What will it take to stop Highlands?

The key to beating Highlands is very simple. Run up the middle and stay away from going sideline to sideline. Look back on their losses. What is the common theme? Running the ball up the middle and staying ahead of the chains. Too many coaches want to run sideline to sideline and they are way too fast for this to be effective. With that being said, you need to be able to move the chains. Keeping the offense off the field is the only way to beat them, bottomline. Too many coaches think you need this elborate game plan to beat them and you don't. Less is more in this situation.

I, too, believe you are correct for the most part, ColonelDon, but you forgot to add you have to do all that while remaining relatively mistake-free. It seems to me that, more so than Highlands "beating" you per se, they use well-calculated pace and pressure to force teams into mistakes and "beat themselves."