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I imagine better opportunities could have come up for that weekend for those teams. In Barbers Hill's case, they are playing in the McDonald's Invitational the weekend before. May be about too many games for them. West Brook is playing in the Texas Jamboree that weekend vs. Dallas Kimball. That is a much better deal for them. Port Arthur Memorial is also playing in Texas Jamboree vs. Houston Washington. Silsbee is playing at Texas Jamboree as well. I believe all those schedules are more than sufficient to explain why they are not playing at Border Battle. As for Lumberton, again they may not have been invited.

There are a few other schools that have played in this event in the past (West Brook, Silsbee, Port Arthur Memorial, Barbers Hill) that are not playing this year. Do they not carry enough cache to get in?

Maybe they didn't get invited this year.

and that game will be 1 hour and 45 minutes.

Some of my district dark horses: 23-6A Kingwood 19-5A Baytown Sterling 20-4A Shepherd 21-3A Pollok Central 28-1A Leggett

My picks for our coverage area districts: 23-6A 1. Atascocita 2. Summer Creek 3. North Shore 4. CE King 18-5A 1. Crosby 2. Kingwood Park 3. Porter 4. Dayton 19-5A 1. United 2. West Brook 3. Barbers Hill 4. Port Neches-Groves 18-4A 1. Bridge City 2. Silsbee 3. WO-S 4. Vidor 19-4A 1. Huffman 2. Hardin-Jefferson 3. Livingston 4. Hamshire-Fannett 21-3A 1. Central Heights 2. Huntington 3. Pineywoods CA 4. Diboll 22-3A 1. Orangefield 2. East Chambers 3. Buna 4. Kountze 23-3A 1. Onalaska 2. Trinity 3. Crockett 4. Coldspring 24-2A 1. San Augustine 2. Chireno 3. Shelbyville 4. Hemphill 25-2A 1. Big Sandy 2. Evadale 3. West Hardin 4. Sabine Pass 28-1A 1. Brookeland 2. Spurger 3. Chester 4. Hull-Daisetta

Could be 5 if they split in district.

I agree. It sometimes gets political with the all-district picks. I also know that these TABC district predictions is not always 100% coach decided in some of these districts.

Need a Jasper peep to confirm. Word on the street is several players quit. Is this true?

Made my decision for Friday night. Lufkin at Beaumont United pregame meal at Pappadeaux's (Crawfish Trio with a dozen Blue Point raw oysters for appetizer)

It's funny though. Some are okay with these district predictions by the coaches, but then get upset with these same coaches when all-district selections come out. LOL

I'll post my coverage area district picks tomorrow.

But those Titan fans still are burning it up over PN-G being ranked ahead of them. 😁

[Hidden Content] Coverage area districts 23-6A 1. Atascocita 2. Summer Creek 3. Humble 4. North Shore 18-5A 1. Kingwood Park 2. Crosby 3. Porter 4. West Fork 19-5A 1. United 2. West Brook 3. PA Memorial 4. Barbers Hill 18-4A 1. Bridge City 2. Silsbee 3. Vidor 4. WO-S 19-4A 1. Huffman 2. Hardin-Jefferson 3. Hamshire-Fannett 4. Livingston 21-3A 1. Huntington 2. Central Heights 3. Pineywoods CA 4. Pollok Central 22-3A 1. Orangefield 2. East Chambers 3. Buna 4. Kountze 23-3A 1. Onalaska 2. Crockett 3. Trinity 4. Coldspring 24-2A 1. San Augustine 2. Chireno 3. Woden 4. West Sabine 25-2A 1. Evadale 2. Big Sandy 3. West Hardin 4. Danbury 28-1A 1. Brookeland 2. Spurger 3. Hull-Daisetta 4. Goodrich

Only ones that have any kind of chance would be Lumberton and Vidor. Don't expect either to go up.

Made another pass this morning. Picked up a few more. Updated on the above thread. Down to needing 20.

Forgot about Huntsville. My bad. Yes this would be for 4th. 21 point cap is a total points cap differential in a singular game. Some districts have 15, 18 and 21. It's in place so that teams cannot "run up" the score to improve their playoff chances.

I agree about the opt up. It should only be for schools with major travel issues. (i.e. El Paso, etc.) Not for schools that are are only traveling 60 or less miles. BC, HJ and Liberty all opted up for competition reasons. Not travel. You'll never convince me otherwise. I can see BC opting up because they are actually very close to DI numbers anyway. HJ and Liberty are not even close. Also, I am not all that hip on all the other sports going to divisions but if that is how it's going to be, then have divisional districts like football and not decide the divisions after district play. That actually allows a larger school to get in D2 depending on who makes playoffs. If they do go with divisional districts this next realignment for all sports (I am hearing they won't) then schools that opt up for football should have to play all the rest of their sports in that football district. You shouldn't be able to pick and choose what sport you want to opt up in and not.

Goes to positive points. I believe this district point cap is 21. Based on the one result (LC beat Dayton, 50-26) we already have, these are the current point totals for those three teams: Lake Creek +21 West Fork 0 Dayton -21 With 2 more results to be determined, those point totals will change. Let's say Dayton beats WF by 17, then they will finish with a point total of -4. WF would current be at -17. Then let's say WF beats LC by 7. Then WF would finish at -10 and LC would finish at +14. So with those results, LC would be #3 seed, Dayton #4 seed and WF out. But, I do not know if this is one of those districts that only uses positive points just to break three way then go head to head with remaining two teams. If that was the case, the seeds would still be the same with the example scenario that I posted. Of course, those two games yet to be played could change the point totals quite a bit from my example. Only thing for sure we know is the current point totals for Dayton and Lake Creek.

DCTF has Orangefield as a 4 point favorite.

DCTF has Lumberton as a 15 point favorite.

I stay away from Tues-Thurs. college games. Every now and then play some Friday games when they are lumped in on my high school ticket.

I watched the Texan Live broadcast Sunday. Tigers had a very difficult time tackling Jefferson. Had him bottled up several times but he powered through the tackles.

DCTF has Angleton as a 6 point favorite. Stepp has LP by 5. He mentions the loss of the Angleton QB.