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Agreed on the matchups with the Catholic League Blue, DuPage Valley, West Suburan Silver and Southwest Suburban Blue . The problem with the Catholic League Blue though is they're notorious for backing out of home and home deals when it's their turn to travel. Loyola Academy did it to Cincinnati St. Xavier this year. But, the Catholic League Blue and some of the Western/SW Suburban teams are very good for the same reasons Cathedral and HCC teams are good. It's tough to schedule them though as they start a week later and a lot of the teams just schedule OOC against teams from other Chicagoland conferences. I've often wondered how East St. Louis can be so good at HS football when the town itself is a disaster and looks like Gary with neighborhoods completely abandoned. But, I've noticed once their players hit colleget their hometown is typically listed as St. Louis. I think they even got into trouble recently with the amount of "recruits" they were bringing in from St. Louis.

I just hate the transitive property too much to consider it. Moeller just isn't clicking on all cylinders or they're struggling to find something that works. Maybe they found it against Center Grove or just found it for one game. Who knows. I would go: Ben Davis (giving them credit for the way they played against IMG) Center Grove Brownsburg HSE Fishers East Central Fort Wayne Snider Fort Wayne Carroll Biship Chatard Cathedral Notes: Crown Point looks really good. Top notch coaching staff. Good size. Multiple D1 recruits along with a D1 recruit at QB who is very mobile and can throw the ball around the field. I just don't trust them yet. They won't receive a true 6A level test until Regionals if they can get past Lafayette Jeff this year. Jeff shouldn't be much of a problem if the RB is out all year. The Mudscock game was phenomenal. I would love to see a rematch in Sectionals. Obviously it didn't work but I really liked Fishers' going for the 2 point conversion after HSE was clearly offsides on the XP attempt that was blocked. The workhorse Khobie Martin had been killing HSE running the ball and 2 yards seemed like a guarantee. Though there was nothing he could do. The big boy from HSE who smothered Martin in the backfield wasn't even blocked.

I haven't seen Michigan State or Wisconsin this year. I'm going to go back and watch the Wisconsin/Wazzu game. I'm surprised Fickel and co. were dominated by Washington State. I did watch the Nebraska / Colorado game. Jeff Sims either has a massive case of the yips or Rhule made a mistake in pulling him out of the portal. He was awful against Minnesota and even worse yesterday with 1 INT and 2 lost fumbles.

Brownsburg @Avon: Agreed. Potential for running clock in 2nd half HSE @ Fishers: I'm taking Fishers as well in a game that likely won't be decided until late in the 4th quarter The Mill @ Westfield: Agreed. Their D was non existant last week. Could be because Fishers has a dominating Offense, but I'll give Westfield enough credit to think they'll move the ball at ease as well. At least this year the Millers Offense is capable of abondoning the Power T and going spread when needed. But, Noblesville's game is to control the clock with the Power T and mix in the passing game. That doesn't work when the defense can't get stops. I'll take Westfield by 20. Zionsville @ FC: I was at Zionsville last week. Great game. Zionsville had a 3 point HT lead and extended the lead out to 13 until Westfield scored late in the 3rd quarter and then again in the 4th to take over. Zionsville is talented, tough, and will fight for 48 minutes. They were lucky to escape Pike and couldn't finish against Westfield. Franklin Central had Brownsburg on the ropes until Brownsburg delivered the knockout punch. You have to be able to close in the 4th quarter to be above .500 in the ultra competitive HCC. I'll take Jayson West and the home team getting the job done tonight. Another commendable Zionsville performance will end up falling short in a score similiar to your prediction.

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I vote for the 1987 4A State Title game between Hobart and Jasper. I’d like to see Don Howell on the sidelines and very likely the most dominating defensive performance in a state Championship.

Good call on Tracy. Sometimes it's just the simple things. Go back to what worked as opposed to what got stuffed at the LOS. Tiller lost his first game to Toledo and followed it up with a W against Notre Dame the following week. Let's hope for the same; however, I'm not very positive about this team coming out of Blacksburg with a W.

Good call. I think that really good Safety from New Pal is starting for them. I know nothing about Walters outside of he's young and was considered an up and coming defensive mind while at Illinois. What type of D does he prefer to run?

Urban, won't disagree. Saban though could have been a different script had he gotten what he wanted in Brees to the Dolphins.

My initial observations from Week 1: FSU hit a HR in the transfer portal and looks legit. They have a nice path laid out in front of them to make the playoff Penn State's new QB is pretty damn good USC has a problem with their D which isn't good because.... The Pac 12 is going out on a high note. A lot of good offenses in that league Oregon Bo Nix >>>>>>>>>>>> Auburn Bo Nix LSU did not look like LSU to me on Sunday night. No run game and weak CB play. Drake Maye reminds me of Brees at Purdue in that he can throw a pick or 2 and still have a very solid performance. The 'Heels should be Top 10 by the end of the year I love the Colorado turnaround but I think they're still overhyped TCU is not a Top 25 team. Lost wayyyyy too much from last years team. I think they lost 16 starters. Even the highlites of the Minnesota/Nebraska game were ugly. I'll gladly welcome the addition of USC, UCLA, Washington and Oregon to the BIg Ten.

