{"id":149020,"date":"2021-12-09T04:50:30","date_gmt":"2021-12-09T09:50:30","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/?p=149020"},"modified":"2021-12-09T13:09:02","modified_gmt":"2021-12-09T18:09:02","slug":"2021-pigskin-pickem-the-final-tally","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/2021\/12\/09\/2021-pigskin-pickem-the-final-tally\/","title":{"rendered":"2021 Pigskin Pick&#8217;Em: the final tally"},"content":{"rendered":"\n<p><strong>SCOTT TRUXELL\/<\/strong><em>independent editor<\/em><\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pigskin Pick\u2019Em didn\u2019t exactly end in a blaze of glory for yours truly.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was just 3-4 picking state championship games, the first and only time all season (regular season and postseason) that I was under .500 for the week.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<div class=\"wp-block-image\"><figure class=\"alignright size-large\"><img decoding=\"async\" width=\"150\" height=\"218\" src=\"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-content\/uploads\/2018\/08\/Football-e1536607707795.jpg\" alt=\"\" class=\"wp-image-106357\"\/><\/figure><\/div>\n\n\n\n<p>My correct picks were Lakewood St. Edward in Division I, Chardon in Division III and Marion Local in Division IV.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>I was incorrect in Division II (Winton Woods over Akron Hoban), Division IV (Clinton-Massie over Youngstown Ursuline), Division V (Versailles over Kirtland) and Division VI, Carey over Coldwater.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Clinton-Massie\u2019s win turned out to be a thriller as the Falcons rallied from a three touchdown deficit and I must admit, I underestimated Carey.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>My playoff record was 45-16 (73.7 percent) and my overall record for the year was 231-52, or 81.6 percent, not bad, all things considered.<\/p>\n\n\n\n<p>Pigskin Pick\u2019Em will be back in August of 2022. If there are enough people willing to play along, I\u2019ll go head-to-head with a different guest selector each week during the regular season. Guest selectors were last featured in 2019.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>SCOTT TRUXELL\/independent editor Pigskin Pick\u2019Em didn\u2019t exactly end in a blaze of glory for yours truly. I was just 3-4 picking state championship games, the first and only time all season (regular season and postseason) that I was under .500 for the week. My correct picks were Lakewood St. Edward in Division I, Chardon in [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-149020","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-sports"],"publishpress_future_action":{"enabled":false,"date":"2026-05-31 15:51:55","action":"change-status","newStatus":"draft","terms":[],"taxonomy":"category","extraData":[]},"publishpress_future_workflow_manual_trigger":{"enabledWorkflows":[]},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149020","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=149020"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/149020\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=149020"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=149020"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/thevwindependent.com\/news\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=149020"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}