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Everyone realizes the watered down 1A  division is really just this game between Pikeville and Raceland, which has been a distant 2nd the past few seasons.  I took Plant Man’s comment to be a jab at Pikeville’s quest to be recognized as a state power regardless of class.  If that were the case, then yes, they would destroy the Rams.

Belfry taking the Olden Eagles to the woodshed certainly took some of the shine off the Pikeville marketing diamond..as well as some RPI points.

I really don’t get caught up in scores and what this team does to that team. Teams match up differently. I get it…this is a site meant to talk about football but sometimes things that are said are comical. A win is a win and you can’t take away a win from anybody. 

As for this game. I like the Rams chances based on the timing of this game. The Rams are coming of a bye week and Pikeville will be playing their third tough game in as many weeks. This has to be in Racelands favor. I still think the Rams have to play perfect to win. We give up way too many big plays and Pikeville will big play us to death. I’m not giving my prediction yet ….I’ll wait till the end of the week. 

Im planning on coming down early to this one and hitting a bbq joint. I’ve heard it’s pretty good

I've been trying to rationalize the advantages we have going into this one and I've gone back and forth on the bye week logic. I think a bye week past mid-season is a definite winner, especially if you are banged up. I'm not so sure at this point in the season, your biggest gains normally happen between week one and week two, after that, you have diminishing returns each week. They have had three weeks of sizeable returns and we've only had two. Hopefully, our extra prep time outweighs their extra game experience. I think we're climbing further up the mountain but I'm not convinced we're going over the top yet. Unfortunately, I think it's Pikeville by two TD's. Hope I'm wrong.