Temp’s Top 25 (After Week 4)

[Komets2727]

22 hours ago, 23andCounting said:

At least we agree on Warsaw.

The Dwenger/East Noble winner will go to state. Take it to the bank. 

Bad take my man. No way that is happening. Not sure either team wins that sectional to boot

[Rodney]

56 minutes ago, Komets2727 said:

Bad take my man. No way that is happening. Not sure either team wins that sectional to boot

who else do they have to contend with

[Flyingangel]

On 9/13/2025 at 9:08 AM, Rodney said:

Yeah after giving up 3 touchdowns to portage merrillville should definitely move up 🙄

I can see Merrillville running the rest of there schedule with ease. With maybe a small challenge from The wolves this week. Merrillville shouldn’t have another competitive game till regional/semistate depending on how city and valpo show up over next 3 weeks. 
 

we will have 5 NWI teams make semistate this year

[LC_Bears_04]

3 hours ago, Flyingangel said:

I can see Merrillville running the rest of there schedule with ease. With maybe a small challenge from The wolves this week. Merrillville shouldn’t have another competitive game till regional/semistate depending on how city and valpo show up over next 3 weeks. 
 

we will have 5 NWI teams make semistate this year

Let's see:  Crown Point, Merrillville, Andrean, and Knox makes 4, I have Hobart winning their sectional but losing to Mishawaka in the regional, and then a coin flip between North Judson and Carroll (Flora) in the regional.  So, over/under 4.5 teams from NWI in semistate?

[Komets2727]

18 hours ago, Rodney said:

who else do they have to contend with

 

18 hours ago, Rodney said:

who else do they have to contend with

Leo and Columbia City are both in that sectional. I would certainly put Leo with East Noble and Dwenger and Columbia City is usually good as well. Leo plays East Noble in the next couple weeks so that will give better gauge 

[23andCounting]

8 minutes ago, Komets2727 said:

 

Leo and Columbia City are both in that sectional. I would certainly put Leo with East Noble and Dwenger and Columbia City is usually good as well. Leo plays East Noble in the next couple weeks so that will give better gauge 

Huntington North 21, Columbia City 14

East Noble 38, Huntington North 0 

Columbia won't be a factor at all. 

Leo's a good football team. We'll see what they are made of Friday when they play East Noble. I'll roll with the Knights by two touchdowns. 

[Komets2727]

2 hours ago, 23andCounting said:

Huntington North 21, Columbia City 14

East Noble 38, Huntington North 0 

Columbia won't be a factor at all. 

Leo's a good football team. We'll see what they are made of Friday when they play East Noble. I'll roll with the Knights by two touchdowns. 

Transitive scores mean squat. DeKalb lost to Angola by 8 points, Angola lost to West Noble by 14 points and we can go on and on. Leo is a good football team that has generally beaten East Noble over the past few years. Usually really close, high scoring games. 

[23andCounting]

1 hour ago, Komets2727 said:

Transitive scores mean squat. DeKalb lost to Angola by 8 points, Angola lost to West Noble by 14 points and we can go on and on. Leo is a good football team that has generally beaten East Noble over the past few years. Usually really close, high scoring games. 

C'mon Komets, seriously? Everyone thought Columbia City was good last year til they got squashed by EN then drubbed 38-0 by Dwenger. I wish them well, I really do. But that sectional is a two, maybe three at best, team race. 

[Flyingangel]

6 hours ago, LC_Bears_04 said:

Let's see:  Crown Point, Merrillville, Andrean, and Knox makes 4, I have Hobart winning their sectional but losing to Mishawaka in the regional, and then a coin flip between North Judson and Carroll (Flora) in the regional.  So, over/under 4.5 teams from NWI in semistate?

Andrean is a cake walk to semistate as long as healthy 

Merrillville sound be at least at semistate. But there game this week will tell a lot. 
 

crown point as much as I’m not na fan probably will get there unless Penn shows up. 
 

