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Monday, December 3, 2007
Surprised at semis? I’m not.
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Poll Talk Predix: Todd predicts the team-by-team semifinals winners and losers in every class. He also offers Todd’s Odds on who’ll take home a title.
We shouldn’t be surprised.
Most people would say this has been a year of upsets, but on closer inspection there have been only a half-dozen real shockers this playoff season.
The only big surprise in the semifinals is Chamblee. This is a team that lost its best player, the all-time DeKalb County rushing king, Roddy Jones, from a team that missed the playoffs last season. Nobody saw that coming, but for the rest?
Cook is a fourth seed, but the Hornets were ranked No. 7 after their opening-night victory over Colquitt County and got as high as No. 6 for four weeks. All three of their losses are to ranked teams.
Anyone paying attention knew Cook was a dangerous team and that defending champs Charlton County, Lincoln County and Roswell were up against it last week.
The other 18 teams (besides Chamblee and Cook) were ranked in preseason or after the regular season. Some were known to be very talented in preseason but perhaps hadn’t lived up to potential until now (Athens Academy, Lovett, Ware County, Camden County), and others were unranked early but very much on the radar (North Gwinnett, Walton, Cairo).
In fact, the only semifinal team that hasn’t been in the top six at some point is Camden County (peaked at No. 7 after beating Warner Robins), and everybody knows Camden is no Cinderella.
Poll Talk Predix: Todd predicts the team-by-team semifinals winners and losers in every class. He also offers Todd’s Odds on who’ll take home a title.
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