IFCA Poll Week 5

[Coach Nowlin]

6A

1 Warren Central (7) 3-1 97

2 Avon (2) 4-0 88

3 Carmel (1) 3-1 84

4 FW Snider 4-0 64

5 Lafayette Jeff 4-0 51

6 Fishers 4-0 44

7 Brownsburg 2-2 37

8 Westfield 4-0 35

9 Merrillville 4-0 17

10 Center Grove 1-3 12

Homestead 4-0 12

Others receiving votes: Warsaw (7) 3-1, Southport (1) 4-0

5a

New Palestine (9) 4-0 99

2 Indpls Cathedral (1) 3-1 91

3 Valparaiso 4-0 80

4 Concord 4-0 58

5 FW Dwenger 3-1 51

6 Elkhart Central 4-0 45

7 Mishawaka 3-1 41

8 Michigan City 2-2 32

9 Bloomington North 3-1 16

TH South 4-0 16

Others receiving votes: Decatur Central (8) 2-2, Harrison (4) 2-2, Castle (3) 3-1, Franklin (3) 4-0, Whiteland (2) 1-3

4A

1 New Prairie (5) 4-0 86

2 Mooresville (3) 4-0 82

3 East Central (1) 4-0 72

4 Evansville Memorial 4-0 67

5 East Noble 4-0 49

Marion 3-1 49

7 Delta 4-0 47

8 Plymouth 3-1 42

9 Mississinewa 3-1 21

10 Northwood 2-2 10

Others receiving votes: Leo (8) 4-0, Pendleton Hts. (7) 3-1, Evansville Central (6) 3-1, Columbia City (2) 4-0, Hobart (1) 2-2

3A

1 West Lafayette (6) 3-1 93

2 Indpls Chatard (3) 3-1 92

3 Gibson Southern 3-1 69

4 Indpls Brebeuf 3-1 57

5 Heritage Hills 4-0 54

6 Mishawaka Marian (1) 4-0 49

7 Guerin Catholic 3-1 46

8 Brownstown Central 4-0 42

9 Southridge 4-0 28

10 FW Concordia 2-2 11

Others receiving votes: Knox (5) 4-0, Jimtown (2) 2-2, Danville (1) 2-2

2A

1 Indpls Scecina (10) 4-0 100

2 Lewis Cass 4-0 78

3 Western Boone 3-1 74

4 Rensselaer Central 4-0 69

5 Evansville Mater Dei 3-1 64

6 Pioneer 3-1 47

7 Triton Central 3-1 36

8 Eastbrook 2-2 31

9 Heritage Christian 3-1 17

10 Linton-Stockton 3-1 14

Others receiving votes: Boone Grove (7) 4-0, Tipton (7) 3-1, Andrean (4) 2-2, Eastern [Greentown] (2) 4-0, Shenandoah (2) 2-2, Switzerland County (1) 4-0

1A

1 Indpls Lutheran (5) 3-0 91

South Adams (4) 4-0 91

3 Adams Central (1) 4-0 84

4 Southwood 4-0 64

5 Parke Heritage 4-0 54

6 Monroe Central 3-1 42

7 West Washington 4-0 38

8 North Vermillion 3-1 29

9 Churubusco 3-1 20

10 Sheridan 3-1 14

Others receiving votes: North Daviess (8) 4-0, Perry Central (6) 1-3, Attica (5) 3-1, North Miami (3) 2-2

2019 IFCA COACHES POLL Week 5.pdf

[DumfriesYMCA]

3A looks accurate. The 1 vote for #1 of Mish Marian is cute though. 

 

Sectional 28 and Sectional 32 are brutal....7 of the top 10 in those two alone  Whoever survives those two sectionals are definitely favorites to make it to LOS..but favorites or not they still have to play the game and win.  There are definitely teams outside of the 2 sectionals wanting to fight for that bone and will look to play spoiler 

Edited September 16, 2019 by DumfriesYMCA

[StinkTownClown]

Stinky, Stink, Stink 1.2.3.

Those Tigers beat Greensburg

who was Ranked 14 teen....(by IFCA last week)

but this week those Tigers don't even get a vote....

Let Stink be the first to say....This must be a joke!

Not saying they don't have the others right

cause those teams in the top 10 are doing it right......

but to beat a "ranked" team by 32 and no love

makes Stink think they need to have some 

Tiger BL's in order to get some votes????

 

[Titan32]

I am surprised Lawrenceburg isn't getting some love.