Hobart is the only one I feel will walk into state as long as chatard in south. (Don’t remember)

 

north Judson can do it 

 

 

I have Knox falling before semistate. Just not a fan. 

[Komets2727]

2 hours ago, 23andCounting said:

C'mon Komets, seriously? Everyone thought Columbia City was good last year til they got squashed by EN then drubbed 38-0 by Dwenger. I wish them well, I really do. But that sectional is a two, maybe three at best, team race. 

Leo is legit. The biggest issue I have with what you said was the winner of Dwenger/East Noble was going to state. Don’t see it. Look, I support Fort Wayne area teams as much as you do, but I got to be real with what I see. This is a poor year for this area. It just is

[LC_Bears_04]

4 hours ago, Flyingangel said:

Andrean is a cake walk to semistate as long as healthy 

Merrillville sound be at least at semistate. But there game this week will tell a lot. 
 

crown point as much as I’m not na fan probably will get there unless Penn shows up. 
 

Hobart is the only one I feel will walk into state as long as chatard in south. (Don’t remember)

 

north Judson can do it 

 

 

I have Knox falling before semistate. Just not a fan. 

I think Merrillville has an easy road to semi-state.  Is this the year they finally make it to state?  I mean, they have to break through sometime, right?

[Boilernation]

1 hour ago, Komets2727 said:

Leo is legit. The biggest issue I have with what you said was the winner of Dwenger/East Noble was going to state. Don’t see it. Look, I support Fort Wayne area teams as much as you do, but I got to be real with what I see. This is a poor year for this area. It just is

Hobart is VERY good this year. Big, tough, and not reliant on running the ball. 4A north should be very entertaining with Hobart, Mishawaka, Leo, East Noble, etc. Maybe Lowell sneaks in with the new coach from New Prairie. We'll see how they fair soon against Andrean and Hobart. Possibly South Bend St. Joe as well. 

[Boilernation]

On 9/13/2025 at 7:03 AM, temptation said:

 

1. Brownsburg
2. Center Grove
3. New Palestine
4. Carmel 
5. Crown Point
6. Westfield 
7. Fishers
8. Lawrence North
9. Warren Central
10. Hamilton Southeastern
11. Avon
12. Lawrence Central
13. Indianapolis Cathedral
14. Bishop Chatard
15. Decatur Central
16. Lafayette Jefferson
17. Warsaw
18. Franklin Central
19. Heritage Hills
20. East Noble
21. Roncalli
22. Fort Wayne Dwenger
23. Penn
24. Merrillville 
25. East Central

1. C'mon Temp, ignore the records and get Crown Point out of the 5 spot. Somewhere around 10-15 is more accruate based on their complete lack of skill talent. 

2. Bring back the weekly HCC and MIC predictions.

Thanks!

[Bash Riprock]

7 hours ago, Boilernation said:

1. C'mon Temp, ignore the records and get Crown Point out of the 5 spot. Somewhere around 10-15 is more accruate based on their complete lack of skill talent. 

2. Bring back the weekly HCC and MIC predictions.

Thanks!

Agree....Temp, always a good read.

[BLACKGOLD2007]

On 9/13/2025 at 1:25 PM, LC_Bears_04 said:

My Top 25:

1.  Brownsburg

2.  Center Grove

3.  Carmel

4.  New Palestine

5.  Westfield

6.  Fishers

7.  Warren Central

8.  Crown Point

9.  Hamilton SE

10.  Avon

11.  Cathedral

12.  Chatard

13.  Lawrence North

14.  Heritage Hills

15.  Bloomington South

16.  Lawrence Central

17.  Decatur Central

18.  Franklin Central

19.  Merrillville

20.  Penn

21.  East Noble

22.  Warsaw

23.  East Central

24.  Ben Davis

25.  Roncalli

I know it is essentially win the games in front of you, but I would avoid moving Penn up much further. They will struggle to get out of sectionals. 

