TFR Class 4-A State GHSA Quarter-Final State Previews – 2 of 2

The favorite to repeat, Cartersville, was upset last week by the Blessed Trinity Titans. There will be a new champion, and the field is wide open. Marist is probably the favorite now that Cartersville and highly ranked Ridgeland fell last week.

There are four private and four public schools remaining in the 4-A playoffs. In our second preview we will look at the Blessed Trinity-Thomson game and the Jefferson-Mary Persons game.

The winners these games will face each other in the semi-finals on December 1st.

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TFR Class 4-A State GHSA Quarter-Final State Previews – 1 of 2

The favorite to repeat, Cartersville, was upset last week by the Blessed Trinity Titans. There will be a new champion, and the field is wide open. Marist is probably the favorite now that Cartersville and highly ranked Ridgeland fell last week.

There are four private and four public schools remaining in the 4-A playoffs. In our first preview we will look at the Marist-Burke County game and the St.Pius-Woodward game.

The winners these games will face each other in the semi-finals on December 1st.

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Marist-Burke CountySPX-Woodward

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TFR Class 5-A State GHSA Quarter-Final State Previews – 2 of 2

There have been no big upsets in class 5-A. The usual suspects have made it to the quarterfinal round. 6 #1 seeds are here along with two very good #2 seeds in Jones County and Carrolton. These are all heavy weight matchups and similar to Class 6-A, this will be the first time any of these teams have met each other on the field.

Our second preview will feature the Carrollton-Warner Robins game and the Carver-Jones County game. The winners of these games will face each other in the semi-finals on December 1st.

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Carrolton-Warner RobinsJones County-Carver

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TFR Class 5-A State GHSA Quarter-Final State Previews – 1 of 2

There have been no big upsets in class 5-A. The usual suspects have made it to the quarterfinal round. 6 #1 seeds are here along with two very good #2 seeds in Jones County and Carrolton. These are all heavy weight matchups and similar to Class 6-A, this will be the first time any of these teams have met each other on the field.

Our first preview will feature the Rome-Starr’s Mill game and the Buford-Stockbridge game. The winners of these games will face each other in the semi-finals on December 1st.

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Rome-Starr's MillBuford-Stockbridge

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TFR Class 6-A State GHSA Quarter-Final State Previews – 2 of 2

There have been no real big surprises thus far in the Class 6-A playoffs. Favorites, Tucker and Lee County won their games by double figures. Expect the road to get a lot tougher this weekend. There is not a lot of familiarity this week as 3 of the 4 games will be the teams first meeting. While Lee County and Mays have only met once, in last seasons second round game.

Our second preview will feature the Mays-Lee County game and the Harrison-Glynn Academy game. The winners of these games will face each other in the semi-finals on December 1st.

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Lee County-MaysGLynnAcademy-Harrison

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TFR Class 6-A State GHSA Quarter-Final State Previews – 1 of 2

There have been no real big surprises thus far in the Class 6-A playoffs. Favorites, Tucker and Lee County won their games by double figures. Expect the road to get a lot tougher this weekend. There is not a lot of familiarity this week as 3 of the 4 games will be the teams first meeting. While Lee County and Mays have only met once, in last seasons second round game.

Our first preview will feature the Alpharetta-Coffee game and the Allatoona-Tucker game. The winners of these games will face each other in the semi-finals on December 1st.

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TFR Class 7-A State GHSA Quarter-Final State Previews – 2 of 2

We are down to the final 8 teams for each class in the state tournament. Some of the interesting story lines from the largest classification are the upset of Lowndes last week and also the defending champion, Grayson, loses in the second round.

In this second preview, we will feature the Parkview-McEachern game and the North Gwinnett-Marietta game. The winners of these  games will face each other in the semifinals on December 1st.

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McEachern-ParkviewMarietta-NG

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TFR Class 7-A State GHSA Quarter-Final State Previews – 1 of 2

We are down to the final 8 teams for each class in the state tournament. Some of the interesting story lines from the largest classification are the upset of Lowndes last week and also the defending champion, Grayson, loses in the second round. In this first preview, we will feature the Brookwood-Tift County game and the Archer Colquitt County game. The winners of these  games will face each other in the semifinals on December 1st.

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Tift Co-BrookwoodColquitt-Archer

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TFR – GHSA Playoffs 8 Greats Around the State – Bonus Preview

There is only one team remaining in my home county, so what would a week of previews be without a mention of Cherokee County football. The Woodstock Wolverines avenged an early season loss to North Paulding with a victory in the first round of the state playoffs. The Marietta Blue Devils will come calling and they bring with them a rising star quarterback in Harrison Bailey, just back from an injury last week.  Both teams can put up numbers in bunches. We expect this one to be a high scoring game.

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Marietta-Woodstock

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TFR – Eight Greats Around the State – Playoff Edition 4 of 4

Last week we previewed all 112 games in the GHSA state football playoffs. This week, we needed to recoup from the information overload, so we took a look at some of what we thought were the more intriguing matchups across the state. We will preview 8 games this week. Then, we hope to bring you full previews of the quarterfinal match-ups.

In this installment, we will feature a Class 5-A match up with Jones County traveling to Wayne County and a 3-A matchup with Calhoun hosting Monroe Area.

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Jones Co-Wayne CoMonroe Area-Calhoun

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