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I would say West would bring someone in to be the HC/OC instead of hire within. They have not been able to score any points the last two years, and if Lane got the job, he would be best served to hire an OC from somewhere else.

District 3: Karns (5-0) 10-0 Oak Ridge (5-0) 9-0 Halls (4-1) 7-4 Powell (3-2) 8-3 Campbell Co. (2-2) 7-4 Anderson Co. (1-3) 8-4 Gibbs (1-4) 3-6 Clinton (0-4) 0-7 Central (0-5) 0-12 District 4: Bearden (3-0) 5-4 Maryville (2-1) 6-2 West (2-1) 8-3 Wm Blount (2-1) 8-3 Hardin Valley (2-1) 5-5 Farragut (1-2) 3-4 Heritage (0-3) 7-3 Lenoir City (0-3) 4-7

Couldn't agree more

West TN - 5 (Lausanne, Dresden, Trezevant, Memphis East, Whitehaven) East TN - 2 (Alcoa, Farragut) Middle TN -1 (BA) Congratulations to all the 2016 state champions! Now on to 2017, where 9 champions will be crowned...

Has the Owls' 2017 schedule come out yet?

Catholic being pulled is a bit surprising only because they didn't pull another team like Karns or OR to travel with them to district 4. Maryville's situation was either go south toward Chattanooga or north toward the Tri-Cities. Still traveling in either situation.

Should be a good game between two good teams. Honestly, RC, FHS, OHS, WV would be a sure bet to make the semis if in Region 1-2. All four teams are that deserving.

Thanks SS. I remember him playing for his dad. Just could not think of where he was before Clinton.

Remind me where Kerr came from?

Should be a good one in Evansville. I'll take the Eagles by a FG. One thing is certain, limited possessions for both teams!!

Sonny Moore Power Ratings

AC is staying in 4A

Rhea & Ooltewah Win: 1. Rhea 6-0 2. Ooltewah 5-1 3. McMinn 4-2 4. WV 3-3 Rhea & WV Win: 1. Rhea 6-0 2. Ooltewah 4-2 (7-3) 3. McMinn 4-2 (7-3) 4. WV 4-2 (7-3) * Tiebreaker determined by teams' playing opponents with 5 wins or more and then the number of wins over teams with 5 wins or more. McMinn & Ooltewah Win: 1. Ooltewah 5-1 (8-2) 2. McMinn 5-1 (8-2) 3. Rhea 5-1 (7-3) 4. WV 3-3 * Tiebreaker determined by overall record, then the head-to-head matchup with Ooltewah beating McMinn. McMinn & WV Win: 1. McMinn (5-1) 2. Rhea (5-1) 3. WV (4-2) 4. Ooltewah (4-2) *Tiebreakers determined by head-to-head matchups.

For the most part, the playoff seeding is already determined with a few exceptions where teams can move up/down a spot but not move significantly. As of today: 1. Maryville 6-0 (1st or 2nd) 2. HVA 5-1 (1st or 2nd) 3. Bradley 4-2 (locked at 3rd; own tiebreaker over SH & DB should they lose) 4. Science Hill 3-3 (4th or 5th) 5. D-B 3-3 (4th or 5th) 6. Jeff Co. 1-5 (6th with Win, could fall to 8th with Loss & WB win) 7. Bearden 1-5 (6th with Win, could fall to 8th with Loss & WB win) 8. Wm Blount 1-5 (7th with Win, 8th with Loss)

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Wasn't meaning to stir up any posters. I just find, as some others have stated, that SM is pretty accurate overall. It's all an algorithm based on many statistics and scenarios that arrive at the power rating for each team. That's why the poll gets better throughout the year as there is a larger sample data for which to calculate. No subjectivity or bias is involved in any way. And to help fans interpret the ratings, when comparing two teams based on their power rating, subtract the difference in the two ratings to determine the point spread between the two teams. The home team can calculate +2 points to their rating for playing at home. For example, teams 20 through 30 are only separated by a difference 2.3 overall (Farragut [20] at 131.92 to Father Ryan [30] at 129.66) which means that if any of these teams played each other it would basically be a pick 'em with the home team being a 1/2+ point favorite. Just food for thought and hope this helps. As we all know, polls are just for discussion anyway as it all gets settled on the field in the playoffs.

