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How about that Jack Kiser guy?

3 blowouts and this: Lawrence North 26 Ben Davis 24. Inexplicable Astonishing Perplexing Shameful

Westfield 24 Brownsburg 21, final.

Brownsburg 14 Westfield 14. Half. Top game in 6A living up to the hype!

Well great. It’s that time of year again. Then, Carmel trounces Brownsburg in the sectional and CG wipes out Westfield at Lucas Oil. Rewind to 2022.

If they go winless- 1962, 0-8, In just their 3rd season of football. Avon has had just 2 losing seasons since 1990.

…..or the Des Moines Institute.

But the 2020 & 2021 Irish are so far above the rest of 5A. There is a reason the casual observer is looking to week #9 (CG vs Cathedral) and not week 10 and beyond.

Actually a 6th year Covid senior.

I think all 4 will be blowouts.

Fishers 35 Avon 17- I think Avon will win one before the season ends, but it won’t be this one. Westfield 23 Brownsburg 17- Hard fought game in the game of the year in the HCC, but the Rocks are the better team. HSE 31 Zionsville 20- Royals regroup and pound the Eagles. Franklin Central 24 Noblesville 13. Jayson West- Coach of the Year in the conference!

OK. You've given me that Sunday night chuckle. Minny, Wisconsin, MSU.... All decisive losses. Nebraska is a tossup. IU is a tossup right now, but that may turn to a heavy IU lean in a few weeks.

Buuut..... They just threw 57 up on BD.

You're being much too "Lou Holtz". 63 or more to ZERO. Also, does the Center Grove game count since it is being played on a "crowned crappy grass surface"? Asking for a friend.

Plainfield has a freshman QB and he is good! Avon has a sophomore QB that will be all-state as soon as next year. He was baptized as a freshman when the senior QB was told on game day of the sectionals that he had been exposed to covid and could not play. And he scared the crap out of Brownsburg that night.

OMG, somebody shoot me. ND was totally dominant at the line of scrimmage, yet Purdue wasn't completely out of the game until late.

Well if there are only 4 tiers I guess you could put Zionsville in Tier 2, but I don't think they are as good as HSE.

Please break down the number of wins with a Republican president vs. a Democratic president. We might see a pattern!

Indiana will be studying game film from last year's Cincy-Georgia game. That alone should give them enough headaches to try and solve.

Covid-19 has come, but not yet gone. It has ravaged, killed, and changed the way every one of us lives. On topic, it has cancelled entire seasons, games, and destroyed hopes and dreams. 18 months after the onslaught began, and in Indiana the 1st "strike" generally began at the Lawrence Central basketball sectional, where 6 or more administrators and coaches ended up losing their lives fairly quickly. But where do we stand today? We have a new strain, we have games being cancelled every week (although not nearly as many), and we really don't yet see the light at the end of the tunnel. My question is this...... how many games have been altered by student athletes being put in quarantine and unable to play? How many surprise upsets may have been influenced by this? Very few? Perhaps. But, I know of 2 local Indy area metro schools that played recent games with double-digit players sitting out because of quarantine. And the majority of them were starters. One was a 4A highly ranked, the other a 6A from one of those mega-conferences. I don't think the outcome was changed because of these quarantines, in fact I'm sure it wasn't. And, I only had information from one of the combatants. Who's to say how many were missing from the other team? Schools don't make this information public, probably because they can't. So until it gets bad enough to cancel, you would never know (unless you have inside information). I would put this out there..... it's very likely EVERY game is influenced by covid, a player, a coach, someone on each team has or is being quarantined, or has missed practices. I'm not here to restart the argument for vaxing, but this will still be with us for the 2022 season unless we get to that magic number described as herd immunity. There will be more surprises on the football field. The question is how many were caused by surprises off the football field?

Bless has never been known to be a defensive genius. They have always had trouble with teams that have speed and quickness. Plus, they are very young. Over 50 sophomores on the varsity/jv roster. Seems Avon produces a team worthy of title talk once every 4-5 years. They may very well be in the conversation in 2023.

For the record I think CN would handle Penn convincingly. This time last year Cathedral was in the middle of their"Ohio" schedule. In fact, they had played 3 Ohio teams each year since 2017. Just one this year.... Did schools back out of a contract? Now as a result the Irish have Hammond Morton on the schedule next week. If you look at Morton's results thus far, there is no way this game should take place. This may be the biggest mismatch in recent memory. Better have a number of EMT's standing by.

Brownsburg 35 Fishers 13 Avon 31 Franklin Central 27 Westfield 27 HSE 14 Zionsville 20 Noblesville 7 Is this the definition of a trap game for the Bulldogs with Westfield looming the following week? Believe it or not, Avon's defense last week looked much improved, and Mason Reynolds is improving every week. He has a D1 arm. Give him protection and he will pick you apart. HSE should have confidence but they have yet to play a good football team. Westfield has so far preformed up to expectations. If Zionsville wants to get back to the 5A title game they need to step up and show it. I just don't think Coach Sharp's Miller defense can make enough stops to allow for those 14-play drives his offense puts up.

The calm before the storm….

Cathedral wasn’t a choice. If they were they would be tier 1A at worst, and yes they will make CG sweat.