Daily Oklahoman Week 7 Rankings

First gore now Colcord smh. Colcord got beat down last week by Commerce. It's almost like their just looking at their records instead of who they actually played.

Not bad.  Ringling got beat by Mangum, but the last four make sense.  And The first 6 are as well.  Nice.

I want to know why everyone is so high on Cashion every year? They have went out in the 2nd round the last 3 years in a row but yet everybody keeps putting them as the best team in class A in the preseason almost every year. They are the kings of the regular season but you don't get a trophy for doing good in the regular season. I have watched them play 5 separate times in the playoffs over the last 7 or 8 years and each time they got blown out. They are the biggest Choke artist in Class A. Regular season champs is all they are because they never show up in the big games in the playoffs.

Wow someone’s a little salty😬. Where would you rank Cashion? Also not sure I would really call a team of high school kids “choke artists”, and this isn’t the first time you’ve done it, no one felt it worthy of a response the first time. Can you say they have had some disappointment in the playoffs, yes. Can you say they’ve run into teams that blew out ever opponent, yes. But to call some kids “choke artists” is a little much, but that’s your prerogative. I would say there have been years that they have out performed and over achieved, but that’s hard to do when every year you are expected to win, and I’m sure the coaches and kids are fine with that. I’m also sure no one from Cashion has asked for a “trophy for doing good in the regular season” or would even want one, what are they supposed to do... only play in the playoffs? Over the last ten years in Class A how many teams have gone back to back or even won more than one gold ball? I can answer that for you... none. So I guess it’s not that easy. So again I ask, where would you rank Cashion?

Cashion gets respect because they win! They win in good years and they win in not so good years. Years they might not have the talent to really be contenders, they still win. They have one of the best coaching staffs in the state! When you watch their OL you see how really technical they are. Everyone gives effort on every play, the correct way. Great coaching and effort will win alot of games. Being in one of the, if not the strongest districts in the state the last couple years has helped also.

I think ol' holdenvillefan1 was just trying to get a rise out of some of us with his "choke artists" accusation leveled against (of all schools) the likes of Cashion. I'm sure he knows full well that in several of those seasons of which he speaks Cashion had a roster consisting of no more than about 20 players, give or take, and they still ran through everyone until the championship game. The vast majority of class A schools would kill to have the kind of success Cashion has had during their tenure in class A with a roster of twice as many players!

Just for perspective OkPreps has Gore at #7, Skordle has them at #9, and in the AP poll they are at #8. Don’t know anything about Gore other than they are ranked in about every top 10 I look at on a weekly basis.