I have been fortuneate enough to see both Riverdale and Oak Ridge play this year. Both are very fast, athletic, well coached, and straight up GOOD football teams. The one thing that seems to have come up a lot in this thread is the weakness of Riverdale's schedule. I have only seen the Warriors play a few of times this year, including last Friday night versus Cookeville - and if Riverdale fans are expecting an Oak Ridge team that is similar to, or worse than, Cookeville, you Riverdale fans will be in for a very unpleasant surprise. The only time I saw Oak Ridge play was against Dobyns-Bennett earlier in the year, and I can say that both Oak Ridge and Dobyns-Bennett would handily beat Cookeville as worse, or even more so, than the Warriors did Friday night. Both Oak Ridge and Dobyns-Bennett have better players and teams than what was on the sideline for Cookeville Friday night. This game will NOT be one-sided at all. This will be a great matchup - the winner of this game Friday night most likely wins the state championship.
