Other State Playoffs

We did this a couple of years ago. I follow several programs down here and several are still in play this weekend in the regional finals.

Florida 3A - Halftime Clearwater Central Catholic 21 Bishop Verot 14.

Florida 4A - Halftime Lakewood (St. Petersburg) 13 Tampa Catholic 0.

Florida 5A - Halftime Tampa Jesuit 28 Lake Wales 8.

Florida 6A - Halftime Gaither 35 Lake Minneola 0.

Florida 7A - Halftime Armwood 20 Lakland 10.

Florida 8A - Third Quarter Apopka 14 Seminole (Sanford) 0.

Florida 8A - Halftime Steinbrenner 15 Osceola 7.

Florida 8A - Final Apopka 20 Seminole (Sanford) 0.

Florida 3A - Final Clearwater Central Catholic 35 Bishop Verot 28.

Florida 4A - Final Lakewood (St. Petersburg) 29 Tampa Catholic 7.

Florida 5A - Final Tampa Jesuit 53 Lake Wales 21.

Florida 6A - Final Gaither 41 Lake Minneola 7.

Florida 7A - Final Armwood 23 Lakland 10.

Florida 8A - Final Steinbrenner 29 Osceola 22.

Ohio Division I:

Elder 28 Colerain 21

Mentor 36 St. Edward 35

Pickerington Central 23 Groveport-Madison 7

Springfield 7 Dublin Coffman 3

Ohio Division II:

La Salle 45 Harrison 8

Washington Massillon 17 Akron Hoban 14

Central Catholic 35 Olentangy 14

Avon 10 Avon Lake 3

Ohio Division III:

Trotwood-Madison 20 Badin 7

Bishop Hartley 27 Jonathan Alder 14

Mansfield Senior 15 Sandusky 9

Aurora 22 Chardon 19

Ohio Division VI:

Springfield (New Middleton) 35 Mogadore 21

Anna 42 Archbold 7

Mechanicsburg 42 Covington 26

East Knox 32 Carey 21

Indiana 6-A playoffs

(Semifinals)

Carmel 38, Merriville 17

Center Grove 17, Ben Davis (10)

Indiana 5-A playoffs

(Semifinals)

Valpo 10, Bishop Dwenger 7

New Palestine 45, Bloomington South 0

FYI, New Palestine beat Cathedral 35-10 last week

The teams I follow in the state semis...

Florida 3A - Clearwater Central Catholic travels to Hollywood to face Chaminade-Madonna.

Florida 5A - Tampa Jesuit is at Miami Northwestern.

Florida 6A - Gaither travels to Pensacola to play Escambia.

Florida 7A - Armwood hosts Edgewater.

Florida 8A - Apopka hosts Steinbrenner.

The distance from Gaither High to Escambia High is 465 miles. A 7 hour plus drive by bus. It would be shorter if they went by boat.

Used to work at Florida Hospital Apopka. True football country down there.

Ohio Division I:

Elder 28 Colerain 21

Mentor 36 St. Edward 35

Pickerington Central 23 Groveport-Madison 7

Springfield 7 Dublin Coffman 3

 

Ohio Division II:

La Salle 45 Harrison 8

Washington Massillon 17 Akron Hoban 14

Central Catholic 35 Olentangy 14

Avon 10 Avon Lake 3

 

Ohio Division III:

Trotwood-Madison 20 Badin 7

Bishop Hartley 27 Jonathan Alder 14

Mansfield Senior 15 Sandusky 9

Aurora 22 Chardon 19

 

Ohio Division VI:

Springfield (New Middleton) 35 Mogadore 21

Anna 42 Archbold 7

Mechanicsburg 42 Covington 26

East Knox 32 Carey 21

Ohio Division IV:

Wyoming 33 Valley View 0

Clyde 17 Ottawa-Glandorf 10

Licking Valley 22 Bloom-Carroll 6

Poland Seminary 17 Perry 13

Ohio Division V:

Ironton 24 Ridgeview 14

Kirtland 32 Manchester 7

Oak Harbor 35 Orrville 28

West Jefferson 34 West Liberty-Salem 0

Ohio Division VII:

Harvest Prep 22 Newark Catholic 15

Marion Local 27 New Bremen 0

Lucas 21 Cuyahoga Heights 13

Patrick Henry 27 Leipsic 13

California Division I:

Mater Dei 49 Mission Viejo 24

St. John Bosco 52 Centennial 14

This sets up a rematch between Mater Dei and St. John Bosco, who met earlier this season with Mater Dei winning 38-24. Mater Dei is almost universally recognized as the #1 team in the country, while Bosco is top five nationally according to MaxPreps and USA Today.

The finals are set in Delaware.

D1-Middletown (their 8th trip to the finals since 2008)vs Hodgson (their first appearance since moving up to D1)

D2-Woodbridge (State champs in ‘16 and ‘18) vs Howard (Looking for their first title)

The distance from Gaither High to Escambia High is 465 miles. A 7 hour plus drive by bus. It would be shorter if they went by boat.

Saw that Gaither needed to raise $3500 to fund travel expenses for this game, even with Glory Days Grill, a Bay Area chain of sports bars, picking up the food. To their credit, they have raised almost $4200 to this point. This is the first time Gaither has been this deep into the playoffs. The fans are really all over it.

For the Miami Beach Bowl, a couple of years ago, Mrs. S and I did the tour bus package, which drove us from the USF campus, in north Tampa, to Miami and back. About 10 hours round trip. She and I were worn out when we got home and all we did was watch the game. It's going to be tough for the team to ride 7-8 hours on a bus, play a 3-3.5 hour football game, then hop on the buses and ride 7-8 hours back home. Even if they charter big tour coaches. In fact, under Florida law, I do not believe tour bus drivers can drive more than 8 or 10 hours a day. We had 2 drivers on our bus trip.

It's going to be Black Friday, too.

@swamprat, has the FHSAA ever floated the idea of going with neutral sites for the playoffs? Without actually knowing, I'm going to assume there's no shortage of quality facilities down there.

I will be attending the finals in the following states this year.

Indiana

Pa.

Georgia

Texas

(Semi finals in Iowa)

The team I follow in Georgia is Price Avenue Christian. They lot last week to I want to say the 4X Defending State Champions Eagles' Landing Christian 62-57.

Prince has the #1 Junior QB in the Nation in Brock Vandagriff. He is committed to Oklahoma. He went off for over 540 passing yards and ran for 88 yards while accounting for all 7 total TD's. Craziness!