You are all missing the point which is to be expected with the GMC being a public school league. Elder is AVERAGE and West is ALSO. Best defense in the state statements are absolutely insane. Moeller rolls West or Princeton.
27 points? No respect at all for Princeton, or the Viking defense who hasn't allowed over 16 points a game all season. Looks like the Vikes will be taken to the woodshed Friday night, no use in even getting on the bus and showing up.Tristate football is predicting a 27-17 Lakota West win.
Preview: #3 Lakota West vs. #2 Princeton
Our Blitz 5 Game of the Week features a GMC rematch when Lakota West takes on Princeton on Friday night. The Firebirds and Vikings will clash at Dwyer Field in Mason with a chance to push through t…tristatefootball.com
Name a better defense in Region 4 than Lakota West's? I will accept arguments for Princeton's defense only. Name a better defense in D1 in the state? I will accept arguments for St. Ed's only. There are D2 schools I will accept arguments for as well. As I mentioned before, stating Lakota West has the best defense in the state is all relative. The state is down this year. This season's version of St. Ed's wouldn't put the clamps on Drew Allar like they did in 2021. Springfield doesn't have nearly the same defense that they had the last couple of years. Moeller, while not a defensive juggernaut, still isn't as good as they were last year.
I didn't understand that with Tri-State Football having Princeton ranked as the top team in the area. Different folks rating than those predicting games, I guess. The logic fails me. Recently, Mason held West to 10 points and Princeton's defense is better than Mason. West got 3 points in the first game and now they are going to score 27? I expect a low scoring game.
It confuses me when people don't understand how a game is going to flow. Princeton and Lakota West will both be nearly running the ball every play and offense will be very hard to come by. Either team scoring 20 points would be shocking. This obviously won't be as high a level of a football game, but something like the '05 X-Colerain game that finished 12-9 in OT wouldn't shock me.
Then the OHSAA should just go ahead and cancel the West v Princeton game because; what's the point? Everyone should just bend the knee and let Ed's and Moeller battle it out for the Div 1 state championship because the rest of the field of teams is unworthy.
Well there’s about a 90% chance that one of those two teams will win it
Comments like this is why I despise the GCL South. I really hope this doesn't age well
Does it have anything to do with the 19 state football championships the league has accumulated since 1972
Haha. And 50% of all people you meet are below average.Well there’s about a 90% chance that one of those two teams will win it
I agree with this. You can throw on Mason. They are, however, very good against the run.
The Elder Defense BELOW Average! Moeller-Princeton R4F
Gahanna barely beat the 4th best GMC team by the score of 10-5. They would not wax the top tier. Pick North barely beat Elder who Lakota West beat worst than Pick North. Your argument is baseless.
St. Ed's also barely beat Elder, but I digress. I think Elder was capable of good play this year; they were just really inconsistent. For what it's worth, Drew Pasteur has kept updating his power rankings through the playoffs, and he has Moeller, Lakota West, and Princeton as the #2-4 teams in D1 respectively behind St. Ed's. St. X is still #5. Final 16 teams remaining in D1 and Drew Pasteur ranks:
They better beat Princeton this year. This is an extremely young team. Don’t know about anyone beating them the next few years!
That match up would be a throw back to the 1970's when those teams beat each other up in great games. I am impressed by Princeton with outstanding speed and and impressive Dline. I think they beat West, 21-16.
Nice to see the Vikes doing well again. Moeller has some very good young teams as well.
I figured they would be able to throw on them, and they are. Mason has no hope of scoring 22 points to get back in this. Moeller just needs to salt the game away now.
