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IF my thinking is correct in 2027 the round opponents will be R1 vs R4, R2 vs R3, R5 vs R8, R6 vs R7, 2028 R1 vs R2, R3 vs R4, R5 vs R6, R7 vs R8. So yes a long road trip for playoffs from Clarkdale to say Ripley.

I guess my thing is, does a more favorable schedule actually work against OM down the stretch? They need to win out but they need more quality wins, and not sure they can get them. OM’s best wins have not aged as well as they probably needed them to. LSU has the hardest path but if they win both of those games, I bet they get in, If you made me call it, I’m thinking a 3 loss SEC team is going to have a really hard time making it. There are still a ton of 1 and 2 loss teams in the other P4 leagues.

State is in a situation that I don't know if there is a good answer. As someone said earlier KT being hurt isn't an excuse. It's real. If he's healthy they are probably 7-2 right now. But, he's not the only injury. We were down 6-8 defensive starters from the first of the year Saturday off of a defense that outside of 3-5 players isn't very good. It's easy to say a change has to be made. State is losing fan support which turns to fewer ticket sales and less NIL money donations. And it will only get worse with drop offs there. At the same time who do you go to. You have to find a NAME Power 5 head coach, but who would come here, that's one of the reasons we have Lebby now. My first thought was throw the bank at Utah's coach, but they play in a different league, not the SEC. Kyle Whittingham who had so much success winning 177 games at Utah over 20 years is struggling in the Big 10. It's just a different game in what I would say is the Power 2 (SEC, Big 10) Charles Huff has been mentioned but we would be a stepping stone job for him. Lebby has shown improvement from what he inherited when he got to State. If you keep him he has to fire the OL coach. That's where it starts for the offense. He has proven he can get skill guys. He has to find KT's replacement and your not going to find that in the portal. No SEC level starting QB is going to transfer to be a backup. I think Saturday will be make or brake. If somehow State miraculously beats Auburn the Tenn Tech I think he gets one more year. With a loss I thin he's done.

Clarkdale and SE Lauderdale has to look at it this way who do you want to play Noxabee or Raleigh in a 5 team region when it could be Noxabee, Raleigh, SE, Clarkdale, and Quitman. That makes easy to say 3rd or 4th place on the road vs 1 or 2 seed at home.

Union and St Andrew's were further north. When they decided to go with: 5 schools each region vs 6/5/4/4 with Union only that changed things. They could have simply sent Union and Pisgah to region 4. They obviously decided to send 3 north and leave Pisgah and St Andrew's South. If ever coaches with seniority won out it was i believe the Pisgah coach having more seniority vs the other coaches. Not by many years but they also prefer to have a Jackson area region in each class if possible. That's what they got.

Two did have to go. I was commenting on you saying “they should have sent St Andrew and Pisgah north”. Quitman, CDale, and SE are right beside each other and now in separate divisions.

According to the directors podcast this morning schools have until Thursday to appeal classes and regions. Those appeals will be heard beginning Monday November 16th.

St Andrew's i can see protesting to be put in region 3. McLaurin was in region 5 with Noxabee a few years back. When the classes came out the South had a 22-18 advantage. 2 schools had to go north.

Hattiesburg and Picayune probably.

they played about 80% of the starters for first q. The issue is that many still aren’t healed from earlier injuries. Starting rb still hobbled. Backup hobbled. The freshman that moved up vs terry is out with half fractured leg. Wr been hobbled by ankle since Forrest hill game did not play last week.

who do yall think ends up in the 6A south final?

One injured early last week. May be able to go this week.

Thats why i asked. I would have played my JV vs Jim Hill.

That is always an unfortunate situation at this point in the season. Did you guys have more go out last week?

Seems like they have lots of injuries every year. Did WJ rest a lot of players against Jim Hill?

West jones very heavily injured could be in for rough week.

And they both scored 23 points this weekend. Of course one team won and one team lost.

This may be one of those years where the division winner has a losing record and hosts a playoff game. Similar to that year when the Saints were like 13-3 and had to travel to Seattle who had 7-9 record but won their division.

NFC East has entered the chat. I’m not sure which division is crazier (and worse) this year. The Giants on their third starting QB somehow lead the division. I’d wager Dallas wins the division, no idea how they aren’t running away with it already.

I see a lot of lower seeds are being picked to win

Excuse me sir, that’s the first place New Orleans Saints you are talking about with their impressive 3-5 record! Gosh I love how stupid the NFC South is.

I have a feeling St Andrew’s and Pisgah refused to go north. Probably have more pull than Southeast and Clarkdale. Quitman also got screwed in the process.

I’m going with south delta. I think the other two games in the south are a toss up

Again it was a rivalry game. It was probably the best thing that could have happened to Georgia, they have been on another level since that game. Changing the subject. Not sure who has the ugliest offense, State or the Saints? Both are worse than putrid.

I grew up next to Tippah County and have relatives/friends and such who have attended all of the schools at some point in their lives. I will try and break down a little of the "weirdness" of the place to educate/inform. It doesn't exactly make sense but this is how they operate. The county currently has two districts: North and South Tippah. South Tippah School District Blue Mountain and Pine Grove (K12) Ripley Elementary, Middle, and High schools Ripley is the county seat and has always been by far the largest in the county. It offers football and band. The district allows students to attend any school in the district they wish no matter their address. There are zones in name only but are not enforced or even well known. Blue Mountain demographics have generally been small majority African American/Hispanic and lower income white kids frequently without the means to fund transporation to another school. The school has long been the smallest in terms of enrollment and the chorus of close them has been around for 40 years. The problems are 1. The county's desegregation suit supervision would require federal approval and 2. Ripley, where many of them would go, didn't want them because it would alter their own demographics. Pine Grove is only white students and now picks up students who live closer to Ripley or in the city limits but would rather go to a small school (code words for no minority kids). Ripley's demographics are now almost evenly split between white/black/Hispanic which is a huge shift from the late 80s and early 90s when I was young. Bottom line is there won't be any consolidation there unless forced to because of the social and demographic implications. Pine Grove would start an academy about five minutes after any consolidation vote or talk. North Tippah School District (as of today) Falkner Elementary and High Walnut Attendance Center (K12) Chalybeate Elementary (K8) Chalybeate students attended Walnut starting in 9th grade. LIke South Tippah there are no real zones or enforced lines. The district is much smaller than South Tippah and has almost no tax base or industry. The board voted 3 years ago to merge Walnut and Falkner's upper grades to be housed on Walnut's campus and called North Tippah High. It will only house grades 6-12. Chalybeate will now be K-5 and get former WAC students in those grades as well as their current ones. Falkner Elementary is untouched for now. This has almost caused a civil war as the Falkner families, understandably disappointed, are furious their students will now attend "Walnut" despite a different name, mascot, colors, and the district has renovated both Walnut and Chalybeate campuses to house the new students and changes. Many Falkner families have opted to leave for South Tippah (Ripley or PG), Alcorn County, or homeschooling. Academically and demographically the schools are very similar but North Tippah High will likely be little more than a handful of the FHS families who join the former Walnut students due to the outrage. All the schools in the county are decent academically and socially. Still, ideally there would be two high schools for the county, South and North, and they would be a single school district rather than two.