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Undoubtedly, it was the Cooper coach who gave a first place vote to NewCath, IMO Makes sense to me, since NCC just beat them. You can go back and forth with Holy Cross and CovCath as to who is # 1. NewCath should be 3rd; Cooper# 4 (based on NCC victory over Cooper). Botton line: Regional seeds will be much more important than these ratings.

Lets face it. NewCath could not solve CovCath the last few years period. Team built around the "biggs". Now there is only one "big" left, and he has some pretty good talent around him. Win over Cooper last week (who beat CovCath earlier this year) shows they are again one of the 3-4 best teams in No. Ky IMO. Not sure too many on here would disagree with that statement. Plus I am bias... my nephews play on this team. Reason enough to believe they win Friday night.

Interesting.... just how does Cooper get ranked ahead of NewCath? Didn't they play last week? If I remember, NewCath was pretty impressive in that victory. I guess they will have to beat CovCath Friday night to get any respect. Different makeup to this years NC team then in the recent past; will be interesting to see how they match-up with the Colonels this time. Could be surprising...

Jugg....you're not serious. Ohio has 700plus teams and only 31% of the teams make the playoffs. FYI, in Kentucky 221 teams and 192 make the playoffs.... 87% make the playoffs. Explain how Ky has 0-10, 1-9, 2-8 teams in the playoffs, and that is a better system?

StX and Colerain have played regular season games for the last 5-6 years. Probably the best (non-conference) rivalry in Cincinnati.

Let's compare guys: Ky has 6 classes, 32 teams in each class make the playoffs.. total playoff - 192 1A-33 teams, 2A - 37, 3A - 41, 4A - 40, 5A - 38, 6A - 32 total teams 221 So you have 192 of the 221 teams making KY playoffs = 87% Ohio has 7 Divisions, like KY- 32 teams in each Division make the playoff. D1 is 2 regions, 16 teams in each region make playoffs = 32 total D1 D2 thru D7, has 4 regions in each division, with 8 teams in ea. region making the playoffs, again 32 teams total per Division. In Ohio you have 224 teams out of 717 teams making the playoffs 31.2% Computers are computers but let's take Moeller, who will probably not make the playoffs. Does anyone really believe that there are 16 teams in Ohio's D1, Region 2 better than Moeller??? Absolutely Not. Living in Northern Ky, I can see a striking difference between the way Ohio and Kentucky run their HS football playoffs. I have said for years, Ky has too many Classes in football for such a few number of teams. Probably 4 classes should be the max IMO. Hard to believe 0-10, 1-9 teams can make playoffs in Ky. Everyone in Kentucky's 6A makes the playoffs; and all but 1 team make the 1A playoffs. Certainly builds self-esteem.

In Ohio Division 1, there are 77 schools of which .........let's guess here...... there are 5 Catholic schools (St. Ignatius, St. Ed's, Elder, Moeller and StX. A couple of years ago, they decided to go to 7 divisions by separating Division 1 (into big schools and small (big) schools forming Division 2, and moving other divisions down. This is no more than a direct assault the 'privates'. LaSalle went to Division 2, and now they have dominated D2 the last 2 years. So the next step will be to divide D2 and then have 8 divisions.

You are correct. It is 32 per Division. What I was talking about (and did not make clear) was D1 (which has 2 - 16 team regions). The other 6 Divisions do have 8 per 4 regions. 32 teams in each of the 7 Divisions or 224 total make playoffs, or approx 31% of the total number of teams. Ohio 31% make playoffs; KY 87%. Quite a difference.

NKY .... yep. In all, in Kentucky 192 teams out of 221 make the playoffs. That's almost 87%.... I guess the "self-esteem" factor is working.

Follow-up....Ohio, Top 16 teams make playoffs. Top 8 host first round games; all games after that at neutral sites, unlike KY where one could play all games at HOME, except State finals.

Comparison KY vs Ohio Kentucky: 6A -32 5A -38 4A -40 3A -41 2A -37 1A -33 Kentucky Total 221 Ohio: Div 1 -78 Div 2 -97 Div 3 -112 Div 4 -107 Div 5 -107 Div 6 -107 Div 7 -107 Ohio Total 715 That's why many believe Kentucky has too many Classes for only 221 teams. Probably should have 4 at the most. Just an opinion.

Good grief people..... Colonels lose first game to a pretty good football team, and probably will take their lumps Friday night against StX. They will be fine. Remember, it is KY, so only the few District games will count anyway. IMO, they play a good,solid schedule....not an overly tough schedule. They are 5A, not 2A..... so the solid schedule comes with the 5A classification. The Colonel faithful will give Eddie all the time he needs. They will be fine.

Looking at prediction poll...... just curious... the 2 votes for Covington Catholic at this point.... what their thought process was in picking CC? Interesting selection IMO.

Covington Catholic gets the opportunity to play in the first game played in the New Nippert Stadium. I would certainly hope that the entire student body and fans show up. I can assure you that StX will bring at least 8-10,000 fans (because they always do to Nippert). It would be embarrassing if only 200 'crazies' show up... no excuses people. You do not want to be embarrassed....

Moeller only scheduled Trinity after StX changed their schedule. Had nothing to do with dodging the 'Rocks. Seem to remember in Trinity's mythical National Championship year.... the only team to play them close was Cincy StX 17-7, and that was a 3 point game midway thru the 4th. Last 4 times these two teams played: '12 Trinity 14-13 '11 Trinity 17-7 '10 StX 17-10 '09 StX 43-13 Wish series had continued .....