Tulsa metro rules OK 6A D1 again! All road winners last week.

Arkansas shift from NW corridor to Little Rock area continues (Bryant is gonna repeat).

Texas really starts firing up this week. Playoffs run almost until Christmas!

SE Polk is gonna win IA largest class!

ESL is flying (pun intended) to the IL 6A title!

Enjoy............

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I lived in STL for awhile but not there long enough to understand the school system. Why are the private schools so much more dominant than the public schools and how can so many stay afloat with such low enrollments? I’m assuming many of these athletes are on scholarships as well. We have private schools in KC as well but they are much more spread out between MO and KS and the public schools retain their talent for the most part.
I was always told in STL the two questions you get are “Have you been to a Cardinals game lately?” and “What high school did you go to?” Don’t know if that if that is somewhat true or not.

Just for fun...relax

Class 1
Duchesne
East Buch
Marionville
Monroe City

Class 2
Blair Oaks
Lafayette County
Mtn. View Liberty
Lamar

Class 3 (talk about bracket inequality)
Cardinal Ritter
Maryville
St. Charles West
Reeds Spring

Class 4 (talk about MORE bracket inequality)
St. Mary's (this could be a dandy, Hillsboro is very good, and I think Ritter is better than SM (Hillsboro played them tough)
Smithville
St. Dominic
Hannibal

Class 5 (and still MORE bracket inequality)
MICDS
Fort Osage
Francis Howell
Carthage

Class 6
CBC - game of the year
Lee's Summit North

Due to Princeton dropping to 8 Man Football next year Putnam County is looking for a varsity football game on September 22nd, 2023. We would prefer to have a home game but are willing to travel if needed. I know it's a long shot to find a game in the middle of conference play but if anyone has an opening and/or knows of a team that is looking for a game that week please have them contact Head Coach Adam Huse ahuse@putnamcountyr1.net or AD Jeremy Watt jwatt@putnamcountyr1.net.

Thank you

Is this the 1980s? Give him another extension!!!!

Don’t know much about Lebanon. I do know Gall has been banged up. I’m thinking a close game but Ctown coming out on top.

Long live RAW MEAT !

For bragging rights…
Submit your Missouri HS football bracket predictions per the links below. Will also post these to STLToday. Good luck!

MO Class 1 - https://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=476532

MO Class 2 - https://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=476534

MO Class 3 - https://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=476530

MO Class 4 - https://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=476535

MO Class 5 - https://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=476536

MO Class 6 - https://www.bracketmaker.com/tlist.cfm?tid=476531

If LeBlond were to stay 8 man next year, with Princeton dropping that moves Lexington down to class 1 I believe.
If Duchesne somehow gets enough points that they have to move up a class, that could make a second team drop, which based on current enrollments would be Lathrop.
Next after them.... Lafayette County. May God have mercy on all the Class 1 souls.
Then again... Summit Christian may continue to drop down with the success multiplier.

Princeton voted to go 8-man at their board meeting last night. Details still have to be worked out, but what I am hearing is that they will be playing 8-man next season and will play a full GRC schedule.

Mike Pence, when asked about calls the former VP made to the Pentagon, Joint Chiefs of Staff, the Justice Department and Capitol Police on Jan. 6: “Why wasn’t the president making these calls?”

Pence: “That’d be a good question for him.”

Mike Pence: “The president's words were reckless. It was clear he decided to be part of the problem.” Trump’s “words … endangered me and my family and everyone at the Capitol building."

It took this invertebrate 2 years to say this.
Why didn’t he say it at the impeachment hearings?

I don't know if it is for all the marbles or not, but it is a pretty big game. Rematch of 2 rivals. I thought Lebanon would win round 1 and was wrong. I am going back on the Yellow Jacket wagon for this one.

Lebanon 38 Camdenton 33

Waiting for the official time (fingers crossed for Saturday afternoon) BUT HOLY COW...............galaxy of talent on display right down the way from my house cannot wait!

Maybe McConnell will retire since thedems will still have the Senate and assuming the pubs take the House Pelosi will probably retire and maybe the pubs will have enough sense not to make the McCarthy Speaker.

2024-2028

Valle 7-0 @ end of 1st

will marionville host there semi game

ADVANCING TO ROUND FOUR CONGRATULATIONS:

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NOW on to Round 4 (8M district finals, C6 semifinals, C1-5 quarterfinals) for you eight advancers. Game dates and times TBD most likely over the weekend so look for games to post SUNDAY MORNING with a 7 PM FRIDAY deadline for entries. Those of you who did not advance and won a regular season prize I am ordering those this week so look for yours circa Thanksgiving.

All scores revert to zero and will now tabulate week to week with a single tiebreak.

This will be the final round I select games. Rounds 5-6 will comprise ALL Missouri games. CONGRATULATIONS again to you eight survivors and GOOD LUCK. FOUR advance out of this round to the aforementioned #5.

Like I suspect everyone else in these parts been really, really waiting for this one to come back around and here it is! THE rematch in the KC metro this week if not all of MO. Here are the distant, from the stands observations about this ultimate District title Friday night tilt:

FACTORS FAVORING SMITHVILLE:

1) This is what I call the "back side of the bell curve" year i.e. the final one before youth and inexperience set the program back for a year or two (all relative they will still be competitive). All the key contributors both sides of the ball are Seniors so there is the urgency factor in play here.
2) The defense. Yeah they don't have any real huge superstars this year (could make an argument for the Boyd kid though) but this, from watching replays and live games the past month, unit is really rounded into shape and will be very difficult to score on.
3) Experience. All these players were in Columbia last year and the huge key is the returning field general Hedgecorth. Expect the Warriors to play very disciplined and mature (HC Ambroson has alluded to this factor more than once in Courier post game wraps this fall).

FACTORS FAVORING KEARNEY:

1) Coaching. This is completely off the charts this year. Yours truly was aiming for a 8-3 type season where the KDogs were more competitive with Fort and Smithville who I knew brought plenty back from very deep runs last year. My year one read is this is a very no-nonsense focused staff and the HC is as analytical as any in the Metro area. NO way to know what to expect both sides of the ball but will be tons of fun to find out.
2) Athleticism. This team is beyond loaded with top notch ones as others have pointed out here all year plus they have their fair share of Senior talent and #14 is the best player on the field and who knows where/when he will pop up (again back to coaching). HUGE key will be overall D Back play. This has been an early game issue at times. One other factor to watch is whether Kearney goes on one of those "spurts" they have shown in recent games and can Smithville stop that momentum if it happens.
3) Home Field Advantage. Cold as it will be expect a major crowd which will be augmented by players/coaches etc. from surrounding towns not playing this Friday night. Will be the best atmosphere K has hosted since Hannibal 2016 and the players etc. should totally avoid anything resembling the occasional slow starts we've seen in these overmatched games of late.

I could go deep in the weeds here but no point. Overall it is very rare I really don't have a good read on a game like this but there are too many unpredictable factors plus the fact round 1 was very close (20-19 Kearney). One thing I will say, though, is I have seen many even ones like this break one way or the other early. Would not be one bit surprised to see this happen especially given the very cold conditions to come. Told one of my old HS buddies this is the kind of game I would crawl the six blocks to the Stadium from the house in a foot of snow to witness. FUN TIMES AWAIT.

Should we take up a collection for his Blue Check Mark fund?

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24-7 St Charles wins. Huge upset I would think.

How early can you log into mshsaa tv before game time?
For example my mother wants to watch it and I already paid for it but I’m not sure she can figure out how to sign in. I was wondering if I could log in for her about 1:00 Friday before the 7:00 pm game