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Hamilton Heights @ McCutcheon Benton Central @ South Newton Central Catholic @ Logansport Linton @ Western Lowell @ West Lafayette Rensselaer @ Woodstock Tipton @ Twin Lakes Lake Station @ North Newton Clinton Central @ Clinton Prairie North Vermillion @ Covington

Depends on what your definition of success is. WL versus other publics, very successful. WL versus privates the same size as them....ehhh

Forgot to do this week 1. Better late than never. Who ya got this week. Friday, Aug. 30 Bluffton at Manchester, 7 pm Shortridge at Maconaquah, 7 pm Cass at Northfield ©, 7 pm Northwestern at Eastern, 7 pm Oak Hill at Southwood, 7 pm Peru at Whitko ©, 7 pm Rochester at Tippecanoe Valley, 7 pm Wabash at Alexandria, 7 pm

I don't know about the other games in the conference, but a big rivalry game this week between Rochester and Valley for the Bell. Always a really cool atmosphere for this game every year. Hopefully, it will be a little bit closer than it was last year. Both teams played pretty one sided games last week, so I look at this game as a way to see how both teams seasons are going to play out. Good luck to the rest of this conference this week. Its going to be a hot one Friday night!

LCC over Ritter

Eastern Hancock's win is that impressive? I would agree that Triton Central's loss should push them back a little more, but people seem to be high on Batesville.

Hearing the lamentations of their women probably would get my players to play a little harder to be honest.

So if we take three knees and punt the ball down to the 1, and the other team snaps it over the QB's head for a safety, is this still bad sportsmanship?

So do you think that teams should get up 35 and purposefully stop scoring? I understand running up the score past 50 points is not cool, but it does happen sometimes unintentionally. It was the first game of the year and you want to get your guys reps for the next week. In Rochester's case, we were up 42-0 at half. Unfortunately, the running clock can't start until the second half. We started the second half with nothing but Sophomores and Freshman and still almost scored on Wabash's ones.

1 POINT GAMES North Newton @ Rensselaer Delphi @ Twin Lakes Logansport @ Adams Seeger @ Benton Central Tipton @ Elwood 2 Point Games West Lafayette @ McCutcheon Western @ Western Boone Winamac @ Frontier South Vermillion @ Sullivan Pioneer @ Knox Triton Central @ Hamilton Heights

I don't think people are under estimating Judson and how good they are. I think the North goes through Judson in 1A this year. A lot thought Knox was a top 5 3A team and maybe the best team in the North. To lose to Judson by 3 scores makes you question that. Obviously its week 1 and a long way to go.

What offense did Winamac run? I'll be the first to admit they proved me wrong already. Hopefully they can keep improving.

Illinois has some good ones. Fighting pretzels are good, but the Hoopeston Cornjerkers takes the cake!

Really tough to see the Rochester Zebras didn't make the top 10 or even an honorable mention 😉 Cool list though

The digest book says two Olineman and a tight end on offense. Two on the defensive side as well. Were each of those more like a rotator guy than a true starter? Depending on how good of a blocker the tight end was in that offense, that could be consider a big hit in the line upfront. The book isn't always too accurate or specific, so I'm sure you know better than the rest of us if they really lost a lot or not.

LCC and Lutheran rematch for the state title 5 years later...in 2A. Have your fun while you can 3A, in 2029 you're next.

I believe you fill the preseason one out as soon as you can.

It does take a little bit to get them back on with the straps and snaps that need to be run through the facemask. My guess is with my little bit of experience with them, if the cap comes off of a player's helmet, a couple straps probably broke, and the player would need a new cap anyway.

I think they beat Frontier, but that isn't a conference game. Just going off of the teams Rochester has seen in the summer and seeing Winamac Friday, it's what I'm predicting. I'm sure they will be competitive in most if not all the games you listed. I just don't see them winning most if not all of them.

The conference is Judson's to lose. Really interested to see if North Miami can make some noise in the new conference. I don't know if Winamac wins a conference game this year folks, good experience for the young guys this year tho hope they can stay healthy. Bold prediction on the year, Caston beats both Winamac and Pioneer in the same year for the first time in probably school history, you heard it right here first. Good luck to the conference. Some really good football played throughout the years from this conference. Hopefully it continues with the new look.

I'm goin with what the guy above me said. Other than Valley, I think most will be close competitive games that are fun to watch.

A lot of southern teams in 2A

From what I have heard this is Penn States year. They have Ohio State at home. They're only real road test will come at USC. Arguably the best running back duo in the nation, solid second year quarterback, defense has been solid the last couple years and is supposed to be even deeper. I feel like Franklin has underachieved big time since being there, but he keeps bringing in good talent. Maybe with the expanded playoffs, even a loss to OSU they make it.

Tragic but you're probably right. Unfortunate to think you made it to the playoffs and still don't think you have a chance. Hopefully the 2018 UCF team can inspire some of those teams to give it a shot, but when players are saying even the playoffs aren't worth playing for is unfortunate.