Sonny Moore Power Ratings

Will. Get. Ugly. 56-0 Pats

Yes, nasty injury. Very unfortunate for that kid, and my least favorite part of the game. Prayers go out to that young man, his family, and the Coalfield program.

TSSAA and the NFHS rules do not follow the same rules the NCAA adopted last year as far as suspensions go. The player/coach misses the following the game entirely no matter what half the ejection was given.

Another possible scenario for 6A 1 Science Hill Dobyns-Bennett Morristown West Jeff County Bearden Farragut Hardin Valley 2 Maryville Heritage Wm Blount McMinn Cleveland Bradley Central Ooltewah 3 Cookeville Warren Co Coffee Co Lebanan Wilson Central 4 Blackman Oakland Siegel Riverdale Smyrna Stewarts Creek 5 Hendersonville Mt. Juliet Station Camp Rossview Dickson Co. 6 Antioch Cane Ridge McGavock Lavergne Overton 7 Centennial Independence Franklin Brentwood Ravenwood 8 Collierville Arlington Germantown Houston Bartlett White Station Whitehaven Cordova Memphis Central Just speculation, and I'm not totally sure how they will divide up Middle TN. The thought behind this projection came from this: West TN = 9 teams (1 big region... no travel) Middle TN = 26 teams (5 small regions... debate on how they will be divided) East TN = 14 teams (2 regions... keeps team from plateau from crossing over time zone to fill a third region in the east, could also debate how they split Knox/Blount) (+) Least amount of travel except for maybe in the east, although Bradley Central travels twice as far already (+) No 4-team regions (-) Disparity in the size of the regions (-) Can't have it both ways, equal regions with no travel (--) Class 6A itself, this state is truly only big enough for 5 classifications in public school football.

They played already??

Just speculation at this point. I saw where it could be at most 52-53 per class if divided somewhat evenly. However, if the majority of schools offering "financial assistance" make the jump to DII, the cutoffs could be around 47-48 per class. Just depends on what the final number is when everyone decides whether they want to compete in DI or DII.

This should be interesting the route the TSSAA decides to go. Again, all this is speculation until Oct 14 when teams decide to go public/private. If the Memphis teams are grouped together in one big region, then that will leave 7 regions to be divided in middle/east. With so many more midstate teams in this projected 6A class, you would assume they would have more regions than the east. So for this example, with Memphis by itself as one region, you could have four in the midstate and three in the east. If they decide to split Memphis into two smaller regions, then the midstate could potentially have three large regions, and the east have two. As it plays out in the east, if there are three regions, I could see the regions play out with NET/Morristown as Region 1, Knoxville/Blount as Region 2, and Cleveland/Chattanooga as Region 3. If there are only two regions in the east, then the question becomes does Knoxville (Bearden, Farragut, Hardin Valley) or Blount Co. (Heritage, Maryville, Wm Blount) go north or south to be placed into Regions 1 and 2. The TSSAA may not group teams together that way, but rather have some combination based on geography. Back in the old 5A, Farragut, Heritage, and Wm Blount went south, while Bearden went north. So much will be thought over and discussed the next few weeks. It all depends on what they want to be the precedent for placing teams. In other re-classifications in the past, they have stressed that they don't want teams to have to travel, and other times they have said they don't want great disparity in the number of teams in each region. It will be fun to keep up with, and again we won't have any real speculation until we know who the actual 52 teams are.

Alontae Taylor (2018) has rushed for over 850 yards and 11 TD's for Coffee County. Averaging 215 yards per game. Good player on an otherwise bad team.