Week 13 Friday Night Predictions: Hillsboro Hawks Begin State Playoffs on the Meramec, Crystal City Heads Downriver Hoping For Gold at St. Vincent

by The Gridiron Geek | Nov 17, 2023 | News, Predictions

Hillsboro Hawks at Pacific Indians (Class 4 State Quarterfinal) Photo Credits: Paul Stuthers (Hillsboro) and Amaya Manning (CCHS)  The Hillsboro Hawks were already facing a psychological see-saw from solid favorite to stout underdog, should the 10-1 Hawks be fortunate...

Week 12 Friday Night Predictions: Hillsboro and Festus, Seckman and Jackson Square Off in Championship Rumbles, Blue Jays and Hornets Host Dangerous District Foes

by The Gridiron Geek | Nov 9, 2023 | News, Predictions

C4 District 1 Championship Game: Festus Tigers at Hillsboro Hawks The Geek has taken just about every angle to previews of the Festus-Hillsboro series over the years. Once about 5 years ago, the Magazine even quoted the greatest Pacific Time Zone pigskin announcer of...

MSHSAA District Semifinal Predictions: Blue Jays, Lancers Have All-Or-Nothing Rematch, and We Pity The Foo Who Plays Week 11’s Winner

by The Gridiron Geek | Nov 2, 2023 | News, Predictions

St. Pius Lancers at Jefferson Blue Jays (Class 2, District 2) Don’t you love it when a plan comes together? St. Vincent may have turned out to be the “A-Team” of the I-55 Conference this season, and yet it’s a crazy fact that the Jefferson Blue...

Week 10 District Quarterfinal Predictions: Triumphant Eve Not Guaranteed With County’s Top 2 Sitting Out

by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 26, 2023 | News, Predictions

DeSoto Dragons at Festus Tigers (Class 4, District 1) Russ Schmidt’s return to Midmeadow Lane as DeSoto’s head coach is a triumph in more ways than one. It was Schmidt’s mastery of DeSoto as FHS’s skipper that stuck in the minds of R-6 faithful...

Week 9 Friday Night Predictions: Iconic Tri-City Rivalry Writes Another Chapter as Herky Blackcats Host Crystal City Hornets

by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 19, 2023 | News, Predictions

Crystal City Hornets at Herculaneum Blackcats Week 9 being the time when Mississippi Magazine begins to close down its regular-season coverage and starts looking at the District playoffs more closely, most of our predictions for this Friday night will be of the...

Week 8 Friday Night Predictions: Hillsboro’s Next Best Chance To Take Down Cardinal Ritter

by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 13, 2023 | News, Predictions

Hillsboro Hawks at Cardinal Ritter Lions Is Hillsboro’s new unbeaten streak about to come to a crashing halt against the worst of MSHSAA’s division killers? Or will Hillsboro and Cardinal Ritter produce another tight, tumultuous tilt such as the scrum...