This week's bizarre high school football score

I looked up their schedule yesterday. Eight home games, no real conference (someone who knows how Ohio preps are structured can help me) ... nuts indeed.

 

Conferences don't really matter much in Ohio. Sure, it makes it easy for scheduling and you can take pride in winning the conference. But for big programs like Massillon, it's all about the playoffs. And playoffs have nothing to do with your conference. It's all about earning points based on who you beat and who the teams you beat beat. So having eight home games against a schedule you create yourself that pretty much guarantees you a spot in the playoffs beats being in a conference for teams like Massillon.

 

So that's why they're playing a 3-5 team --- 0-3 in its own conference--- from the other side of another state 420 miles away?

Hope they got a lot of "credit" for this opponent in their playoff resume.

 

They'll get more credit than you think. Not that they need it. They're already 8-0 and ranked first in their playoff region. Sun Valley's three wins help out Massillon no matter how bad a team SV is. That's how these teams do it, they find lousy teams who are able to win a few games so they can feed off those wins for points in the playoff race. Can't remember exactly how the formula works, but you get X for beating a team and X more for their wins. There are seven different playoff divisions in Ohio, so if you are a smaller school who beats a bigger school, it helps even more. Some teams will play the halfway decent teams in the Cleveland school district that they will easily beat, and then that team goes 5-5 by beating the other lousy Cleveland teams and losing to any good team it plays. So that goes down as a very nice win with little effort.

There really is an art to scheduling in Ohio.

 

Yep. Only in smaller divisions as a matter of pride.

 

Almost sounds like body bag games in college football.

 

Last Night
Kansas 6-man
Pawnee Heights 118
Cheylin 85

 

The bizarre part is that Pawnee Heights held Cheylin to 85.

 

I'm friends with Pawnee Heights Head Coach.
Their stud RB set a Kansas High School record with 14 TD in the game.

 

This week's insane high school football ending. Four TDs in the final minute, including a Hail Mary.

Watch: Gonzaga-DeMatha high school ending is insane

 

In the last two weeks, Wichita Northwest (KS) has given up 127 points in the playoffs......and won both games.

82-67 win over Bishop Carroll.
67-60 win over Maize.

This is not 8-man stuff. This is Class 5A Big-Boy football.

 

Hmmmm.

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