JagsFan77

Petal is not a top 20 team. They lost like 6 of their last 7 games last year and only won 1 6A game and that was to an awful Northwest Rankin team. You have them 3rd? Delusional. No Brandon or Oak Grove who are constantly beating most every one to those coast teams in this poll yearly. Whens the last time a coast 6A team has gone to the championship? So much chest chumping every year from the 6A coast and they get wiped out in the playoffs. Maybe throw Brandon on your schedule instead of 3A teams or mediocre coast 6A teams and you'd get more respect. Picayune might be good but this poll is a dumpster fire top to bottom.

As much as it pains me to say this, Brandon probably has the best facilities out of that group. I really like their new setup other than parking. Its just a bit farther off the interstate than the others.

Brandon will be even better next year than last. West Point was the only good team Picayune beat last year. Some of y'all coast folks are oblivious to football in the rest of the state. Mediocre coast teams beating up other mediocre coast teams to boost their record isn't changing the minds of the rest of the state who demolish the coast teams year in and year out when the games actually matter in the playoffs. When the coast constantly has to make "coast rankings" because they can't compare to the rest of the state it's very telling. Don't be all in your feels because the rest of the state disagrees with you.

Brandon will be better than 1-6 on this list. Possibly all 10.

Who would make those power rankings? MaxPreps? CalPreps? Clarion Ledger? AP? Coaches? You'd get a different ranking from everyone.

The strength of the regions will change year to year. I have no problem with more teams in the playoffs. If a team is weak, they will get beaten. Problem solved. Will the MHSAA make more money? Of course. Will more kids actually get the experience of playing in a playoff? Of course. I'd rather see undeserving teams make the playoffs every year than seeing good teams sitting at home simply because people are opposed to the MHSAA making money. I don't want kids to have to suffer because of what we did "back in our day". Let them play.

I've seen MANY #1 seeds beaten by #4 seeds. Just one example this year was Oxford beating South Panola. Some regions just have more talent year in and year out. You see some years where entire regions get swept by another. You can argue that it's diluting the playoffs by having so many make the playoffs, but you could also argue it would be diluting it by taking out some of the better teams in tougher regions.

Exactly. I'd think this would be an opportunity to boost ticket sales with non region games. More weeks with more options instead of the required games that were on the schedule. And less of an excuse NOT to schedule tougher opponents. I'd like to see some Oxford vs Ocean Springs or Starkville vs Oak Grove kinda matchups in those early weeks.

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Yeah. I'm just saying. I hear about travel complaints every reclassification. But no one will have it as bad as Tupelo had it this year.

In that list, Germantown was listed twice. Murrah would be in that region I'd guess.

Will anyone be traveling as far as Tupelo did each week? For instance Tupelo to Clinton is 194 miles.

It would also depend on whether the Head Coach is also the Athletic Director. That's a teacher base salary versus an administrator base salary. I've seen many more large schools lately having an AD-only position who doesn't actually coach anything. It keeps an AD from favoring the sport they coach as well as gives the AD more time to work with the sponsors and boosters associated with those larger programs. The only thing is that many of these Head Coaches have been ADs, so they might not accept a job if they are required to go back into the classroom and take a cut in pay even if its a better program. Its got its pros and cons for sure.

Joe Koury, Madison Central. Started at center on that championship team this year. He's going to be one of the best lineman out of that class in the southeast. One of the strongest guys on the team even as a sophomore.

Even with those 2 they finished 6th in that region. MC, Starkville, Oxford, Tupelo, and Clinton are all better than Germantown year in/year out. They need to start from the ground up. Middle school through Varsity.

I expect this to be a closer game than last time. Madison Central was clicking on all cylinders and Oxford was just flat all night. I think the teams are much more evenly matched than that score showed. I think MC is better but any given Friday night anyone can beat anyone. I’m hoping MC stays 100% focused. The last game means nothing in the playoffs. One game at a time.

Oxford Ocean Springs Warren Central Louisville Caledonia Mendenhall Kemper Co Enterprise Jefferson Davis Co. Newton

I know last week isn't a good indicator, but I think Oxford will give South Panola a run for their money.

Oxford vs South Panola Ocean Springs vs Pearl Warren Central vs D'Iberville Louisville vs Clarkdale Caledonia vs Pontotoc Mendenhall vs McComb Velma Jackson vs Kemper Co Enterprise vs Magee Jefferson Davis Co vs Hazelhurst Pisgah vs Newton

Wayne County at West Jones Oxford at Madison Central Pearl at Brandon Coffeeville at West Tallahatchie Hattiesburg at Laurel Houston at Senatobia Union at West Marion Kosciusko at Caledonia Meridian at Warren Central Philadelphia at Heidelberg

West Jones is VERY solid. I think they are a top 12-15 team in all divisions.

I think you overlooked MC in 6A.

MC vs Germantown