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What's up everyone, and welcome back to the Friday Night Drive Podcast. I
am Kyle Nighbors along with my co host Steve Susci here on Monday morning,
October sixteenth to break down Week eight and Sue's Usually week nine of the high
school football season is when we get a lot of crazy results that arrived a
week early this year, a week eight really shaking up our projection for the
two hundred and fifty sixteen playoff field. Right, Yeah, it was definitely
one of those odd weeks when you look at it just on the general landscape,
like you just said, usually there's an expectation that a lot of the
I guess, wacky score and finals that you're kind of not expecting are going
to come in Week nine. When it's that stark realization that if you don't
come up with that big win, your season is potentially over. Well,
there were lots of teams that I guess maybe woke up to that fact in
Week eight and picked up wins that you know, on paper, it didn't
look like they were expected to get and kind of changed the group of teams
that head into this week either already having gotten to five wins or putting themselves
in a position now where they have the opportunity to get that fifth win when
it looked like before the week began those opportunities wouldn't be there for certain teams.
You're still working on your post Week eight playoff projector, which you can
find on Wednesday at Friday Night Drive dot com. But sus can you give
us just a little bit of a tease like kind of what you're seeing so
far, what changes you're seeing after Week eight? Well, just some of
those games that we just mentioned and on the grand sc seame of things,
a lot of those surprise victories came in smaller classifications Class one A through Class
four A, which basically meant we had to find spaces to put these teams
into the projection, and in doing that, we've talked about the teams that
were on the bubble between lots of classifications. You're seeing those power programs move
up to a higher classification from some of the smaller classifications in anticipation of what
those teams getting into the field meant to the overall projection. So talking about
teams like Bloomington Central Catholic going from one to two, Wilmington going from two
to three, Morris going from four to five, those are examples of the
schools that have been hovering on that fence all year long, but on the
small side of that fence have now leaped over the fence and gone to the
large side. Yeah, as I said, you can find Seuss's updated playoff
projection on Wednesday at Friday Night Drive. You can find what we learned in
week eight up there right now. We'll have plenty of content for you throughout
the week. Of course, it's a big week Week nine of the high
school football season. Make sure you stick with us. We'll have Live with
Friday Night Drive from eight to eleven PM. Steve Susie and Jake Barlson.
We'll be hosting that and then on Saturday, it's Playoff parent ding. I
cannot believe we're here, sus but we will get a look at the two
hundred and fifty six team field on Saturday night and then a five week jawnt
down to Bloomington. I really can't believe we're here. Yeah, it has
been so fast, and I know we say this every year, but when
we when I look at it and say, you know, two three weeks
ago, I was like, it seems like this thing is zipping along.
And then now I'm sitting here, you know, putting together that week nine
projection, the one that seems to draw obviously the most interest. There's a
lot of people that are already kind of sniping at me via text and a
direct message asking me if they can get a sneak peek at it. So,
you know, basically, it's it's crazy how quickly we got here.
You know, it feels like no more than a couple of weeks ago that
I was analyzing over forty five hundred yet to be played football games when putting
together the first projection. So just crazy speed with the way this regular season
goes. And I'm sure we'll be saying the same thing in six weeks from
now when this all wraps up. Yeah, make sure you follow SEUs on
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Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok by searching for Friday Night Drive. We're gonna
go ahead and dive into this week eight slate and we're gonna start with the
games that really and we mentioned earlier at the top there that had a big
impact on the playoff field. One major one with DePaul College Prep and Fenwick
on Friday evening. This game went multiple overtimes with de Paul pull out the
win. Here, sus, this is one of the bigger upsets. I
don't feel like that's an overstatement here, right. Yeah, when you look
at it, you know how the Catholic League is stacked up. Typically the
CCL Red teams kind of struggle to get themselves in a position to potentially qualify
for the playoffs. But if you watched what DePaul has been doing over the
last couple of weeks, this was kind of, I guess a little bit
foreshadowed that they might have a game like this in them. A couple of
weeks ago, they took Providence to the hilt, had a lead late in
the fourth quarter, have been very competitive in some of these games where it
looks like on paper that they might not have been. So while I was
really shocked to see that final score with the Paul beating Fenwick, when I
really sat down and thought about it after the fact, I guess I could
have understood that maybe DePaul has been a little bit underrated all along in regards
to how close they've been in some games where you know, it looks like
a CCL Red team might have difficulty in those crossovers. So obviously a huge
win for them puts them at four and four into a Week nine game with
a three and five d LA solid team. Obviously have to win it to
get in, but the opportunity is there for the Rams, and it usually
at this point in time in the year, all of the CCL RED teams
are pretty much eliminated from that chase, so a big step for to Paul
in their program. Uh. The Paul is one of five cc or c
c L E s CC teams that enter Week nine at four and four,
along with Brother Rise, Nazareth, Saint Vider and Fenwick. Fenwick, coming
off that loss against the Paul now has to face the solid, solid Icy
Catholic team uh and Fenwick does not have the points if they lose this game
to get into the field, right sous has a four win at large team.
