OSSAA RANKING CLASS A WEEK 6: Thoughts?

Top 10 are the best 10 to date I would tend to agree on that. I would have them rated differently, but not too terribly much. I think the Top 8 are the top 8 when all healthy too.

Top 11-20? most teams can make a case to be in the top 20. Congrats to Drumright making the top 20. I think there are other teams that deserve that spot, but at the end of the day? Congrats Drumright, your community should be proud of the young men playing hard and having the success.

1 Rattan
2 Caddo
3 Riverfield
4 Vanoss
5 Seiling
6 Okay
7 Texhoma
8 Okarche
9 Allen
10 Boone Apache

Gap

11 Laverne
12 Liberty
13 Cyril
14 Carnegie
15 Velma Alma
16 Wetumka
17 Southwest Covenant
18 Arapaho Butler
19 Frontier
20 Wright City

Hon Mention
21 Drummond
22 Ripley
23 Wellston
24 Tushka
25 Stonewall

Nice Season, Marginal Schedule

Drumright
Dewar
Wilson
Union City
Shattuck


I have watched at least 4 quarters of every top 10 team play. I have not seen Velma Alma, SW Covenant, or Arapaho Butler play either....to be fair. Please feel free to question, disagree, or comment. No hard feeling here. Just healthy debating!  Class A has 10 teams that have a great shot at winning it. Tushka showed us last year that a team getting hot, healthy, or all of the above at the right time and lead to the gold ball too!

Great Point. I think they will have a shot vs Inola. It will be a tough game however. If they lose that game (vs Inola) I think they will go 2-1 in tournament and be Cons. Champs.

If they win that one, there is a more realistic shot of them losing two more games. I think they may move to 6, 7, or 8? But...in my opinion, I believe they are good enough and have played a tough enough schedule (along with their body of work with 5 returning starters from last year) should keep them in the top 8. Very interesting item though?

I would like to think it wouldn't hurt them? But I have seen Riverfield this year and they look good. They have only lost to 3 Ranked teams in 3A and all three games where close until the final minutes. They have only dropped from #4 to #8. Riverfield also beat a ranked Keys that is the only team to beat Okay this year. Keys also beat 2A #5 Oktaha 50-24... just a reference here.. So I don't know what the coaches will think or assess? I hope they take a stronger look on the last rankings? They usually do a good job on the final rankings...

At the end of the day, I think you are in the playoffs to go 7-0 and win a gold ball. Life isn't fair and neither are the Area Brackets sometimes, so is life!

2021-22: Allen, Seiling, Rattan & Texhoma, Wellston all lost on Saturday. Heartbreakers with teams that were good enough to be State Qualifying teams.

2021-22: Okarche & Okay lost in Area Semi-Finals. Each have displayed this year that their returning units are ready to move up a notch

2021-22: Riverfield, Vanoss, Caddo: Each had a lot returning and have displayed they are worthy to be respected as a gold ball contender

I think when you have 9 teams (adding Allen in there) or even 10 if you want to add Boone-Apache (who is deserving too). I think Strength of Schedule, record vs Class A teams, Record vs Ranked teams is all classes, injuries (assuming the players are coming back for playoffs (i know this is are to do and I do understand the other side to this argument (just thinking out loud here),

Quality wins should be a deciding factor in rankings? HOWEVER, at the end of the day, the only thing it hopefully does is primes you to where you have 3 winnable games prior to a Friday night ticket to state? You would also like to NOT travel 3+ hours to get somewhere? But unfortunately, some schools HAVE to do this. So that cannot be too much of an excuse.

Caddo-Kinta
Rattan Pocola, Roland
Vanoss-Allen, Latta, Roff, Kinta
Okay-Preston
Seiling-Texhoma
Riverfield-Cascia Hall
Okarche-Hennessey, Calumet
Allen-Vanoss, Stringtown
Texhoma-Hooker

I might have missed one. I didn't add people outside the top 10 in smaller classes or people that are no longer ranked.
Roff or Roland are the best teams on this list.