Pictured above: Seniors Will Diggins (54), Caleb Waddle (57), and Brooks Edmonson (60) execute a “pin and pull” running play against North Little Rock. Photo by Adam Settle.
The Bryant Hornets come in this week on a 7-game winning streak, after having beat the North Little Rock Charging Wildcats 24-12 at Bryant Stadium on Senior Night, October 29th.
Next up, the Hornets will travel to Conway on Friday, November 5th and will play the Wampus Cats to finish out the regular season. The Cats lost their first game of the season to Fayetteville but have won every other game, giving them the same 8-1 ratio as the Hornets.
Those in anticipation of what might happen in the post-season may be trying to work it out in your head. It’s fun to project or try to predict what might happen in sports, so let’s do this…
If the playoffs started today, the Hornets would share a first round bye with Conway, Fayetteville and Bentonville.
Pictured above: Sophomore Mytorian Singleton (27), follows the block of Senior Will Diggins (54) against NLR. Photo by Adam Settle.
The eight teams that would compete in the first round would be:
First Round:
Ft. Smith Northside @ Rogers (24 to 14 Rogers)
Cabot @ Ft. Smith Southside (42 to 7 Cabot)
Bentonville West @ Catholic (56 to 3 Bentonville West)
N. Little Rock @ Springdale Harbor (31 to 27 NLR)
Second Round:
Rogers @ Bryant (35 to 7 Bryant)
Cabot @ Bentonville (14 to 10 Bentonville)
Bentonville West @ Conway (38 to 14 Conway)
N. Little Rock @ Fayetteville (42 to 21 Fayetteville)
Semi-Finals:
Conway @ Fayetteville (38 to 31 Fayetteville)
Bentonville @ Bryant (17 to 7 Bryant)
State Championship:
Bryant vs Fayetteville
If this were to happen, it would mark the first football championship game the Hornets would compete in against an opponent, other than North Little Rock. If this were to happen… the Hornets would become the first ever 7A football team to win four consecutive championships in state history.
This has been a fun “what if” look at the 7A football playoffs if they started today. Now it’s your turn to play along and make predictions of your own.
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