No, because I mean that that also that list also tightened up a
little bit this week. And if you're if you're sitting where Fenwick is,
which is a round the forty point barrier through eight weeks now, it's not
gonna happen. I mean, at the very least, you have to be
in the high forties to be in that race, probably even at fifty at
this point in time, to have a strong consideration. So no, that
would not be a viable option for them. It's been kind of an erratic
season for Fenwick. Sometimes it feels like they're on the verge of breaking through,
and then you know, then there are games like this one that they
lost. It almost seems fitting that they're at four and four right now having
to punch their way in just based on the inconsistencies of their season thus far.
All right, let's head to downstate to some of these small school upsets
that you were talking about. Are surprising result, you know, one of
them, Litchfield. It's incredible to think that just a year ago that they
broke the state's longest losing streak forty seven straight games, and now Litchfield is
playoff eligible suites. They had a win over Panna here in week Week eight,
first playoff apparent since two thousand and five for Lichfield. Yeah, when
I saw that final on Friday night, I didn't realize that that was actually
their fifth win. I was just surprised that they had won the game.
Yeah, primarily based on not only did they beat a quality team in their
conference, but just sometimes you put memory tags on a lot of these different
teams, I don't always know exactly what team's records are. I have a
pretty good idea. But with Lichfield, you know, based on their past
history and the fact that they snapped that giant losing streak last year, I
thought maybe they were you know, maybe had two three wins on the year
at best, and then I discovered it was their fifth win, and I
was really kind of surprised. So, you know, Lichfield, really fun
story for them getting in. It's been an interesting year down in that area
and in that conference. There have been some upsets by teams that have lesser
records, so you've kind of come to expect that there's probably gonna be one
outcome in that league on a week to week basis that maybe doesn't doesn't wash
with what you were expecting coming in. So a great story for them,
you know, really really great. Because there are programs like that, you
just kind of get used to them struggling after a while. It's always nice
to see them kind of punch their way into the field and make something happen.
After a one in three start to the season, Decater MacArthur has now
won four straight game suits, maybe the most surprising one this past weekend,
with a forty five twenty seven win over defending state champion Sacred Heart Griffin.
Obviously a lot of changes over at Sacred Heart Griffin this year, but still
they came into this game at six and one, MacArthur the general twelve.
That forty five to twenty seven win, that one surprised me, sus,
Yeah, I mean it had. I found out it had been six years
since the Kater and MacArthur had beaten Sacred Heart, and I figured it would
that streak had actually been longer. Yeah, so you know when I when
I found out it was that that recent it really kind of surprised me because
Sacred Heart and Rochester have dominated the Central State eight one step below is usually
glen Wood, and then there's teams in kind of that middle of the pack
that very infrequently rise up and pick off one of the wins of the's caliber.
You know, MacArthur. That was a giant win for them because it
was another one of those situations where it looked like they were going to head
into this game, you know, head into week nine with a four and
four record and a good opponent in week nine. Now they've locked in that
fifth win and they're in great shape. Did MacArthur beat was it? Did
they beat Rochester a couple of years ago upset them? I can't remember.
Or was that Glenwood I'm thinking of. I think it's Glenwood that you're thinking
of. I don't think they've got Rochester in quite sometimes. So yeah,
yeah, and Sacred Heart coming into this game, it looked like they were
rolling pretty well. I mean lost in the season opener, had one sixth
straight, so there weren't a lot of indicators that this game was the This
win for MacArthur was coming. I'm looking through the Central State eight standing right
now and seeing that they already have six teams in the playoffs. Huh yeah.
