This week gives us a battle of 3A Heavyweights. Desales (3-2) takes their #1 ranking on the road to Paducah to battle the 5-1 Blue Tornado.Who wins?

DeSales will be way too much for Tilghman. 35-14.

I picked the upset. 35-31 PT

I'm just happy to see DeSales scheduling this game. Win or lose the travel experience will help them later in the playoffs, especially if they have to travel to the mountains for a playoff game.

This one should be a good one. Desales looks to have a great run defense against PT with their high powered run offense. How is PT's run defense?

Really interesting match-up here. A litmus test for PT, and really, 3A in general. The perception early on was that DeSales, CAL, and Belfry were a couple of notches above everyone else in 3A. But we've seen some vulnerabilities displayed recently that indicate there might be more parity than originally thought. Fans of 3A football need to keep an eye on this one even if you're not for either team.

I'll take the Blue Tornados in an upset 28-27.

Huge game.

 

I think PT has a chance but they need to find an "extra" TD to win this game. Either a kick return score, a defensive TD, or something like a blocked punt or a trick play that gets them six.

I think PT will struggle because they are not a great passing team and Desales is pretty good against the run I’m going Desales 28-14

I’ll go with Desales 31 PT 21.. PT’s lack of a passing game will come back to bite them this week.

#1 DeSales (BGP) pulls out the nailbiter over #1 Paducah Tilghman (according to RPI ).... then again hmm either way it should be a great game Friday night.

Edited October 1, 20197 yr by theguru
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I’ll take DeSales by 3. Tough to go on long road trip.

GO COLTS !!!!!

Good luck and may it be injury free.

Coming into this season, Tilghman knew that to beat the top tier teams, simply running the ball wouldn't work.

 

They also knew that they didn't have to be great passing the ball, but at least good enough to keep the defense from stacking the box every play.

 

Even though the nearly 117 passing yards per game doesn't raise any eyebrows, it's significant in the fact that it's keeping defenses more honest. The speed Jayden Freeman has at receiver forces people his way. Compared to the 44 yards per game via the pass in 2018 and the 41 per game in 2017, I'm happy with the progress and believe we'll see more going forward.

I’ll take DeSales by 3. Tough to go on long road trip.

 

The long road trips tend to be tough. What I'm a little concerned about for Tilghman is that they are out of school Friday.

 

We've had this scenario several times over the years and even though you would think it would help, we always seem flat. I think I almost prefer the normalcy of a regular school day.