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Penn and Cathedral start playing each other in week 3 of the 2020 season.

Ben Davis Center Grove Carmel Warren Central

I can’t figure out why Princeton and Gibson Southern aren’t in the same sectional, especially considering they are the only football playing high schools in Gibson County and the fact that the IHSAA likes to keep geographic rivals in the same sectional, like Fishers and Hamilton SE, LC and LN, and Southport and Perry Meridian. So I guess Princeton and Gibson Southern aren’t in the same sectional because the people at the IHSAA who put the sectionals together either failed geography class or were just too lazy to put together more geographically-accurate sectionals.

In a perfect world you would see Chatard vs. Crawfordsville Guerin Catholic vs. Yorktown Brebeuf vs. North Montgomery West Lafayette vs. Hamilton Heights If you seeded the teams, the seeds would be 1. Chatard 2. West Lafayette 3. Brebeuf 4. Guerin Catholic 5. Yorktown 6. North Montgomery 7. Hamilton Heights 8. Crawfordsville I have Chatard seeded #1 because their blowout wins over Brebeuf and Southport are better wins than any wins West Lafayette has on its resume so far, and Chatard’s loss to Cathedral is more impressive than West Lafayette’s loss to Lafayette Jeff.

Woodlan South Adams Bluffton Heritage DeKalb East Noble Columbia City Leo

Blackford Eastbrook Alexandria Mississinewa

Tipton West Lafayette North Vermillion Rensselaer Central Hamilton Heights Cass North White Knox Delphi Gibson Southern

Bloomington North Columbus North Southport Terre Haute South

Carmel Center Grove Warren Central Lawrence Central

I agree about Mike Gillin but I’d also throw Phil Mason in the mix. He won a state title at Andrean and has done a terrific job turning around the Michigan City program.

I just made new predictions in the post above yours. The predictions you quoted were my preseason predictions I made before week 1. I do agree with you about North Vermillion now after seeing their result against Linton-Stockton. I think North Vermillion’s conference and sectional is a toss-up between them and Parke Heritage. I now have South Adams winning class 1A. I still think Western Boone is the best team in class 2A. They took their foot off the gas pedal and blew a big lead against a good class 4A Western team and only lost by 1 point. I think that’s the only time Western Boone loses this season.

I’ll bite. 6A: Avon over Carmel 5A: New Palestine over Valparaiso 4A: Mooresville over New Prairie 3A: Chatard over Gibson Southern 2A: Western Boone over Cass 1A: South Adams over Lutheran

Adams Central South Adams Bluffton Woodlan Huntington North East Noble Norwell Columbia City

Blackford Frankton Mississinewa Eastbrook

Terre Haute South Columbus North Chatard Bloomington North

West Lafayette Western Cass Tipton Twin Lakes Lowell Pioneer Culver Seeger Center Grove Sheridan Frankton

Oak Hill Blackford Alexandria Mississinewa

Center Grove Carmel North Central Warren Central

Western West Lafayette Rensselaer Central McCutcheon Knox Sheridan Hamilton Heights Cass Kankakee Valley Tri-County

Adams Central Woodlan South Adams Monroe Central Norwell Columbia City East Noble Leo

Bloomington South Columbus North Terre Haute South Southport

I don’t understand how Homestead isn’t ranked yet in 6A. I have had them in my top ten since before the season started. Can’t wait to see what happens against Dwenger and Snider the next two weeks.

I’ll go with Warren Central 28, Lawrence Central 14.

Never been more happy to be dead wrong in my life! I'm shocked. Absolutely shocked that LC won tonight. They looked like a completely different team tonight than they did the first two weeks. Extremely proud that they didn't quit and figured this thing out. That's 2 years in a row now that LC has turned things around and beaten LN in week 3 after looking not so great in the first 2 games. 15 WINS IN A ROW FOR LC AGAINST LN!

To me the biggest measuring stick for the HCC is if the Avon/Brownsburg sectional winner can beat the Warren Central/Center Grove regional winner in the Semi-State and advance to the State Finals.