Week 7 in review

I must be butter, because I'm on a roll. Last year I never had a perfect week making my football predictions. Now, I just had my second perfect week in the last three after going 8-0 last week.
The main thing is local teams are making it easy to be right. The top teams are doing little other than winning, and the bottom teams, sadly, are doing the opposite. There seem to be only a couple matchups each week that are hard to predict at times.
It was nice to see Rocky Hill finally get some votes this week in the state polls after knocking off previously unbeaten St. Paul a week after beating Berlin. That puts the Terriers in essentially a four-way tie for the Nutmeg League with those teams and Northwest Catholic (one of the Indians' two losses was a non-conference game). The difference is, Rocky Hill has played all three. The others still have to face off. Berlin still will face both St. Paul and Northwest.
The impressive thing about the Terriers' win is that they had to score points to do it. As a defense-first team, Rocky Hill can usually count on a win if it scores 20. But the Falcons had the firepower to frustrate that defense and Rocky Hill's offense went out and won it with the running attack.
Southington took care of business against Manchester. It's safe to say Manchester is a big step behind the other top teams in the CCC North and not the title contender some thought they might be after their 4-0 start.
Newington, New Britain and Berlin all had easy wins over outmatched opponents. There wasn't much question that would happen.
After seeing Plainville there's some hope for the future. The Devils have some young talent, they just need experience and a growth spurt to be competitive again. That should be coming next year and after. Keep working, guys. It will pay off.
With the perfect week, my record for the year is up to 43-8, and 6-1 in non-local games. I correctly guessed that Masuk was much better than Bunnell despite state rankings.