This!!! No way he can keep that pace all year.

Agreed. And they're in a very good spot geography wise as they're right off of I-85 and a close drive away from Charlotte and Atlanta. Not to mention South Carolina has a history of pumping out NFL players that'll go to Clemson. Plus, the campus itself and Death Valley are appealing. As you temp said though, the ceiling isn't as high for Dabo when he doesn't have Elite coordinators or Watson, Higgins and Etienne.

Have to give him credit. That was one of the most impressive performances I've seen. I don't thik recent 2 way players like Woodson or Bailiey or Gamble ever put on a performance like that. His INT near the goal line was even an unbelievable play. Baited the QB to throw a quick route and somehow managed to make up ground and get the INT. Throw in 11 catches for 119 yards on offense.

What are your thoughts on rolling Card out on that play? Trying to run up middle again was atrocious. Pretty lacklaster performance by Harrell and the D, IMO. Agreed about Tedford. I had a feeling he would have a field day on the Purdue D. Credit to their QB for the throws he was making. He put on a great performance. @temptation Can't really disagree with your rankings after Week 1. Thought Illinois might be too high. It took a 4th down miracle play from their QB and WR for them to escape Toledo.

Agreed. Coach Prime would put a D on his jersey. At this rate it appears the NFL is in his future. I'm looking forward to watching him. Sounds like a bigger version of East Chicago's Kawaan Short who ended up having a pretty good NFL career.

Agreed on BD vs. CG. It's just conjecture at this point. I didn't think Penn looked 6A great against Valpo. Valpo's front 7 on D couldn't handle the the RPO and Penn burned them for some long runs. After the game I felt that Penn either looked like a dominate 5A team or just an above average 6A Team.

No shame in getting thumped by DeMatha, but Springfield lost to Trotwood-Madison on Friday night. Weird year so far in Ohio Division 1. Outside of the drives in garbage time, the only time I though Moe's offense looked good against East Central was when the Michigan RB had some running room. He's legit. I think he tore East Central apart last year. Kudos to East Central's streaming crew. Top notch.

Yeah, the announcers of the Purdue game commented all game long how athletic and mobile Card is, yet the Boilers tried running up the middle over and over on short yardage situations. I'm guessing IU would like to have Penix back as well. Back to Steele, I watched all of the UCLA offensie posessions. He definately looks like he belongs. Kid is still a beast. Congrats to him. Stories like his and Bradon Fiske (Michigan CIty) are positive reasons to support the transfer portal. I have not heard Fiske's name since he was an unheralded OL commit to Western Michigan years ago. He took advantage of the portal to get one year of playing DL for Florida State. He had 2 tackles against LSU and was int he DL rotation all game.

Really looking forward to this one. Fishers is one of the most impressive teams I've seen this year. They have great balance and play calling on O with the Khobie Martin power running between tackles and taking advantage of their speed at the WR position with sweeps and getting them involved in the short passing game.

2 nitpickings: Still disagree with you on the top spot. It's CG's to lose. Not taking anything away from East Central, but I think the ease at which they beat Big Moe signals the Crusaders are in trouble and not among Ohio's Elite this year. That diminishes Ben Davis' impressive win a little. Do you think Kokomo, Bloomington South and Reitz would beat Penn? Seems like you're now moving the Vikings down due to the MOV in the Cathedral/Penn game.

Where have you been hearing buzz about a system of relegation? Seems farfetched. Not sure how I think about it. Seems like it would suck as a Purdue fan and be great as an overrall fan of college football.

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Makes sense. I wasn't even thinking about Zionsville. 26 Sounds about right for the Eagles. They need to find a way to get Hilton involved at all times in the offense. He's ridiculously good. Had one play against Lebanon that made me chuckle. He was at leat 10 yards behind the secondary and had to slow down for what turned out to be a jump ball with a DB because the QB didn't have the arm to hit him in stride. Give him a QB like Cherry who has a Power 5 arm and that would be a scary combo.

Who do you have at #26? I'm guessing Warsaw.

No drastic disagreements from me. Just a little nit picking. I would swap Center Grove and Ben Davis. No disrespect to the Giants, but I’m giving CG the edge due to the arm of Cherry, how impressive they looked against a big and fast Oakland team, and Eric Moore. I would put Carroll and Penn above Crown Point. Crown Point is really good, but they also played about as weak of an OOC schedule they could put together. I’d give Carroll and Penn the bump for who they've played so far. Big one this Friday though as neighboring rivals Crown Point and Merrillville play. I like the Noblesville love at 14. Great opportunity on Friday to climb a step higher in the HCC pecking order. Franklin Central may be too low at 20. Where do you have the following teams: Evansville Memorial Decatur Central Plainfield