Thanks, always appreciate your honest, objective analysis.  5A Region 2 is not very strong, and will run through Lakeland, Osceola, and possibly Tampa Gaither.  But 5A as a whole is very solid, so should make for some interesting matchups come playoff time.

Didn’t Osceola snap Lakeland’s state record win streak?

Our HC most likely is fine with it from a scheduling standpoint as he always wants challenging games and in the previous district the past couple of years he has had to really work to find those.  Very similar to our district in the 2005 thru 2007 or so years.   Now he will only have to find 4 additional opponents as St. Cloud is a given as opposed to finding 7 others.  We feel most years we can compete with the best as is reflected in the stats put out by Laz.  Obviously, Lakeland will be the biggest hurdle in this 6 team district and I am sure Nulli feels the same way about us.

Ray, curious how you feel about Kowboys' new district -- Auburndale, Bartow, Lake Gibson, Sebring, AND Lakeland?

Takes a lot of data crunching to come up with this list and helps me validate reason for joining this forum to draw attention to the OHS Kowboy football program for the past 26 years being in the TOP 30.  Quite a feat while not in the elite class with the obvious top 10-15 teams.  KOWBOY PROUD!!