DarterBlue2

Thanks. Then the odds are that VB will host all the way to Orlando if they keep winning.

To be honest, I think DP gets bounced in round 1 if they play either Treasure Coast or Centennial. DP has fallen badly since winning the title last year. They sleepwalked through the Apopka game and really did not play as if they wanted to win.

Correct. VB will be home till at least the semifinals. I am not sure whether Region 1 or 2 hosts this year, but believe it's Region 2. So VB could be home till the State Title game in Orlando if they make it there.

This may be the biggest blessing in disguise for VB. For the first time in forever, VB has had solid district competition. This may actually benefit VB in the playoffs since they have had: Venice and Pahokee in addition to Centennial and Treasure Coast. In the most recent past, VB has coasted only to get bumped by solid playoff teams early.

Yes, but 52-60 from the prior year is not bad at all (Just under 90%). Outside of Brett Wilson 2011/12 and Blackmon from the 2001 team, I can't think of another Apopka kicker that topped that. A couple may have been about that, but I don't think any were better.

Okay, good!

I will do that. Were you Lakeland Gator on that board? I want to be sure he knows it's you.

Yes, I expect this to be a close game. I think Mainland wins, but would not be surprised is NSB took it. Mainland is a bit down by their standards and NSB is on the rise.

Although I have not seen your Tigers live yet, from the video and the results, Columbia has as good a chance of any 7A team in the North Bracket to make it to Orlando. STA is always a difficult team to beat, assuming they represent the South. However, although this STA team is very, very good, they don't strike me as one of their best teams over the past 20 years. So if Columbia makes Orlando, they would certainly have a legitimate chance to win the State Title.

Those rankings seem reasonably fair. I think Edgewater may be overrated, but I understand why you have them at 2. They are undefeated and till they lose you give them the benefit of the doubt. I think all of the first 10 teams on the list are fairly close and on any given night could probably beat each other. It is shocking to see DP not on the list. I am not saying they deserve to be for they don't, at least not at this stage. But to see a top 16 not include DP just shows how far the team has fallen in the space of a season. I saw their spring game and the Apopka game. From those two, I though they had plenty of talent. But especially in the Apopka game, their kids did not seem motivated. It was as if they kind of sleepwalked through it. Usually DP/APK is very intense and in a sense had replaced the APK/Edgewater game as a rivalry.

IT makes that win for Dillard seem a lot better. Most were probably writing Western off as one season team after the loss.

Seems Western did not fall much, if at all, from last year.

He is a good guy. We have met up at the State Title games twice since 2015. I have also taken in a Deerfield Beach/Atlantic playoff game and a Dillard/Hallandale game with him when I was visiting my sister in South Florida.

No, unfortunately he is not. I had a long talk with him but out of respect for his privacy, cannot disclose the details.

Jalen was not dressed and did not play.

Then I guess these programs get what they want. For me I would want my team to be as good as it can be, year in and year out. Don't get me wrong, if a kid is totally undisciplined and a distraction, I don't want him becoming a cancer to the program. But to pick your starters based on stuff like whose kid it is, or whether his daddy is a prominent booster club member, is straight up BS.

According to the Miami Herald, Miami Springs was the winner of the game against Westland Hialeah by 51-0. I could not find another source for the Lake Worth Boca Raton game, but I agree the score looks suspicious.

Sounds like poor gene pool then. Strange ...

I have always found this difficult to comprehend. I have been to the town a few times and it is the poster child for the type of rural program that usually (or at least in the past) fields a good, strong football team, if for no other reason that it's the only game in town and kids would not be distracted by "other activities." Today I could understand with the urban teams for reasons discussed in other threads on this board tend to dominate. But for an Okeechobee to have never had a consistently good program begs the question, is it coaching, lack of interest or just a "poor football gene pool" in the area?

Under this system, nothing is finalized till the final regular season games are played, as points standings keep changing based both on your performance and also the performance of the teams you have played. It is a crazy system. The only thing certain at this point is that VB will play at least its first playoff game at home!

That is a good position to be in. And if VB gets DP in the second round, you will almost certainly get to round 3, as DP is a shell of its recent self.

He probably meant if VB lost after rereading his post only that makes sense.

The Bloomingdale Bulls from Hillsborough County also kept its great season intact with a nice win over Tampa Bay Tech and remains undefeated!

In a nail biter that was very entertaining from a fan standpoint, Apopka defeated West Orange 27-21. It was far from a perfect game by Apopka, but the team did show something that had been missing from at least its last two outings: intensity! They wanted to win, and, I suppose, want to be playing in November. That is a good sign. All the points were scored in the first and fourth quarters. At the half the score was Apopka 21 West Orange 14, which had been the score at the end of the first. Apopka did fumble the ball away twice; but there were no interceptions this time. And while they were penalties, they were not as pervasive nor did they come at critical moments, for the most part, during the game. WO's wide receiver Harding is the real deal and I wish him well at Duke and beyond. The defense, despite giving up three scores, played as well (actually better) than I have seen it play in any other game this year and made critical stops when it mattered most, not least of which in WO's final drive when they turned the ball over on downs at the Apopka 22 with less than 40 seconds left in the game. Next is a week off which could not come at a better time as the team is banged up and depleted; then a critical district game against Wekiva. Apopka goes into the Wekiva game with its playoff destiny in its own hands. Win and they win the district and get home field advantage in the playoffs. Lose and they probably still make the playoffs, but as a wild card, as I suspect Wekiva would get the district championship as they would have fewer losses overall and an equally tough, if not tougher, schedule. For the second year in a row, WO is now in danger of not making the playoffs even though they will finish the district with no worse than a second place finish unless Evans shocks them.