This was the first year of the Cardinal and Commonwealth playing against each other instead of playing full district slates which was done to increase respective 6A and 5A power points possibilities while reducing travel. To an old timer like me, it is a shocking stat that the Commonwealth was 29-5 versus the Cardinal. The Commonwealth has some fine head coaches and their programs have stepped it up (alas, with the exception of my alma mater - hapless Stafford) but was this just a year when virtually all of the Commonwealth was up and most of the Cardinal was down? Even Hylton and Battlefield had losing records against the Commonwealth while Stafford won two games against the Cardinal (while being completely non-competitive against the Commonwealth). Has Cardinal football dropped across the board or was this just a blip?