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    Biggest upsets in state championship game

    Here's one. The atmosphere seems magical, as you describe it. 1980 Group AA, Giles vs. Park View-Sterling
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    Biggest upsets in state championship game

    Thanks for the explanation. Losing your QB and not having a true backup QB would help explain it. I looked at their record over the years, and Meadowbrook wasn't too many years removed from being a contender. So, they also probably had some residual coaching and mindset that allowed them to...
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    Biggest upsets in state championship game

    I think some of both. Here's how Spartan of Yore described them: The lowest-ranked of Salem's state championship teams. This team lost four regular season games (one loss was later reversed by a Cave Spring forfeit), and generally looked bad doing it. The '00 team was average at best on...
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    Biggest upsets in state championship game

    That certainly fits the bill. Highland Springs finished 14-1 and Meadowbrook 3-6 per MaxPreps. Do you know how it happened?
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    Biggest upsets in state championship game

    I thought of those two games. The '04 loss to Christiansburg was shocking because Salem lost a 35-14 lead, but Christiansburg was very good that year finishing 9-3 with a 49-42 loss to 14-0 Gretna in the playoffs. The '17 regular season loss to Blacksburg was shocking because it was a 49-12...
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    Biggest upsets in state championship game

    For a related question, how about the most shocking regular season loss by a state champion team? Ideally, it'd be a 1 or 2 loss state champion team having an inexplicable loss to a team with a losing record, not a team with 3-5 regular season losses that caught fire in the playoffs. I can't...
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    Eastern View Looking for a Scrimmage

    Salem-Eastern View would be a good scrimmage. Salem traveled to Albemarle last year, so Eastern View isn't too much farther away.
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    Biggest upsets in state championship game

    That Blacksburg team had defeated a 12-0 Salem team the previous week 26-14. I think that Blacksburg team had 3 or 4 losses in the regular season. QB Stephen Magenbauer had led the Spartans to their first 10-0 regular season before his season and playing career came to a premature end in the...
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    Biggest upsets in state championship game

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    Who Would You Retire?

    I disagree with retiring numbers for highly successful athletes. I think that it's better for future players to wear the same number and strive for the excellence of their predecessor(s). Salem has, or at least had, that tradition with #3. Retiring the numbers of players who died tragically...
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    Salem at Sherando

    Byrd won at Salem plenty of times too. I saw the first one at Salem in 1993 and, I believe, the last one to date in 2013. They were both absolutely bonkers, bizarro games. https://scholar.lib.vt.edu/VA-news/ROA-Times/issues/1993/rt9310/931009/10090229.htm
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    Football playoff format...wishful thinking

    Is that seriously how Texas does it for all classifications? It can take over 12 hours to drive from one end of Texas to another.
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    Salem at GW

    Also have to give props to Roger Waddell and Manuel Lewis who helped Salem to the 2000 state championship and D'Juan Smith for the 2005 state championship. Lewis, in particular, was a Bishop-style bruising runner.
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    Hayfield back in the playoffs...maybe not

    I think Overton got most of the transfers into Freedom through a magnet school program. https://www.pwcs.edu/academics___programs/advanced_academics___specialty_programs/specialty_programs/specialty_program_athletic_eligibility_information
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