My DAC week 4 power rankings and predictions.

[DACfanatic]

My Week 4 DAC POWER RANKINGS AND PREDICTIONS!

Power rankings
1. crown point 3-0
2. Merrillville 2-1
3. Valpo 2-1
4. Lake central 2-1
5. Portage 2-1
6. Michigan city 1-2
7. Chesterton 2-1
8. Laporte 0-3

(Can’t drop merrillville out of 2 as they were the only 2 teams undefeated)


Week 4 predictions



Chesterton @ Laporte :

Last meeting: Chesterton 28-7


Chesterton is coming off a game where they lost to Michigan city. Chesterton had no answers on offense for anything that city showed them on defense. Guess that offensive line isn’t as dominant as many people thought. Chesterton rebounds this week in a game they are heavy favorites. Laporte is coming off a 3rd loss in a. Row in the season to a Valparaiso team that handled business as usual against this slicer team. Laporte is not horrible they are just not a threat to anyone in the DAC. They need a coach that will stick around for a while and rebuild not leave after 2 years. Laporte is in for a long season.. Chesterton wins with a running clock to get back in the win column

Chesterton 45-7


Lake central @ crown point:

Last meeting: crown point 42-7


Lake central is coming off a narrow hard fought win over portage. Is lake central finally starting to make the climb back to relevancy? They were able to do some things that were positive. But had some negatives to. Crown point on the other had comes off a dominating win over the merrillville pirates. Crown point threw all one that pirate defense. The motion in the offense had the pirates lost all night. Crown point did struggle In first half to run the ball. And they had issues stopping the run in 1st half. This isn’t your same bulldogs from last year. I’d say the passing is superior to last year and the run took a few steps back but only time will tell! But all the less crown point will dominate this game With a running clock.

Crown point 45-7


Merrillville @ portage:

Last meeting: Merrillville 17-7

Portage comes off a tight lost to lake central and is now 2-1 on the season. They also were able to do some great things in there RPO game against lake central. Portage is now going to be at home this week against a pirate team that’s coming off another blowout loss to crown point back to back years. Will portage have any answers at all for an angry pirate team? Merrillville enters this game with probably a huge chip on there shoulder after a blowout loss to crown point! Many expected the blowout loss including myself. But I wanted it to be close. Merrillville enters this game wanting to stake claims that there are only 2 teams that matter in the Duneland this year. Merrillville offense was able to move the ball in the first half but had a few drives killed by back to back 15 yard penalties. It needs to be cleaned up. But not worried about the pirate offense as I have said for weeks. The pirate defense on the other hand ran a completely different formation than I have ever seen them run in a few years. Not sure why but we got spanked in the pass game with it out there. Kids looked lost like they had just installed it. But doesn’t matter pirates lost that game fair and square. The pirates will come into this game to prove they are 2nd best. Merrillville has no issues stopping the RPO!
Sorry portage but your on the tracks with a train coming through. Merrillville with a statement win.

Merrillville 42 - 7


Game of week:

Valpo @ Michigan city:

Last meeting: Valpo 26-7


Valpo comes off a dominating and boring win over the Laporte slicers. They had there way all the way around the field. Even the special teams as Laporte had a negative yards punt. And no it wasn’t blocked. Did Valpo figure anything out or was this just a dominating win because Laporte is that far off in DAC football? Michigan city answered a few questions with there shutout win over Chesterton. The city defense silenced the ground game of the Trojans and was able to move the ball enough to score. The city defense looks like a top 3 defense in the DAC but the offense still hasn’t shown anything special yet. This game will have eyes on it. Who will be the one as the front runner to facing the pirates in the regional?

Some won’t agree with me and no matter who I pick they will say I’m hating on the other teams but I said it once and I’ll say it again. Valpo defense is non existent and there offense is just not there against good defenses. City defense will chit down the run and give up a few passing plays but I think they do enough to get the win.


City wins 21-17

[TROJANMAN7]

We had no answer for city’s defense. And our Oline was trash! But I have to agree with everything up there. Still believe at this point and time there is a gap between 2-3 and it’s a wide one. Valpo plays city this week.

[cridge]

What i got out of week 1 of duneland is that as long as Buzea is the coach at Crown Point Merrillville will NEVER beat Them. Merrilville will beat anyone who does not matter but will lose when it counts. Nothing has changed.

[CPbulldogs2024]

What i got out of week 1 of duneland is that as long as Buzea is the coach at Crown Point Merrillville will NEVER beat Them. Merrilville will beat anyone who does not matter but will lose when it counts. Nothing has changed.

As a bulldog fan. We dominated them after the 1st qtr they had us worried in the first.

But also if you think that game yesterday mattered it doesn’t. No one cared about the duneland crown. It’s iron sharpening iron and they showed us a few weaknesses we have. I fully expect both of us at Lucas oil this year.

[Meatballs]

We had no answer for city’s defense. And our Oline was trash! But I have to agree with everything up there. Still believe at this point and time there is a gap between 2-3 and it’s a wide one. Valpo plays city this week.

Calling kids trash...real nice. Not surprised you POS.

[BallinFreak]

Come on. He wasnt calling any kid trash. He was making a statement about how bad the group played.

[From the Stands]

Come on. He wasnt calling any kid trash. He was making a statement about how bad the group played.

I agree- bit of a stretch

[VPISU]

We had no answer for city’s defense. And our Oline was trash! But I have to agree with everything up there. Still believe at this point and time there is a gap between 2-3 and it’s a wide one. Valpo plays city this week.

Calling kids trash...real nice. Not surprised you POS.

A little over the top.

[cridge]

What i got out of week 1 of duneland is that as long as Buzea is the coach at Crown Point Merrillville will NEVER beat Them. Merrilville will beat anyone who does not matter but will lose when it counts. Nothing has changed.

As a bulldog fan. We dominated them after the 1st qtr they had us worried in the first.

But also if you think that game yesterday mattered it doesn’t. No one cared about the duneland crown. It’s iron sharpening iron and they showed us a few weaknesses we have. I fully expect both of us at Lucas oil this year.

your obviously speaking from the crown point side. or it's the typical region cover for or help out coach. Merrillville Main goal since day 1 was to beat Crown Point . so This game mattered. Crown point could have easily put up 60 but they didn't because they didn't want to. if they lost 28-14 or 21-14 okay. they were flat out dominated just like they were last year. good teams don't lose like that. if crown point was a 5a team they would do it again to merrillville in the sectionals. Merrillville will when the sectional and regional then lose to a team the valpo and crown point ould beat. Merrillville will not beat Crown point in the near future. outside of the regional, when it counts don't count on them.

[Nwisportsfan1244]

We had no answer for city’s defense. And our Oline was trash! But I have to agree with everything up there. Still believe at this point and time there is a gap between 2-3 and it’s a wide one. Valpo plays city this week.

Chesterton was hard to watch Friday. Hard to compete in a game where you run three run plays, Qb power, Qb Dive, and some read option. Passing game non-functional. Not sure what the game plan was but the box for city is really really good. Look for Valpo to try and take advantage of the city secondary.