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Viera is looking forward to this game. Last year's ending didn't sit well with the fan-base or the players. This game will be settled on the field not the press-box. 

STA always benefits from a very weak district and super weak Region. S. Fla. sucks in 7A, outside of STA and Dwyer. The result is that STA comes through the season and Regional Playoffs so rested that nobody has a realistic chance. Plant, Lakeland,  and Viera are battling in Region 2. Columbia and the Jax schools are murdering each other in Region 1. Region 3 was by far the toughest from top to bottom with Venice, B River, Plant City, Bloomingdale, Tech, Palmetto, and P Park. Also, Riverdale was 10-0, but wasn't quite up to snuff and not playoff tested, but still a good team on par with anyone in Region 4 except STA and Dwyer.
 
But in the end, your analysis is correct. The other regions will beat the crap out of each other to, in the end, be the worn out sacrificial lamb for a rested (and super recruited up) STA squad.

In 5A, I am hoping one of Jones or Rockledge from East Central Florida can upset the apple cart in the South and advance. Jones would bring a good crowd, as the Citrus Bowl (Camping World) is about 400 meters north of the school. 

Well it is again a situation the FHSAA has had a direct hand in creating a "It is what it is"! I say the FHSAA made this situation now they can live with it....................

Columbiafan is gonna do a top 100 in college this week so he can still rank FSU

Legion37 said: "Lakeland 10-0  and the only close game was   at Apopka  37-20"
No so fast my friend, Lakeland was only up on Manatee only 29-14 with a couple of minutes left in the game, and Castle decided rather than just eat the clock and go home to keep the starters in and go for it and scored on a long play to make the final 36-14 score. You can call the Apopka game your closest from purely a score standpoint, but lets at least be real about Lakeland . They did not blow everyone else out................because that's simply not the case.. Castle left the starters in and instead of just running out the clock with just a couple of minutes left in the game. Manatee had begun to substitute freely on defense because the game basically was over, but Castle went for 1st down on a 4th down play in Manatee territory with 3 minutes left in the game and then scored the last TD on a Bowman 43 yard run with just about 2 minutes left in the game, to close out the game then 36-14. Game was much closer then the final score indicated.

Below are some of the games so far this season in which teams got sweet revenge.  
North Florida
Orange Park 29 Clay 28   Prior to this game, Clay had won the past 8 meetings, including a 58-12 thrashing last season.  
Menendez 62 St Augustine 38    Prior to this game, Menendez was 0-17 versus the Yellow Jackets in the series.  Menendez lost its last 14 games to St Augustine by a combined score of 613-71.
Ponte Vedra 21 St Augustine 14   Ponte Vedra lost to St Augustine 41-0 last season and was 0-5 in the series coming into the game.  
Mosley 41 Fort Walton Beach 14  FWB has dominated this series the past decade, winning 5 of the 6 past games prior to this weekend.
Buchholz 27 Gainesville 7.  Gainesville had won 7 of the past 9 meetings in this rivalry game, including the last two games. 
Vernon 32 Blountstown 28 Over the past 3 seasons, Blountstown had beaten Vernon by a combined score of 124-19, including a 42-8 win last season.
Central Florida
Plant City 24 Tampa Bay Tech 21 TBT had won 6 of past 8 meetings, including blowouts last 2 seasons.
Bloomingdale 33 Tampa Bay Tech 24   TBT had won the last 3 meetings, including a 49-21 win last season.
Tampa Bay Tech 20 Armwood 12   TBT had not beaten Armwood since 2001 and had lost many games by 28+ points to the Hawks during that stretch.
Newsome 51 Sarasota Riverview 45.  Riverview had won the past two games by scores of 57-3 and 41-0.
George Jenkins 14 Ridge 7   Ridge has won the last 7 games, including the last 2 by a combined score of 84-16.
Lake Wales 20 Winter Haven 14.   Winter Haven had won 10 of the past 12 meetings in this rivalry game, including the last 8. 
Lake Wales 35 Sebring 20.  Sebring had won their last 3 meetings.  Lake Wales last won this matchup in 2009.  
Lecanto 35 Hudson 31  Lecanto lost to Hudson last year at home 42-0.
Crystal River 20 Dunnellon 13    Prior to this game, Crystal River had dropped 16 straight to the Tigers, with its last win coming in 2001. Crystal River had been outscored over the past two meetings by a combined score of 100-12.
Treasure Coast 34 Cocoa 29   Cocoa beat Treasure Coast 55-7 last year.
Viera 49 Cocoa 42   First time in school history the Hawks beat Cocoa.
Deland 10 Flagler Palm Coast 3. FPC had won their last 3 meetings.
Colonial 56 Boone 41 Boone had won their last 5 meetings.
 
South Florida
Golden Gate 37 Immokalee 8   Prior to this game, Immokalee had won the past 7 games, including 6 games by 21 or more points. 
Labelle 24 Clewiston 20   Clewiston had won each of their past 10 meetings.  The combined score of the past 3 games was 105-6 in favor of Clewiston. 
Santaluces 22 Boca Raton 17.  Santaluces had lost its last 3 games to the Bobcats by a combined score of 124-8.
Cardinal Gibbons 24 American Heritage Plantation 14   AHP had won the past 11 meetings.
Bishop Verot 5 American Heritage Delray 3.  AHD won 42-0 last season.
Seminole Ridge 21 Pahokee 20.  Pahokee had won the last 3 meetings.

Big win for Hawks! Come close every year to beating Cocoa, last year double OT at their place. Finally get over the hump !! Congratulations to the kids.

