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Thursday, December 6, 2007
Mad Maxie’s Dome Predictions
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
He blogs about statewide preps, whether you like it or not.
The beautiful thing about spewing foolishness on the state high school football playoff scene is this: No matter how bloody stupid it sounds — I am not looking for an amen here, by the way — nothing I say will inexplicably leapfrog one team five spots over another and they’ll end up playing for the state championship.
So, for those of you keeping score of such things, that’s GHSA 1, BCS 0.
This is not to say crazy things won’t happen, but we can at least be thankful the players are generating it and not some 11th-hour monkeying with the polls.
Thus dawns the last weekend in which the Georgia Dome will be a means to an end and not the end of the road itself. Next year, the semifinals will be like all the other rounds of the playoffs and only the last two teams standing in each class will go to the Dome for the crown.
On to the craziness. We have ECI’s Washaun Ealey, the only member of Georgia’s 50-touchdown club, in town. We have Cook, carrying the banner for No. 4 seeds everywhere, trying to take another step against the Lovett team that only now is playing the way I expected at the beginning of the year.
We have Buford, with the rare chance to unify the Class AA title by beating both defending co-champions — Charlton County last week, Dublin this.
We have Northside’s Marques Ivory trying to make a heroic, Willis Reed-type comeback, perhaps sensing the best Tucker team in years on the other side.
We have Wilcox County, one of the rare teams that can spot Lincoln County 21 points and then put the “Wood” to them. If you don’t know what that means, get a load of Deauntay Legrier this week, because Athens Academy will.
FRIDAY
Class Winner Loser
A Wilcox County Athens Academy
A ECI Clinch County
AAA Carver-Columbus Chamblee
AAAA Northside-W.R. Tucker
AAAA Thomas Co. Cent. Ware County
SATURDAY
Class Winner Loser
AA Buford Dublin
AA Cook Lovett
AAA Cairo North Hall
AAAAA North Gwinnett Walton
AAAAA Lowndes Camden County
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