By Tom Robinson, NEPASportsNation.com
This normally wound be the time for predicting the outcome of the weekend’s high school football games, but when the final three District 2 teams were eliminated last week it brought an end to the season and the predictions here.
So, instead, we’ll use this time to recap the season’s predictions.
KEEPING SCORE
The season-long competition with The Rick’s Picks at our partner website, NEPAFootball.com came to an end with the predictions here remaining on top, completing a wire-to-wire win.
Last week’s predictions were 6-3 (66.7 percent) to end the playoffs at 42-8 (84.0 percent) and the season as a whole at 181-40 (81.9 percent).
The Rick’s picks were 3-6 (33.3 percent) in the final week to finish the playoffs at 37-13 (74.0 percent) and the season as a whole at 170-52 (76.6 percent).
There were more than just game predictions along the way.
Half of the state final matchups predicted at the start of state play – Mount Lebanon over St. Joseph’s Prep in Class 6A; Central Valley over Wyomissing in 3A; and Farrell over Southern Columbia in 2A remain a possibility heading into this weekend’s semifinals. In all, 8 of the 12 teams I predicted to reach the final are one win away from doing so.
All six district or subregional titles and all but two of the runner-up spots went to teams I predicted before the season even started.
Before that, four of the seven regular-season division championships went as a predicted with two of the other three won by teams I predicted to finish second.
