Anyone have any all conference team selections

This is my dream playoffs for MS.

Round 1 - Find a way to beat The Brook and stay healthy. (Meeting Bones a plus)

Round 2- Pretty please don’t make us go to Belleville!! I’ll take the undefeated team any day.

Quarters- Beating GBS once a year is great. Twice in a year amazing!! Or the Hitters @ beautiful Duchon Field

Semifinals- After Beast dispatches Warren, they are so beat up that we are on equal ground with them.

Championship- Hollywood of course!!

The chances of this happening are probably not great, but I can dream.
Anyone else have a dream?

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Lots of really strong names here and make sure to check out my work over at Marquee Network as well today!

Lincoln-Way Central looking for new coach.
Let the speculations begin

I think the ACTs are the same day again so no game time changes, LMAO

Well that escalated quickly, I mean it really got out of control……How did we blow through 9 weeks like that.

1 - That we thought we knew how the NLCC would end up and we are wrong.
2 - That Maine S and LWE win the “we’re gonna try and screw up everyone’s bracket award- just kidding.”
3 - That Morris, well something happened there.
4 - That the hook and ladder is one of the great plays in football - Iggy thinks so, Fenwick not so much.
5 - That I hadn’t seen a Friday week 9 like this in a long time and it was glorious
6 - That Montini needs to go back to the Coach A days.
7 - That Mt Carmel wins the battle and likely won’t be tested again.
8 - That something just didn’t feel right about 75F football this past weekend.
9 - That all but one 2021 champion didn’t make the 2022 field and only 2 runners up missed.
10 - That there are no guarantees once the playoffs start.

Best of luck to the 256 teams that get to keep playing.

Through week 7 (for playoff eligible schools)

Offensive points scored

Reed-Custer 418
SHG 386
Peoria 380
Mt. Carmel (downstate) 376
Lena-Winslow 376
Princeton 375

Defensive points allowed

Kankakee 22
Eureka 31
Reed-Custer 32
Decatur St. Teresa 33
Virden (North Mac) 36
Glenbard East 36
Camp Point Central 36

Looks like there will be a couple great round two matchups and huge quarterfinal matchups! IC is the favorite but I wouldn’t count out Princeton and I really wouldn’t count out reed custer!!

Friday: Bolingbrook at Swagger High

Sat: Decatur MacArthur at Peoria

Also might stop in at Wilmington on my way home from P Town.

I just plotted the 4A qualifiers (to date) on the map. The 16 in the Southern bracket would include Morris, Coal City, SHG, and Rochester. Geneseo just misses the south by about a mile. I mean, you'd have to pull out the longitude and latitude map lines because it's that close. The South could be LOADED. Just a novice's look at the current map. But please check it for your self.

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West Carroll
Casey Westfield
Orangeville
Cerro Gordo
St. Anne
Richland County
Illini West
Hiawatha
Tremont
Harvard
Kewanee
Morrison
Springfield Southeast

Yessss. This should be fun. What a great round 1 game.

Glenbard West is an intriguing team in 8A for me. I could see them getting upset by a team like MS or B-Brook, I could also see them making a run to Champaign. How far do you guys see them going?

How do you think they do in the playoffs?

With the state playoffs happening for 6 of the top 8 in the city we're left with a single matchup...

Taft Eagles vs Brooks College Prep Eagles Thursday 6pm at Lane
Well isn't this matchup for the birds. The Eagles of the Northwest Side take on the Eagles of the Far South Side. Gonna go out on a limb here and say the Eagles take the game but the Redcoats secure the true victory, small stage practice before the big state games this weekend.

What's the lineup look like for the CCL? Maybe we can break down those matchups too.

@EdgyTim , with all the talk 4A gets on this board, any chance you are going to do a 4A preview?

As our weekly author tours the Hill Country and samples its many varietals, we re-focus our energies to make-or-break week in the Greatest Football Conference in America.


Marist @ BR
neutral field
[2022] Brother Rice (Chicago, IL) 22, [2022] Marist (Chicago, IL) 21
MC @ LA
neutral field
[2022] Mount Carmel (Chicago, IL) 34, [2022] Loyola Academy (Wilmette, IL) 26
ND @ SR
neutral field
[2022] St. Rita (Chicago, IL) 24, [2022] Notre Dame (Niles, IL) 13
Naz @ BA
neutral field
[2022] Nazareth Academy (LaGrange Park, IL) 21, [2022] Benet Academy (Lisle, IL) 12
SL @ PC
neutral field
[2022] Providence Catholic (New Lenox, IL) 31, [2022] St. Laurence (Burbank, IL) 17
MCHS @ JC
neutral field
[2022] Joliet Catholic Academy (Joliet, IL) 42, [2022] Montini Catholic (Lombard, IL) 17
SV @ SP
neutral field
[2022] St. Patrick (Chicago, IL) 24, [2022] St. Viator (Arlington Heights, IL) 21
CoM @ Marian, Heights
neutral field
[2022] Carmel (Mundelein, IL) 35, [2022] Marian Catholic (Chicago Heights, IL) 26
DP @ Marian, Woodpile
neutral field
[2022] DePaul College Prep (Chicago, IL) 41, [2022] Marian Central Catholic (Woodstock, IL) 31
Rich @ Leo
neutral field
[2022] Rich Township (Olympia Fields, IL) 34, [2022] Leo (Chicago, IL) 17
MA @ DLS
neutral field
[2022] Marmion Academy (Aurora, IL) 21, [2022] De La Salle (Chicago, IL) 20
SI @ F
neutral field
[2022] St. Ignatius (Chicago, IL) 34, [2022] Fenwick (Oak Park, IL) 17

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Do the Mustangs stand a chance?

Not withstanding a big playoff run who are the biggest surprises & disappointments? Surprises? Argo & Chicago Christian were picked to be bottom of the barrell yet they are in the playoffs!!! Argo lower level teams look pretty good too.Disappointments? Kankakee underperformed so far especially getting that Mac transfer but hard to really pick.Any team who didn’t put a product on the field I’d have to say was a disappointment.Not the kids on those teams though who wanted to play.

I pray for Mike O’Brien’s prediction to come true and setup a Warren/LWE matchup in the quarters. The thread for that game would be so entertaining.
O’Brien’s Picks

LWE’s close call last night will refocus them. Seems inevitable that LWE and LA matchup in Champaign. I see the Illini’s magical season rubbing off on Coach H and the Ramblers lifting the trophy on Memorial Stadium as the Orange and Blue return to town with the Land of Lincoln Trophy.

Please post ONLY known games days and times here for all Roubd 1 games

Just an observation regarding Sterling's playoff opponents since 2017:

2017: St. Viator, Kaneland, Marian Central Catholic, Chicago Phillips
2018: Chicago Phoenix, Chicago Brooks, Rockford Boylan, Montini
2019: Chicago Heights Marian, St. Rita
2021: St. Patrick
2022: St. Viator

They haven't matched up with many schools (just one - Kaneland) that are similar in make up (meaning "downstate" public schools).