Webb 28-21

Lil Sanders being treated like a 3am infomercial instead of prime time.

Joplin vs Lebanon!

Reminder: Semifinal Rotation this year is Districts 1/2 vs Districts 5/6 and Districts 3/4 vs Districts 7/8. Class 0.5 will be 1 vs 3 and 2 vs 4

Class 0.5: The best two teams are in the same district. But with only 4, it had to be that way unfortunately. Ironic Veer trashed this class last year and now the Blackhawks will go for the title. He's smiling big today.

Class 2: Pretty balanced throughout. Lamar has a CAKEWALK to semifinals in the weakest 2 district setup I've seen in a while. Like win every game by 50+ type deal. Districts 7 and 8 also would be "down" compared to some others. District 3 is very good and Fair Grove would likely await in the Quarters.

Class 3: BO vs Maryville round 2 in the semis? Seneca to the title game. L4L joins Class 3 and could make semifinals instantly. I hear good things about Dexter down south.

Class 4: Lutheran North easiest district ever, they vs Kearney in the semis. Hillsboro/Festus the other side favorites?

Class 5: Ritter gets shipped south. District 2 is a beast. District 7 is a beast. Districts 3 - 6 wide open

Class 6: Jackson vs CBC rematch. LSN vs Rock rematch? Rock vs Nixa rematch? Liberty North vs DeSmet semifinal?

Nm

Just throwing this together. Picking some games that I think have the potential to be really good games.
Rules are same as most of the pick ems.

Picks are due by Friday at 7PM unless one of the games starts before that.


1. Forsyth @ Marionville
2. Nixa @ Webb City
3. Lebanon @ Joplin
4. Monett @ Strafford
5. Warsaw @ Adrian (not exactly Southern but)
6. Diamond @ Pierce City
7. Camdenton @ Branson
8. Clever @ Cuba
9. Buffalo @ Skyline
10. Pleasant Hope @ Willow Springs
11. Liberty(Mtn View) @ West Platte
12. Lighthouse Christian @ Thayer
13. Highland(AR) @ Mountain Grove
14. Mountain Home(AR) @ Harrison(AR)
15. Fayetteville(AR) @ Broken Arrow(OK)
16. Logan-Rogersville @ Ava
17. Rolla @ Hillcrest
18. Mount Vernon @ Seneca

Added a couple of close out of state games that should be interesting.

With losses by Camdenton and Butler - outlaw Josey whales and anti-BS are out of the contest.

I know the AP doesn't put out any preseason rankings, as no one knows the classes before the day of the first games (that's still crazy to me btw), but I figured we could attempt something. We have a pretty good understanding of who will be in each class besides maybe the borderline teams.

Class 1:
Marionville
Adrian (if they are Class 1)
No clue otherwise. I do believe Portageville will move up.

Class 2:
1. Lamar
2 - 8. Valle Catholic, Fair Grove, Lafayette County, Adrian, Bowling Green, Father Tolton, South Shelby in some order I'm guessing

Class 3:
1. Blair Oaks
2. Seneca
Not too sure after this. Pius moves up, PHC lost almost entire skill group and good crew of linemen. Any insights?

Class 4
1. Kearney
2. Lutheran North
3. Smithville (just because)
4 - 10. Not sure...Hillsboro or Festus this season? Who else?

Class 5
1. Cardinal Ritter
2. A mess

Class 6
1. Liberty North
2. DeSmet
3. CBC
4. Lee's Summit North
5. Rockhurst
6 - 10. Nixa, Howell, Rock Bridge, a whole bunch of KC schools, a whole bunch of STL schools. Great quality top 15 or so.

Help me out here!

Can’t believe with 14 coaches on staff that they don’t have someone prepared that can kick the ball past the 40.

Giving the other team the ball at midfield every possession isn’t going to win you many games

Several awesome matchups this week:

Nixa @ Webb

Lebanon @ Joplin

Glendale @ Willard

Waynesville @ Republic

Ozark @ Carthage

Kickapoo @ Neosho

There is potentially 5 close games this week...I don't think there will be, but it is possible.

The spot of the ball with less than a minute left and the subsequent review verifying that call when the runner for NIU clearly had a first down shows an obvious fix was in on the game. Then they messed up the clock on the review allowing ND to keep its timeout to give them time for a chance to win the game.

Even with the gifts, they showed they aren’t worthy of the playoffs once again.
Where are you Lou Holtz????

16 games chosen for this week, 3 of them are not SW or South Central but were games that piqued my interest a little.


1. Aurora @ Monett
2. Mountain Grove @ Ava
3. Branson @ Bolivar
4. Clever @ Reeds Spring
5. Stockton @ Ash Grove
6. Willard @ Waynesville
7. McDonald County @ Mt Vernon
8. Thayer @ Liberty(Mtn View)
9. Diamond @ Southeast(Cherokee, KS)
10. Neosho @ Lebanon
11. Cassville @ East Newton
12. Willow Springs @ Cabool
13. Republic @ Ozark
14. Lafayette County @ Warsaw
15. Osage @ Blair Oaks
16. Kearney @ Smithville

Very ugly one so far and no peppers for fort.

After watching them against Lamar,,,then seeing their moms push them around yesterday it may be a long season

Lamar on the other hand is going to be tough to beat