Jersey ... I'm still not so sold on Castle Hills. Every year for the past couple, I expect them to be pretty decent and they don't get past Lifegate, Freddy and the first round.
Chalk me up as a member of the Apostle Thomas brigade on this one. When I see it, I'll believe it. The CH-Freddy game should be the test, you're correct there (is that a week 3 game; I seem to remember it was an early season game). Maybe this is the year, but I thought the last two years would be better years for Castle Hills.
Otherwise, you might be pretty close to right. Maybe put Alpha Omega a little higher and Boerne Geneva, past CH in your rankings of D1/D2 teams. D1 is usually the stronger division, and we'll see proof of that in 2013.
As for Lifegate, they're young and hurt. Losing 8 from last year didn't help either. Lots of kids, but no depth -- something like 9 freshmen, who may be pretty decent ballplayers later in the season or next year, but still freshmen. I'm also happy that all three games went 40 minutes, tells me that nobody is packing it up and giving up. But it's a good week for a bye. Lost one starter against OLH, lost two during the NBCA game; hopefully all will be back for New Life in two weeks, but that's an iffy proposition.
Being healthy is an excellent prescription for being a winning team. The Lifegate team that went 14-0 in 2012 was more or less the same team that went 6-6 in 2011. But in 2012, the guys that were hurt in 2011 weren't hurt in 2012. Very big difference.
They're also 0-0 in district, which is where they were on week zero. In the NFL, we'd call this pre-season, where you try to figure out what you're gonna do when they count for real.
