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How so? You think it should be higher? WC won first meeting by 35. LC coming off about as impressive of a loss as you can have losing to Carmel only 14-0.

**HYPOTHETICAL** point spreads for the best games this week. (Bringing this back as I saw that there are similar threads on Ohio’s hs football forum using imaginary point spreads) Not a ton of great games this week GOTW: Homestead at FW Carroll (-6.5) Penn (-15) at Elkhart Fishers at HSE (-17.5) Mishawaka at Concord (-4) Harrison WL at Zionsville (-7.5) Bloomington South at Castle (pk) New Prairie (-2) at Culver East Central at Mooresville (-4.5) Mishawaka Marian (-11) at Tippecanoe Valley Warren Central (-24) at Lawrence Central

In 5a I see Snider or Zionsville getting there over Valpo. Leaning towards Snider right now which I would have never thought before this season. 4a Roncalli will win it all 3a I’ve got Brebeuf. Gibson Southern can definitely get it done though. 3a should have the best title game in my opinion

Missed opportunity for Harrison and Eastbrook to play each other, would have been a good game. Hammond Central is terrible, Harrison will win by 50+.

Merrillville has proven to be arguably be the premier northern 5a/6a team of the state within the past 3-5 years, Valpo is probably next in line. That being said, last year was probably one of the best teams they’ve ever fielded and that ended in a semi-state loss (nothing to be ashamed of at all). But anyone more than a casual fan knows they are probably somewhere in the 10-15 range of best 6a teams this year. They lost some really good talent from last year. That being said, they’ve earned the right to be ranked in 6a so far. They should win their sectional fairly easy over Jeff again. Regional will be tough against Chesterton, (maybe Elkhart, but i doubt they best Chesterton) and they could very well earn another semi state birth.

Harrison (WL) 15 Kankakee Valley 0 2Q West Lafayette 20 Western 7 1Q 3:34 Lafayette Jeff 41 McCutcheon 7 1Q Westfield 14 Zionsville 7 2Q 4:28 Ben Davis 21 Pike 7 2Q 9:40 Fishers 8 Noblesville 6 HALF Brownsburg 7 Franklin Central 7 2Q Cathedral 16 Penn 0 1Q HSE 33 Avon 0 2Q 5:22 (wow)

CG 45-14 Warren 52-21 BD 49-16 LN 38-21

GOTW: Carmel at Center Grove (-17.5) Fishers (-5) at Noblesville FW Luers at Homestead (-6.5) Roncalli (-9.5) at Chatard Westfield (-19) at Zionsville Avon at HSE (-4) Chesterton at Michigan City (-3) Decatur Central at Whiteland (pk) Lawrence Central at Lawrence North (-18) North Central at Warren Central (-24)

Sorry if you were one of the posters who disagreed with the creation of this post last week. But the show will go on. GOTW Cathedral (-22) at Brownsburg Chatard at Warren Central (-15.5) Roncalli (-28) at Franklin Central New Pal at Brebeuf (-3) Warsaw (-4.5) at Michigan City Westfield (-32) at Harrison (West Lafayette) Avon at Ben Davis (-6.5) FW Carroll at FW Snider (pk) Columbus North at Columbus East (-5) Decatur Central at Center Grove (-29.5) Detroit King (Mich) at Carmel (-11) Elkhart at Mishawaka (pk) Fishers (-3.5) at Pike HSE (-5.5) at North Central Adams Central at Eastside (-4) FW Concordia at Homestead (-13) FW North at FW Dwenger (-14.5)

Merrillville over Westfield? Come on. By a significant margin too. I would still rank Westfield over Brownsburg as well.

Will update the final results tomorrow morning. A better and more interesting week 1 than anticipated

Wow, Gibson Southern, Brebeuf and West Lafayette all with very impressive wins tonight. 3a is looking like the most intriguing class early on. 6a also looking strong with Carmel’s big W along with Westfield playing Cathedral extremely tough