7 hours ago, LC_Bears_04 said:

I think Merrillville has an easy road to semi-state.  Is this the year they finally make it to state?  I mean, they have to break through sometime, right?

Like Merrillville does they will find a way to make it interesting. haha

[temptation]

7 hours ago, Boilernation said:

1. C'mon Temp, ignore the records and get Crown Point out of the 5 spot. Somewhere around 10-15 is more accruate based on their complete lack of skill talent. 

2. Bring back the weekly HCC and MIC predictions.

Thanks!

Thanks for the kind words and feedback.  

1.  As it relates to Crown Point, you may be right.  However, they can only play the teams in front of them and attempted to beef up their schedule with a trip to Indy's westside.  Pike, unfortunately did not hold up their end of the bargain.  If you view my rankings as more of a "resume" type of system as opposed to a "who would beat who" that would be my suggestion.  I think the top 3 in 6A (Brownsburg, Carmel, and CG) are heads and shoulders above the rest of the class, but that is merely by looking at box scores, heresay and margin of victory.  Carmel absolutely decimated Fishers and Westfield and would probably do the same to Crown Point.  They would not beat em by 50 though, which is why I have CP clustered with the aforementioned teams.  The teams around Crown Point have great resume building opportunities in front of them as it relates to the schedule so their resume could potentially leapfrog CP and knock the Bulldogs back a bit.

2.  I might get back to the predictions this week.  Time will tell.

Edited September 16, 2025 by temptation

[23andCounting]

12 hours ago, Komets2727 said:

Leo is legit. The biggest issue I have with what you said was the winner of Dwenger/East Noble was going to state. Don’t see it. Look, I support Fort Wayne area teams as much as you do, but I got to be real with what I see. This is a poor year for this area. It just is

East Noble, at minimum, is as good as they were last year. Dwenger is drastically improved. Winner goes to state. Keep the receipt.

[Coach Nowlin]

18 hours ago, Flyingangel said:

Andrean is a cake walk to semistate as long as healthy 

 

Why? 

[Rodney]

1 hour ago, Coach Nowlin said:

Why? 

Because the whole of northwest indiana is a free trip to semis at anything higher than 2a

 

Edited September 16, 2025 by Rodney

[RegionFBFan]

3 hours ago, Coach Nowlin said:

Why? 

There is no such thing as a cakewalk to semi state due to health. In all classes but especially lower classes, staying healthy is paramount because you don’t have the depth. Andrean has been playing without one of their top players all season except for first half of game 1 vs Merrillvile and it shows. Offense has been a challenge without him.

[Rodney]

crown point will have to gear up for an absolute war vs portage on their walk to the semi state while the mic and hcc teams roll into each other again

[23andCounting]

52 minutes ago, Rodney said:

crown point will have to gear up for an absolute war vs portage on their walk to the semi state while the mic and hcc teams roll into each other again

Then a fresh northern team takes three of their last four by beating a banged up Indy squad? Good grief. 

[Rodney]

2 minutes ago, 23andCounting said:

Then a fresh northern team takes three of their last four by beating a banged up Indy squad? Good grief. 

basically nailed it

though

most of the power comes out of the south

looking forward to Carmel reclaiming their throne of North gatekeepers

[23andCounting]

3 hours ago, Rodney said:

Because the whole of northwest indiana is a free trip to semis at anything higher than 2a

 

5A: Warsaw

4A: East Noble or Dwenger 

3A: NW Indiana

2A: Adams Central

1A: South Adams

[Rodney]

7 minutes ago, 23andCounting said:

Then a fresh northern team takes three of their last four by beating a banged up Indy squad? Good grief. 

also it would be 2/4 not 3/4

1 minute ago, 23andCounting said:

2A: Adams Central

1A: South Adams

I dont know who or where these people are

 

But I agree for the most part on 4a/5a representation