B’ville	B’ville	FHS	B’ville	FHS
Trinity Valley at KC	KC	KC	TVCC	TVCC	TVCC	KC	KC	KC
TJC at Blinn	TJC	TJC	TJC	TJC	TJC	Blinn	TJC	TJC
Texas State at Texas	UT	UT	UT	UT	UT	UT	UT	UT
Missouri St. at Texas A&M	A&M	A&M	A&M	A&M	A&M	A&M	A&M	A&M
Abilene Chr. at Texas Tech	Tech	Tech	Tech	Tech	Tech	Tech	Tech	Tech
Baylor vs. Auburn	Auburn	Auburn	Auburn	Auburn	Auburn	Auburn	Auburn	Auburn
Oregon St. at Houston	UH	UH	UH	UH	UH	UH	UH	Houston
Wisconsin at Notre Dame	ND	Wisc.	ND	ND	ND	ND	ND	ND
Louisville at Ole Miss	UL	Ole Miss	Ole Miss	Ole Miss	Ole Miss	Ole Miss	Ole Miss	Ole Miss