Wednesday's Daily News 'n Notes: Signing Day is here; Thursday games and playoffs; GC BKB; UGA, Braves, CFB, COVID/SEC, and more
Wednesday's Central Georgia - and of interest to Central Georgia - news and notes, compiled from staff reports, email reports, the web, and social media.
In Coverage: Central Georgia’s high school football schedule; Monday Morning Quarterback
Coming Thursday: The Sports Report’s predictions; state polls
A November ‘hump day’ is a signing day: Central Georgians sign
In Coverage.
Around/About Central Georgia
Playoff implications await Thursday night games
A Region 3-AA and two Region 4-4A games are on the Thursday schedule, and all three are relevant to the playoffs, some more than others.
Bleckley County has lost two straight, and fallen from No. 4 to No. 9, and into fourth place. But the Royals remain a heavy favorite over Southwest in their regular-season finale for the game at Ed DeFore. The Patriots, who have been out of postseason contention for weeks, have yet to cross the 100-point mark for the season.
A Royals win puts Bleckley County at 4-2 in region play and seals at least fourth place, while keep it in the running for third and perhaps a second-place finish and home game. The Royals are in the playoff regardless, winning any tiebreaker with fifth-place Lamar County (4-5/2-3) because of a 30-0 win over the Trojans.
Westside (3-3/1-2) visits Spalding (1-7/1-3) and Rutland (1-5/0-3) is at West Laurens (3-4/2-2) in 4-4A play, Thursday games because Westside and Rutland play on Monday.
The Jaguars won their first region game since 2017 a few weeks ago, the last year they made the playoffs. Westside clinches a playoff spot with a win, with Monday’s game then having seeding implications.
West Laurens has clinched a playoff spot, their sixth in the last seven seasons, a program best run, by far. The Raiders lost two, won three, and have lost two straight.
Next week, Westside hosts West Laurens with, most likely, the winner getting third.
Georgia College release men’s basketball schedule
Around/About Georgia
And that’s not a bad thing for Bulldogs
Ex-UGA standout Edwards doing NBA workouts
Groundbreaking set for Georgia State basketball facility
Sports and COVID 19
College football takes a big hit with postponements
Ol’ Lane being Lane: “Maybe some don’t want to play”
College Football
Notre Dame’s year visit to the ACC still gets mixed reviews
Florida State undergoing major struggles
South Carolina joins UGA in the QB quandary
No home game for the Vols in November since when? When?
NFL
Bills’ Allen plays in tribute to grandmother
Around the nation/world
It’s been 50 years since the Marshall football plane crash
AP’s men’s basketball All-American teams