Week 6 picks: 27 years in the making

(Click for a little bit larger version.) Thinking about doing this every week. What would you think of something like this as an addition to the blog?

Of course, I picked Midwest for the inaugural version of this infographic… 🙂

By the way, the closest Midwest has come to breaking that 27-year streak and beating Guernsey in Midwest came in 1999, when the Vikings beat the Oilers 7-6 on a cold and wet night in the oilfield. This one still bothers me… I was a senior this year for Midwest and felt we had a pretty good team. I was the holder for our extra points and field goals and after we scored our lone touchdown of this game, I took my knee to receive the snap. But the ball was wet and never made it more than an inch above the ground; I shouted “Fire!” (although at the time, it probably sounded like a muffled “Faaaaaa!”), grabbed the ball and started rolling right. I threw the only pass I ever threw in four years of high school football and, well… Quack, quack. Hence the final score. Honestly, it’s the only play I remember from that game. Another reminder that 48 minutes of toil can often come down to one play — and in this case, the prolonging of a streak that’s now reached 27 years.

On to the picks. Projected winners in bold. A huge week this week — not as many easy picks as there have been the past couple weeks.

Thursday
Interclass
Natrona JV at Lusk
Friday
Class 4A
Cheyenne Central at Gillette
Evanston at Natrona
Kelly Walsh at Cheyenne South
Laramie at Sheridan
Rock Springs at Cheyenne East
Class 3A
Cody at Star Valley
Douglas at Rawlins
Jackson at Green River
Lander at Buffalo
Powell at Worland
Riverton at Torrington
Class 2A
Big Horn at Moorcroft
Big Piney at Pinedale
Burns at Wheatland
Kemmerer at Greybull
Lovell at Thermopolis
Mountain View at Lyman
Newcastle at Tongue River
Wright at Glenrock
Class 1A 11-man
Lingle at Normative Services
Riverside at Saratoga
Rocky Mountain at Shoshoni
Upton-Sundance at Pine Bluffs
Wind River at Burlington
Wyoming Indian at Cokeville
Class 1A six-man
Guernsey at Midwest
Hanna at Dubois
Hulett at Farson
Snake River at Kaycee
Saturday
Class 1A six-man
Meeteetse at Ten Sleep
Interclass
Natrona sophs at Southeast

Last week: 28-3 (90 percent). This season: 145-28 (84 percent).

So what say you? Any games that you can’t wait to see this week? Any upsets in the making? Any thoughts at all? Any ideas where I went wrong with my picks? Post ’em.

–patrick