[papagrit]

If you want to talk about Strength of schedule I don't think they are even close.the teams Rock has played have won a combined 49 games,and lost 70.the teams Boyle has played have won a combined 60 games,and lost 44.

In all due respect...Rockcastle had a murderers row schedule two years ago...which at the time included Boyle County as well as Bell twice. It also included Southwestern, Pulaski, Whitley and Rowan who all at the time were at the top of their games as well. Rockcastle got no credit for their strength of schedule that year from the Guru's of football that squawk on here then...and now that they've beat a few teams who at the beginning of this season looked to be decent upcoming foes and who had less than stellar seasons (ex. Sheldon Clark 1-10 and Clay Co. 1-10) they still get no credit for the wins they've had this year. Seems they are damned if they do and if they don't....sooooooooooo. If you guys want to pull out records of this season. Let's look at the records of teams that our two teams have beaten and leave out the ones that they lost.

Boyle County has won 8 games and Rockcastle has won 9.

Of those games...the foes records of the teams Rockcastle has beaten is 37-61 which includes the two 1-10 teams mentioned above.

Rockcastle has beaten three teams with winning records on the season.

The records of the foes for Boyle County who Boyle has beaten is 38-48.

Boyle County has beaten two teams with winning records and a mystery Hoosier Daddy team that broke even at 5 and 5.

My point is this......
The records don't matter right now. On paper it looks relatively even to me.

In my opinion....Boyle is the definite favorite due to them just being Boyle and Rockcastle having never beaten them in the last two decades.
Both team have kids hurt...some really good key players on both teams.
Rockcastle has a chance if the boys want to knuckle down and play hard in this game and not look at Boyle in awe. If the boys roll over....it will be a blowout. I would expect ten seniors to want to play their hardest seeing as how this could be thier last game.

I hope we can make the game competitive and I'm looking forward to Friday night.

End of Sermon...someone pass out the collection basket.