Ruth Johnson picks the winners in Football Contest 8
The winner of Week 8 of The Icon Football Contest is Ruth Johnson. Four contestants correctly picked all 10 games this week, but Ruth was declared the winner by correctly predicting Bluffton to win by 19 or more points.
Other contestants:
10 correct - Dale Badertscher, Landyn Fleharty and Mark Delisle.
9 correct - Brad Smith, Chris Boisvert, David Glick, Denny Edinger, Duane Bollenbacher, Ken Von Lehmden, Kim Badertscher, Luke Amstutz, Nathan Davis, Randy Stewart, Rich Johnson, Ted Prueter, Theresa Bingman, Todd Fleharty and Will I Am Edwards.
8 correct - Barry Schneck, Ben Reineke, Elfrieda Ramseyer, Silas Amstutz, Tammy Risner and Tom Clark.
7 correct - Bentley Dillman, Chris Christopher, Craig Hoffman, Jim Dillman, John Clevidence and Nancy Armour.
6 correct - Brandon Schaadt and Mark Sommers.
The leaders after Week 8 of The Icon Football Contest are:
56 points - Duane Bollenbacher, Kim Badertscher and Nathan Davis.
55 points - Will I Am Edwards.
54 points - Ken Von Lehmden and Richard Johnson.
52 points - Mark Delisle.
51 points - Tammy Risner.
50 points - Chris Boisvert and Todd Fleharty.
49 points - Jim Dillman.
48 points - Dale Badertscher and John Clevidence.
47 points - Nancy Armour.
61 contestants have accumulated less than 47 points.
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