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How I did: on the football season

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At the end of the regular season, I correctly called 49 of 65 games (and that includes two Cary Christian playoff games) for a 75% accuracy rate. Say, that'd make me either an awesome quarterback or a decent kicker.
 
Anyway, at the beginning of the year, I predicted the conference top-to-bottom, and it didn't go as bad as you may think. A three-way tie for second skews this somewhat, but I was exactly right on three teams and only off by a spot on four. Holly Springs made me pay by finishing second when I had them 7th, and Middle Creek finished two spots higher than third for a conference championship.
 
I even noted that the conference would get six playoff teams, and correctly called five of the six. Here was my preseason with the # of spots off in parentheses.
 


1. Fuquay-Varina (+1)

2. Athens Drive (E)

3. Middle Creek (-2)

4. Panther Creek (+1)

5. Cary (+1)

6. Apex (+1)

7. Holly Springs (-5)

8. Lee County (E)

9. Green Hope (E)
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About the blogger

J. Mike Blake has played against or covered teams in southern Wake County for six years. He is the Sports Editor for The Cary News and Southwest Wake News. He graduated from N.C. State in 2008. He loves getting young athletes' names in the paper, but hates hearing "CALL IT BOTH WAYS REF!!" 4,000 times every game.

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