UH-OH | Kilgore College slips at NEO, but gets rematch with Tyler on Saturday in playoffs
That Kilgore College-Tyler Junior College rematch is going to happen.
It’s just going to happen a week sooner than what most people expected.
KC unexpectedly dropped its regular season finale on Saturday afternoon, a 20-10 loss in Miami, Okla., to Northeastern Oklahoma A&M.
It was NEO’s first win over KC since the 2017 season.
Had the Rangers won, they’d be the No. 2 seed in the four-team Southwest Junior College Football Conference playoffs that begin this coming weekend. Instead, KC (6-3 overall, 4-3 in conference) drops to fourth, which means they’ll have to go to the conference leader.
That’d be Tyler (6-3, 6-1 in conference), who went on the road and defeated Navarro on Saturday, 49-24.
The rematch for KC and Tyler will be right back at CHRISTUS Trinity Mother Frances Rose Stadium on Saturday at 3 p.m., the exact same scenario as the game two weeks ago.
Tyler won that game on a 40-yard walk-off field goal by Christian Baxter as time expired back on Oct. 26.
The other conference playoff game on Saturday will be Cisco at Navarro, in Corsicana; Navarro is the number two seed.
The winners of the two games will meet in the conference title game on Saturday, Nov. 23, and the highest-remaining seed will host it. That can’t be KC, as the number four seed. So the Rangers have already played their final home game at R.E. St. John Memorial Stadium.
If KC could beat Tyler, then win the championship game, that would give the Rangers back-to-back-to-back conference championships – they did that in 1980, 1981, and 1982, although one of those was a co-championship.
