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My Tomcats will lose. They do have a decent defense but their Achilles heel is the interior run. The Eagle strength is the Tomcat weakness. That doesn’t translate to victory. One would have to be blind or in denial to not see some holes in the Eagle defense but it won’t be enough. The Golden Eagles fly high in this one.

If I had to game plan against JC.... I'd live and die with scoring passing TD's.
Before my fan club chimes in, Ashland has scored 29 rushing TD's & 15 passing TD's so far this season.  The numbers don't lie, but their competition may not tell the whole story.   Boyd County, Rowan County, Greenup County, Raceland, West Jessamine, Bardstown & Russell.... no disrespect to those teams, but they're not what JC is.  Without seeing or knowing anything about the Harvest Preparatory School, it's hard to compare them. 



JC allowed NO rushing TD's against Madison Central.
JC allowed 1 rushing TD against Pikeville.
JC allowed 3 rushing TD's against Belfry.
JC allowed 3 rushing TD's against Breathitt County.
JC allowed 1 rushing TD against Boyd County.
JC allowed NO rushing TD's against North Laurel.
JC allowed 2 rushing TD's against Corbin.
JC allowed NO rushing TD's against Rowan County.
JC allowed 2 rushing TD's against Greenup County.

Allowing 12 rushing TD's in 9 games isn't bad.  Of the 12 rushing TD's, I think about 3 or 4 were against JC's JV/Freshmen.
Belfry, Corbin, Pikeville & Madison Central are really good teams.  North Laurel & Breathitt County are having down years, but are still respectable.

JC has scored 54 rushing TD's in nine games.... with 2 passing TD's.

It's hard to tell, it really is, Harvest Prep is solid but Ashland got thumped in the second half. Bardstown has proven to be a good team and Raceland was right there with Pikeville, at least they were when each of them played Ashland and Johnson Central. So even though the schedule has been relatively safe, its still been solid. I'm old school but I think you're right. Instead of setting up the pass with the run Ashland may need to set up the run with the pass. If they can do that we'll have a good game to watch. I don't think that will happen though. I've said it time and time again, individual battles on the line of scrimmage wins football games. That edge (as usual) goes to Johnson Central.