3 hours ago, ManOfMillions said:

 

If the Rebels score 28 points on the Tomcats I will die my hair purple and streak down main street of Troy. 

Tomcats, I'm begging you.  Please play the best defense you've played all year!

15 minutes ago, Tigersandcats said:

I believe your on point BPM. 

9 minutes ago, Pantherpride45 said:

Accurate as always 

I agree!

1 minute ago, TheCommissioner said:

 

congratulations Tomcats keep it going 

Thanks, and congrats to the Yellow Jackets.

Congratulations Tomcats!  Good game Chargers.

Praying for a clean injury free game and safe travels for all.  Good luck to both teams.

Go Tomcats!

Massey’s power ratings: Haywood #26, Covington #76. 
Massey’s prediction: Haywood 35, Covington 28.

Cal Preps’ power ratings: Haywood #24, Covington #76. 
Cal Preps’ prediction: Haywood 35, Covington 19.

With a few exceptions, the Tennessee High School Super 25 is pretty much in line with Massey and Cal Preps.

It looks as if most of the prognosticators are predicting Haywood by one to two touchdowns. I’ll take a one point win!

Go Tomcats!

1 minute ago, ReitzFan said:

If wanting all schools to play a region game in week 11 and to have region games on friday nights, how is scheduling half the classes to play on Thursday of week 11 going to accomplish that. Seems like they are contradicting themselves.

I thought that too!

https://tssaa.org/school-classifications-by-sport-2023-2025

This might be of some interest as far as region scheduling is concerned.

Schools will have until Monday, October 24, 2022 to notify the state office of their wish to move up in any of the above classification plans.

Once the deadline passes, the state office staff, with input from Board members, will set districts and regions and post them to the TSSAA website when complete. District and region alignments will be published no later than one week prior to the Board of Control's November 17, 2022 meeting. Any schools that disagrees with their placement can have their appeal heard by the Board of Control at that time.

To be able to guarantee schools Friday-night region contests and better manage the current shortage of officials in many areas of the state, the state office will be setting the region football schedules for 2023 and 2024. The completed region schedules will be posted to the TSSAA website on November 21 at 1 PM central time (2 PM eastern). Region games will be scheduled from Week 3 through Week 11 with a small number of Week 1 and 2 games possible for the largest regions or in areas where there are fewer officiating crews available. Every school will play a Week 11 region game. Week 11 games for Classes 1A/3A/5A/DII-A/DII-AAA will be scheduled for Thursday in 2023 and Friday in 2024. Week 11 games for Classes 2A/4A/6A/DII-AA will be scheduled for Friday in 2023 and Thursday in 2024. Schools will be able to schedule non-region games once the region schedules are published on November 21.

23 minutes ago, Rockytoptomcat said:

So after seeing the new classification I’m assuming region 7-4a will remain the same except we will lose Milan a, nd gain Dyer County. Is that what y’all see happening?

I think you're right, and I think North Side will be moved to 6-4A, so 7-4A should be Crockett Co., Dyer Co., Haywood, Obion Co. and South Gibson.  6-4A should be North Side, South Side, Chester Co. Lexington, and Hardin Co.  All of these schools will have 6 non-region games to schedule. 

19 minutes ago, CHARGERFAN said:

Also from the Commercial Appeal, did you see their Tennessee Super 25 list? Read the list. The top 15 are all from Middle or East Tennessee. You have to get to #16 to find a West Tennessee team. Munford is tied for 16 and Haywood is 20. 
 

Stacmot, do you honestly think that there are 20 teams in this state better than Haywood? I don’t believe it. I see a lot of bias in this list.

I will say no.  I don't believe all of those teams are better than Haywood.  That said, I'll take the fifth as far as any further explanation or discussion is concerned.  Lol

15 minutes ago, CHARGERFAN said:

Last week the Daily Memphian had Munford #1 and Covington #2 in their Power 15 ranking. I thought first of all that was unique to have two Tipton County teams ranked ahead of all those Memphis teams. Second, in this list, the Chargers were apparently not hurt by their season opening loss to Munford. Lausanne was third, and teams like Bartlett, MUS, etc. were farther down the list. 
 