Hopefully this isn’t frowned upon but I thought it would be fun to create point spreads for some of the noteworthy games each week of the season and see what people think. It can seem too easy to pick winners in hs football in Indiana but with a point spread it’s a whole different story. I am attempting to cover all the “big” games I can but it’s certainly easy to miss a few with the large amount to deal with. This was not created to have people guess every single game (if you want to, go for it), but rather to garner discussion for games that perhaps had no other thread to be discussed in. Reply with as little or as much as you’d like. If you feel you know 1 game much better than the others let us know what you think will happen. Keep in mind I am creating these lines myself. If you believe I misjudged it badly please let me know and give your reasoning. I am creating these as I see fit, I have one favorite team who is not even included this week, no favoritism is used. This is being made to create discussion, nothing more nothing less, no hard feelings intended. Please take this lightly. I love this site and cannot wait for games to kickoff tomorrow night. GOTW: Cathedral (-14.5) at Westfield Ben Davis at Brownsburg (pk) Carmel at Louisville Trinity (-18) Center Grove (-27) at Warren Central Lafayette Jeff (-11.5) at West Lafayette Lawrence North at Avon (-5.5) Mishawaka at Mishawaka Marian (-3.5) New Palestine at Decatur Central (-5) Noblesville at Mount Vernon (-6.5) North Central (-14.5) at Fishers Penn (-3) at Valparaiso Pike at Zionsville (-15.5) Sheridan at Western Boone (-12.5) Lawrence Central at HSE (-19) LCC at Tri-West (-8.5) Homestead (-16.5) at FW Northrop FW Snider (-12) at FW North FW Dwenger (-20.5) at Fort Wayne Wayne Evansville Central (-17) at Evansville Mater Dei Columbus East at Whiteland (pk) Jesuit Brebeuf at Bishop Chatard (-29.5) Andrean at Merrillville (-9.5)

CG 41 WC 14 BD 31 Brownsburg 24 Trinity 45 Carmel 21 HSE 27 LC 6 Avon 35 LN 26 NC 28 Fishers 21 Zionsville 38 Pike 24

Because schools with 1600 students have a much better chance of beating a school with 2100 students than a school of 2100 students does at beating a school of 3000-5200 students. Thought that was obvious

Anyone else find it it strange all the people against DT’s proposition are fans of schools like BD, CG, Cathedral and Carmel? These people act like schools like Chesterton and Lafayette Jeff are on the same playing field as Ben Davis. How hard headed and stubborn do you need to be to deny the huge population disadvantages these schools have? This is strictly about giving these 8 programs a more fair shot at a deep tourney run. That’s all. The IHSAA can’t stop the big 4 from putting the best teams on the field and passing the trophy back and forth, but they can at least do their best to balance it as best they see fit. The bullcrap response about participation trophies from Grover is so lame. Talk about being narrow-minded. We get it dude, CG can win it all with 2500 students. They are an outlier. Outliers exist. Do you get off by having schools that have good football programs that could compete with the best in 5a stuck at the bottom of 6a? Or do you just really like the number 32 for some reason? Really weird

No one is sleeping on them. They are clearly the consensus favorite. Good try

As much as I dislike how dominant the MIC is in football… i don’t want to see any of the top dogs like CG and Carmel move to the HCC. If that happens there is no longer the argument that the MIC is one of the best football conferences in the Midwest, as well as the fact that the conference will be significantly less strong. Becomes a 2 man race between Warren and Ben Davis for the foreseeable future.

Good list DT… I’m looking forward most to how Elkhart does this season. They really surprised me with how well they played against Merrillville in regionals last year. For a year 1 program they looked fantastic

I got your point just fine, that was just too stupid to ignore. Go off though FootballKing

Who the hell thinks Michigan is better than Wisconsin? Wiscy has owned them as of late. Wiscy 5-2 in last 7 meetings. And they consistently have a better record. You’re stupid.

Think Cathedral still has to be the favorite. Really hope Snider lives up the hype next season, Indiana high school football is better when they are a contender. Don’t think Valpo will be a title threat. Zionsville should be a contender again, can’t speak for Dwenger. Don’t know what New Pal is returning but will be interested to see how they do, we will find out week 1 vs Decatur Central. Coach Ralph is undoubtedly a top 3 coach, sure a lot of people have him as the best (I do).

They were “asked to leave” or just straight up booted, can’t remember which. Jeff would be pretty competitive if they rejoined, Harrison is probably a little bit better than Noblesville and Franklin Central. Can’t ever see it happening though sadly

Simply stupid would have been more appropriate. This isn’t bleacher report little guy

Oh man you got me good. So funny.