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I agree that it will be a defensive battle as both teams are extremely good on that side of the ball.  As usual the determining factor could be dropped balls, penalties and turnovers.  We will see what happens.

Vero Beach vs Osceola will be a low-scoring slugfest. Osceola has 3 senior defensive linemen, including John Walker, possibly the #1 defensive tackle in the nation. Vero is going to be extremely hard pressed to move the ball without Aronson back yet. But on the other side, Vero Beach held Melbourne to only 7 in a game many felt would be a shootout. I'm very interested to see what happens in that game. I think Vero Beach puts up a great fight, but Osceola takes the victory in the end. We will see what happens

Treasure Coast is extremely big and physical in the trenches which is how they manage to grind out yards plus eat up the clock.  My hats off to them as a truly deserving "Playoff" team.  In my humble opinion they would demolish two-thirds of the playoff participants regardless of class so let's stop taking pot shots at them.  

Yea these playoffs have been surprisingly alot better than I originally thought they would be at the beginning of the season. May be an outlier season but it looks like the FHSAA can say I told you so for now lol. I've been loving these games. Pine Forest lost. Edgewater pulled off the win. Been alot slugfest. 
Also with big win by IMG and Buford losing, Miami Central should be a few steps closer to getting that MNC as long as they win out, get a marquee matchup and win in the Geico Series and Mater Dei gets upset.

Yea these playoffs have been surprisingly alot better than I originally thought they would be at the beginning of the season. May be an outlier season but it looks like the FHSAA can say I told you so for now lol. I've been loving these games. Pine Forest lost. Edgewater pulled off the win. Been alot slugfest. 
Also with big win by IMG and Buford losing, Miami Central should be a few steps closer to getting that MNC as long as they win out, get a marquee matchup and win in the Geico Series and Mater Dei gets upset.

I tried to post a "Heads up" on the site, but was unable to log back on after the original post. Section 104 is the Wild, Wild West !  It was a very entertaining game with Northwesten giving Central all they could handle and more. Think they jumped out to a first quarter 21-0 lead. It was sloppy most of the time and the red flags were flying all over the place to the tune of a couple hundred yards. Central didn't look like a Top 3 team in the country last night, but hats off to Miami Northwestern for bringing it. Both teams can play and beat anybody when at their best.  

Any team who played on Monday had their game moved to Saturday by the FHSAA to lessen the impact of a short week

EL with big win over Plant
Tech almost comes back
Central and NW much closer than expected 
Lakewood over TC in a classic 42-41
Kowboys move on in close one
Columbia edges Escambia
Too many Saturday games? What gives?
 

Our region hasn't fed us any cupcakes and that's okay.  Just have to keep taking it one game at a time cause against good competition anything is possible on a Friday night.  Central did have a dogfight, though no one saw it coming IMG defeated SFA, I think I saw where Pine Forest lost, Plant game was a lopsided loss, West Orange got beat by a team they defeated easily just a couple weeks prior and the list goes on. 

Regional final 2022 Vero Beach vs Osceola
Should be a great game. The Kowboys and Indians both beat Treasure Coast by a score of 10-7, The last time Vero played Osceola in 2020 Vero won 34-7.Vero will have the home field advantage next Friday. Vero's only problem is we don't have a starting quarterback,but we haven't had one for the last 5 games.

ZZZZZZZZZZZZ'ss!!

When you, or anyone, bashes, critiques, or criticizes the officials or officiating of a High School Football Game on this message board, I am going to expect and demand answers to my questions, and that is how it is going to be. Do you understand, and have I made myself clear? 

Quaking in my Kowboy boots.

Yo maaahn, Section 104, ELE errebody luh errebody... 

As it stands right now, Central is the number 3 team in the nation. There is still a scenario where they could get to number 1, but they need a few things to go their way.
1. First and foremost: IMG must find a way to defeat SFA tomorrow. Easier said than done.
2. Miami Central needs to win all of their remaining games and secure the 2M state championship.
3. Mater Dei needs to either be upset by Los Alamitos (very unlikely,) or lose their rematch to Saint John Bosco in the second round. I don't know if there is anyone else in the CIF League that would be capable of defeating them.
Hope this scenario plays out. Go Rockets!