This week’s Power 15 won’t be published until Thursday, but I’ll try to post that when it comes out.

Thanks Chargerfan.  I am interested in what the Daily Memphian will have to say about the Chargers and our game this Friday.

I see that Covington is ranked #7 in the Commercial Appeal's Memphis-area football rankings:

7. Covington (7-1): Jamarion Dowell, Skylan Smith and the Covington defense have been on point this season. No game is bigger than the one this week.  Last week: No. 7. This week: vs. Haywood.

It is a big game, and we can't have a let down after last week's win over SGC.  Stay focused Tomcats.  The Chargers are coming after you, and they've got revenge in their eyes! 

Go Tomcats!

2 minutes ago, fanoffootball2013 said:

If they work it out I hope Kirby make Haywood come back to Covington next year! We had to play in Haywood two years. 

I could live with that.

22 minutes ago, TryNotToSuck said:

Thank you for all of that, and I hope you copied and paste and not just typed all of that out. However, it's pretty simple to me. If Crockett County wins, then they're in. The unfortunate part for South Gibson is it appears they'll be on the road in the first round.

I don't see both the Rebels and the Indians winning this week. 

I did copy and paste...lol.  I predict the order of finish to be Haywood, Milan, South Gibson and Obion Central, but you never know what might happen.

6 minutes ago, CHARGERFAN said:

I preferred the projection where there were 7 “rural” teams in Region 7-3A. That would mean 6 region games for the Chargers, plus Munford and Brighton as in-county rivals. 
 

There would still be room for Haywood in that scenario. I strongly doubt that Kirby will schedule Dyer County again after they cancelled last year’s game when it stormed.

 

I prefer that projection as well.  I know there are a lot of things to consider, but you would think with 2 possible dates Haywood and Covington could work something out.

I saw these scenarios in the Milan Mirror-Exchange.

Region 7-4A

Haywood is the No. 1 seed.

If Haywood beats Obion County, South Gibson beats Crockett County and Milan beats North Side, Milan is No. 2, South Gibson is No. 3 and Obion County is No. 4.

If Haywood beats Obion County, Crockett County beats South Gibson and Milan beats North Side, Crockett County is No. 2, Milan is No. 3 and South Gibson is No. 4.

If Haywood beats Obion County, South Gibson beats Crockett County and North Side beats Milan, South Gibson is No. 2. There is a three-way tie for No. 3 between Crockett County, Milan and Obion County. The No. 2 tiebreaker is total number of wins, and with Week 11 included but not Week 10, Crockett County has six wins, Milan with five wins and Obion County four wins, so Week 10’s results would play a role.

If Haywood beats Obion County, Crockett County beats South Gibson and North Side beats Milan, Crockett County is No. 2, Milan is No. 3 and South Gibson is No. 4.

If Obion County beats Haywood, South Gibson beats Crockett County and Milan beats North Side, Milan is No. 2, South Gibson is No. 3 and Obion County is No. 4.

If Obion County beats Haywood, Crockett County beats South Gibson and Milan beats North Side, there is a three-way tie for second with Crockett County, Milan and Obion County. The No. 2 tiebreaker is total number of wins, and with Week 11 included but not Week 10, Crockett County has seven wins, Milan has six wins and Obion County has five wins, so Week 10’s results will play a role.

If Obion County beats Haywood, South Gibson beats Crockett County and North Side beats Milan, South Gibson is No. 2, Obion County is No. 3 and Crockett County is No. 4.

If Obion County beats Haywood, Crockett County beats South Gibson and North Side beats Milan, Obion County is No. 2, Crockett County is No. 3 and Milan is No. 4.

2 minutes ago, FOOTBALLROCKYTOP said:

In what scenario could that possibly happen? You already have 2 Shelby Co. teams in region 7 that could be moved to Region 8 (or is it just one). so I don’t see that happening to any others.  Please tell me I’m right? 

