by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 27, 2025 | News, Predictions, Previews
St. Pius X is finally off the slow-motion Elevator it was on. The Lancers spent Week 4 through Week 8 crushing medicore teams and getting crushed by a superior team. Skeptics of The Geek’s #6 Jefferson County Power Poll ranking thought St. Pius X would take...
by The Gridiron Geek | Oct 27, 2025 | News, Predictions, Previews
The Gridiron Geek tries to avoid recapping Week 9 as much as possible, to get a jump on Missouri’s district tournament brackets as soon as they come out. Then TGG spends the Saturday after the regular season’s final round wishing that a regular old recap...
by The Gridiron Geek | Aug 29, 2025 | News, Previews
One final Big Idea from Mississippi Magazine this season is that we’d like to bring our “low exposure” teams like the Fox Warriors into the limelight, even if we have to drag them kicking-and-screaming (and bribe MSHSAA TV to send its own video crew)...
by The Gridiron Geek | Aug 29, 2025 | News, Previews
The Mississippi Conference is the new hotbed of Tri-State pigskin. Festus and Hillsboro have combined to win 52 games and make a pair of Show-Me Bowl appearances over three consecutive seasons. The success of 2020’s Festus team and 2021-22’s Hillsboro...
by The Gridiron Geek | Aug 28, 2025 | News, Previews
One other Big Idea for Mississippi Magazine is a Friday Night Scoreboard. This one might take until the 2026 season to implement, but we’re working on it, because The Geek does not want another version of Scorestream – and God bless Scorestream! –...
by The Gridiron Geek | Aug 27, 2025 | News, Previews
The Gridiron Geek’s Big Idea #1 for this season is to create a video channel for chat-interview style versions of the Jefferson County Power Poll and the Friday Night Predictions. It’s going to be fun, but it also saves TGG time to fact-check and improve...
