For the second time in four years, the Ben Davis Giants football team will be playing for a state championship on Thanksgiving weekend.

The Giants advanced to the Class 6A state championship game with a convincing 57-2o win over Avon Friday night in front of an appreciative crowd at Giants Stadium. Ben Davis will play Penn at 7:05 p.m. this Saturday at Lucas Oil Stadium. The Giants won the 2014 state title with a 42-24 win over Carmel.

Ben Davis owns a 13-4 series lead over Penn and is 2-1 against them in state title games. The last time the two schools played was in 2010 with Ben Davis winning 14-10. The first time the the schools played was a 38-14 state title win for the Giants in 1991, the year Ben Davis was declared National Champions.

Penn beat Ben Davis for the state title in 1996 by a score of 17-14 and the two teams played again for state in 1998 with Ben Davis winning 27-3.

Ben Davis is 13-0 and has been rated No. 1 in Class 6A all season while Penn is 12-1 and is riding a 12-game win streak. The Kingsmen are No. 5 in the state

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