The first round of the Tennessee high school football playoffs is done, and Tom Kreager joins the Saturday morning show to break down the best round-two matchups. His pick for game of the state is Oakland (9-2) at Maryville (10-1), a longtime rivalry that has often been a semifinal game. He also lays out a possible “redemption tour” for Kevin Creasy’s Oakland Patriots: if they keep winning, they could get rematches with Smyrna, which beat them on a two-point conversion, and Riverdale, which beat them with a last-second field goal. Other games to watch are Springfield (10-1) at Haywood County (9-2), between two programs with strong playoff histories, and Lipscomb Academy at Ensworth. That one is a rematch between coaches and former NFL quarterbacks Trent Dilfer and Matt Hasselbeck, and Kreager jokes that Dilfer will probably remind the referees about the free-kick field goal rule after the disputed call in their first game. The hosts also point to Nolensville at Kirkwood, Whitehaven at Ravenwood and a 5-5 Houston team traveling to Antioch. Looking back at round one, Summertown’s upset of 9-1 East Robertson was the biggest surprise.

The second half turns to this week’s Mr. Football semifinalists. Kreager reminds listeners that it’s a regular-season award: the votes are already counted, so nothing that happens in the playoffs can change the result. In 6A, he sees Antioch’s Andre Adams, who holds the state career record for combined passing and rushing yards, as the favorite among a strong group that also includes Riverdale’s Gavin Hampton. Kreager also criticizes how the award has changed since it became a single award instead of separate back and lineman awards, noting that four of the five 6A semifinalists are quarterbacks. Both hosts back East Nashville’s Dallas Covington in his class. Kreager says he weighs strength of schedule over raw stats, and East Nashville’s only losses came by a few points each to bigger schools like Beech, Springfield and Antioch. The segment ends with the hope that Metro Nashville Public Schools could have two winners in Adams and Covington. The awards are the Tuesday after the season at Nissan Stadium, one last time at the old stadium.