And it's kind of a weird situation in that league this year because in
the past it has been a closed conference. They added an eleventh team this
year this year in Lincoln and required some crossover games. This is all a
prelude to next season when they add Quincy Notre Dame as the twelve team and
then they go to divisions. So it was kind of a weird situation in
the Central State Eighth this year where multiple teams in the league didn't play other
teams in the league, So that's different than ever before. Usually everyone plays
everyone in that conference. Now with eleven teams, you can't do that anymore.
So they had some non conference crossovers with Big twelve teams, and some
of the middle to lower rung teams in the Central Eight State eight got paired
with the middle of the pack to lower rung teams in the Big twelve,
So it gave them another opera oportunity to pick up an extra win that maybe
they would not have had the opportunity to get in past seasons in the ten
team format, so most Central State eight teams enter the season under the presumption
that they're probably going to start with three losses Rochester, Sacred Heart, Gripman,
and glen Wood and then they have to go from there. So that's
it's kind of a hole that they have to dig out of almost almost every
season. Jacksonville at four and four in that conference as well, with a
chance that they can pull off an upset against Normally University this week to get
to five win and get themselves into the playoff field. But all right,
moving on to some other games that really kind of shaped up the field this
week soon. As we already mentioned to Paul, let's see, we've got
Litchfield about Monticello. This is a program that we're used to seeing in the
playoffs, this playoffs every year, but they had to pull off a win
over Prairie Central this past week to really make sure that that streak continues.
Monticello getting it done though, Yeah, it was definitely when you look at
it on paper, it looked like last week's lost to Paxton in Week seven
was going to be devastating for Monticello's playoff chances here because they were needing to
find a way to get to that fifth win beating Prairie Central. You know,
they were definitely an underdog in this game. So Manticello a playoff staple,
a team that you kind of expect to be in the field every year,
but it didn't look like it was in the cards for them. We're
going to need that huge win, got it. So I believe, if
I'm not mistaken, every year that Coley Welter has been at Monticello that there
have been playoffs. Manicelo had made it so that streak was in danger,
but now the stages are in the field. Another game, Marengo and Sandwich.
This game actually played on Saturday afternoon. Junior David Lopez had an eighty
eight yard kickoff return for the go ahead touchdown, the game winning touchdown.
There. Marengo wins that game thirty eight to thirty one. Marengo came in
not projected to win. That got the back to four and four, and
that shuts sets up a showdown with Plano this week at four and four as
well. A win and get in situation for Moreno and Plango suit or Plano
suits. Yeah, they are about six or seven of those games around the
state this week, and this wasn't one that I, to be honest,
anticipated being on that list. I thought Sandwich would get that win over Marengo.
But this was another example of I think teams realizing in week eight,
hey, we got to go now because the opportunity won't be there for us
in week nine if we don't get it done. So not a huge gap
between these two teams on paper heading into the game, but you got to
make calls sometimes, so it looked like Sandwich was the favorite in that game.
Marengo pulling that out and now has some momentum going into that Plano game,
you know, and now you know they have that opportunity to get themselves
into the field. That's a straight you know, win and get in type
of situation, and if you don't, you're not going to playoffs. I
mean, that's it's it's clear cut. Some of them are a little bit
different that way. Maybe the loser still has an outside chance, but that's
a clear understanding. When you look at the scoreboard at the end of the
game, will win means you're in the playoffs, lost and you're up.
A few other schools that picked up wins that really needed them this past week.
Deer Creek, Mcinnall, Homewood, Flossmore and Nacomas Suits any anything else
there you want to hit on. You know, that was the group that
was kind of interesting just because of the size of the schools, with Deer
Creek, Mackinaw and Nacomas both being one a ads this week. That was
a big reason for why the field looks like it's going to shift with some
of those bubble teams fitting into higher classifications. And there were a few teams
that took losses in Week eight that really knocked them out of playoff contentionent picking
up that fifth loss. A couple that were surprising to me, Evanston losing
twenty eight to twenty one to Glenbrook North, Glenbrook North getting its second win,
Evanston now at three and five, and then going on the road.
