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Bloomington South 7 Bloomington North 7 (end of 1st) South had two drives impacted by penalties with the penalties at 4 for South to 0 for North. North managed to convert two 3rd and very long situations to keep drives going and their passing has been really crisp to keep drives going.

Bloomington South 7 Bloomington North 7 (5:29, 1st) North converted two 3rd and longs to keep a drive going to tie the game.

Bloomington South 7 Bloomington North 0 (9:25, 1st) South received the ball to start the game and was hit with back-to-back penalites on the first two plays and were forced to punt. The Panthers held North to a 3 and out and the Panthers went 50 yards in two plays to open the scoring with Gavin Adams going 38 yards on the ground to set up the TD.

My Oct 27th sectional picks for CI: Southport @ Indianapolis Tech - I made the comment when the Cardinals beat TH North that it was their first win of the season and probably their only win of the season. I didn't take into consideration that they were in the same sectional with Indy Tech which is who they drew. Southport appears to be the better team and should win this game over a winless Titan team by two TDs. Jeffersonville @ Columbus North - Jeffersonville (0-9) is probably the worst team in the HHC this season and weren't competitive in any of their losses until the last game of the regular season where they went 2 OTs before losing to Jennings County. The Bull Dogs are easily the better team here and could win this game by 4+ TDs at home. Whiteland @ Terre Haute North - Whiteland finished the regular season at 5-4 in what was probably the most competitive conference in the state this season in the Mid-State Conference. There was so much parity in the Mid-State Conference that it was difficult for anyone to predict outcomes from one week to the next. The Warriors could enter the 2nd half of this game with a running clock over a Patriot team that is headed for a winless season. Whiteland by 4+ TDs. Franklin @ Terre Haute South - Franklin is another one of those Mid-State Conference teams that is entering this game with a 5-4 record. However, the Grizzly Cubs seemed to regress some over the latter part of the season and were shut out by a good, but not great Decatur Central team, 36-0, and they went 2-3 over that period. TH South went 4-2 over the latter part of their schedule including a close 2-point loss at Col. North. This game will be close and I'm going with the home team by 7 points. Bloomington South @ Bloomington North - Both teams will be fired up for their crosstown rival, but the Panthers have a little extra incentive to reverse a loss to the Cougars in the fourth game of the season. In that game, the Panthers went through North's defense on their opening possession like a hot knife through butter to take a quick 7-0 lead, but then all of a sudden had all kinds of problems snapping the ball which would last for much of the rest of the game. Even with all of the snap problems, South took the game into overtime with the Cougars successfully rolling the dice on a two-point conversion to win it in the first OT. The Panthers didn't have any snap problems leading up to that game and haven't had any snap problems since that game. I see South winning this game by at least 7-10 points.

I posted earlier that 10 of North's 17 points scored in regulation came after snaps that went over the head of Alley, with one traveling 25+ yards pinning the Panthers against their goal line and requiring a punt out of the back of the end zone. South didn't have any snap problems leading up to that game and they have had none since that game. North deserved to win that game since mistakes are a big part of the game, but it left me with a bad taste that the better team didn't win. Overall, I think this may, and I repeat may be South's best team since the Rex Grossman-led Panther team that throttled Homestead in the 5A championship game quite a few years ago. However, they have to prove it on the field starting with the North game.

Odds of winning the 6A and 5A tournaments for CI teams according to Harrell's site. They have Bloom. South with the best odds of winning the 5A title at 27.39 percent with Mishawaka, Valparaiso, and Ft. Wayne Snider with the next best odds and their odds are bunched together closely between 13 and 14 percent. Col. North and Southport are given little to no chance to make it past the 6A sectionals. How they came about their analytic formulas on this I have no idea although they said it was based on ratings, draw, and home field. SECTIONAL 7 SECT REGN SEMI STATE Warren Central 62.77% 16.27% 2.82% .84% Perry Meridian 29.26% 4.73% .46% .08% Southport 6.90% .25% Indianapolis Tech 1.06% .02% SECTIONAL 8 SECT REGN SEMI STATE Center Grove 71.50% 62.25% 30.78% 20.73% Franklin Central 18.90% 12.87% 3.11% 1.22% Columbus North 9.48% 3.61% .30% .04% Jeffersonville .11% .01% SECTIONAL 14 SECT REGN SEMI STATE Whiteland 51.91% 21.07% 7.46% 2.73% Franklin 25.04% 9.13% 2.92% .95% Terre Haute South 22.61% 7.90% 2.43% .76% Terre Haute North .44% .02% SECTIONAL 15 SECT REGN SEMI STATE Bloomington South 61.47% 52.32% 39.27% 27.39% Bloomington North 21.63% 15.36% 8.60% 4.13% Seymour 14.70% 7.83% 2.86% .84% Columbus East 2.20% .67% .12% .02%

