〰️ Atherton (8-1, 5A #7)
vs.
? North Oldham (8-1, 4A #8)

? Ravens Come Rapping, Rapping At The Stable Door

Another clue to the season's greatest mystery will reveal itself this week. 

Atherton has assembled a roster built for late November, perhaps even early December. They look the part, in particular the defense, a unit that's pitched seven shutouts.

But the schedule has produced one opponent with a winning record, resulting in a commendable loss to Manual. Their eight wins have come at the expense of opponents with a combined mark of 16-56. Woof.

The Ravens fly east for the regular season finale, in search of fine tuning before the playoffs.

In Goshen lies answers to questions not yet asked and a North Oldham offense waiting to unleash all manner of Halloween horrors. 

The Mustangs own the state's #4 scoring offense, a dizzying aerial circus for which Colin Daniels serves as ringmaster. The Mr. Football hopeful boasts a state best 37 touchdown passes against two interceptions.

His right arm, limber, poses a query, to cast the birds to the midnight dreary. 

Visitors seeking and destroying, with their prey always toying, rapping at the stable door, quoth the Ravens, nevermore….

I'll go with Atherton by 14.

First team to 7 wins? 

A Train! Give me the boys by 28. 

North's schedule isn't much tougher than Atherton, but their one loss was a rivalry game on the road. A Train derails here, to the tune of 35-28.

Congratulations to Coach Anthony White on becoming Atherton's all-time winningest coach last week.

The polls for this game are really interesting!

 

Bump.

Does anyone know if this game will be streamed?

14 minutes ago, Purple88 said:

Does anyone know if this game will be streamed?

I haven't found anything yet. I was hoping Glicod would pick this one up, because they do some North Oldham home games, but they're not covering this game.

Answering the poll question I am going out on a limb here. I say there is a 100% chance North Oldham scores 21 or more points.

For those who think that is silly talk, consider this. All of Atherton's opponents excepting Manual have played a total of 68 games against other teams this year. In 28 of those games Atherton's opponents have scored 1 TD or less. In 12 games they were shutouts. Is it great defense or a weak schedule? I say a mix of both. Atherton has a good defense but not as good as it looks by game scores.

I agree that in this game we finally get some understanding of who Atherton is.