It would funny. And during the day I had talked with Ty Reynolds,
who covered that game for us, and I told Ty that, you know,
I had this weird feeling I had looking through stuff that Rock Island was
gonna give Sterling a game. I thought afterwards, by about five o'clock,
I'm like I'm in an eighty. It's Sterling's can be fine, sure enough,
I would write My first instinct would write those us. Yeah. I
mean that conference has been really really tricky this year top to bottom. I
mean, it's it's been Quincy has clearly separated itself from the group. Geneseo
got off to a really fast start, but there have been some hiccups for
the Green Machine over the last you know, a couple of weeks where they've
been in tight games with teams on paper that it looks like they shouldn't be
and even had losses in the case of they lost to Sterling recently. So
you know, it's been very very hard to project and it makes it even
kind of more interesting to me looking at that Sterling Moline game in week nine,
because Moleene needs it to get in. Sterling pretty much can't get in,
but Sterling will probably relish the opportunity to play spoiler and drop Moleen from
the field. So Mollene has very poor playoff points, so it's a situation
where they could even win that game, and if we end up having to
drop five win teams, which may still happen, Moleene would be very very
high and potentially on that list, so they've got a treacherous path to tread
as well, but got to get past Sterling first. So that's just another
thing. You can't take that any game for granted. Right now in the
Western Big Six, it seems all right. We're gonna take a quick commercial
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Live with Friday Night Drive. I'll be on there as well, checking in
with the guys, our team and reporters, some coaches. Be a good
time, but for now we're gonna wrap up this week eight podcast suits with
starting with the Southwest Prairie Conference, where again you just had some really close
games. Here. I'm just gonna give you a couple of different ones.
You had Yorkville winning thirteen to eight over Oswego East Ben Alvarez with a twenty
seven yard twenty seven yard interception return for a touchdown. Yorkville forced three turnovers
in that game, and then Minooka winning the game thirteen to ten over Oswego.
Another game where it came down to an interception, Donovan Anderson picking off
a ball with less than a minute left to secure the win for Minooka.
Soft what Prairie west Man never never a dull moment, And you didn't even
mention in those games that you broke down. The team that I find wildly
most odd in that conference, Plainfield North with that ten tozering win over West
Aurora. And you look at their season numbers and it really perplexes you.
They're at four and four, which is exactly what you would kind of expect.
After I give you this next fact, they've given up eighty one points
this season, which is really good. Through eight yep, fantastic, They've
only scored eighty two, so it I mean, that's exactly kind of what
you would expect from a four and four team at this point in time.
So you know, exceptional on defense, challenge on offense, and it's making
for very you know, very rock against the hard placed games for every team
that plays Plainfield North and now they play Yorkville in Week nine, another team
that kind of it feels like they're very much like that as well. Have
been in numerous low scoring close contests during this recent string where it seems like
they're playing really good football, but yet they haven't been able to separate themselves
from any opponent. It's they've been touchdown or closer games. And I fully
expect that game on Friday night. You know, you look at it now,
every indication that that'll be a low scoring game. What do you want
to bet me? It's like forty two to forty. I mean, that's
that just is kind of what it feels like. It's just all over the
place, all over the board on that thing. There's currently you know,
three teams at the top of that conference in a three way tie. Monoka
looks like they're playing the best football right now, but still had to grind
out that win over oswegos we Go a very good defensive team kind of limited
Monoka offensively. Minoka needed a late field goal to finally get the separation that
they needed in that game. But every every given week in that league,
it looks like every one of these games has the potential to come down to
the wire. And once again it's we've gone eight weeks of this and I
can't comfortably stack the order of how good I feel like these teams are.
You could ask me right now one through six and ask me a half an
hour from now, and I could come back with a completely different list.
I wonder how many times it's happened where a team has allowed and scored less
than one hundred total points in a regular season. Yeah, that would be
something I'd have to dig in and look at it. It's very rare.
I mean, it can't happen. Yeah, it's it's it's it's not a
sustainable work model. Let's put it that way, Kyle. It's very hard
to have those two things line up in that fashion. Yeah. Absolutely.
