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Monday, September 17, 2007
Future looks bleak for South Georgia
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
Is it time to write off South Georgia in the highest classification this season?
I’m the one who has Coffee ranked No. 3 and Tift County No. 4, but I’m still looking for a sign. Coffee and Tift haven’t played a team that could validate that they’re a threat to win state.
As for the others …
Camden County? Beaten at home by Chattahoochee, which lost to an unranked team the next week.
Lowndes? Shut out at home by Harrison, not even Cobb County’s best team after losing to North Cobb.
Valdosta? Blown out by a team that was 0-2 against ranked metro Atlanta teams.
Warner Robins? Colquitt County? Houston County? Nothing there.
I’m not sure that winning 1-AAAAA this season will mean nearly as much as it did in 2006, when the region sent two teams to the semifinals.
I’m not down on South or Middle Georgia football, as teams there are still the best in the state - per capita.
But in the highest class, the south is just out-numbered in more ways than one. Brookwood has 3,000 students. Valdosta has 2,000.
Are metro teams going to win the big class 75-80 percent of the time from here on out?
Class AAAAA
- Roswell (3-0)
- Norcross (3-0)
- Coffee (3-0)
- Tift County (3-0)
- Stephenson (2-0)
- North Gwinnett (3-0)
- North Cobb (3-0)
- M.L. King (3-0)
- Harrison (2-1)
- Grayson (2-1)
Class AAAA
- Northside-W.R. (3-0)
- Thomas County Central (3-0)
- Tucker (3-0)
- Statesboro (2-0)
- Baldwin (2-0)
- St. Pius (3-0)
- Westside-Macon (3-0)
- Creekside (3-0)
- Ware County (1-1)
- Upson-Lee (3-0)
Class AAA
- LaGrange (3-0)
- Carver-Columbus (2-0)
- Carrollton (3-0)
- Stephens County (2-0)
- North Hall (2-0)
- Cairo (3-0)
- Flowery Branch (3-0)
- Monroe (3-0)
- Gainesville (3-0)
- Peach County (2-1)
Class AA
- Buford (3-0)
- Charlton County (2-0)
- Fitzgerald (2-0)
- Early County (3-0)
- Dodge County (2-0)
- Cook (2-1)
- Savannah Christian (3-0)
- GAC (3-0)
- Calhoun (2-1)
- Swainsboro (2-0)
Class A
- Wilcox County (3-0)
- Seminole County (2-0)
- ECI (3-0)
- Lincoln County (3-0)
- Athens Academy (3-0)
- Pacelli (3-0)
- Clinch County (1-2)
- Dooly County (3-0)
- Warren County (1-1)
- Bremen (3-0)
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