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Poll: Who Will Win the Pac-5 Football Championship?
It's a simple question: San Clemente or Santa Margarita?
San Clemente and Santa Margarita Catholic will play for the marquee championship in the Southern Section on Saturday night. before rabid fans and a television audience.
Neither program has played for the major championship previously, though Santa Margarita has won three titles. San Clemente has reached the finals only once, in 1979, but lost in its only appearance.
The Project-A-Matchup feature on CalPreps predicts a San Clemente victory, 28-27. Will the computer be right? It's right more often than not. In the Pac-5 playoffs, the computer has correctly picked 11 of 14 games.
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Round 1: Correctly predicted six of eight winners (missed Tesoro's upset of Edison and Huntington Beach's victory over Loyola).
Round 2: Correctly predicted three of four winners (missed Tesoro's upset of top-seeded Servite).
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Semifinals: Correctly predicted both winners.
So, who do you think is going to win Pac-5 championship?
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