Frozen Tundra

Here are the final scores for the other two games not mentioned. Greenwood 43, Jennings County 12 Castle 35, New Albany 17 Seymour is our only hope now, although they lost at Bloomington South 47-0 two weeks ago. Seymour is the only HHC team in the last two years to advance to a sectional championship.

I knew your dad coached high school football in Texas but I didn’t know you had an interest in Indiana high school football of all things, Dr. Sheldon Cooper.

I don’t trust Bloomington South in the postseason. In the last nine years, they’ve lost several games in the regional that they were favored to win. Castle upset them in 2015 and last year. New Albany upset them in 2021. Until I see something different, I can’t pick Bloomington South.

Still need week 11 picks from @Owls2005, @billybob, @Fkfootball, and @mamasa

I believe it’ll be Snider vs whoever wins sectional 13.

Neither Bloomington school will make it to Lucas Oil Stadium

Bloomington South wins by 10+. The game earlier this year was a classic. This one won’t be.

I hate not having faith in Floyd Central given the year they’ve had but once bitten, twice shy.

Jeffersonville (0-9) at Columbus North (4-5) Seymour (5-4) at Columbus East (3-6) Evansville North (6-3) at 5A #8/#9 Floyd Central (8-1) 5A #10/NR Castle (6-3) at New Albany (2-7) Jennings County (5-5) at Greenwood (5-5) 4A #2 Evansville Reitz (10-0) at BNL (7-3)

I definitely hope Adams Central wins it all because I don’t want to see Lutheran beat them three years in a row. However, I’m not feeling very confident it’ll happen. I hope I’m wrong but Lutheran just looks too good.

Bold statement

Split squad? I say split the school and have two Carmel directional schools. Heck, they’re already bigger than two of Indiana’s 11 Division 1 schools and they’re closing in on Butler.

I could but I don’t think I’d be as nice about it the second time around. It’s better for me to just keep quiet. 😂

I have quite a few connections to Jennings County. Would’ve been nice to see Buening build something there but I don’t think he had the support needed to do so. Luckily, he was able to find some success at Southridge.

I doubt it happens but here’s to hoping Jennings County advances to play East Central for the sectional championship. The Panthers have only played for a sectional championship one time and it was the fourth and final time they played East Central, a 35-0 shutout loss in 2000. The Trojans are 4-0 against the Panthers.

We could only hope…

Yikes. Just noticed I fat-fingered this one. Evansville Reitz is the #2 team in both 4A polls, not #1.

This week’s games (week 11 - sectional semifinals): Jeffersonville (0-9) at Columbus North (4-5) Seymour (5-4) at Columbus East (3-6) Evansville North (6-3) at 5A #8/#9 Floyd Central (8-1) 5A #10/NR Castle (6-3) at New Albany (2-7) Jennings County (5-5) at Greenwood (5-5) 4A #1 Evansville Reitz (10-0) at BNL (7-3) Notes: -Jeffersonville leads the all-time series against Columbus North 9-6 but the Bull Dogs have won the last 3. Of the postseason meetings, North leads the series 4-2. -This will be the seventh postseason meeting between Seymour and Columbus East. The Olympians have the advantage 4-2 and have won the last 3. -Floyd Central leads the all-time series with Evansville North 3-2. Every game in this series has come in the postseason. The Huskies will be looking for back-to-back wins. -Castle (who is ranked #10 in the media poll and not ranked in the coaches poll) leads the all-time series with New Albany 19-5 and will be looking to win their third straight against the Bulldogs. The Knights lead the postseason series 5-2 and have won the last 5. -This is the first ever meeting between Jennings County and Greenwood. -This will be the fifth meeting between Evansville Reitz and BNL and all of the games have come in the postseason. The Panthers lead the series 4-0 and have won every game by 14 points or more.

Whoops. Washington is a 4A school and would bump up to 5A if they got all of Clay’s students. However, that’s obviously highly unlikely. If Riley were to somehow get that many students, they would likely replace Fort Wayne North who has been shrinking lately. Of course, this is all contingent on whether the most recent trends hold or if some schools take on bigger growth/losses than expected.

With 5A being at 31 teams thanks to the last second move by the IHSAA of Fort Wayne Dwenger from 5A to 4A, it seems like East Central could be a simple addition. Just move McCutcheon and Harrison (WL) back to the north half and bring Anderson down to the south half to make it 16 and 16. However, South Bend Clay getting closed down after this year makes things interesting. Back in April, the school corporation up there was planning on letting the families decide whether they wanted to send their approximately 778 kids to Adams, Riley, or Washington. Not sure if that’s still the case. Whatever the case, Adams taking on 150-200 students bumps them up from 5A to 6A and likely brings down Fort Wayne Northrop, Warsaw, or Jeffersonville. Riley would likely need 500 or more of Clay’s students to bump up from 4A to 5A. Washington would only bump up from 3A to 4A even if they got all of Clay’s students. In other words, as easy as it seems it’ll be to predict how 5A is going to look, we still won’t have a good picture until the new enrollments come out in the spring.

A regional title means they’re gonna have to go through East Central (who likely gets bumped up to 5A after this year) and the Bloomington schools or East Central and Whiteland/Franklin.

Crazy stat for you guys. This is the first time in HHC history that every HHC team will be playing in the second week of the postseason.

HHC Pick ‘Em Standings (after week 10): @boilerfan87 41/44 @LC_Bears_04 40/44 @Uncle Bubba 39/44 @Frozen Tundra 37/44 @Impartial_Observer 36/44 @LawrenceGreene 36/44 @swcgillespie 36/44 @Fkfootball 35/37 @Bulldog15 27/31 @billybob 32/38 @Owls2005 35/42 @mamasa 27/40

Apparently this was the final score in case anyone was wondering