23andCounting

Loss of Golden is certainly a factor.

Good grief Temp. This is gonna keep you busy. Looking forward to it and thanks for putting it together. What's my prize after I win?

Lol, Portage? Might as well rest the starters. But if you insist.

I'll roll with 30% chance.

Agree. If they don't make it, as much as I like Freeman, this would be a massive fail considering the amount of talent this team has. Let's be real here. They have national champion talent on this team. They never should have lost to Miami. I think the offense was mismanaged by not allowing CJ to throw the ball down field. Then of course the bobbled snap that resulted in a loss against A&M.

It tells me that Penn still has one of the best football cultures in the state.

I thought beating Snider 28-7 was a good showing for the Kingsman. Congrats.

I also see where Penn is rated #1 in the nation according to Max Preps. Didn't know this sport had that much depth. Pretty awesome though.

Fourth best odds of winning the championship, trailing only Ohio State, Alabama, and Indiana. Hard to fathom some calling this a bubble team.

Good grief. But...............that's pretty awesome. If I lived in a community like that, my feelings wouldn't be hurt if my taxes went up a bit to fund a stadium like that. Something tells me it had a lot of community support. Some areas of the country take football pretty seriously.

No thank you.

I don't know who that guy is, but if the Indy Star is anything like the FW Journal Gazette, then I can't imagine Temp has anything in common with him.

I like it. But there's only one way to do it. Sagarin. Or you have a committee of seven members representing each area of the state. NE, NW, SE, SW, EC, WC, and Central. The committee is probably the best way to do it. Sagarin would just promote a bunch of running up the score blowouts.

Good to hear. Much respect for Evansville football!

Is there a better way of determining home team? I haven't really put much thought into it. I know it starts with who has and has not had a home game yet. Then it's "who's the top" or "who's at the bottom" of the bracket. All things equal, I think they should look at the year prior. For instance if Snider and Elkhart are the hosts for Round 1 and both win, then Snider would be the host for Round 2 since they had to travel to Elkhart the year prior.

Congratulations to Penn on winning the flag football state title. It appears the blue bloods are back at it in the north with the semi-state game featuring Penn and Snider. Good stuff. Ring one up for the North.

Link for the bracket? Who took out Snider?

5'11", runners build, bald, wears glasses to read..............that's the image I have. I've said all along that Saban is a Top 20 coach. We just don't know if he's #1 or #20. I love the level playing field that NIL has created. Dabo's job is on the line because................God, family, football, money, ego........in that order.

It seems widely accepted the SEC played by their own set of rules, in turn, making them most dominant football conference and a stronghold on national titles. Henceforth (Rodney's favorite word), to win, you almost HAVE to cheat. I really don't care if Harbaugh cheated or not, because quite frankly, at least half the coaches in the NCAA probably cheat. Money, ego, sports, family, God..........normally in that order. So Harbaugh is no different than 50% of head coaches nationally. You, @temptation, think I'm here to beat you up on your Wolverines, when really I just genuinely want to know why the NCAA picked on Notre Dame by vacating 21 victories. Thought maybe someone would have an answer. I'll do my own research. What Notre Dame did seems petty compared to what other universities are doing, or in the players cases, not doing. My posts aren't an attack on Michigan, it's more about the attack on Notre Dame. That's not how I picture @temptation, lol.

I honestly don't care enough about the Michigan situation to follow it. So there was evidence of the Notre Dame players cheating, but no evidence of Michigan's alleged cheating? We can use a different example if you want. I just think vacating ND victories is total nonsense considering all the BS that goes on at other institutions. But hey, whatever it takes to put Ohio State ahead of Notre Dame in the all-time winningest program standings.

Sure, Michigan is up 25-17. That's fine and all, but what does that have to do with my question?

They've played 5 times over 5 decades. It wouldn't matter if Valpo was 4-1, Snider's still the better program. And we both know that if they played every year, Snider would have the winning record. But again, I really don't care. I have too much respect for the Region to continue this nonsense back and forth. Good luck to Merrillville and Crown Point. I'll be rooting for them both. I'm out.

Lol, love the pics. Still doesn't answer my question. USC? Let's pick another university, leaving Michigan out of it. Why only vacate ND's victories? One of country's only programs where players can actually articulate what they are saying in postgame interviews.

Rochester. The perfect mediator. Right in the middle. I agree, if it's NW vs NW, I'd say it's pretty even.............well, maybe. NE would get Adams Central, East Noble, Dekalb, and Norwell. At the end of the day, I'm going to have to roll with the SAC. There's not a team in the DAC or Northwest Indiana that has the resume that Snider, Bishop Luers, or Bishop Dwenger does. That's the tie breaker. Much respect to the Region. They have good football up there, it just gets overshadowed by the unlimited resources in Suburban Indy.

@temptation How does that answer my question of why the NCAA vacated Notre Dame victories but not other universities for "crimes" they committed?