Editor’s note: Kalle Oakes and Randy Whitehouse haven’t been shy about making their opinions known this high school football season. With just one week left, they still have plenty to say, so we’re letting them both get their final shots in with the hope that they won’t be so cranky while waiting for basketball season to start.

RW: Well, Oakes, I don’t know about you, but I believe the Maine Principals’ Association decided to have Leavitt and Wells play on Saturday night just to stick it to us. And by us I mean you. All of those columns you’ve written bashing the MPA over the years have come back to haunt you. And by you I mean me, too. Thanks, pal.

Anyway, it’s going to be a great day, even if my lips are purple by the 12th quarter. We’ve finally got six undefeated teams squaring off on Super Saturday. It’s the first time anyone can recall that happening, although we’ve come close the last two years (Bangor last year and Windham two years ago were the only participants with a loss). Is this a trend? A sign of the football times? Or are these just six great football teams?

KO: Hey, I’ll have you know that Dick Durost and I are cordial pen pals and that I filled out Mike Burnham’s baseball lineup card at Monmouth Academy for four years. And I even furnished the MPA full credit for giving the schools autonomy in designing a four-class football system, only to have said schools cut off their own fingers with the knife they were given to make those divisions. The intrepid administrators could start Leavitt-Wells at 10:30 p.m. and I’d still be there.

Speaking of the triangular-versus-quadrangular debate, yes, the won-lost and points for-points against digits that define these six teams absolutely are a sign of the times. And as you have pointed out both privately and in print, nobody has complained about the prevailing disparity in Maine high school football more vociferously than I. But I suppose now that we have survived that journey, there is something to be said for sixty-six-and-no, no?

RW: Yes, yes, if that means we’ll have three good games on Saturday. Problem is I’m not convinced we will. In fact, I think there’s potential for three games where the traffic will get pretty heavy on Park Ave. by the start of the fourth quarter.

I think folks going to the Class A game between Lawrence and Cheverus will be able to make early lunch plans. As impressed as I’ve been with Lawrence’s balance and how well Alex Leathers has played since he started filling in at QB for the injured Spencer Carey, Cheverus is just too big, too fast and too well-coached. This is the easiest pick of the day, and not just because the West owns Class A like I owned you in the picks this year.

KO: You don’t own an electronic device capable of calculating how many games I won by this year — again. The editorial staff even saved you the public humiliation this year by not trying to keep track.

Speaking of track, while I agree with your Class A assessment, I have a hunch that Yarmouth’s speed could make the Class C contest even more lopsided. Overhaug, Uhl, Neujahr and a whole bunch of names you’re glad you don’t have to spell on a weekly basis look just as quick on the Fitzy turf as they do on the home rug 10 miles north. And while I and a few of my closest friends from Jay do remember you successfully typing “Tymoczko” about 29 times in a certain state championship story from 2004, unless Bucksport finds another member of that family with eligibility remaining, the Golden Bucks are going home with the silver medal.

RW: The Golden Bucks are physical and can run the ball with QB Mike Cummings and FB Shawn Smith. In other words, Traip North. Now, Traip ran for over 300 yards on the Clippers last week, but the Clips got tough in the red zone with three turnovers and pitched a shutout. Bucksport survived Orono last week despite making a number of  mistakes themselves. They won’t get away with it in Portland. If they play a perfect game, they’ll keep it close for three quarters. But it’s not easy to play a perfect game after sitting on a bus for close to three hours.

And speaking of buses, I bet you’re back on the Wells bus after disrespecting the Warriors last week. This is the game I’m actually expecting to stay pretty tight. Both defenses are too good for either team to pull away (folks from Western Maine are in for a shock as to how good Leavitt’s defense is). The only way I can see it turning into a blowout is if Leavitt shuts down Wells’ running game, contains QB Paul McDonough and forces a couple of turnovers which lead to scores. I can’t see Wells pulling away at all.

The MPA knew what it was doing putting this game in prime time. Got to give them that.

KO: You get right on that bus. Ride it all the way to Dreamland. Look, I respect Wells and their self-deprecating, self-proclaimed Rex Ryan-lookalike of a coach, Tim Roche. But the Mad Scientist, Mike Hathaway and his 25 assistants will have the Hornets ready to run over, around and through the Warriors.

Wells is a more balanced, mentally tougher version of Gardiner … which makes it the third-best Class B team in the state. Jordan Hersom, Jake Ouellette and the Leavitt seniors have walked into the Fitzy fish bowl three straight Novembers now, and they’re on the cusp of becoming to odd-numbered years what Mountain Valley is to the even ones.

Leavitt, big. Which reminds me: Have I mentioned to you that I’ve covered a lot of one-sided games this year?