HS Football picks: 2nd Round

The first round of the high school football playoffs was pretty sweet. There were plenty of exciting games and a few dramatic finishes. Oklahoma preps fans deserve that this time of year…

I filled out my brackets before the opening round began for Class 6A down through 3A. I picked Broken Arrow (6A), McAlester (5A), Wagoner (4A) and Cascia Hall (3A) as my eventually champs.

In the first round, I did pretty well on my picks. Of the eight matchups in 6A, I only missed Edmond North's win over Yukon. I, like most people, didn't see Ardmore's upset win over Carl Albert coming from a mile away. Other than that, I got them all right in 5A. I also did pretty well in 4A. I only missed Woodward over Douglass. That was another upset that surprised me based on the type of season the Trojans had.

But, 3A got me. There were 16 first round matchups and I got three of them wrong. I would have bet my house (not that I condone or encourage gambling, ESPECIALLY on high school sports) on Perkins-Tryon over Newcastle. Oops. Purcell lost to Bridge Creek? Oops. Madill beat Tuttle? Oops, again.

All in all, I went 35 for 40 in round one. MUCH better than I usually do in when I fill out my NCAA bracket, I might add. Here are my picks for round two, which begin Friday night all over the state:

6A

Midwest City 30

Owasso 24

Broken Arrow 56

Lawton 17

Jenks 48

Edmond Santa Fe 41

Union 50

Edmond North 14

5A

McAlester 60

Duncan 23

MacArthur 44

Bishop Kelley 37

Pryor 14

Ardmore 7

East Central 27

Guthrie 17

UPSETS EVERYWHERE in my 4A bracket:

Hilldale 34

Clinton 33

Glenpool 31

Catoosa 28

Wagoner 55

Woodward 14

Bishop McGuinness 40

Sallisaw 27

3A

Verdigris 30

Seminole 28

Heritage Hall 60

Madill 10

Berryhill 40

Beggs 35

Cascia Hall 63

Keys 14

Bethany 42

Bridge Creek 38

Kingfisher 28

Anadarko 27

Metro Christian 56

Stigler 21

Plainview 33

Newcastle 31