I'd also be interested to know, by looking at it, how many of
the offensive points scored by offensive points supposedly by plain but length have actually been
scored by the defense. I know they've had some so the offense has actually
scored even less points than that in reality. God, So that's you know,
it's it's definitely a weird model, and it's definitely making it very difficult
to figure out what Plainfield North may do on a week to week basis because
their defense is so so good, but is it good enough to withstand the
fact that the offense just isn't going to provide that much and it's just their
reality. So and then on top of it, the kicker to it is,
if they don't win this game, they have a treasure trove of playoff
points, so they're very high on the potential list of teams that could still
get into the field at four and five. And while you know, if
they were to lose this game, while it happens occasionally, and I can't
point out a specific examples, Plainfield North, if they did get in at
four and five, would be that very rare team that enters the playoff field
having been outscored by their opposition during the regular season. So that doesn't happen
very often. But like, there's all kinds of options with that team right
now. It's very strange. But like you look at it on paper,
and you're like, they're in a three way tie for first place in the
conference right now with Monoka and in Yorkville. So if they were to win
that game and then Monika wins their game, then they don't win the conference
title, but they would still get into the playoffs. They would need Manoka
to lose to win the conference title outright, because they lost to Monika when
they played them head to head. So just a lot of a lot of
permutations right there with the conference that just won't settle down and give you consistent
results on a week to week basis. On the other side of the conference,
I just want to give a shout out to Juliet West picks up a
seventeen to fifteen win over playing Field East, the Tigers becoming one of my
favorite stories of the season. Soues now at seven and one. Yeah,
that seventh win apparently goes back to like the nineteen sixties for the Joliette football
program to have won seven games in a season, So that's pretty impressive seven
games in a regular season. I should say they've had a couple of good
teams when they were unified as a program between Central and West, but as
independent joliet West. This is the first time that they've been a seven win
program in the regular season in since the nineteen sixties, So that's one fascinating
stat from this breakout. So have the opportunity to win the conference championship outright
this week against a hungry playing Field Central team that's trying to fight their way
into the playoffs. But I like Juliett West chance to get to the eight
win level. I think they're going to get the school's first ever home playoff
game regardless of outcome in this week's game. So another feather in the cap
for the program. It's definitely it's been a fun year for the Joliette West
Tigers. Three more games that hit on before we wrap up this edition of
the Friday Night Drive podcast. I was watching this one as we were doing
live with Friday Night Drive Barrington and Palatine. It was a really, really
tight game in the first half. Nick Piper hit Ian Teppes for go ahead
touchdown right before halftime in that game, and from there Barrington really sees control
of that and ended up going going away with a fifty to thirty two win.
So she would talked a little bit last week about how Barrington, you
know, the middle portion of the season, the offense had not been as
efficient as early on. That make you feel a little bit better where the
Broncos are heading into the postseason, Yeah, sure does. I mean I
had the opportunity to see them live in a person at midseason. Barrington's not
usually a team that I see during the regular season, just worked out that
way, had a Thursday night game that gave me the opportunity to go catch
them live, and I came away with impressed with basically the solidness of the
football team, but the fact that they just didn't seem to just be able
to deliver a knockout punch against at that time a New Trier team that currently
is two and six was a little bit troubling to me. And then over
the next couple of weeks, they really kind of had to, you know,
work their way into fourth quarter to make sure that they pulled out wins.
And and I wasn't sure what was going to happen in this Palatinon game.
I didn't know if they you know, had that ability to deliver that
kind of finishing move, if you will, against equality opponent. They answered
that with a resounding yes, we do. Stop worrying about us. We're
good because Palaton's an awfully good football team despite the fact that they now have
three losses. They picked up a couple of early season losses to quality opponents
in the noncom difference season. But Palatine's a really good team, and for
Barrington pull away from them in the fashion they did, very impressive suce.
The Upstate eight's getting a little squirrely on us because Glenbard's south hand South Elgin
its first lost in the Upstate Eight and seemingly forever, and then this past
week glen Bard East goes out and beats Glenbard South twenty eight to fourteen,
and now we got a three way tie sitting here at the top of that
conference at seven and one. Yeah, always an interesting kind of situation that's
kind of developed over the last few years with this conference. Those three teams
have kind of separated themselves from the group. But South Elgin definitely stood on
top of the heat. There was, you know, maybe Glenbard's South and
Glenbard East were kind of nipping at their heels. A little indicator early in
the year that this might be coming was Glenbard East lost by a field goal
to South Elgin early in the year. Earlier in the year, so it
looked like South Elgin's perch was a little tenuous on top of there, and
then glen Bard South gets the win. So it looks like those three teams,
to be honest with you, might be kind of equal and any given
night, any of the three could beat the other ones. So a good
development for both the Glenbard South and glen Bard East programs that they've kind of
bridged that gap and now it looks interesting for those types of teams right now
because Glenbard East is a bubble team between seven and eight. But the team
that I'm most interested in seeing how this applies to their postseason run, to
be honest, is glen Bard's South, because unlike South Eligion and Glenbard East,
who our eight A teams, Glenbard's South is a five A team.
