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Tonight I saw my 1st Mustang playoff game since 1988.  See I moved out of state before the 89 season got started and while i always have followed the Mustangs via friends, family, newspapers, radio and eventually the internet, I hadn't seen any playoff games and probably only a very few regular season games scattered through the years.  I moved back to Orange this last summer.  Since I never seen much (if any) of the teams through the 90's and 2000's I can only speak of the teams I watched from 77-89.  So here are my top 5 teams.  I am interested and looking forward to readings yalls responses.

1) 1987- That 15-0 team will probably be #1 on most if not all lists.  The standard bearer for all Mustang teams to live up too.

2)  I guess most would say the 1986 state champion team, but the 1985 team was a pretty darn good club as well.  That year they went 10-0 in the regular season and lost 19-6 to a VERY good Houston Yates team.  I believe the 19 points Yates scored was by far their lowest point output of the season. (I think they were averaging something like 50 a game). Too me, had WO-S beat Yates they would have won the 5a title that year as Yates did.  But they didn't beat Yates so I guess the 86 team gets the #2 spot.

3) The above mentioned 1985 squad.

4)  The 1988 state finalist team.

5) 1980.  Steve McCarty's last season. That years team was 9-1 with the only loss coming to Port Arthur Thomas Jefferson. That was the team that featured Todd Dodge and Brent Duhon and were ranked #1 all season.  Sad part is this 1980 team was probably better than the 1979 WO-S team which won district but since at that time only the district champions went to the playoffs, the Mustangs stayed home.

There you have it. Like I stated earlier I can only speak of the team i followed, so i look forward to reading your opinions.
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[quote name="griff" post="1334614" timestamp="1353161672"]
Why do this now? A better time to gauge this would be at the end of the season.
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Your probably right, I guess I was just thinking about it on my way home from the game last night.  So lets not count this years team yet as they are still playing.
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