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Looks like all of 5A is safe.  I guess Lakewood saved the day beating Largo, huh?

Bartow vs Lakewood Ranch - let's find out who is the worst team in West Central Florida

Ever notice that the IMG white team isn't that good?

Venice vs Palmetto! Huge Matchup with the district title on the line!

Which game(s) has you excited? South Florida (8 games) Carol City(8-0) @ Central(8-1) 6AD16 matchup to decide the district champion.  Central has won 8 of the past 10 meetings, including a 26-13 win last season. Coral Gables(5-3) @ Columbus(7-1) 8AD14 matchup that will decide the district champion.  Columbus has won 14 of the last 19 meetings, including a 21-7 win last season.   South Dade(7-1) @ Southridge(6-2) 8AD16 matchup.  South Dade has won 11 of the past 17 meetings, including a 14-7 win last season.   North Miami(5-3) @ Hialeah(7-1) 8AD13 matchup to decide the district champion.  N Miami has won 5 of the last 9 meetings, including a 19-6 win last season. Western(7-1) @ Miramar(4-3) 8AD12 matchup.  Miramar has won 8 of the last 9 meetings, including a 27-25 win last year.  Western won 7-6 the previous year. 4ACocoa(6-2) @ 1APahokee(5-4)  There is a history of interesting matchups between Brevard County and the Muck.  Cocoa won 45-0 last season at home. Barron Collier(7-1) @ Naples(7-1) 6AD12 matchup to decide the district champion.  "The Crosstown Showdown" rivalry game.  Naples has won the last 19 games, including a 16-15 win last season.   Charlotte(7-1) @ Port Charlotte(6-2) 6AD10 matchup. Charlotte has won the past 5 meetings.  The last 2 games have been decided by less than a TD.     Central Florida (7 games) Apopka(6-2) @ Wekiva(7-1) 8AD4 matchup.  These teams have met 11 times.  Wekiva has won only once...last year, 22-14.  George Jenkins(6-2) @ Osceola(7-1) 8AD7 matchup to decide the district champion.  Osceola has won the past 3 meetings in dominating fashion. Lakeland(9-0) @ Kathleen(5-3) 7AD7 matchup to decide the district champion.  Rivalry game.  Lakeland has won 23 of the past 25 games, including a 10-3 win last year.  Kathleen won 14-7 the previous year.  7 of those 14 games were decided by 7 points or less. Tampa Bay Tech(7-1) @ Plant City(8-1) 7AD9 matchup.  TBT has won 6 of the past 8 meetings, including a 62-21 win last season. Hardee(8-0) @ Desoto County(6-2) 5AD11 matchup.  These two have split their last 4 meetings.  Hardee won 34-0 last season.  Rivalry game (Walter F Buck Carlton Trophy) Clearwater Central Catholic(9-0) @ Cardinal Mooney(8-0) 3AR3 matchup.  CCC has won the last 8 meetings, including a 24-3 win last season. Venice(7-1) @ Palmetto(6-2) 7AD11 matchup.  Venice has won the past 6 meetings, including a 42-16 win last season.     North Florida (5 games) Buchholz(6-2) @ Bartram Trail(5-3) 7AD3 matchup.  Buchholz has won 3 of the last 5 meetings.  BT won last year 53-21. Lee(6-1) @ Fletcher(6-2) 7AD2 matchup. Lee has won the last 3 meetings, including a 20-6 win last season. Flagler Palm Coast(7-2) @ Mandardin(5-3) 8AD1 matchup.  FPC has won 4 of the past 7 meetings, including a 24-17 2OT win last season. 4ARaines(7-1) @ 7ALincoln(6-2) Raines won 49-24 at home last season. Gulf Breeze(7-1) @ Navarre(6-1) 6AD2 matchup that will decide the district champion.  Navarre has won 10 of the last 11 games, but the last 2 have been decided by one TD or less.  Gulf Breeze won in 2016.  Rivalry game(Public Peach Bowl Cup) Niceville(7-1) @ Crestview(6-2) 6AD3matchup and Okaloosa County rivalry game that will decide the district champion.  Crestview has won 3 of the last 5 games, including  a 35-18 win last season.  Niceville won 30 in a row prior to that.

Its rare to see a district champ with a losing record for sure.  Lakewood might finish with a better record,  more points, and not be in the playoffs. 

People post all kinds of BS on scorestream, and the freaking local papers post that crap.