I made my own team ratings and generated win probabilities.  Who knows how accurate it will be, but it says.
Plant with a 58% chance to win
Apopka with a 72% chance to win
Osceola 52%
Tampa Bay Tech 72%
Dillard 92%
Columbia 66%
Miami Central 79%
Lakewood 57%
Cocoa 96%
 
Team rankings and a little tool to do matchups here
https://docs.google.com/spreadsheets/d/13YAcqPqUO_Rd0eorLrc7HArodAB0zosIsrKTyeOtz-I/
 

Thank you, Jambun.  
But "clearly a touchdown?"   We must have seen different clips.  

Well well well one thing about revenge it can taste so sweet, after Dillard beat Norland in the KOC I told everybody Norland is gonna be a problem this year & some folks laughed it out ; now look at them Vikings in the third round. 
 
after losing to Booker T in the first game by a few scores , mainly because of turnovers them Norland boys came out with a vengeance on defense tonight. This was one of the best defensive game plans I’ve seen this year. 
 
booker T couldn’t do ANYTHING on offense even when they were on Norlands goal line on TWO separate occasions. With that said both teams were solid , unfortunately in this time of year only 1 team can move on. 

Thru the first nine games QB George Roberts is TC's leading rusher although I don't know his injury status.  Nobody else that played QB has any passing yards thru those 9 posted games.   They may have shown some wildcat formations as they have two other capable runners but they don't possess homerun threats.  I only made the QB comparison because the difference is stark as Roberts has a combined total of 982 yds on the ground and thru the air.  His counterpart from Deland has over 2400 combined.  With our 3 senior DL they won't find success up the middle and will need to work the edges if they expect any movement on offense.  We don't need to score on most of our drives as I believe if we get 21 points it will be enough. 

I think the easiest way of saying this is that after each round, the highest remaining seed should play the lowest remaining seed at home. The other games would be set this way as well, the next higher seed plays the next lowest seed remaining. I’m talking within the regions. Then when they get out of regional play and into the semi finals, the FHSAA could reseed based on their rankings.

The reseeding is done after the regional finals are completed, using the end-of-regular season FHSAA Power Rankings.  The remaining 4 teams are seeded 1 vs. 4, 2 vs. 3 for the state semifinals.  Directly from the FHSAA Football Manual, and same procedure as last year.  
But there is no reason the regional semifinals could not be reseeded as well, if the desire was there.  The NFL essentially does the same thing after the first round of games, prior to the conference semifinals.

I hope you are right. WP has a very good QB to WR combination. It puts a lot of pressure on both our defensive front and secondary. 
The Edgewater vs Tech game should be a barn burner. Baxter has been out but got limited touches against First Coast. If he is healthy and gets his share of carries, that would certainly help. 

Treasure Coast will be a tough challenge again for Osceola and I am not big on predictions but here is why I don't agree with you picking them to win.  TC and Deland have potent rushing attacks, but Deland has a more dynamic QB if you go strictly by the numbers.  TJ Moore (1047 yds passing and 1151 rushing) as compared to George Roberts (227 yds passing and 754 rushing), acknowledging the TC schedule.  Total rushing yards 2706 for Deland vs 1982 for TC.  I do give TC the edge on defense.  The other reason is we have the vast majority of starters back that battled the flu and injuries the past couple of weeks that made our wins vs West Orange and Deland more difficult than they should have been.  Next, that was our opening game of the season and the QB situation as well as offense in general was not settled.  Lastly, we are home and playoff time that is big.   As always, time will tell.  Should be difficult task for your Rockledge team against Mainland without your starting QB.

His question is a good one. For that matter, each team's rank should be reevaluated after each playoff win. But like so many other things with this system, there are wide holes that need to be filled. I think there will further changes soon. If I am right, I hope they are for better and not worse.  

Both Apopka and Edgewater are in very tough games.