[Hoot Gibson]

The RPI would have placed Trinity 18th in 1A last season and 6A state champion, Bullitt East, at 13th in 1A, as if that means anything at all. The RPI was never intended to rank teams across classes. There were not 6 teams better than Saint X lin 1A last season.

Read RD50's post. Not what I was talking about at all. Middlesboro would have been on the road in the payoffs last year and they would have got demolished. Not that playing at home would have helped them much.

I read, understood, and agreed with RD50's post. Middlesboro beat Harlan, Lynn Camp, and Pineville last season and narrowly lost to Williamsburg. If they do the same this season, then they will have at least one home game. I doubt that they will advance far enough for the RPI to matter, but I still don't see what their RPI rating from a year ago has to do with this season. Putting a 2A team's RPI into 1A RPIs and ranking them makes no sense to me, but maybe I am missing something.

You are missing something - my very simple and very accurate point. RD50 said Middlesboro had no chance but with RPI you never know who might get easier road to finals. I just pointed out that Middlesboro wasn't good enough to have high RPI to get easier path. Simple as it gets. Let's please move on lol.

No, I am not missing anything. Middlesboro would have been a top 10 or 12 team in 1A last season, which means they still would not have been a contender, but let's do move on.