This will be the last time for at least four seasons that the game means nothing other than momentum for the winning team. Caldwell County travels to Mayfield tonight for a matchup that has no post season implications for either team. Win or lose, both teams are going into the playoffs as their district’s top seed.
Next season, the Tigers and the Cardinals will be district foes with the game having significant impact on each team’s postseason hope.
Since 2006, Caldwell County and Mayfield have met every season. The meeting in 2006 was part of a season kickoff event in August. For the last several years, the two teams have closed out the regular season against one another.
Mayfield has held the upper hand for the current 12 year run. The Cardinals have won nine of the games, with most of the wins being by comfortable margins.
Caldwell County has wins in 2008, 2009, and 2013. The back-to-back wins came when current assistant coach Will Barnes was the Tigers’s quarterback, by scores of 35-7 in 2008, and 14-10 in a monsoon in 2009 in Princeton.
The Tigers last win in the series was 2013, when Caldwell County won a shootout with the Cardinals 48-41.
The last two seasons, the Mayfield offense has been dominant, scoring 55 points in 2017 and 52 points in 2016.