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McIntosh County Academy Buccaneers Coach’s Show w Bradley Warren October 30 2025

McIntosh County Academy Buccaneers Coach's Show w Bradley Warren October 30 2025
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The Finish Line

By: Jason Bishop

TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services

We have made our way to the final week of the high school football season. For some there are still a lot of undecided seedings and playoff berths to be determined in this final week and for others the season will close on Halloween Night.

The Brunswick High Pirates will be moving onto the playoffs, just what seed still needs to be determined. The Pirates are 7-2 overall and 6-1 in region play.

Brunswick will host the South Effingham Mustangs this week at Glynn County Stadium. The Mustangs were eliminated from the playoffs last week after they went down to

The Statesboro Blue Devils last week 27-17.

For South Effingham it is a chance to finish at .500 and for Brunswick there is still potential to claim a region title and a #1 seed for the GHSA playoffs.

The Pirates need to beat South Effingham and a little help from the Effingham Rebels, who play Statesboro at Womack Field in Statesboro.

If Effingham can knock off the Blue Devils coupled with a Pirates win, the Rebels would claim a #2 seed and the Pirates would claim the Region Title. Otherwise, BHS would be #2 seed and Effingham would be the #3 seed with Statesboro as your Region Champ.

If BHS were to lose to South Effingham and Effingham wins, the Rebels would be your Region Champs.

The Frederica Knights went 7-3 in the regular season and 3-0 in the region.

The Knights downed the St. Andrews Lions last week 49-16 to finish the regular season.

Frederica will receive a 1st round bye in the GISA playoffs but will have to begin on the road taking on the Valwood Valiants in Valdosta.

Valwood earned a #4 seed and Frederica was the #5 seed.

The Knights fell to Valwood earlier in the season 33-14 at home on St. Simons Island.

The Glynn Academy Red Terrors are currently 5-4 and 4-3 in region play.

The Red Terrors fell to Effingham last week 45-42 in a game that the Terrors made a frantic comeback almost pulling off a miracle. Glynn trailed 45-20 heading into the 4th quarter and scored 21 unanswered points to close the game and simply ran out of time to finish the comeback.

The Terrors will close the season against the Greenbriar Wolfpack. Win or lose Glynn will be in the playoffs as the #4 seed from Region 1-5A. Greenbriar is 2-7.

The MCA Buccaneers are 5-4 and 4-3 in region play. The Bucs took care of business last week beating the Savannah Blue Jackets 35-20 last week.

Currently the Bucs are sitting as the #3 seed in Region 3-A D2. MCA will take on the Portal Panthers needing a win to maintain playoff hopes.

A Buccaneer win coupled with a loss for either Bryan County or Jenkins County would punch a playoff ticket for McIntosh County. If MCA and Jenkins County win and Bryan County loses the Bucs would be a #4 seed. If MCA and Bryan County win and Jenkins County loses then MCA would be a #3 seed.

Bryan County plays Metter at Metter and Jenkins County goes to Savannah.

If all three lose then it would create a four-way tie breaker between MCA, Jenkins county Metter and Bryan County for the #3 and #4 seeds. If all three win then it would be a three-way tie breaker for the #3 and #4 seeds.

The Camden County Wildcats are 5-4 on the season and 0-4 Region 1-6A.

The Wildcats had their playoff hopes ended last week at the hands of the Colquitt County Packers, losing 45-28.

Camden started the season undefeated at 5-0 but have since gone winless in region play.

The Wildcats will play the Tift County Blue Devils looking to finish above .500 at 6-4. Tift is also winless in the region at 0-4 and is 3-6 overall. They will play the game in Tifton.

McIntosh County Academy Buccaneers Coach’s Show w Bradley Warren October 9 2025

McIntosh County Academy Buccaneers Coach's Show w Bradley Warren October 9 2025
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McIntosh County Academy Buccaneers Coach's Show w Bradley Warren November 12 2024
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McIntosh County Academy Buccaneers Coach's Show w Bradley Warren September 10 2024
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Buc-ing The Trend

By: Jason Bishop

TheSouthernSportsEdition.com news services

There was a point, not too long ago, where the McIntosh Academy Buccaneers’ football program was as unstable as it came. The Bucs football program suffered through 5 head football coaches in 7 years.

Then entered Bradley Warren. Warren has now been the head man in Darien entering his sixth season. During that stretch the Bucs have made the playoffs every year that Warren has been the coach for MCA.

This season’s expectations are no different. Every year for the past several MCA has been talked about as being capable of making a deep run in the playoffs and even a dark horse for a state title.

Last season, it was a bit of an underwhelming season, at least by the standards that now exist with the Bucs program. MCA went 4-6 in the regular season, including a 14-6 loss to 6A Glynn Academy and a loss to 5A Bradwell Institute. McIntosh Couty Academy also suffered a loss to rival Emanuel County Institute and took shut-out losses from Lanier, Jenkins County, and Portal.

Despite the tough losses, MCA still made the playoffs as a lower seed. However, just to add insult to a far less than stellar year, the Bucs were eliminated in the first round by Clinch County. It was the third time in four years that Clinch had eliminated the Bucs from the playoffs. Rough.

MCA was young in 2023 and 2024 promises to field a much more mature and older group. I actually think this team will be contending for a region title in 2024.

New regions were announced for the next seasons and MCA’s region (Region 3A DII) will consist of Bryan County, Claxton, ECI, Jenkins County, Metter, Portal and Savannah

Here is the schedule.

 

August 16-@ Islands

August 23-Charlton @ The Ship

August 30-Bye

September 6-@ ECI

September 13-Claxton @ The Ship

September 20-@ Screven

September 27-Bye

October 4-Jenkins County @ The Ship

October 11-@Bryan County

October 18-Metter @ The Ship

October 25-Savannah @ The Ship

November 1-@ Portal

 

Again, I think MCA will be very good and contend for a region title. It will be tough though. That region is stacked.

I think MCA will go 8-2 in the regular season.

Maybe the Bucs will see Clinch in the playoffs and shake that albatross on the way to a state title.