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Saturday, September 27, 2008
AJC football rankings: Historic trappings for Northside-Lowndes
The Atlanta Journal-Constitution
OK, Northside or Lowndes? Take sides now.
When’s the last time a regular-season game was this big? I don’t mean big in terms of “must win” because both teams will be going to the playoffs, win or lose Friday. But has there ever been a game where two teams with this much recent success have met?
We all know the history: Lowndes, the reigning Class AAAAA champ, has won three of the past four titles in the highest class and is ranked in every national poll I can find. Northside has won 35 consecutive games and consecutive Class AAAA titles and also is nationally ranked.
Where does this game rate in history in terms of a great programs hooking up at the peak of their greatness?
Before we get to that, there is other news …
Westside-Macon is No. 1 for the first time ever. …
Appling County is No. 5 in Class AA after the victory against Charlton County. Charlton is No. 8. …
Thomasville is 0-4 for the first time in history but more amazingly is unranked by the AJC for the first time this season. While stubborn, I do have limits. I still see T’ville in the state playoffs, maybe even the quarters. But I heard Brooks County really dominated. …
Marist, 38-0: I don’t know what say about that except never bet against Marist. A few Tucker friends told me they didn’t think Tucker deserved to be No. 1 even before the game. Tucker became the first team since Roswell in 2006 to go from No. 1 to unranked. Roswell came back and won a state title. …
Last week, I did a Take 10 on the coaches with the best chance of winning state titles at two schools. Well, scratch John Starr from the list. Chattooga fired Starr, who won state with Josey in 1995, the day after a loss to Armuchee last week. “I didn’t see it coming,” Starr told the Rome Tribune. Well, who did? Chattooga was 3-0 and had been pretty good, though never really good, in Starr’s 12 seasons.
So who you got? Northside or Lowndes? And why? Declare now.
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Class AAAAA
1. Lowndes (5-0) vs. Northside-Warner Robins
2. Camden County (4-0) vs. Beach
3. Northside-Warner Robins (5-0) at Lowndes
4. Newnan (5-0) OFF
5. Grayson (5-0) at Shiloh
6. Walton (5-0) OFF
7. Harrison (4-0) vs. Cherokee
8. Coffee (5-0) at Warner Robins
9. North Gwinnett (4-1) OFF
10. Stephenson (4-0) at Luella
Class AAAA
1. Westside-Macon (5-0) vs. Lee County
2. Mays (5-0) vs. Tri-Cities
3. Dalton (5-0) at Sequoyah
4. Statesboro (5-0) vs. Effingham County
5. Sandy Creek (4-0) vs. Whitewater
6. Marist (4-1) OFF
7. Chamblee (4-1) OFF
8. Thomas County Central (3-1) vs. Americus-Sumter
9. Rome (4-1) at Woodland-Cartersville
10. Evans (4-0) at Butler
Class AAA
1. Cairo (3-0) at Worth County
2. Baldwin (5-0) vs. Burke County
3. St. Pius (5-0) vs. North Atlanta
4. Dunwoody (5-0) OFF
5. Washington County (5-0) OFF
6. Gainesville (5-0) at West Forsyth
7. LaGrange (4-1) at Kendrick
8. Carver-Columbus (3-2) OFF
9. Carrollton (4-1) at Cartersville
10. Thomson (3-1) at Liberty County
Class AA
1. Buford (4-0) vs. Avondale
2. Westminster (4-0) vs. Lovett
3. Fitzgerald (4-0) vs. Cook
4. Jefferson County (5-0) vs. Swainsboro
5. Appling County (5-0) vs. Pierce County
6. Pepperell (4-0) at Armuchee
7. Blessed Trinity (4-0) vs. GAC
8. Charlton County (4-1) OFF
9. Henry County (3-1) vs. Mitchell County
10. Brooks County (3-1) vs. Putnam County
Class A
1. ECI (5-0) OFF
2. Wilcox County (5-0) at Telfair County
3. Clinch County (4-1) vs. Bacon County
4. Athens Academy (4-0) vs. Commerce
5. Savannah Christian (3-1) vs. Claxton (Sat.)
6. Lincoln County (4-1) at Aquinas
7. Brookstone (4-0) at Pacelli
8. Miller County (5-0) at Terrell County
9. Turner County (4-1) vs. Twiggs County
10. Bremen (4-1) OFF
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