I agree, and I did say that I didn't think it would happen.  I don't remember where I saw it.  It might have come from another poster making projections on the T.

1 hour ago, Rockytoptomcat said:

Can’t agree more! Absolutely no reason why Haywood and Covington don’t play each other every year! From what I understand it was the previous coach that wanted to drop Haywood from their schedule. I applaud the current coach for playing us! We should play every year regardless of classification 

I agree.  I've made numerous posts throughout my 18 year tenure on Coach T stating that Haywood and Covington need to play each other every year.  With reclassification and region assignments, it looks like Haywood will probably have to schedule 6 non-region games next cycle, so we should have several dates open for a possible Haywood-Covington game..

I don't think that will be the case for Covington.  I don't believe they will have as many non-region games to schedule, and two of those will have to be against county rivals Munford and Brighton. Region schedules come into play as well. 

Scheduling is just not as easy as some people think it is.

I hope the Cats and Chargers can schedule each other, but it might not work out.  For what it's worth, let's keep clamoring for it though!

I don't remember where, but I saw a projection that Covington could be placed in Region 8 with the Shelby County teams.  I don't think that will happen.  But if it does, look for Ripley to be added as another must play to Covington's non-region schedule.

53 minutes ago, ManOfMillions said:

Good luck Covington, you are going to need it! 

What???  No good luck for us!  I thought Haywood was your favorite purple team. 

Good luck to your Hornets against Lausanne this week.

17 minutes ago, BIGPURPLEMACHINE said:

1 Haywood 8-0

2 Munford 8-0

3 Henry Co 6-2

4 McKenzie 8-0

5 USJ 7-1

6 Peabody 7-1 

7 Covington 8-1

8 Westview 6-2

T9 Union City 7-1

T9 Huntingdung 6-2

Outside Looking In- Riverside (7-1), South Gibson (5-3), Dresden (7-1), Hardin Co. (6-2), Crockett (6-2), JCS (6-1), Lake Co. (5-3), Lexington (5-3)

Sound off CoachT nation. What ya think??

It looks great to me.  Especially your #1....lol.  I know I haven't commented much, but thanks for doing this every week BPM.

6 minutes ago, CHARGERFAN said:

The Massey matchup tool shows the most likely score as

Haywood 35

Covington 28

I am a little surprised that Haywood is not favored by more. They have been blowing away the competition.

 

With the exception of the Munford game, the Chargers have been blowing away the competition as well.  It should be a good game.

1 minute ago, fanoffootball2013 said:

 

Yea it sucked last year when Haywood wouldn’t let Covington stream the game too. 

I did not know that.  I remember watching the game on the Covington Gridiron Association’s Facebook page, but I don’t remember if it was a live or delayed broadcast. If Haywood denied a live video stream, I feel like it was due to NFHS rules, or at least Haywood’s interpretation of those rules.

https://www.facebook.com/CovingtonGridironAssociation/videos/covington-vs-haywood/649357989569178

2 hours ago, CHARGERFAN said:

I know when Haywood comes to Covington for basketball, they bring a good crowd. It’s been a long time since Haywood has been to Covington for a football game, but I assume that Tomcat fans will make that drive.

Covington fans will be there in big numbers, I can guarantee that.

 

Thanks to Covington's no live video policy, any Tomcat fan who wants to see the game in real time will have to travel to Covington!  Are any tickets sold at the gate?

4 minutes ago, Rockytoptomcat said:

I thought our defense played a great game last night. Other than the few chunk plays the hornets had they couldn’t do much against us 

What was up with that defensive holding call when we got a big sack on the Hornet QB?  Maybe we were called for holding a potential receiver downfield.  I hated that play got taken away from us.

@CHARGERFAN I'm not so sure about that first statement.  Haywood needs to go up 19-17-2.

We have some weaknesses.  All teams do, but I'll let J.R. figure those out.  I haven't watched any film on Covington yet.