JohnRuthDomergue

Not an unreasonable position.  In fact, two of pollsters agreed with you.
I'll just tell you my view on the deal.  It is quite simple, you lose, you drop.  To some, that mind sound quite arbitrary and some of our pollsters agree.  That is why we don't leave the rankings in the hands of a single person.

I get it, true story... WH beat school of the blind 20-6, Kelly 14-6 over a pony team, HD goes 70-6... Come on man! 

Agreed. Tarkington has the 6th worst winning percentage in State history, they have won 26 percent of their games all-time... To put it in perspective, Hardin has won 34 percent of it's games and West Hardin 38 percent. 

I understand HD's victory was against Burkeville, which is not a good measuring stick by any means, but I was really impressed by the freshmen and the team as a whole.  I don't think we are talking state champions by any stretch of the imagination, but I think we are going to get some wins this season.  I do think HD takes this one and don't care by how much.  If this class of freshmen stay together and stay healthy they are a special group, that's a big IF.   

That will be determined by the voters in the poll, not you.

Nice upset by Tarkington, traditionally down program like Hardin and West Hardin...

Evadale is gonna surprise Iola, Rebels upset Iola 26-20.

So what if they dont win the chip this year.4 is plenty more than any team with in  a 100 miles of them will ever get and as for liberty and their game plan, like tyson said "EVERYBODY HAS A PLAN UNTIL YOU GET HIT IN THE MOUTH"

HD is not playing Houston Westbury. Westbury is a 6A school. HD is playing Westbury Christian, a small private school. Big difference.

They very well may beat HD, but It will not be a blowout, same thing was said last year.

Oh good grief.
The School for "the deaf and the blind" is a pretty common description when talking about a private school that's not very good.  Even as seldom as I defend HD55...the comment was very obviously referring to that school being a bad team.  Did not literally mean that any of them were deaf and/or blind.
Please do not let political correctness spill into this site...it's already everywhere else.  Relax.

Kountze would have probably won this contest no matter what, and rightly so as a bigger school. Kountze definitely found a way to get their basketball and track athletes on the football field. The Lions looked fast and physically imposing, from the pre-game warm up to the end of regulation. If Kountze does not compete in District this year, it's not on the players, they have the talent. HD on the other hand, looked out of sync, chemistry and execution was lacking. Folks in the stands mentioned HD had four starters on each side of the ball, out with injuries. Anytime your a small school football team with injuries, your JV players will have to move up and help out, it sucks, but small teams across Texas deal with it. You definitely could tell HD had some young inexperienced kids starting Friday night.
 
I had the opportunity to watch HD play WH the week before, in that game HD ran a certain power formation in the 4th quarter that was unstoppable, gaining about 6-7 yards a carry, surely the Bobcats would game plan, to start off out the box with it vs Kountze... Friday night came, the Bobcats chose the start of the 4th quarter again, this time down big, to finally start running from this formation I mentioned above, they ran it very successfully against the Lions starters, averaging good yardage per carry...  I've tried to wrap my mind around why a team would not run something that has been successful.. HD is a power running football team, that is apparent, HD has three physically imposing kids on their O-Line/TE, #99, #55 and #75, all three big kids for a 2A team. #99 is about 6'1 225lbs, #55 is about 6'3 300lbs and #75 is about 5'9 245lbs on average. I've noticed the three kids mention are spread out across the O-line most of the time, seems like teaming up next to each other, they could be nasty at run blocking. I believe that successful formation I talk about above, lines these three up next to each other, and it works... Folks can see the giant #55 moving his man off the ball on almost every run play, not sure why we are not capitalizing on #55's run blocking more... HD will be ok once District comes around and they heal up. I'm going to follow Kountze to see what they do in District.

Hardin is improved, no question about that, but I still think they don't win a game in district