4A #2 Franklin-Simpson at Warren East

The Wildcats emerge from their bye week ready to move to 9-0 when they travel to Warren East's magnificent new blue turf field in the district closer for Franklin and the regular season finale for the Raiders. Franklin won their two games before the bye by a combined 72-0 score, have three shutouts on the year, and only Greenwood and South Warren have scored more than 7 points on them. To say their defense is rolling along with their offense (38 PPG) would be an understatement. They'll face a Raider team that clinched a return to the playoffs with a 49-0 drubbing of Warren Central last week, raising their record to 3-3 in their last six games. They have lost 7 of 8 against Franklin-Simpson, and in all, only twice beat Franklin-Simpson without Ben Bruni at the helm (5-5 under Bruni, 2-25 otherwise). No result of this game will affect playoff seedings, as Franklin has clinched homefield for the first three rounds of the playoffs and the Raiders are locked into the 4 seed. Can the Raiders high flying offense hold onto the ball well enough to give them a chance, or will Franklin's dominant ground game reign supreme?

Blue on Blue on blue.

On Saturday morning, will we be saying that FS "blue" out Warren East?

Franklin-Simpson gets a good tune up game before Russellville. FS wins 42-7