Can anyone beat Riverdale?

[jasper]

They have maybe the best defensive line and secondary in the state and they are coached extremely well. You cant argue with the 90% winning percentage by GR.

[rollredroll]

...and 1st stringers absolutely manhandle MBA and BA in scrimmages then theres no doubt in my mind at least that nobody in this state can handle them..... team speed....disciplined....great receivers...RB's secondary insane D line on and on theres no touching them i will be surprised if anyone beside DB gets within 2 TD's

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I'll be quick to pound the table that Riverdale is the best team in the state (DI and DII) right now, but let's clarify a couple of matters.

 

First, Riverdale beat Brentwood High, not BA, in its second scrimmage.

 

Secondly, the score between the 1's in the MBA scrimmage was 21-7 in favor of Riverdale, with an undermanned (due to injuries to multiple starters prior to the scrimmage) MBA team being stuffed on a fourth down goal line stand that would have cut it to one score in the 1's versus 1's scrimmage.

 

Don’t get me wrong - even with the Big Red fully healthy now, Riverdale is quite better than MBA - but I think the use of the word "manhandle" can be a little misleading, especially in the context of a first scrimmage (in 2003, CPA's 1's tied MBA's 1's in a scrimmage, two weeks after MBA's 1's beat Riverdale's 1's by a couple of TDs in a scrimmage - Riverdale then goes out and beats CPA by 40+ in Week 1 --> go figure). MBA has generally had the upper hand over Riverdale in prior years' scrimmages, yet even thought MBA is down somewhat this year, I think Riverdale's showing in the MBA scrimmage, as well as in its first few regular season games, leads me to believe that this Riverdale team truly is special. I do think that D-B will be a more-than-worthy contender, though.

[Tom142]

hs sportsfan,

 

I definitely agree with you. The only opponent that would give them a game would be DB. The only other POSSIBILITY would probably be Huntington or Oak Ridge on a good night and Riverdale on somewhat of a bad night.

[dafuture4all]

Riverdale can be beaten. Don't say they are the best team, because they haven't played anybody who is on the level of the best teams in the state. We'll see who is good and who can be beaten in the playoffs.

[rollredroll]

What is the sudden obsession with Huntingdon? No disrespect to Huntingdon - they have a long history and are in the top 6 or so in all-time wins in Tennessee - but they just won their FIRST state title last year, and that was in the second smallest classification in Division I. Granted, it was an impressive win, but Lipscomb's half-dozen or so turnovers didn't hurt.

 

This year may be a different animal - Riverdale is plain loaded and DII-AAA may be slightly down - but in most years, give me one of the top 2 or 3 Super 7 teams (which have owned I-5A and I-4A over the years since the split, including having had non-champs to give the 5A champs their only losses the past two years) long before a I-2A champion to play against the top 5A team.

[AintSkeerd59]

riverdale's quality of competition is not nearly the level it would need to be for me to ever say they are the best team in the state. last year the top three teams in DIIAAA (CBHS, BA, MBA) would have all beaten Riverdale. They are a good team and have a good chance of winning state. However I wouldn't proclaim them the best team in the state and I would never say they are unbeatable.

[rollredroll]

What is the sudden obsession with Huntingdon?  No disrespect to Huntingdon - they have a long history and are in the top 6 or so in all-time wins in Tennessee - but they just won their FIRST state title last year, and that was in the second smallest classification in Division I.  Granted, it was an impressive win, but Lipscomb's half-dozen or so turnovers didn't hurt.

 

This year may be a different animal - Riverdale is plain loaded and DII-AAA may be slightly down - but in most years, give me one of the top 2 or 3 Super 7 teams (which have owned I-5A and I-4A over the years since the split, including having had non-champs to give the 5A champs their only losses the past two years) long before a I-2A champion to play against the top 5A team.

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And given the fact that Huntingdon lost to a team tonight that was 2-2 going into the game, I'd say that lends even less credence to Huntingdon's chances of beating Riverdale.

[m.b.r.b.]

Last years Huntingdon team could have beat them.

[bud]

No

[gimme3]

well, im gonna have to say the Patriots have a chance, if Belichick is up to his old tricks, they might be able to win.

[rollredroll]

Last years Huntingdon team could have beat them.

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That may be the popular sentiment in Carroll County, but not the other 94 counties in the state. Plus, Riverdale was not the "best in state" barometer in 2003 that they are in 2004.

[biglon68]

Unless someone sneeks up on one of them, Dobyns-Bennett and Oak Ridge should meet in the third round of the playoffs. The winner of this game is the only seriously challenging game Riverdale will have. I predict the passing game of Dobyns-Bennett vs the Riverdale Defense will be the best matchup of the season in 5A. Roll Tribe Roll!