[Coach Nowlin]

shows the depth of 3a,   freaking LOADED class of Football 

[MarshallCounty]

Lawrenceburg is a good 3a team.  Also Milan is a good 1a team.

[TacklingFuel_10]

Interesting to see Western Boone at 3 and Rensselaer at 4 with Webo's one loss coming to a team RC beat by two touchdowns. There are gonna be some good matchups in the North for 2A football come playoff time!

[Patriot 74]

Curious why Evansville Mater Dei would drop four spots in the poll playing 4A #4 to a one score game???  But other ranked teams that lost last week maintained their position, or fell one line.  Just wonder what the reasoning was???

[MarshallCounty]

15 minutes ago, Patriot 74 said:

Curious why Evansville Mater Dei would drop four spots in the poll playing 4A #4 to a one score game???  But other ranked teams that lost last week maintained their position, or fell one line.  Just wonder what the reasoning was???

My guess is people don't pay attention.

[Patriot 74]

1 hour ago, MarshallCounty said:

My guess is people don't pay attention.

But the IFCA Poll is voted on by coaches, correct??  You'd think that coaches would pay attention.  I know in the end polls don't mean anything except for fans to have something to argue over, but it was odd to me.

[MarshallCounty]

25 minutes ago, Patriot 74 said:

But the IFCA Poll is voted on by coaches, correct??  You'd think that coaches would pay attention.  I know in the end polls don't mean anything except for fans to have something to argue over, but it was odd to me.

Coaches are coaches, teachers, fathers, husbands first. A lot of demands on them.  

[Coach Nowlin]

just could be that the coaches voting, in this case 2a, felt that other teams wins thus far were warranted recognition over a close loss?   

 

[WWFan]

3 hours ago, Patriot 74 said:

Curious why Evansville Mater Dei would drop four spots in the poll playing 4A #4 to a one score game???  But other ranked teams that lost last week maintained their position, or fell one line.  Just wonder what the reasoning was???

Even better is Perry Central getting votes at all especially after getting beat soundly by paoli. Do coaches sign up for this or is it something all coaches do?

[Guest]

Splitting hairs here, but Carmel receiving a first place vote is a bit mind-boggling to me.  I know they have yet to play Warren and both have the same records, bit wouldn't the result of common opponents (Trinity, Center Grove) be the common sense tiebreaker here?

Both beat Center Grove at home and Warren's margin of victory was larger.  Both lost to Trinity.  Carmel was blown out and Warren lost by 3.

Nonetheless, interesting to look at.

[Trojan88]

On ‎9‎/‎16‎/‎2019 at 10:51 AM, Coach Nowlin said:

shows the depth of 3a,   freaking LOADED class of Football 

It would be interesting to know if there is another sectional or two which compare to those in 3A: #s 28 and 32. I know there have been tough sectionals in the past where the #1 and #2 might be in the same, but am not sure I have seen the top heavy load of these two within one class. In some regards it makes the win that much sweeter when the challenge is that much greater (perceived). Lots of football to go and who knows how it will end up, but it sure is looking like a potential blood bath coming up. Every player should want and welcome that challenge!

[Coach Nowlin]

all I know is there was a LOUD rejoice up in Lake county when Sectional 25 was announced 

 

[DumfriesYMCA]

1 hour ago, Temptation said:

Splitting hairs here, but Carmel receiving a first place vote is a bit mind-boggling to me.  I know they have yet to play Warren and both have the same records, bit wouldn't the result of common opponents (Trinity, Center Grove) be the common sense tiebreaker here?

Both beat Center Grove at home and Warren's margin of victory was larger.  Both lost to Trinity.  Carmel was blown out and Warren lost by 3.

Nonetheless, interesting to look at.

Transitive property is always reliable 😉

[nmsu_aggie]

1 hour ago, DumfriesYMCA said:

Transitive property is always reliable 😉

...and legit?

[DumfriesYMCA]

49 minutes ago, nmsu_aggie said:

...and legit?

Of course!  Never wrong. If Team A beats team B by 10 and team C beats team B by 20 then team C ALWAYS beats Team A by 10+ 😉

[Guest]

14 hours ago, DumfriesYMCA said:

Transitive property is always reliable 😉

It’s not.  I get your point but what else is there to go on?  Don’t even tell me the “eye test” as those who compile these polls aren’t watching hours upon hours of other team’s film.  

Polls are subjective and margin of victory and strength of schedule matter, especially when there is no head to head battle to rely upon...at the college level too.

Warren has the edge in both of the above categories.

Thankfully we will see it settled on the field in the coming weeks.