So I'm interested to see if maybe the progress that they've made will be able
to translate to maybe a couple of rounds of advancement in the five day playoffs.
Quick shout out to in the Upstate eight Conference Aurora East East, Aurora
going to the playoffs for the first time, and I don't have it in
front of me. But it's been a long time too, it's twenty plus
years. I had someone from the school to reach out to me this week
and ask me if I knew who was involved in that Chicago Bears Coach of
the Week award that is given out. I directed them to the right person
on that one, because they were extolling the virtues of what the program has
been able to accomplish, and as they should, that they've really stepped up
in a big way. This is you know. I hate to say that
there are certain programs that heading into the regular season I kind of dismiss as
legitimate threats to get to the playoffs, but I do it. I mean,
it's based on a lot of what I do early on in the season
is based on past history of programs. You have to prove to me that
you're actually, you know, this isn't a blip that that it's sustainable.
It took a long time for me to buy into East Aurora based on on
past history. So I believe in them now. Obviously they're in the playoff
field. They a chance to get a six win too, because they got
and eight fent in this week. Yeah, so I mean that'll set them
up with you know, they won't be at the bottom of the draw.
Probably a low twenty seed will be what ends up happening for them. So
you know, maybe an opportunity if the draw comes right, to give them
a competitive game in that opening round. So a lot of progress made by
that program this year. One more game here wrap up, going back down
to small schools. We didn't Academy thirty to Aurora Christian seven. This was
a game that we wanted to see Hollywood play out. We didn't Academy those
twos showing to be the class of that conference. Yeah, and we really
didn't get clarity on that for a while, to be honest with you,
because it felt like the teams were jostling back and forth in this league,
and you know, and then you go back to like early in the year
and you start looking at like what what Wheaton Academy had done, who they
had played, and then that one point lost the Hope Academy. While it
shouldn't give you, like any pause about the quality of Wheaton Academy and Hope
Academy is good, but then Hope Academy loses to someone else and then you're
like, well, is that team better than Wheaton Academy. I don't know,
And so, you know, you just kind of had that you know,
three four headed monster at the top of the league that kind of had
to resolve itself. And now it looks like Wheaton Academy has has cleared itself
from the pack. So good for them. It will set them up with
a much better draw. They keep moving up the seed chart in the for
A North bracket with each consequential win, you know, so a good situation
for them. But now they have the opportunity to play a spoiler for Marion
Central Catholic in Week nine. Mary In Central Catholic, sitting on four losses
right now can't afford to pick up that fifth. They would have a chance
at possible for four win playoff berth. But the more you look at it,
anymore that you look at the extenuating circumstances of that bid, they need
to win this game because if they don't win this game, they're playoff point
situation will not be all that great. Because in a weird quirk their non
conference schedule, they played Milwaukee Academy of Science and they have not played for
the last two weeks, so really that does that, Yeah, that they
they kind of have a hodgepodge schedule that they put together. They're they're a
pretty solid football team, but they have not had a game and either they
have not had a game last week, they have not had a game in
scheduled for this week. So for a team that will need every possible playoff
point that it can get, having a team of quality not playing games is
really bad for them. So they will probably pick up obviously, probably pick
up a one point from their non conference schedule with Richmond Burton, but if
they you know, if they don't win, the maximum number of points that
they can pick up this week is five and that would get them to forty
seven, which, to be honest, is not going to be in the
so so so that's that's where they stand right now, and that's it's their
point. Situation has gone from being very good to good but not great,
primarily because of that little quirk with the Milwaukee Academy of Science. All right,
so if we're gonna get out of here, you got any final thoughts
on week four US, You know, it was definitely a fact finding mission,
and I talk about this a lot. It was people don't realize,
especially in the larger classifications fans, how much the small school results affect the
big school results and far as far as how we're gonna end up putting this
playoff field together. So a very interesting development in terms of what the small
schools did this week. It'll be fun to watch because if you look ahead
to week nine, there are a ton of interesting games involving in the bigger
schools this week, and maybe those results can upset the apple cart and change
it in another directions. So, uh, it's gonna come down to wire.
Week nine is always fascinating, really looking forward to it, but Week
gate provided some some uh some deep intrigue, and I'm not used to getting
that from week eight. All right, well, make sure you stick to
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