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MIC: Either 5-1 or 4-2 HCC: Somewhere between 7-1 & 4-4 I'm only betting against Snider on two games, I'm neutral on four others.

Depends on the year. We talking this year?

I'd never take a mediocre Warren Central team over an above average Snider team. But I bought into the pre-season hype, which is why I predicted a WC victory. WC was touted as having massive offensive and defensive lines with D1 talent and were expected to reload at the skill positions as usual. Couple that with a coach with a good track record and you have a team with high pre-season expectations. Things don't always pan out. Fair enough regarding the road games.

So if you had them beating Snider and Carroll, you must have saw something in them. Not only that, but they were your pre-season #8. You only had two teams on their schedule ranked ahead of them.........hence 7-2.

In all fairness, didn't you have Warren Central at 7-2 in the preseason?

That's an easy prediction Rodney, challenge yourself.

I can see both sides of the coin on this one............. Ben Davis fan: "We dominated you guys. You were only in the game because of two special teams touchdowns." Warren Central fan: "Are special teams not part of the game? If you're that much better than us, why couldn't you stop us from putting points on the board?"

I don't remember, but I'll take your word for it. I wouldn't last three days at a sports book.

It was on turf. New Haven is a good football team, they wouldn't have finished 8-1 with a victory over Leo if they weren't. It just wasn't their night.............and East Noble is better. Two wins over the course of three weeks confirms that. I know I wasn't the one who made the comment (or maybe I was, don't remember), but if someone asked me 24 hours ago if New Haven was capable of making a run to Lucas, my answer would have been yes. Personally, I've been a fan of East Noble since Week 2 when I saw them play Snider. I had the Knights slightly favored over New Haven. They'll be dead even next week against Leo in my opinion.

Disclosure: I was pulling for East Noble. New Haven had the ball in the red zone twice in the first quarter, including a 1st and goal from the 1. Had they taken advantage of those opportunities, I think this could have been a more competitive game. The wind was taken out of their sails after that second opportunity and it just snowballed from there. Either way, the better team won this football game for the second time in three weeks. I can't speak for New Haven as to why they couldn't score with the plethora of athletes that they have on the offensive side of the ball. But I can tell you that East Noble is VERY well coached. What's perplexing is that they scored 21 three weeks ago without Graham all four quarters. This time they had him for 2.5 quarters and scored nothing. Make no mistake though, they moved the ball in the first half, just couldn't get pay dirt. It was only 14-0 at halftime.

Ben Davis 31, Warren Central 28. Maybe a 5% threat?

Agree. The winner should jump into your Top 25. They'd both beat Warsaw in my opinion.

Penn had an off night. Sagarin has Cathedral by 15 over Penn.

No one in their right mind could have predicted what happened to New Haven tonight after the impressive season they had. Maybe now East Noble will be taken serious? I mean damn, I've been touting them since Week 2.

They beat Leo, the team you have making a state title run. Why is that an 'off the wall' comment?

The score is just perplexing. Luers almost beats Homestead. One would think the Spartans would mercy rule Busco.

So the SAC co-champion almost goes down to a 2-7 2A program?

East Noble 43, New Haven 0 final Dwenger 21, Wayne 10 final Yorktown 31, Concordia 14 final

Dwenger taking care of business up 21-10 over Wayne and driving inside the ten yard line. Small Dwenger crowd for a home game against a formidable opponent. East Noble 35, New Haven 0. Both James Hardy and Myles Graham go out in the 3rd quarter with injuries.

Correction: Three red zone opportunities.

Two failed redzone opportunities didn't help New Haven's cause, including a 1st and goal from the 1. There is some validity to the above statement, but this just isn't the Bulldog's night apparently. I'll toot my own horn as I've been saying all year that East Noble is the real deal. But then again, so is Leo. Should be an interesting Week 2.

No one in particular, just a wild guess. Someone in the southern bracket will surprise everyone by giving them a good game (14-21pt margin).

Over

Might as well use ping pong balls when deciding who to pick from Leo, East Noble, and New Haven out of that sectional. Wondering if Dwenger/Wayne winner is any threat at all.

Everyone knows Snider is good. Everyone knows Valpo is good. Merrillville is quietly sitting on the sidelines. The Bloomington schools are looking solid. It's a free for all if you ask me. I like Valpo's consistency in the end (not counting the Week 1 debacle).