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Lafayette Jeff 63 Richmond 0 2Q 3:49 One of these schools needs to leave the NCC. I’ll let you decide who.

What is going on with Harrison? I know Mcc is supposed to be improving, but they should be up much more than 7

Brownsburg 48-6 HSE 30-27 Zionsville 36-14 Westfield 30-10

Carmel 45-14 CG 31-17 Warren 34-20 LN 28-10

Yeah could have been nicer, just tough to show respect to people who either A. Can’t remove their bias when judging how good teams are outside of their area, or B. Just ignore how dominant Indy powerhouses like Westfield have been over non-Indy schools in the postseason. I really doubt anyone on here with half a brain outside of Fort Wayne would pick Carroll to beat Westfield this year.

Incredibly ignorant to have Westfield a tier below Penn and Carroll. Your bias is showing sir.

A 14-0 win over Logansport shows they’re far away from being a top 25 team in the entire state

Co-GOTW : Center Grove at Louisville Trinity(-3) Co-GOTW : Chatard at Roncalli(-6) Ben Davis(-9) at Pike Brownsburg(-18.5) at Franklin Central Centerville at Park Tudor(-8.5) Crown Point at Merillville(-5) Detroit Cass Tech(pk) at Carmel(pk) Eastbrook(-12) at Oak Hill Evansville Mater Dei(-7.5) at Vincennes Lincoln Fort Wayne Concordia at Fort Wayne Snider(-24) Fort Wayne North at Fort Wayne Carroll(-13) HSE(-23) at Avon Heritage Christian at Guerin Catholic(-15.5) Homestead(-17) at Fort Wayne Luers Cathedral(-19) at Penn Kokomo(-15) at Logansport Lawrence North at Lawrence Central(-5.5) Michigan city at Chesterton(-15) Mooresville(-13.5) at Plainfield Noblesville at Fishers(-10) Warren Central(-32) at North Central Whiteland(pk) at Decatur Central(pk) Zionsville at Westfield(-8)

HSE 36-10 Brownsburg 35-14 Fishers 27-16 Westfield 20-13

LC 28-14 Warren 45-7 BD 38-28 Trinity 33-24 Carmel 28-26

Reitz Roncalli Linton-Stockton Westfield Merrillville Brown County Decatur Central Springs Valley Homestead Mishawaka Marian

Lafayette Jeff 51 Michigan City 33 Final Jeff 429 rushing yards

Lafayette Jeff 22 Michigan City 7 1Q Harrison 16 Plainfield 7 Half West Lafayette 27 McCutcheon 3 3Q Guerin Catholic 33 LCC 3 3Q Eastside 21 Adams Central 17 4Q HSE 24 North Central 0 Half Westfield 21 LC 14 Half Pike 17 Fishers 14 3Q Ben Davis 30 Avon 13 3Q Penn 17 Portage 0 Half

Mooresville Adams Central Carroll Roncalli Cathedral Owen Valley LaVille Crown Point Reitz Brebeuf

How New Pal isn’t receiving all first place votes and apparently received enough 3rd or lower votes to be ranked below Roncalli is head-scratching.

Really? BD kept it real close with Brownsburg. Avon came back late to make it close with LN, who I imagine is a few steps below BD. And BD won by 24 last year in the regular season

Rensselaer Seeger Twin Lakes Tipton West Lafayette Western Boone Cass Eastern Hamilton Heights CC Tri-County Sheridan

Back for another week, tons of great games all around the state. Drop your predictions or let me know if you think any of my spreads are way off. GOTW: Cathedral(-8) at Brownsburg Ben Davis(-23) at Avon Brebeuf(-14) at Tri-West Carmel at Center Grove(-10.5) Castle(pk) at Evansville Mater Dei(pk) Chesterton at Warsaw(-6) Columbus East at Columbus North(-9.5) Crown Point(-3) at Andrean Decatur Central at New Pal(-14.5) Detroit King (MI)(-15) at Warren Central Eastside(pk) at Adams Central(pk) FW Dwenger(-8.5) at FW North FW Luers(-11) at FW Wayne FW Snider at FW Carroll(-5.5) Franklin Central at Roncalli(-7) Guerin Catholic at LCC(-4.5) Lafayette Jeff(-8) at Michigan City Lawrence Central at Westfield(-5) Lawrence North(-2) at Whiteland Lebanon at Zionsville(-20) Merrillville(-25) at Hobart North Central at HSE(-32) Northridge at Elkhart(-10) Penn(-15.5) at Portage Pike at Fishers(-8) Plainfield at Harrison WL(-4) Speedway(-7) at Indy Scecina West Lafayette(-34) at McCutcheon

38-10 BD 35-20 Cathedral 28-21 Roncalli 20-17 Westfield 45-14 Zionsville 35-28 Noblesville 49-7 HSE 21-16 Fishers

IMO Mooresville is too high.. I would still take Indy teams like LC, Zionsville, Pike, Chatard, Roncalli to beat them. Otherwise I think the list is great. Would also probably have schools like Merrillville and LC above Decatur Central but I think those would be closer games.

I think Cathedral is as good as advertised. I will give Jeff some credit, they competed better than I thought they would, just clearly overmatched. Cathedral’s offense is pretty loaded.

That's fair. I don't think anyone is doubting Warren can win, we'll see if 11 was too much tonight. I try to keep the spreads interesting. What would you create the spread at? Just curious

Too many points or not enough? I originally had it at -8 for CG and bumped it up a little

Been going back and forth on who I think wins this game. I know both lost a lot of key pieces form last year, truthfully I think WL ends up winning due to a longer-running culture of success. I set the line at -2 for Harrison because the raiders seem to be the more popular choice in pick 'ems

I did this last year for most weeks and it seemed to generate some good discussion so I've decided to bring it back for this season. I know some people frowned upon the idea of creating fake point spreads for high school games, but I truly don't see the harm in it and think it gets people excited about games. For those who aren't familiar with spreads, I will provide an example: Indiana at Purdue(-10). This is saying that Purdue would be favored by 10 points. It could also be written as Indiana(+10) at Purdue. If Purdue were to win by more than 10 points, they would "cover". If Indiana loses by less than 10 or wins outright, they would cover. If Purdue wins by exactly 10, it would be called a "push". "PK" is slang for "pick 'em, meaning there is no point spread and the teams are considered to have an equal chance of winning. Feel free to let me know what you think about some of these spreads or drop your picks for some of the games. It's week 1 so bear with me, a lot of these teams I do not have much info on besides how they did last season. There are tons of great games this week so some are going to get left out. This is just for fun, any input is appreciated. Co-GOTW: Westfield(-4.5) at New Pal Co-GOTW: Warren Central at Center Grove(-11) Andrean at Merrillville(-9.5) Avon at Lawrence North(-2) Brownsburg(-4) at Ben Davis Fort Wayne Carroll(-6.5) at Fort Wayne Luers Evansville Memorial(pk) at Jasper(pk) Fishers(-9) at North Central Fort Wayne North at Fort Wayne Snider(-8) HSE(-7) at Lawrence Central Harrison WL(-2) at West Lafayette Cathedral(-38) at Lafayette Jeff Chatard(-13.5) at Brebeuf Jesuit Louisville Trinity at Carmel(-4.5) Mount Vernon at Noblesville(-8.5) Valpo(-4) at Penn Zionsville(-8.5) at Pike Columbus North at Decatur Central(-19) Elkhart(-11.5) at Concord Hobart at Chesterton(-7.5) Kokomo(pk) at Leo(pk) Michigan City(-18) at Warsaw Speedway(-2.5) at Covenant Christian Whiteland(-14) at Columbus East