[EKUAlum05]

1. Bowling Green- Purples find perfection in 5A and go wire to wire at the top.

2. Mayfield- The Cards get the edge over their lone loss (WC) by winning 14 straight and proving themselves as perhaps pound for pound the best team in KY.

3. Warren Central- 11-2 with wins over Mayfield and Ft. Campbell as well as several other solid teams is an impressive feat...but when both those losses comes to your cross town rival it has to be bitter sweet.

4. Caldwell County- The Tigers get the love for their impressive run that fell seconds short of glory.

5. Henderson County- The Jefferson County 6A express rolled everyone, Hendo had the best resume of the victims it consumed.

[DragonFire]

I swear, you guys roll with some strange logic sometimes.

[MayfieldCardinal]

Looks right to me

[DragonFire]

Looks right to me

Well naturally!

[MayfieldCardinal]

Well naturally!

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[adopted purple]

I swear, you guys roll with some strange logic sometimes.

Warren Central has lost a total of 4 games in the last two years. All 4 were to Bowling Green, who has won 30 games in a row and two state titles. They beat Mayfield by 14 points the first game of the season. I believe WC beat Mayfield the year before, also. I know a lot of you think Mayfield could beat Warren Central, but you really couldn't and it's been proven. That championship high will wear off and maybe you can return to reality.

[rednblackattack]

Warren Central has lost a total of 4 games in the last two years. All 4 were to Bowling Green, who has won 30 games in a row and two state titles. They beat Mayfield by 14 points the first game of the season. I believe WC beat Mayfield the year before, also. I know a lot of you think Mayfield could beat Warren Central, but you really couldn't and it's been proven. That championship high will wear off and maybe you can return to reality.

I am not going to completely disagree with you based on WC winning the head to head matchup. I will say that Jonathan Jackson being out the whole second half against WC could have made a difference in a game Mayfield was winning at half and was in striking distance late in the game. Throw in Deonte Jackson the All WKC linebacker being out as well in the second half. This may be why they are thinking late in the season may have a different outcome than a mid august game. I would also say that a midseason destruction of Graves County on their home field by Mayfield then watch Graves go to Warren Central and play within a couple of min of knocking WC out of the playoffs could have effected their decisions. Much harder to judge teams after 2 weeks of practice vs 17 weeks of practice. No Mayfield did not beat by WC the season before.

[adopted purple]

You are correct Red. They beat Greenwood 20-6. There is another thread on another board that just won't stop. Some of those Mayfield fans are die hard. Mayfield could consistently be in the top 10 in all classes, but it's sounding like a broken record.

[DragonFire]

I am not going to completely disagree with you based on WC winning the head to head matchup. I will say that Jonathan Jackson being out the whole second half against WC could have made a difference in a game Mayfield was winning at half and was in striking distance late in the game. Throw in Deonte Jackson the All WKC linebacker being out as well in the second half. This may be why they are thinking late in the season may have a different outcome than a mid august game. I would also say that a midseason destruction of Graves County on their home field by Mayfield then watch Graves go to Warren Central and play within a couple of min of knocking WC out of the playoffs could have effected their decisions. Much harder to judge teams after 2 weeks of practice vs 17 weeks of practice. No Mayfield did not beat by WC the season before.

Jonathan Jackson didn't sit the entire second half, but he was very limited. I believe he scored one if not both of Mayfield's late scores, the ones that put them back into "striking distance". They were in every bit the same striking distance that Central was against Bowling Green in the playoffs, which is to say they were down a score but never had the ball with a chance to erase the deficit all the way.

Comparing games and margins is a tricky business. Do you believe South Warren could compete with Mayfield simply because both teams beat Russellville by the same margin? To use South Warren as an example, did they suddenly get 31 points better in a month from when they got throttled by Monroe County to when they pushed them to within 10 in the region finals?

I'll admit that I believed going into the game that if Graves and Central lined up 5 times, WC would win 5. Maybe it's more like 4 out of 5. But I believe the game they played would have been that 1 out of the 5 that Graves had a shot at winning, and they didn't convert. Look up the statistics, they were absolutely dominated by WC. Graves managed to hold them out of the end zone (which IS the only thing that matters), and that gave them their chance. My hats off to them now as it was then.

If that's the game that makes people forget about Central winning head to head over Mayfield, so be it. I suppose Mayfield would have given Bowling Green a better game the following week.

[rednblackattack]

Jonathan Jackson didn't sit the entire second half, but he was very limited. I believe he scored one if not both of Mayfield's late scores, the ones that put them back into "striking distance". They were in every bit the same striking distance that Central was against Bowling Green in the playoffs, which is to say they were down a score but never had the ball with a chance to erase the deficit all the way.

Comparing games and margins is a tricky business. Do you believe South Warren could compete with Mayfield simply because both teams beat Russellville by the same margin? To use South Warren as an example, did they suddenly get 31 points better in a month from when they got throttled by Monroe County to when they pushed them to within 10 in the region finals?

I'll admit that I believed going into the game that if Graves and Central lined up 5 times, WC would win 5. Maybe it's more like 4 out of 5. But I believe the game they played would have been that 1 out of the 5 that Graves had a shot at winning, and they didn't convert. Look up the statistics, they were absolutely dominated by WC. Graves managed to hold them out of the end zone (which IS the only thing that matters), and that gave them their chance. My hats off to them now as it was then.

If that's the game that makes people forget about Central winning head to head over Mayfield, so be it. I suppose Mayfield would have given Bowling Green a better game the following week.

I am not even saying WC wouldnt have still beat us with Jackson i am just trying to understand their thinking on the matter. Based on them being a bigger school and only losing to BG. I still think WC should have been higher but I also think Graves would beat Caldwell by 10 to 14 and should be in the top 5.