Cardinal Gibbons 24 AHP 14. Surprised this one isn't being talked about 

...just some perspective.  Back in the 1970's, North Florida was a heck of a lot more rural than it was now, and the Panhandle schools gave the rest of the state all if could handle, regardless of class.  Even when playing schools in the same class, the difference in access to talent pools was huge and worked against the north FL schools.  For instance, one 4A final was Miami Carol City vs Choctawhatchee.  How did they do it?  ..by being mean and nasty. 
The vast majority of 5A schools today are in the vicinity of highly populated areas with access to a substantial talent pool.  Amongst the more "rural" 5A schools might be Wakulla.  Wakulla County has about 30,000 people.  For some around the South, 30,000 is a good-sized county.  Georgia has about 100 counties with less than 30,000 people.  And some of them routinely take on schools from the big city during the regular season.  5AWakulla with 1500 kids competing against current 7A Lincoln with 2100 kids....I don't see that being an insurmountable barrier to win.  Wakulla could likely beat many of the Miami teams in 7AR4 now.     
It's all relative.  Tift County in Georgia has about 40,000 people...about the size of Levy County in FL.  They have a school with 2100 kids.  They play in 7A with Atlanta schools that have over 3500 kids.  Coach Buddy Goins, who coached Miami Springs many years ago, had a team in the early 90's that went undefeated and gave eventual champion Southridge it's toughest game of the playoffs.  They had less than 30 kids.  Talk about nasty kids.    
At some point, the kids and coaches just need to buck up and get nasty if they want to win.  
  

Tell Pinko don’t gig Hardee too much they tried to hit his magic number but the Refs would not allow it!!!! When Refs practice their happy flag throwing teams can’t do their thing, mainly when they throw flags for blocks in the back that never happened or in areas there was no players around!!!!
 
Happy, Happy, Happy Flags

Columbiafan still has them in the top 25

We never seen this until kids were given all this technology; phones and tablets, think how many evil games are on these devices and causes how kids think.  Here’s a good example, GRAMD THEFT AUTO, one of the most evil games out there, as a player I steal cars, theft, even murder others. Every single human is born evil, we as parents must teach them with correction. Think about it every 1 year old does a lot of wrong doing we must correct them. Then whenever they are 5-10 we have to correct them even more. But if they are playing games like GRAMD Theft Auto, you as a parent, are saying it’s okay to steal, to hurt others, to murder because the game taught them this!!!! This is not an opinion but a fact this is and has happened. Many parents have failed big time and I’m not afraid to even say this, we are seeing it today in this world!!!

Really sad to see and hear. Really wish the games were kept under control better and the kids and coaches had enough sense just let things go. I coached for a long time and never had an issue like this. I understand you get heated, but for a game to end in a brawl is just unacceptable. Someone needs to be made an example of. If not, then expect these things to continue to happen. 15-17 year old kids getting into a fight in an organized HS sporting event is just embarassing for the school and the sport. 

Yes, Jesuit is Class 5A-Region 3. Most people believe Region 3 will be between them and Hardee. Both of them are undefeated.

Yes, Jesuit is Class 5A-Region 3. Most people believe Region 3 will be between them and Hardee. Both of them are undefeated.

Gotta love NoleBull. My rankings have STA at 13 and Bloomingdale at 15. Must be something wrong with him. I can explain my rankings until I’m chemo’d out but he does not get the concept of Retrodictive Rankings and Schedule Connectivity. It is Interesting though that Joe Pinkos also has Bloomingdale in the Top 20. So that tells me I’m in the ballpark thru this point in the season. Also, for what it’s worth, there are 228 in state games this week and Joe and I have the same selections for 214 of them. More importantly, I’m on the mend and ready for some football and ranking debates. 

Just talked to LAZ everyone... he will be getting back on track soon, so NoleBull, please chill out!

Any team went a season without allowing any points??

Immokalee, Dunbar, Lely, Clewiston, Mariner and Cypress Lake.  After week 1 four teams lost badly and 2 won big.  Bet most on this board can't guess which ones are which.

poor Clewiston.  I remember when they used to compete for state titles.

A proposal was presented about a month ago to do just that.  

Whoever said that should be banned for life 

That would be terrible. You could get better State of Florida rankings from some of the posters on this board. 

Hi Y'all,
I was on MaxPreps lately looking at the rankings of teams in my area, and I found something fishy. This has do to with a team in my area, Hardee and Orlando Bishop Moore. As you see, Bishop Moore is ranked ahead of Hardee in both the MaxPreps National Rankings and the MaxPreps State Rankings. Bishop Moore is ranked 1865 in the nation and 136 in the state. Hardee is ranked 1867 in the nation and 137 in the state. However, Hardee is ranked ahead of Bishop Moore in the MaxPreps Class 5A Rankings. Hardee is ranked 23 in 5A and Bishop Moore is ranked 24 in 5A. How can this be? Since Bishop Moore is ahead of Hardee in both the National and State Rankings, should they also be ranked ahead of Hardee in the Class 5A Rankings? This is all strange and confusing.
I would appreciate your input! Thanks.

Seems like they don't like Bishop Moore.  It's maxpreps they usually screw it up