Pick'em results for Week 9: LC_Bears_04 (4-0) - 28-5 Frozen Tundra (4-0) - 28-5 ptr (3-1) - 28-5 Bulldog15 (4-0) - 26-7 MuleDriver (3-1) - 21-12 THPD262 (4-0) - 24-3 (Weeks 3 thru 9) I'm extending this through the first sectional games on Oct 27 and will discontinue the Pick'em after that. There are a couple of games that aren't that easy to pick. Opening round games on Oct 27 are as follows: Southport @ Indianapolis Tech Jeffersonville @ Columbus North Whiteland @ Terre Haute North Franklin @ Terre Haute South Bloomington South @ Bloomington North

@ptr still doing the pick em for the tourney?? Yes. I haven't put up week 9 results yet, but I'm going to extend it into the first games of the sectionals since all teams are involved and I think I will discontinue it after the initial sectional games. I think if I had it to do all over again, I would have added a couple of "wild card" games from neighboring conferences since there are only six teams in the CI. Having two of the worst teams in the state in the conference this season made for some easy lop-sided picks and there weren't too many games where picking a contest was somewhat of a challenge.

Conference Indiana final standings: CONFERENCE INDIANA CONFERENCE ALL GAMES W-L Pts OP W-L Pts OP Streak Bloomington North 5-0 192 113 9-0 338 170 Won 9 Bloomington South 4-1 239 53 8-1 417 95 Won 5 Columbus North 3-2 141 113 4-5 209 197 Won 1 Terre Haute South 2-3 130 108 4-5 244 226 Lost 1 Southport 1-4 70 177 1-8 123 344 Lost 2 Terre Haute North 0-5 19 227 0-9 72 403 Lost 9

Bloomington North 42 Southport 14 (final) North wins the CI title outright and finishes the regular season at 9-0 .

Columbus North 22 Terre Haute South 20 (final0

Owen Valley 53 Cloverdale 14 (final)

Eastern Greene 43 North Central (Farmersburg) 6 (final)

Columbus North 22 Terre Haute South 14 (5:14, 4th)

Edgewood 46 Brown County 6 (final) Edgewood notches their 2nd win of the season. Brown County's football program is really in the dumps right now and someone needs to take the bull by the horns there and try to straighten it out.

Bloomington North 28 Southport 7 (end of 3)

Columbus North 14 Terre Haute South 14 (end of 3)

Bloomington South 47 Seymour 0 (final) South kept Seymour's passing attack under control and had three picks in the game including a pick-6.

Their QB is ranked No.1 and I don't know if that is passing percentage or yardage or what. But South has kept them bottled up for most of the game. South has pulled most of their starters.

Columbus North 7 Terre Haute South 7 (half)

Bloomington South 47 Seymour 0 (under two minutes, 3rd) South's D scored on a pick-6.

Bloomington South 40 Seymour 0 (4:40. 3rd) South scored on a punt return. There's a running clock for the rest of the game.

Bloomington South 33 Seymour 0 (6:20, 3rd) South scored on a pass from Jarrin Alley to D'Andre Black. Two-point conversion try was no good.

Bloomington South 27 Seymour 0 (10:00, 3rd) After having a lackluster first half on offense (IMO), South looked sharp coming out of halftime and went on a long drive for a score.

Bloomington South 20 Seymour 0 (half) Despite the halftime score, South's offense didn't look sharp at all in the first half with the game being played almost entirely on Seymour's side of the field in the half. The defense was outstanding and kept Seymour's strong passing attack bottled up deep in Owls' territory. South will get the ball when the 2nd half starts.