Great offensive game by both teams. Best DB on both teams was out injured, Cortez Reid for Hawks. Cocoa worst Defense they have had in 20 years. Soph. QB Norton starting to click for Viera.

Big win for Hawks! Come close every year to beating Cocoa, last year double OT at their place. Finally get over the hump !! Congratulations to the kids.

Big win for Hawks! Come close every year to beating Cocoa, last year double OT at their place. Finally get over the hump !! Congratulations to the kids.

That's like around five years. Have you played them every year over that time?

I don’t think they are bad though either.  Dematha went to Imhotep and beat them by much more than SJR did from Jersey. (team that was basically even with AHP)

I believe that JT Daniels was their starting QB in 2017 and he was a Junior. Did he go straight to college instead of becoming a Sr in 2018?

Came across this. Nova High in Broward went 0-10 in 1998 and scored a total of zero points!! That's crazy. 
Western 0-42
South Plantation 0-60
Hallandale 0-34
Ft Lauderdale 0-23
South Dade 0-60
Hollywood Hills 0-30
McArthur 0-39
Cooper City 0-28
South Broward 0-39
Flanagan 0-40

Unbelievable!  2 long pass plays and Bob Jones scores
BJ 39 Mainland 36

Over the past 10 seasons, Armwood has lost only 6 regular season games on the field.  4 of those losses came at the hands of Plant.  Hillsborough and American Heritage Delray each beat Armwood in 2012.  Last night, Tampa Bay Tech became only the third Hillsborough County team to beat Armwood since 2008 in the regular season or the playoffs.
Below are the results of recent games TBT has played against Armwood....all losses, and most of them not even close.  So, last night's win over Armwood was a huge occasion for the Titans.  
2017    35-12
2016    38-14
2015    25-20
2012     30-0
2011     40-11
2010     38-6
2009     9-6
2008     45-6
2007     26-0
2004     57-19

Valid points.   IMG was playing some kids on defense in the Columbia game and it is pretty obvious they were trying to get them reps.  I watched tapes and confirmed numbers.  The IMG guys getting owned on the edge were not their big names Nolan Smith and Trevon Riggins.  I saw one play where Smith blew by his Columbia blocker.  
Apparently IMG shut down Pine-Richland's offense and held them to 75 yards total offense.  I read that Smith terrorized the offense.  One of the "out of shape" guys we saw on IMGS's dline against Columbia was 6'4" 320-pound Deyavie Hammond, an offenive lineman from Lakeland.   They also played a kid named Hank Greathouse who is a senior and is not even rated.  There was yet another no-name fellow who got reps on the Dline, too  They also gave reps to a linebacker who is not one of their top 3. 
From a common sense perspective, it would not have made sense to play someone like Smith the whole half in a low-profile scrimmage and risk injury.  If I was a coach in a program that charges $50-75k per year tuition like IMG, I would make it a priority to get some of the lower profile players(especially seniors) some reps so that mom/dad would be pleased...recognizing that such opportunities might be limited during the regular season.  IMG has a roster of well over 100 players.  Think there is some pressure on the coaches to find playing time?

Once again, the IMG pre season and the regular season are like night and day. I see this every year with IMG. My take on it is that it's difficult to get an assorted group of super stars working as a team until it really matters. They know that recruiters will not be watching nor attending pre season games (glorified scrimmages) for the most part. From the 1st game of the season it's a whole different story. IMG players have one goal and their only goal and that is to be recruited into a D-1 program. The vast majority of Columbia players, just like all regular high schools, will not be recruited and will never play football again after their HS days. This I believe is what makes the difference with the IMG program and why the team can be complacent in pre season and lights out in the regular season.

IMG Academy extends streak to 38 with win over defending Pennsylvania state champion
Stingy Ascenders defense holds Pine-Richland to 75 yards of total offense.
 
So much for IMG's supposedly porous defense and lack of speed. Different team in the regular season as opposed to the scrimmage season.

Great comeback after last week's loss at home to Viera. Viera wasn't so lucky ,losing a tight one at Rockledge 26-21.

Final Vero 42 Venice 20

Vero Beach over Venice 42-20

I single Columbia out on a thread about Columbia if another team was beating this loudly I would do tbe same. I single you out because you are the North Florida version of the STA Fans... giving no credit to your opponents or that your opponents have accomplished anything.
Using Gainesville as a team that overlooks CHS is laughable, they play them in almost every sport every year. CHS is not a middle of nowhere team for a school like GHS. 
I dont hate you, I just want you to stop being such a homer and get outside of your CHS bubble. Rivalries are fun, CHS is a very good to almost great program that is very consistent. It is not state level elite. Many of us have been providing you proof on why CHS has failed to live up to expectations. You ignore. We remind you that games like IMG are preseason games and while you hype wins over Apopka, Raines, West Orange, those games still didnt lead to seasons beyond expectations.
I point out that you always have excuses when CHS loses (umps/refs, injuries, etc). That never seems true of the otherside though when CHS wins. In other words, you are homer. If there was another homer as big as you on this board, we would give them equal grief.
As you look forward to this season, it seems the QB situation has been resolved instead of the rotation that I saw last year. I still don't think QB is big enough for Power 5 offers and I think people consistently underestimate the skill and genetic level required for that level, but je still has another year. Do I think CHS will go undefeated? Probably not. But are they at least a regional finalist this year? Absolutely, but that is minimum expectation for a school like CHS.
Are they state champion level good, dont know, but I not claiming them state champions because of a glorified scrimmage. 

17 is about right. I can see a 31-14 type game. 
Vero doesn't have that much big game experience and they have to travel.